A court-ordered recount of voting in the Onchan constituency at the General Election has confirmed the result was correct – but the vote numbers were not
No candidates’ positions changed in the recount, but the numbers of votes allocated to many of them did.
Onchan MHKs Rob Callister and Dr Rachel Glover remained the top two.
And former Onchan MHK Julie Edge, who brought the matter for court after discovering some votes were not accounted for, actually saw her final figure drop.
Bringing the case, she said she did not expect the result would change but she was concerned about inaccuracies.
The recount was ordered by a Deemster after the alleged irregularities in the final voting numbers were identified.
Today’s recount saw the voting split as follows:
Rachel Glover, 1,252; Rob Callister, 1,184; Julie Edge, 858; Peter Karran, 838; Gabriella Corkish, 703; Oliver Lockwood, 50.
The figures on election night were: Rachel Glover, 1,246; Rob Callister, 1,103; Julie Edge, 866; Peter Karran, 738; Gabriella Corkish, 725 ; Oliver Lockwood, 50.
So no positions changed, but the final figures were different for all bar Lockwood.
