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General Election - 12th December EU Elections - 23rd May 2019 and District and Parish Elections - 2nd May 2019

The UK General Election was on Thursday December 12th 2019. Willersey Polling Station as usual was in the Village Hall. It was open from 7:00am to 10:00pm. CLIFTON-BROWN, Geoffrey Robert    The Conservative Party Candidate    35,484 Elected    MACKENZIE, Alan John Labour Party 7,110 POOLE, Sabrina Helen Marie Green Party 3,312 WEBSTER, Liz Liberal Democrats 15,270 Spoilt Ballots 265 Some background to the four candidates in Cotswold District. (Register to vote by November 26th.) Here is the official Cotswold DC Notice of Election.

The UK EU elections were on Thursday May 23^rd 2019.

Willersey is included in Cotswold District Counil results which in turn is part of South West England for EU elections.
Voters in the South West Region elected the following six candidates to become MEPs:-

1	Ann Widdecombe	The Brexit Party
2	Caroline Voaden	Liberal Democrats
3	James Glancy	The Brexit Party
4	Molly Scott-Cato	Green Party
5	Christina Jordan	The Brexit Party
6	Martin Horwood	Liberal Democrats

The Actual Votes cast in the South West Region for each party or independent candidate are:-

Name of party or individual candidate	Number of votes
Change UK - The Independent Group	46,612
Conservative and Unionist Party	144,674
English Democrats	8,393
Green Party	302,364
Labour Party	108,100
Liberal Democrats	385,095
The Brexit Party	611,742
UK Independence Party	53,739
Maxey, Larch Ian Albert Frank (Independent)	1,772
Rahman, Mothiur (Independent)	755
Seed, Neville (Independent)	3383
Total number of rejected ballot papers	9544
Turnout	40.45%

Results for Cotswold District Council are:-




Here are the results for each authority in the South West Region area.


This Wikipedia article gives more detail for the rest of the UK.


The voting system for the European elections is the d'Hondt system of proportional representation - regional closed list. In Northern Ireland the system is Single Transferable Vote.

Since 1999 voters in Britain have elected MEPs under a proportional representation system. The European Parliamentary Elections Act of that year introduced a regional list system with seats allocated to parties in proportion to their share of the vote.
Political parties put forward names of candidates in rank order, the number of candidates being no more than the number of seats allowed for each region. For us in Willersey this is six seats.
The longish ballot paper listed the parties' names (and their candidates under the party name), and any independent candidates. You put just one cross next to the party or independent candidate that you wish to vote for.

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European elections 2019: If you want it, this is the full list of all the MEP candidates.
Willersey is in the South West Region. The Candidates on your voting paper for the South West Region were as below.

Change UK The Independent Group	Rachel Sabiha Johnson	Jim Godfrey	Oliver Sean Grevatt Middleton	Matthew Hooberman	Elizabeth-Anne Sewell	Crispin Hunt
Conservatives and Unionist Party	Ashley Peter Fox	James Michael Mustoe	Faye Purbrick	Claire Michelle Hiscott	James Taghdissian	Emmeline Elizabeth Owens
English Democrats English Democrats Putting England First	Jenny Knight	Michael Thomas Martin Blundell
Green Party	Molly Scott Cato	Cleo Alberta Lake	Carla Suzanne Denyer	Tom Scott	Martin John Dimery	Karen Margaret La Borde
Labour Party	Clare Miranda Moody	Andrew Adonis	Jayne Susannah Kirkham	Neil William Guild	Yvonne Margaret Atkinson	Sadik Adam Al-Hassan
Liberal Democrats	Caroline Jane Voaden	Martin Charles Horwood	Stephen Roy Williams	Eleanor Anne Christine Rylance	David Nigel Chalmers	Luke Oliver Stagnetto
The Brexit Party	Ann Noreen Widdecombe	James Alexander Glancy	Christina Sheila Jordan	Ann Christine Tarr	Roger Charles Lane-Nott	Nicola Jane Darke
UK Independence Party (UKIP) UKIP Make Brexit Happen	Lawrence James Webb	Carl Benjamin	Anthony James McIntyre	Lester Geoffrey Taylor	Stephen Alaric Lee	Alison Jane Sheridan
Maxey, Larch Ian Albert Frank	Independent
Rahman, Mothiur	Independent
Seed, Neville	Independent

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How are the seats allocated in European elections in England, Scotland and Wales?

Say there are five parties contesting five seats in one region and the votes are cast as follows:

Smartie Party:	100 votes
Jelly Baby Party:	80 votes
Lollipop Party:	40 votes
Kit Kat Party:	20 votes
Aero Party:	10 votes

For the first seat: the Smartie Party has the most votes so the first seat goes to it (the seat goes to the candidate at the top of the list of Smartie Party candidates, independent candidates are treated as a list with only one candidate).
For the second seat: the number of votes for the Smartie Party is now divided by 2 (i.e. the number of seats the party has plus one) so the votes are now as shown below.

Jelly Baby Party:	80 votes
Smartie Party:	50 votes
Lollipop Party:	40 votes
Kit Kat Party:	20 votes
Aero Party:	10 votes

The Jelly Baby Party now has the most votes so it gets the second seat (which goes to the person at the top of the list of Jelly Baby Party candidates).
For the third seat: the number of votes for the Jelly Baby party is now also divided by 2 (i.e. the number of seats the party now has plus one), so the votes are now as shown below.

Smartie Party:	50 votes
Jelly Baby Party:	40 votes
Lollipop Party:	40 votes
Kit Kat Party:	20 votes
Aero Party:	10 votes

The third seat goes to the Smartie Party, which at 50 votes now has the highest number of votes. This seat goes to the second person on the Smartie Party list of candidates.
The fourth and fifth seats: the original number of votes for the Smartie Party is now divided by 3 (i.e. the number of seats it now has plus one).

Jelly Baby Party:	40 votes
Lollipop Party:	40 votes
Smartie Party:	33 votes
Kit Kat Party:	20 votes
Aero Party:	10 votes

So now when it comes to allocating the fourth and the fifth seat, the Jelly Baby party and the Lollipop Party both have 40 votes and so will be given the fourth and fifth seats.
One seat goes to the second candidate on the Jelly Baby list and the other one to the first person on the Lollipop Party candidate list.

The final result would be:

Smartie Party:	2 seats
Jelly Baby Party:	2 seats
Lollipop Party:	1 seat
Kit Kat Party:	0 seats
Aero Party:	0 seats

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The UK District and Town/Parish elections were on Thursday May 2^nd 2019.

The deadline for the submission of nominations for the District, Parish and Town Council elections to be held on 2^nd May has now passed.
Copies of all a Statements of Persons Nominated are now available on the Council's website. Information about Uncontested Elections is also available.
In Willersey seven nominations were received for nine Parish councillors so they have all been elected uncontested. TheIr names are given near the end of this document. (Willersey is near the bottom of any alphabetical order.)

For the Cotswold District Council election Willersey is in the Campden and Vale Ward. You had two votes to vote for no more than two candidates.
Mark Annett and Gina Blomefield, both of the Conservative Party are elected:-

ANNETT Mark Fraser	829 votes   Conservative Party Candidate
BLOMEFIELD Gina	888 votes   Conservative Party Candidate
EFSTRATIOU Marcus	521 votes   Liberal Democrats
MCNEILL-WILSON Robert Michael	623 votes   UKIP Make Brexit Happen

Here is a link to the official Notice of Poll on the Cotswold District Council website.

You must be on the electoral register to vote in elections. Registering takes around 5 minutes. You will need your National Insurance number (if you have one). You can use this service to register to vote and/or update your name, address or other details on the electoral register.

      

The polling station is almost always in Willersey Village Hall. It was open from 7:00am until 10:00pm. You did not have to bring your poll card with you but it was helpful if you did as it speeds up the process.

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The Cotswolds Constituency covers the entire Cotswold District together with three Stroud District Council wards (Kingswood, Minchinhampton, Wotton-under-Edge). The overall Parliamentary electorate is currently around 77,500. The last Parliamentary Election was held on 6^th May 2010, when the electorate then was 76,729 and turnout was 71.65%. The elections to Cotswold District Council on May 7^th 2015 were the first to be conducted in line with the revised arrangements and boundaries introduced as a result of a recent electoral review carried out by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. Overall, the number of councillors has been reduced from 44 to 34, with 30 single-member wards and 2 two-member wards (Campden & Vale in the north of the District; and Lechlade, Kempsford & Fairford South in the south-east corner of the District). All 34 seats are up for election. For the District Council elections held in 2011 had a turnout averaging around 50%.

Elections for all 87 Parish and Town Councils across the District also took place on 7^th May 2015, when 606 seats were decided.

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