APPENDIX A

DONCASTER BOROUGH COUNCIL

2 MAY 2013

DECLARATION OF RESULT OF MAYORAL ELECTION

 

I, Johanna Miller, being the Returning Officer at the election of a Mayor for Doncaster Borough Council, do hereby declare that the number of First Choice Votes given for each Candidate was as follows:-   

 

David Allen	4,615
John Brown	1,122
Peter Davies	21,406
Martin Drake	2,811
Mary Jackson	1,916
Ros Jones	21,996
Michael Maye	4,557
Dave Owen	1,066
Tony Ward	1,110
Doug Wright	786

 

The number of 2^nd preference votes for Candidates remaining in the contest after the count of the 1st preference votes was:-

PETER DAVIES	3,319
ROS JONES	3,368

 

17,982

The total votes for candidates who did not remain in the contest after the count of the 1^st preference votes was :-  

                                                                                                                                                                                               

 

 

The total number of 1^st and 2^nd preference votes given for each of those Candidates

 

PETER DAVIES	24,725
ROS JONES	25,364

 

The number of Ballot Papers rejected for the purpose of the count of the votes on the grounds that they were rejected as void or unmarked for uncertainty as to the 2^nd preference vote was:-

			11,295
	5                 - Spoiled 9,320         - not for Davies or Jones 1,970         - no preference

 

                                                                                                                       

 

 

 

 

 

 

I therefore declare that the said  Ros Jones is duly elected as Mayor of Doncaster Borough Council.

 

Dated this 3rd day of May, 2013                                    

                                                Johanna Miller

            Returning Officer

Turnout  - 28%                                              Majority    639

 

Printed and published by the Returning Officer, Doncaster Borough Council