The winning candidate from the Bridlington North Ward by-election has just been announced.
Jayne Phoenix won the seat for the Liberal Democrat party, with the Conservative Party who had held the seat in the previous election, in second place.
The declaration was announced at the East Riding Leisure Centre, Promenade, Bridlington in the early hours of this morning (July 1).
The full result for the candidates who stood for election are as follows: (in name alphabetical order).
BIBB
Jonathan – Conservative Party 1077
BUTLAND
David – Labour Party 171
PHOENIX
Jayne – Liberal Democrats 1950 (ELECTED)
THOMAS
Kimberley – Yorkshire Party 93
VERDA
Carlo – Social Democrat Party 125
The turnout was 30.05% with a total of 3422 (including 6 spoilt ballot papers) votes cast out of an electorate of 11386.
Share of vote details. (2019 in brackets). No Lib/Dem, SDP or Yorkshire Party candidates stood in the last election).
LIB/DEM: 57.1% (+57.1)
CON: 31.5% (-39.5)
LAB: 5.0% (-23.9)
SDP: 3.7% (+3.7)
Yorkshire Party: 2.7% (+2.7)
Votes cast: 3,416 (6 spoilt papers)
The by-election was held after the sad death of Cllr Chad Chadwick (Conservative Party) who passed away in April this year.
