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Bristol mayoral referendum 2022: Results night live
3.30am
The vote is in: Bristol has voted to scrap the mayoral model and return to a committee system – with 59 per cent casting their vote in favour of a committee system.
- Total number of votes: 94,552
- Votes in favour of a mayoral system: 38,439
- Votes in favour of a committee system: 56,113
Bristol will adopt a committee system of governance in May 2024.
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2.30am
Results are yet to be declared but it’s all smiles in the pro-committee system camp.
1:32pm
All votes have now been verified, and news has just come in that the total turnout was 28.59 per cent – a higher turnout than the 24 per cent in the 2012 mayoral referendum.
A total of 94,937 turned out to vote on Thursday, out of a total electorate of 332,028.
1.12am
Emma Edwards, a Green councillor for Bishopston & Ashley Down, who has campaigned to scrap the mayoral system isn’t saying either way how the referendum might go.
“It’s really hard to say – I didn’t come here with any pre-expectations but we do have optimism,” Edwards tells Bristol24/7.
12.04am
Current mayor Marvin Rees has arrived here in Brislington and was joined by Bristol North West MP Darren Jones. Rees has already said he won’t stand again in 2024. If the committee system is voted in, it will come into play after his second term of office comes to an end.
11.45pm
Outside the media room, we have first sight of paper being sorted, but official counting is yet to begin.
11.17pm
Meanwhile, in the media room …
11pm
Campaigners and councillors from both sides who have been busy canvassing today have arrived at Oasis Academy Brislington for the long wait while voting cards are counted.
For background to the mayoral referendum, here’s everything you need to know: b247.staging.proword.press/news-and-features/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bristols-mayoral-referendum/
10.45pm
Polls closed at 10pm in the Bristol mayoral referendum and the ballot boxes have now started arriving at Oasis Academy Brislington where verification is underway.
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