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00:00Declaration of Result of Poll for Devon County.
00:14Election of a County Councillor for Crediton on Thursday 1st May 2025.
00:21I, Stephen Walford, being the Deputy Returning Officer at the above election,
00:25to hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the said election is as follows.
00:34Beasley, Charles Errington, Reform UK, 869.
00:41Kearney, James, Liberal Democrats, 1,259.
00:48Howie, Angus, the Conservative Party candidate, 602.
00:53Mitchell, Wesley, Heritage Party, Keep Our Countryside Green, 52.
01:02Ricky, Robert Harper, Green Party, 333.
01:09Vincent, Paul Michael, Labour Party, 423.
01:15There were five rejected ballot papers.
01:20The turnout was 33.2%.
01:23And I do hereby declare that James Kearney is duly elected.
01:28I would first like to thank everybody here at the county
01:39for the way that it was conducted and all the other candidates who took part in this election.
01:46We had a really good, clean contest where everybody spoke the truth and acted in very good honour as well.
01:57I would also like to say many thanks to Frank Lech,
02:02who was the standing candidate at this division.
02:11I believe that I have benefited of his many hard years of work and diligence in working for the community.
02:21Thank you very much.