Verification of postal votes causes delay to local election and Mayor of Torbay results

By adamjohn78 | Friday, May 06, 2011, 09:04

The results on the local elections and the race to become Mayor of Torbay have been delayed, due to a huge influx of postal votes that needed to be verified.

The results of the local elections and the next Mayor of Torbay have been delayed.

The verification process finished at about 4am this morning and Torbay Council decided to delay the Mayoral and local election counts until 11am today.

When questioned on this by local residents, Torbay Council said via Facebook: "It's because there are three votes to count - Mayoral, Council and Referendum.

"It's been a long day and with two elections and the referendum, the decision to delay the count is to ensure accuracy."

Flickr.com image by Alan Cleaver.

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What happens to Mr Bye now?

By thespinthief at 13:03 on 11/05/11
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Bye bye Mr Bye!

By Granny_Green at 16:03 on 09/05/11
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Gordon Oliver has been elected as the Mayor of Torbay.

The Conservative Party candidate scored 12716 votes, way ahead of the nearest candidate Nick Bye who received 9631.

Full results here: http://tinyurl.com/6fgdnqn

By matt_2009 at 18:00 on 06/05/11
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Conservatives hold Torbay!

The Conservative Party have held on to Torbay winning 22 seats. The Liberal Democrats won nine seats, Labour and UK Independance Party won one seat each, with others winning three seats.

By matt_2009 at 17:46 on 06/05/11
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Torbay Council via Facebook said that the turnout for the elections were as follows: "Local election 41.2%, Referendum 41.5% & Mayoral 41.2%"

By adamjohn78 at 13:26 on 06/05/11
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