Elections - Parliamentary and Council

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BOROUGH COUNCIL ELECTIONS

2nd. MAY 2019

RESULTS OF ELECTION:- GAYTON & GRIMSTON WARD

ELECTED -

1. ANDREW DE WHALLEY - GREEN PARTY - 742 votes

2. COLIN MANNING - CONSERVATIVE PARTY - 618 votes

Unelected

LANHAM - Hugh Christopher Liberal Democrat 1673

BLOWERS - Paula Elected

STEELE - Nell Elected

WILSON - Arthur Robert Elected

IN WEST NORFOLK THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LOST SIX SEATS.

IN THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE, THE PREVIOUSLY RULING CONSERVATIVE PARTY LOST 20 SEATS, BUT REMAINS THE LARGEST PARTY.

UKIP GAINED 14 SEATS AND BECOMES THE SECOND LARGEST PARTY ON THE COUNCIL.

THE LABOUR PARTY LOST A TOTAL OF 11 SEATS, COMPARED WITH THE OLD COUNCIL, AND IS THE THIRD LARGEST GROUP.

BOTH THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND THE GREEN PARTY EACH LOST 3 SEATS.

THE NEW COUNCIL COMPRISES 40 CONSERVATIVE, 15 UKIP, 14 LABOUR, 10 LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, 4 GREEN PARTY AND 1 INDEPENDENT COUNCILLORS.

Norfolk County Council Elections 2013.

Every 4 years there is an election for all 84 County Councillors who represent their communities in Norfolk.

County Council elections are scheduled to take place on

Thursday 2 May 2013.

Voters will go to the polls to elect their Norfolk County Councillors.

At East Winch the Polling Station is at The Village Hall. You may vote between 7am and 10pm.

In the borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk there are 14 electoral divisions for Norfolk County Council

In the GAYTON AND NAR VALLEY division the following are standing for election:-

Baljinder Anota (Undeclared allegiance) : Richard Toby Coke (UK Independence Party)

Paul Stephen Foster (Conservative) : Mike Knights (Independent)

Elaine Margaret Oliver (Liberal Democrat) : Peter Wilkinson (Labour)

The Borough Council Elections Timetable details the key dates for this election, including deadlines for receipt of nomination forms if you plan to stand and deadlines for the receipt of postal or proxy vote applications.

to view the Election Timetable click here

See the Borough Council's Election News here for more information:

Borough and Parish Council elections were held on 5th. May 2011.

Borough Council. 1 Councillor has been elected for Priory Ward.

Result of election in Priory Ward

Peter Gidney (Con) 374 votes

Jim Moriarty (Lab) 637 votes ELECTED

BOROUGH COUNCIL - HELD BY THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Seats held: - Conservative: 42 (a loss of 10 seats from the previous council)

Labour: 13 (a gain of 9 seats from the previous council)

Lib Dems 3 seats ( a loss of 1 seat)

Independents 3 seats

Green Party 1 seat

The Conservatives have an overall majority of 20 seats.

The full results of the Borough Council election may be seen here

Parish Council.

7 Councillors were to be elected to the Parish Council to represent East Winch ward.

Only two nominations were received for this election. Therefore, in an uncontested election for East Winch ward -

Mr A Hepher and Mrs N Steele were elected to the Parish Council.

1 Councillor was to be elected to represent West Bilney ward.

Nominated for election were Mr R. Cox and Mr N Velzeboer

Mr R Cox was elected.

REFERENDUM. There was also a national referendum held on the 5th. May 2011. The referendum sought to find out the views of the nation on the proposal to change our 'First Past the Post' system of elections to an 'Alternative Vote' system. The AV system aims to ensure that the elected person has more than 50% of the vote. See below for more information.

WEST NORFOLK - Referendum result

YES vote: 11,652

No vote: 35,996

This result seems broadly to be similar to other declared results in the country as a whole.

(Updated at 6th May 8:16pm)

19.1 million votes, 42% of the electorate, were cast across the country -

68% voted NO.

To find out more about how to vote, how to register and so on, go to

The Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is an independent body set up by Parliament. It is responsible for the conduct and regulation of referenda held under the 'Political Parties, Elections and Referenda Act (2000)'.

What is the Alternative Vote?

The Alternative Vote (AV) is very much like First-Past-the-Post (FPTP). Like FPTP, it is used to elect representatives for single-member constituencies, except that rather than simply marking one solitary 'X' on the ballot paper, the voter has the chance to rank the candidates on offer.

The voter thus puts a '1' by their first-preference candidate, and can continue, if they wish, to put a '2' by their second-preference, and so on, until they don't care anymore or they run out of names. In some AV elections, such as most Australian elections, electors are required to rank all candidates.

If a candidate receives a majority of first-preference votes (more people put them as number one than all the rest combined), then they are elected.

If no candidate gains a majority on first preferences, then the second-preference votes of the candidate who finished last on the first count are redistributed. This process is repeated until someone gets over 50 per cent.

To see more information visit The Electoral Reform Society - where you may see a case for using AV.

Please note that eastwinchandwestbilney.co.uk are not representing the case for AV - and are not responsible for the information given by the Electoral Reform Society.