On Unlock Democracy Elections - North Constituency

Finally, to the North, and home.

Of the 1,413 electors 330 voted giving a turnout of 23.4%. The quota was 82.

These brave Northern electors were charged with selecting 3 members of the council from 7 candidates on offer. They set off to do so with alactrity.

Elected with 97 1^st Preferences is former vice-chair Stuart Hill.  

Hill’s surplus votes and the transfers from Dane Roberts and Stephen Hesford put Peter Hirst on 86.68 and elected second. Zinkus-Sutton sits on 61.48, significantly, but not untouchably ahead of Wil Savage and Andrew Ducker. Hirst’s handful of surplus votes break kindly for Zinkus-Sutton and he moves to 64.12, some 16.56 votes ahead of Savage.

Even a slightly uneven split of transfers from Andrew Ducker in favour of Wil Savage wasn’t enough to for Savage to catch Zinkus-Sutton and Zinkus-Sutton finishes in 3^rd place on 77.12, 12.56 votes clear of Savage to take the final North seat.

Again, this is a seat where the top placed candidates on 1st preferences went on to win election and despite a valiant effort from Andrew Ducker no on managed to change their ranking during the transfer process.

On the Unlock Democracy Elections - General Points

So, that’s the analysis of the Unlock Democracy Council elections by Constituency.

 West

 North

 East  

London and South East

 Some broader picture points.

Turnout was quite low.

The West had the best turnout at 22.8%, London and the South East 16.9%. Overall turnout was 20.7%.

Whilst the allocation of seats by elector could not be bettered, the allocation of seats by actual voter favours London and disfavours the North with 68.57 votes cast for each seat elected in London and 110 votes cast per seat in the North. This is obviously a feature of the differential turnout.

Spoilt Ballots were 1% of the total cast which compares unfavourably with UK Westminster spoilt ballots of between 0.11% and 0.35% between 1945 and 2001.

Out of 19 members of council, 9 have not served on the council before.

Unlock Democracy operates protected seats for gender (1/3^rd at least of men and women) and ethnicity (at least 2 self-identified ethnic minorities).  All of the gender protected seats fell naturally and one of the ethnic protected seats fell naturally leaving 1 councillor elected as a result of protected seats.

Once again, thanks to Lalland Peat Worrier for his method of presentation