{"id":1264,"date":"2020-06-19T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2020-06-20T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T10:33:15","slug":"letters-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/06\/19\/letters-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Dear subtext,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">subtext 193 published a piece of widely-believed, but inaccurate, Lancastrian electoral trivia \u2013 that the 8 December 2016 University and Scotforth Rural by-election had the lowest turnout of any British election, at 7.12%. I understand the current record-holder to actually be the former Melrose ward, Liverpool City Council, in which at a 11 December 1997 by-election, only 6.3% of eligible voters cast a ballot. Where the 2016 by-election may well be a record-holder, however, is in returning a candidate with just 98 votes, as I doubt any other candidate has ever been elected with fewer votes.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Yours,<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;font-size: 10pt;color: #000000\">Cllr Jack O&#8217;Dwyer-Henry<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear subtext, subtext 193 published a piece of widely-believed, but inaccurate, Lancastrian electoral trivia \u2013 that the 8 December 2016 University and Scotforth Rural by-election had the lowest turnout of any British election, at 7.12%. I understand the current record-holder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/06\/19\/letters-29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[577,576,330],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-issue-194","tag-jack-odwyer-henry","tag-local-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-ko","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1234,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/03\/27\/were-still-the-record-holders\/","url_meta":{"origin":1264,"position":0},"title":"WE&#8217;RE STILL THE RECORD HOLDERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 27 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As coronavirus fever first gripped the country, and as the government prepared to enact emergency laws to postpone all public elections, one solitary local council by-election took place on Thursday 19 March 2020, for the Upper Stoke ward of Coventry City Council. 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