Hi - a couple of family members arranged a postal vote for tomorrow's EU Elections, where their candidate has withdrawn. Can they still vote in person, or is their vote now effectively squandered?
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Postal vote for withdrawn candidate
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- Lemon Quarter
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Re: Postal vote for withdrawn candidate
They won't be able to vote in person, but I don't think their candidate could actually withdraw anyway. There is a very small window during which candidates can withdraw and they then don't appear on the ballot paper.
I am thinking you may be referring to Scotland where the second Change UK (the first being sacked) candidate has said that people should vote Lib Dem. He was too late to actually withdraw.
I am thinking you may be referring to Scotland where the second Change UK (the first being sacked) candidate has said that people should vote Lib Dem. He was too late to actually withdraw.
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Re: Postal vote for withdrawn candidate
Not sure it's ever happened here, but certainly in the US, there have been instances of people being elected despite having died between nomination as a candidate and the day of voting.
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- Lemon Slice
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Re: Postal vote for withdrawn candidate
johnhemming wrote:They won't be able to vote in person, but I don't think their candidate could actually withdraw anyway. There is a very small window during which candidates can withdraw and they then don't appear on the ballot paper.
I am thinking you may be referring to Scotland where the second Change UK (the first being sacked) candidate has said that people should vote Lib Dem. He was too late to actually withdraw.
As I see it, if Change UK gained enough votes to elect (say) 3 candidates to a constituency which had 6 seats, and the list had
A
B (withdrew after nominations closed)
C
D
E
Then the first declaration would have candidates A, B and C elected.
Since B has indicated that they are withdrawing = "resigning with immediate effect if elected" (rather than refusing to take their seat), then the EU rules state that instead of a by-election, the next unelected person on the list gets the seat - so candidate D gets elected:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheet ... procedures
In some Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Croatia, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and the UK), seats falling vacant are allocated to the first unelected candidates on the same list (possibly after adjustment to reflect the votes obtained by the candidates).
This process came in post 2002 (when the process for E+W+S changed from "first past the post+single seat constituencies" to "list system+multiseat regional constituencies".
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