Ian Hall (Conservative) – 818 ELECTED
Steve Holt (Conservative) – 640
Douglas R Hull (Liberal Democrats) – 560
Sarah Louise Jackson (Independent) – 1,001 ELECTED
Susan Patricia Kerr (Liberal Democrats) – 429
Daily Archives: 3 May 2019
BOTH Independents elected in Exmouth Brixington
Not sure why recounted 3 times as margins clear for 3 elected – shoulder chips? Sorry getting Brixington and Litleham mixed up. Stir crazy …
Exmouth Brixington (three seats)
Brian Bailey (Liberal Democrats) – 467
Bruce De Saram (Conservative) – 606 ELECTED
Keith Edwards (Labour) – 328
Nick Hookway (Independent) – 996 ELECTED
Ono Olmedo (Liberal Democrats) – 477
David Poor (Liberal Democrats) – 434
Alan Whipps (Conservative) – 536
Joy Whipps (Conservative) – 534
Chris Wright (Independent) – 1,071 ELECTED
Every vote DOES count – Exmouth Brixington on THIRD recount
A THIRD count is underway for Exmouth Brixington!
A few groans as it was announced, but the numbers must be close.
We’re also expecting the winning candidates to be announced for Woodbury and Lympstone soon, but we guess the Brixington fiasco has thrown things a bit out of loop.
We’re also expecting the winning candidates to be announced for Woodbury and Lympstone soon, but we guess the Brixington fiasco has thrown things a bit out of loop.
Watch this space.
https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/election/east-devon-election-results-live-1-6029987
Twiss and Allen win Honiton St Micharls and immediately make promises …
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Conservative Phil Twiss topped the poll in the Honiton St Michael’s ward with 790 votes.
Fellow Tory Mike Allen was second with 763 and Liberal Democrat Luke Jeffery took the third seat with 700 votes.
Cllr Allen said: “I am delighted Phil Twiss and I have been re-elected so we can continue to serve well as we have done for the past eight years or more.
“But clearly there has been a very strong protest vote nationally with the number of Conservative votes down.
“We will make sure the district council remains strongly orientated towards economic growth and good housing whilst protecting the environment.”
https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/election/east-devon-election-results-live-1-6029987
Shock result Exmouth Town
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Devonlive (Express and Echo) site quicker than EDDC with live results!
Honiton result currently on Devonlive site, not on EDDC official site …
Independent wins Honiton St Pauls!
Interesting only ONE vote separated the two Conservative candidates, one of whom got the second seat!
Theresa May’s council gets Indie shock! 9 Indies get seats!
“The Conservatives secured a narrow majority as the local elections saw a huge shake-up in the Royal Borough.
The Tories were elected to 23 out of 41 available seats, followed by the Lib Dems with nine, The Borough First with three, West Windsor Residents Association with three, Old Windsor Residents Association with two and the National Flood Prevention Party with one councillor. …”
Why are EDDC district council results SO slow!
Started at 10 am, Four results by 11.30 am, nothing since … at this rate 6pm finish is looking optimistic …
Mark Williams, CEO and Returning Officer, is paid extra to supervise results. We don’t know how much as election officers and how they spend their allocated budgets are not subject to Freedom of Information requests.
But we do know, the more counters the quicker the results … the fewer counters more left in an EDDC account that can be used for anything else.
Indies making more gains in Teignbridge
After row about new ward boundaries:
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/teignbridge-refute-claims-ward-boundaries-2826252
Heavily pro-developer Leader at Teignbridge District Council ousted by Independent!
“CONSERVATIVE leader Jeremy Christophers made a quick exit from the count hall after discovering he’d lost his top job.
Independent member Adrian Patch scooped 376 votes with second place going to Rob Steemson on 321 votes and Mr Christophers coming third with 222.
Mr Patch said: ‘It’s a bit strange but I’m very happy. It’s been a strange campaign and I raised my eyebrows when so many Independents added their names to the campaign. …
Mr Christophers [ousted Tory Leader] didn’t answer his phone when called by the Mid-Devon Advertiser after his swift departure.”
Follow EDDC election results live – link
http://eastdevon.gov.uk/elections-and-registering-to-vote/east-devon-elections-results-2019-live/
Early results in – no surprises yet – Skinner (Tory) retains seat and Thomas (Indie ToryLite) retains Trinity seat against Labour and IndieToryLite Pook retains Beer, Chubb retains Newbridges. None of these wards stood an Indie candidate …
Turnout relatively high – 32%-40%+ in wards so far.
Essex district council Tory majority slashed from 25 to 1 by Independent wins!
Oh, oh … sign of things to come …?
Maldon District Council (Essex) saw a 25-seat majority slashed to just one by gains of Independents from Tories!
Most duplicitous politician? Boris Johnson, of course! Lied about voting!
“Boris Johnson today proudly tweeted saying that he had voted Conservative.
Mr Johnson, who represents Uxbridge and Hillingdon in west London, posted a message saying: “I just voted Conservative in the local elections. Make sure you do too! You’ve got two hours left to get out and vote!”
The message only stayed up for half a minute after users pointed out to the Tory MP that there were no polls in London.
But the website Politwoops, which stores deleted tweets by MPs, handily recorded the gaffe.
It is far from the first time that Mr Johnson has made such a slip up.
His colourful language has frequently got him in trouble including saying Muslim women who wear burkas look like ‘letter boxes’, calling black people ‘picanninies’ and saying that former US President was ‘part-Kenyan’.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-deletes-tweet-saying-14986882
All to play for at EDDC … good news for Independents and Greens elsewhere in Devon
Count starts at 10 am … results early afternoon … perhaps … our Electoral officer isn’t the best organiser of these things …
Good luck to Independents!
The only true independent in Exeter won a seat from Labour. Standing on a single issue of loss of a sports centre and public open space – majority of over 300 votes. Greens and Lib Dems agreed not to stand against her.
Greens got their first seat ever in North Devon.
Lib Dems hold balance of power in Torbay where the role of Mayor was abolished by referendum. Tory incumbent enormously disliked.
Labour held on to Plymouth, gaining one seat from Tories, an unexpected boost for Labour which had been expecting more of a drubbing. Two independents were successful in Shiphay ward.
East Devon Watch 