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Photo courtesy of Wiltshire Council Here we explain why the total number of votes received by candidates in the recent Police and Crime Commissioner election appear higher than the total electorate. As there are more than two candidates in the Police and Crime Commissioner election, the supplementary vote system is used. What this means is voters can state their first and second choice for the role on the ballots. So while the total number of votes for the PCC elections in Swindon and Wiltshire is 212,178 not counting the spoiled ballots – it effectively means that 424,356 votes were cast by the electorate.
The PCC election will have to be re-run after Tory Party HQ disbarred Mr Seed because of a 30-year-old drink drive conviction
Conservative Police & Crime Commissioner candidate, Jonathon Seed THE election for the Wiltshire and Swindon Police and Crime Commissioner will have to be re-run after the favourite Jonathon Seed won the election by a landslide 41,929 votes. Mr Seed, the Conservative candidate, polled a total of 100,003 first and second preference votes to win the election. He announced that he would have to withdraw after being disbarred by the Tory Party HQ in London because of an historic 30-year-old drink driving conviction.
WELSH Conservative Darren Millar has been elected as Member of the Senedd for Clwyd West for the fourth time. Mr Millar received 11,839 votes on Senedd election day on Thursday, May 6, followed by Welsh Labour candidate Joshua Hurst with 8,154, Elin Walker Jones, Plaid Cymru, with 5,609 and Liberal Democrat David Wilkins with 1,158 votes. Meanwhile Jeanie Barton, UKIP Scrap The Assembly, received 520 votes, Euan McGivern, Abolish The Welsh Assembly Party received 502, N Clare Eno, of Reform UK, received 304, and Rhydian Hughes, Gwlad – The Welsh Independence Party, received 277 votes. The results were confirmed on Friday afternoon at Eirias Park in Colwyn Bay, where the vote counting process was carried out by Conwy County Borough Council.