Futures Forum: "Over-representing parties through the voting system"
this set of statistics has just been sent to the FF blog:
Its
interesting how [Cllr Twiss] assumes those who didn’t vote would have voted Tory, yet even
in his own ward the vast majority didn’t.
In the 2011 local elections there were 5238 electors in Honiton St Pauls, with
up to 15714 votes available, there being three candidates.
With a relatively low turnout of 41%, Cllr Twiss received 813 votes and was
elected with a very low threshold of 5.2%.
The three Tory Cllrs managed a total 2774 votes, i.e. 17.7%, so the vast
majority of the remaining 12914 elector’s votes in the pool didn’t vote Tory.
Compare this with Independent Cllr Giles who received a resounding 20% of
the total vote pool in Ottery St Mary Town Ward.
Honiton St Michaels (7) turnout = 41% = 5238 electors
x3 candidates = 15714 total possible votes to be cast
Mike Allen
Conservatives
963 6.1%
Peter
Halse Conservatives 998 6.4%
Phil
Twiss Conservatives 813 5.2%
Tories 2774 17.7% of total votes
Others: electors who did not vote Conservative = remaining 12940 = 82.3%
Ottery St Mary Town Ward (3) turnout = 50.4% = 3781 electors
x2 candidates = 7562 total votes
Roger
Giles
Independent
1546 20%
David
Cox
Conservatives 628 8.3%
See also these figures from 2009:
| Honiton St Michaels By-Election 26 February 2009 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Marion Olive | 636 | 51.1 | +51.1 | |
| Conservative | Phillip Twiss | 609 | 48.9 | -20.9 | |
| Majority | 27 | 2.2 | |||
| Turnout | 1,245 | 23.7 | |||
| Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Lib Dems take by-election - the Devon Week
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