Talk:Mike Wolfe (politician)

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Votes

Actually the point about the defaced ballot papers is somewhat exaggerated. In the Returning Officer's report at the declaration over 6,500 ballot papers were merely blank. Of the remaining 3,000 some 2,000 were not counted because of a variety of reasons:- unclear intention - i.e. voting only for a second choice candidate, voting for more than one first choice candidate etc. The number of defaced papers i.e. papers with a comment about the Elected Mayor position or writing in the name of a Party or group without a candidate in the election numbered around 1,000. It is not clear though what relevance this has to Mike Wolfe's final position in the ballot. Incidentally, he came third after the first count was completed, not fourth.

Perhaps the comment should be changed to "wasted votes" - Blank Ballot papers are none the less deliberate, and interesting to see on that scale.

It was my understanding that he had come 4th in the first ballot (not making into the second ballot), he finished behind Labour, Consersvatives and the BNP. Beating the other three independent candidates.

This. I could of course be wrong - i'll find the relevent Sentinel article to double check this --Lostsocks

The full results are on the City Council website.

The first round votes were as follows:

Steven Reginald Batkin (BNP) 15,776 Gary Chevin (Ind) 4,505 Gary Falconer (Ind) 1,368 Justin Harvey (Ind) 1,955 Roger Ibbs (Con) 16,211 Mark Meredith (Lab) 27,253 Mike Wolfe (Supporting Green Shoots) 15,882

Top two proceed to second round:

MARK JOSEPH MEREDITH (Lab) 36,961 - ELECTED. Roger Michael Ibbs (Con) 23,130

He may have been notable for being openly gay, but he is perhaps also notable for having been defeated by Mark Meredith, another openly gay candidate in an industrial City. This makes Stoke-on-Trent probably the only City or Local Authority in England to elect 100% gay candidates to the office of Elected Mayor since the position was created.

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