{"id":22498,"date":"2019-05-02T23:19:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22498"},"modified":"2019-05-02T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T22:19:59","slug":"tales-of-tellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22498","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Tellers and Vale District Councillors for Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Polling Stations, some party supporters were Telling<\/b> (taking voter card numbers) so the party could tell which of their supporters had voted, and did not need a door knock, email, or whatever methods the parties use to remind people to vote.
\n\"Tellers\"
\nAt Preston Road there was a Lib-Dem and Conservative. The Conservative has lived all his 71 years in the Caldecott area of Abingdon, having been born in Saxton Road. He is a Morris Dancer and was standing for Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council for the first time. The Lib-Dem was a former leader of the Vale of White Horse District Council.<\/p>\n

At the St John Ambulance Station there was also a Lib-Dem and Conservative, but there was not room to sit down and talk there.
\n\"Tellers\"
\nAt Trinity Church there was just Jeanette, a Lib-Dem. One duty of the teller is holding the voter\u2019s dog. She was holding one very large  and friendly dog and she almost got pulled into the polling station.
\n\"Tellers\"
\nAt Bridges Close there was a Lib-Dem and a lot of beautiful plants.
\n\"Tellers\"
\nThe polling station is in the hall of the Jephson Flats where you need to ‘Beware the Elderly’. I did not see any brolly wielding elderly threatening the voters.
\n\"Tellers\"
\nTelling<\/strong> was difficult at the Guildhall where there were two entrances. People could easily go in through the Abbey Cinema entrance and avoid the foyer where the tellers sat.<\/p>\n

(Update) The Lib Dems gained control of the Vale of White Horse District Council which they lost eight years ago in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In terms of Abingdon Wards:<\/p>\n

Abingdon Peachcroft<\/strong>
\nElected
\nMike Pighills –\tLiberal Democrat
\nMax Thompson – Liberal Democrat
\nNot Elected
\nVicky Jenkins – Conservative Party
\nSimon Hutton – Conservative Party
\nGeorge Ryall <\/p>\n

Abingdon Caldecott<\/strong>
\nElected
\nSamantha Bowring – Liberal Democrat
\nNeil Fawcett – Liberal Democrat
\nNot Elected
\nAlice Badcock – Conservative Party
\nMike Badcock – Conservative Party
\nJon Bounds – Labour Party<\/p>\n

Abingdon Fitzharris<\/strong>
\nElected
\nEric De La Harpe – Liberal Democrat
\nRobert James Maddison – Liberal Democrat
\nNot Elected
\nMonica Lovatt – Conservative Party
\nChristopher Palmer – Conservative Party<\/p>\n

Abingdon Abbey Northcourt<\/strong>
\nElected
\nHelen Pighills – Liberal Democrat
\nCheryl Briggs – The Green Party
\nNot Elected
\nKatie Finch- Conservative Party
\nDennis Garrett -Conservative Party<\/p>\n

Abingdon Dunmore<\/strong>
\nElected
\nMargaret Crick – Liberal Democrat
\nAndy Foulsham – Liberal Democrat
\nNot Elected
\nSandy Lovatt- Conservative Party
\nDavid Pope – Conservative Party
\nPaul Burton – Labour Party<\/p>\n

The majority for the Lib-Dems over Conservatives looks so large that it is very likely that they will have a large Lib-Dem majority in the town council when those votes are counted later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Polling Stations, some party supporters were Telling (taking voter card numbers) so the party could tell which of their supporters had voted, and did not need a door knock, email, or whatever methods the parties use to remind people to vote. At Preston Road there was a Lib-Dem and Conservative. The Conservative has lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}