The latest by-election for a seat
on Cornwall Council has returned a Conservative.
The winner was former Penwith
District Councillor Anthony Pascoe, who out-polled two prominent local
independents who came second and third.
MK put forward John Gillingham,
who polled 6.2% of the vote. This was John’s first-ever election campaign and
he was also MK’s first council candidate in this area since the 1970s.
John worked extremely hard and I
would like to congratulate him and his team for their efforts. I understand
they were very well-received on the doorstep, though sadly this did not
translate into more votes.
The full result was as follows:
Anthony Pascoe (Conservative) – 332
(35.3%; down 2.8%)
Sheila Furneaux (Independent) –
167 (17.7%; down 16.4%)
Michael Roberts (Independent) –
163 (17.3%; up 17.3%)
Yvonne Bates (Liberal
Democrats) – 121 (12.9%; down 9.3%)
Malcolm Hurst (Labour) – 76 (8.1%;
up 2.5%)
John Gillingham (Mebyon Kernow) –
58 (6.2%; up 6.2%)
Derek Elliott (Independent) – 24
(2.6%; up 2.6%)
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