Watford’s Labour Party really don’t understand how elections work
The Watford Labour Party has published a members’ newsletter and placed a copy online. In the report of May’s local elections it reads:
‘In the Mayoral election, Nigel Bell came a close second’.
Which is strange. Because in the vote for Watford’s elected mayor, won for the third time by Lib Dem Dorothy Thornhill, Labour’s candidate Nigel Bell didn’t come second, close or otherwise. He came third.
In the first ballot of the SV election, the votes were:
- Nigel Bell (Labour) 10,029
- Steve Johnson (Conservative) 10,403
- Alex Macgregor Mason (Green) 2,173
- Dorothy Thornhill (LibDem) 19,153
After the votes in this AV election were transferred, Dorothy Thornhill had a total of 23,429 votes and the Conservative candidate had 11,508 votes. Nobody was a close second, least of all Nigel Bell, who was a distant third.
Oh well, this is the Labour Party who in the same newsletter described Labour’s Claire Ward plummeting from first to third place as ‘a resilient General Election vote’.
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