This has to be the most bizarre electoral story since George W's chads... In Crawley the council was hung with one seat remaining... the Tory and Labour candidates both polled exactly 500 votes... so they drew lots! Yes they drew lots! The Labour candidate as the incumbent drew first... and lost... meaning that not only has the seat been given to the Tory candidate... but the Tories now control the council... If I was a resident of Crawley I would be somewhat perturbed!
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It wasn't the only one...there was another in St Albans where the winner was the one who drew the longer pencil! The Lib Dems already had a clear majority there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4974304.stm
Posted by: Jem | 05/05/2006 at 13:09
Yes I saw that this morning... brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'pencil pushers'!
Posted by: Mark Berry | 05/05/2006 at 14:10
I wasn't sure whether "drawing pencils" was the idea of some bureaucratic wit!
Posted by: Jem | 05/05/2006 at 16:27