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00:00Declaration of Result of Poll for Devon County.
00:04Election of a County Councillor for Tivoton West on Thursday the 1st of May 2025.
00:11I, Stephen Walford, being the Deputy Returning Officer at the above election,
00:16do hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at the set election
00:22is as follows. Bridger, Timothy, Independent, 237.
00:30Bullivant, Richard Peter Ross, Reform UK, 1,228.
00:39Grey, Toby William, the Conservative Party candidate, 738.
00:46Lodge, Stephen, Liberal Democrats for a Fair Deal, 1,372.
00:53Pocock, Geoffrey Lee, Labour Party, 107.
01:02Tempest Brown, Simon Mark, Green Party, 162.
01:07There were seven rejected ballot papers. The turnout was 34.0%.
01:16And I do hereby declare that Stephen Lodge is duly elected.
01:20Thank you very much. I'm delighted, absolutely delighted.
01:33This is all about me as the winner, but actually this is a massive team effort from the Liberal Democrats.
01:39I have to thank everybody who's been involved.
01:42Thanks too for the counting staff here, the people at the poll booths.
01:47All I'm going to say is I'm going to work incredibly hard for the constituents of Timbs and West.
01:52Thank you very much.