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ELECTIONS

There is nothing like the sudden-death shoot-out of an election campaign to get politicians worked up. Well that is the popular myth. There is certainly nothing like an election campaign to get ordinary folk yawning. I don't altogether blame them. Elections are not much fun. They involve endless hours of sticking bits of paper through people's letterboxes and waiting on doorsteps to disturb folk who don't want to be disturbed. Some politicians wear rosettes and resemble prize bulls at the local farming show (no offence to the bulls intended) Some politicians kiss babies. This is politically incorrect and potentially a hazard to health. (ps: I do not kiss babies)

For students of bald arithmetic here are the vital voting statistics:

Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative (21,240 votes - 44.1%)

Matthew Burchell, Labour (12,771 votes - 26.5%)

James Main, Liberal Democrat (10,940 - 22.7%)

Ray Weinstein, UKIP (1767 - 3.7%)

Charlie Graham, Green (1391 -2.9%)

The majority was 8469 on a healthy turnout of 63.9%

IF YOU VOTED FOR ME, THANKYOU VERY MUCH. IF YOU VOTED FOR SOMEONE ELSE I DEFEND YOUR DEMOCRATIC RIGHT TO DO SO! 

On 1st May 2001 the results were:

Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative (19,354 votes - 40.5%)

Ian Thorn, Liberal Democrat (14,367 votes - 30%)

William Monteith, Labour (12,803 votes - 26.8%)

Vicky Gardner, UK Independence Party (1,323 votes - 2.8%)

A somewhat slimmer 4,987 majority.
The turnout in 2001 was 64.6% (national average 59.1%)

In the 1997 general election,  Tom King ( now Lord King ) won with 20,174 votes (36.9%)

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In order to vote you need to be listed in the "electoral register" compiled by the two local authorities in this constituency.  If you are not on the list the process is really quite simple. You fill in one or other of these official forms. You can do this on your computer, or you can download the document, print it out and handwrite it later. In any event the local authorities insist on a real signature, so you will have to return the form by post eventually. The sooner you apply the sooner you get the right to cast your vote for any candidate in any election: local, Westminster and Europe.

You might also like to have a look at what the Electoral Commission does. It is a special body established to ensure that all elections are fair and that the process of voting is made as easy and attractive as possible. The Commssion also decides how much money poliutical parties are allowed to spend.

   
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