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Originally Posted by cashman
yeh but was far more spoiled in england, was wondering if the 100.000 are included in the 38% that did vote?
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The spoiled ballot papers are counted in the number of votes cast.
When you see the ballot papers some papers are obviously ment to be spoilt, being left blank are writing neither candidate are examples.
But there are some people confused with the postal votes, if the declaration is not received as well as the ballot paper, the vote does not count. I know that there has to be some proof of who the voter is in postal voting, but some people do get confused by how to complete everything.
In my ward there were 1362 ballot papers counted, the candidates got the following votes - Labour 837. Tory 514, which means there were 11 spoilt ballot papers.
Figures for spoilt ballot papers in Hyndburn wer
Altham 11
Barnfield 4
Baxenden 12
Central 22
Church 8
Clayton-le-Moors 16
Huncoat 1
Immanuel 9
Milnshaw 14
Overton 19
Rishton 12
St Oswald's 13
Total spoilt votes in Hyndburn 141 out of 17850 votes cast - this is 0.79% of votes cast