Our Independent Scrutineers’ report on voting in the above elections, which closed in branches at noon on Wednesday 30th April 2008, is as follows:
Number of ballot papers returned: 968
Number of ballot papers wholly invalid (unsigned/missing declaration): 53
Number of valid ballot papers to count: 915
Number of papers found to be invalid (blank/spoilt) in respect of this contest: 39
Thus, total number of valid papers to be counted: 876
Result (1 to elect):
EDWARDS, Sharon 518 ELECTED
METCALFE (Nee HOLLIDAY), Jean 358
Number of papers found to be invalid (blank/spoilt) in respect of this contest: 4
Thus, total number of valid papers to be counted: 911
Result (10 to elect):-
JONES, Paul 518 ELECTED
MCGRORY, John 515 ELECTED
EDWARDS, Sharon 474*
SOOD, Dev 454 ELECTED
RAPIER, Ben 431 ELECTED
HIRSCH, Joel 411 ELECTED
ANDREWS, Nicholas 410 ELECTED
URWIN, Ian 383 ELECTED
LARKIN, Cathy 373 ELECTED
MCKEON-WILLIAMS, Anne-Louise 366 ELECTED
METCALFE (Nee HOLLIDAY), Jean 353* ELECTED*
SPEAKMAN, Denise 342
WITHERINGTON, Martin 342
CARRUTHERS, Alan 305
MCKENNA, Bryan 290
*EDWARDS already elected as Group Vice-President therefore METCALFE (Nee HOLLIDAY) elected instead.