Bristol has made a decision and voted for an elected mayor. We respect that decision. The result is:
41,032 votes for an elected mayor
35,880 against an elected mayor
That was 53% in favour and 47% opposed. Turnout was 24%.
The decision has been made. Now the promises must be delivered on. We call on the Government to live up to the £100s millions of extra funding that has been promised and all the additional powers that have been raised.
Our campaign is now over but the campaign to put Bristol first and keep improving our great city goes on.
Good bye Bristol – you remain unique!
“Our campaign is now over ..” – but it never got started!
No posters to download, no organisation apparent – I wonder whether it was a front set up by the Yes campaign to divert the opposition.
“Bristol has made a decision and voted for an elected mayor. We respect that decision.” I certainly don’t – 53% of 24% when large parts of the city never even got the council’s leaflet. If this happened in a third-world country, there would be widespread condemnation of the lack of democracy.
If this really is a No Campaign, I would have thought the lack of prior consultation due to the non or misdelivery of the council’s leaflet might be grounds for having result declared null and void.
Is anybody going to; (1) complain to the Electoral Commision or who-ever has the power to void the result, (2) call for an investigation into why so many council leaflets were not delivered?