English Party election results 2010

By Helen Duffett | Thu 11th November 2010 - 4:08 pm

Yesterday the counts took place for the English party elections.

The Acting Returning Officer, David Allworthy, reported the results as follows:

At the close of nominations on 29 September 2010 the following were declared duly elected, unopposed:

Chair of English Party:
Jonathan Davies

Chair of English Candidates’ Committee:
Margaret Joachim

English representative to Federal Conference Committee (1 place):
Geoff Payne

English Candidates Committee (5 places):
Dawn Davidson
Sal Jarvis
Brian Orrell

The following were elected:

English representative to Federal Executive:
Brian Orrell: 46
Michael Wheatley: 32

English representative to Federal Policy Committee:
Dirk Hazell: 10
Geoff Payne: 68

English Executive Committee (12 places):
Nigel Ashton
Stan Collins
Dawn Davidson
Kay Friend
Anders Hanson
Sean Hooker
Sal Jarvis
Steve Jarvis
Brian Orrell
Geoff Payne
Neil Walton
Mike Wheatley

The turnout was 65.5% (higher than the average of recent years).

See here for the breakdown of votes for each stage of the count, courtesy of Colin Rosenstiel.

There will be a ballot in the by-election for the final two places for directly elected places on the ECC. A ballot paper will be included in the EC Final Agenda mailing, which goes out at the end of this week.

5 Comments

Marianne 11th Nov '10 - 4:17pm

When do we find out who the new party president is?
Maria M 11th Nov '10 - 4:33pm

Who was eligible to vote for these people?
Susan Gaszczak 11th Nov '10 - 4:52pm

MArianne – Saturday along with the committee elections
Marianne 11th Nov '10 - 5:04pm

Thanks Susan
Simon 11th Nov '10 - 5:06pm

@MariaM – English Council Reps who are in turn elected by Regional Conference delegates and Liberal Youth.

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