Elections 2024 - Bicester Town Council - North Ward by-Election

Thursday 2 May 2024

Friday 3 May 2024

The number of votes recorded for each candidate at the election is as follows:

Candidate (Surname first)	Description/Political Party	Votes	Elected
Thrupp Alexander Peter	Local Conservatives	550
Willett John	Liberal Democrats	995	Elected

5,374

29.36

The number of ballot papers rejected was as follows:

Reason for Rejection	Number rejected
a) Want of an official mark	0
b) Voting for more candidates than entitled to	2
c) Writing or mark by which voter can be identified	0
d) Unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty	28
e) Rejected in part	0
Total	30

Election of a Town Councillor
For the Bicester Town Council - North Ward

Date of Election - Thursday 2 May 2024

1. A poll for the election of a Town Councillor for the Bicester Town Council - North Ward will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, between the hours of 7:00 am and 10:00 pm.

2. The number of Town Councillors to be elected is One.

3. The following people stand validly nominated for election to this Town Ward:

Names of Candidates (surname first)	Address of Candidate*	Description	Names of Persons Signing Nomination Papers (proposer listed first)
Thrupp, Alexander Peter	(address in Cherwell)	Local Conservatives	Michael Buckmaster Lynn Pratt
Willett, John	(address in Cherwell)	Liberal Democrats	Richard Oliver Shirley Boulton

*Or, if a candidate has requested not to have their home address made public, the relevant electoral area in which their home address is situated is provided.

The situation of stations, and the description of the persons entitled to vote thereat, are as follows:

Situation of Polling Station	Polling Station Numbers	Range of electoral register numbers of persons entitled to vote thereat
Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester	45	CBR1-1 to CBR1-1126
Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester	45	CBT1-1 to CBT1-541
Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester	46	CBR1-1127 to CBR1-2140
Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester	46	CBU1-1 to CBU1-2
Emmanuel Church, Barberry Place, Bicester	46	CBV1-1 to CBV1-1
Southwold Community Centre, Holme Way, Bicester, Oxon	47	CBS1-1 to CBS1-1342
Southwold Community Centre, Holme Way, Bicester, Oxon	48	CBS1-1343 to CBS1-2610

Electors can only vote at their allocated polling station. The election will be by secret ballot according to electoral law, and as set out in notices displayed at each polling station.

Where contested this poll is taken together with the election of a Police and Crime Commissioner and the election of District Councillors.

Dated Wednesday 24 April 2024

Gordon Stewart
Returning Officer

Printed and published by the Returning Officer, Bodicote House, Bodicote, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 4AA

Statement of Persons Nominated

Election of a Town Councillor

The following is a statement of the persons nominated for election as a Town Councillor for

Bicester Town Council - North Ward

Name of Candidate (surname first)	Home Address	Description (if any)	Names of Proposer (first listed) and Seconder (surnames first)		Reason why no longer nominated
Thrupp Alexander Peter	(address in Cherwell)	Local Conservatives	Buckmaster Michael	Pratt Lynn
Willett John	(address in Cherwell)	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Richard	Boulton Shirley

The last column provides the decision of the Returning Officer that the nomination is invalid or other reason why a person nominated no longer stands nominated.

The persons above against whose name no entry is made in the last column have been and stand validly nominated.

If a candidate has requested not to make their home address public, the relevant electoral area in which their home address is situated is provided.

A Poll will be taken on Thursday 2 May 2024 between the hours of 7:00 am and 10:00 pm.

Where contested this poll is taken together with the election of District Councillors and the election of Police and Crime Commissioner

Dated Friday 5 April 2024