Paragraph 59 Returning officer's final statement, central calculation and declaration of result

When the F1CA/CCA returning officer has determined not to direct that any re-count (or further re-count) must take place, he or she must direct the returning officers to draw up a final statement of the matters referred to in rule 47(8) F2, 54(1) and, where applicable, 56(2) and to provide final versions of their statements of rejected ballot papers.

The returning officer, having drawn up the final statement, must—

When authorised by the CA/CCA returning officer to do so, the returning officer must—

The CA/CCA F3... returning officer—

No person other than—

may be present at a calculation, unless permitted by the CA/CCA returning officer to attend.

A person not entitled to attend a calculation must not be permitted to do so by the CA/CCA F5... returning officer unless the officer—

As soon as the CA/CCA returning officer has received the information required by paragraph (3) from every returning officer, the CA/CCA returning officer must—

As soon as the CA/CCA F7... returning officer has ascertained the result of the calculation, the officer must inform such of the election agents as are then present of the relevant figures and must give them a reasonable opportunity to satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of the calculation.

A person informed of the relevant figures under paragraph (8) may require the CA/CCA returning officer to make a calculation again but the officer may refuse to do so if in the officer's opinion the request is unreasonable.

In paragraphs (8) and (9), “the relevant figures” means—

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Where—

the F12CA/CCA returning officer must declare the candidate to whom the majority of the votes is given as the person to be returned as the combined authority mayor F13or, as the case may be, combined county authority mayor.

Where—

the CA/CCA returning officer must forthwith decide between those candidates by lot, and proceed as if the candidate on whom the lot falls had received an additional vote.

Where an election is contested by three or more candidates, the CA/CCA returning officer must—

If, after the counting of second preference votes (including any re-count) is completed, an equality of votes is found to exist between any two or more candidates remaining in the contest and the addition of a vote would entitle any of those candidates to be returned as mayor, the CA/CCA returning officer must forthwith decide between those candidates by lot and proceed as if the candidate on whom the lot falls had received an additional vote.

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The F18CA/CCA returning officer must give public notice of—

In an uncontested election, the CA/CCA returning officer must as soon as practicable after the latest time for the delivery of notices of withdrawals of candidature—

F22Where the election is a combined authority mayoral election, the combined authority returning officer must inform the proper officer of the combined authority concerned of the result of the election.

Where the election is a combined county authority mayoral election, the combined county authority returning officer must inform the proper officer of the combined county authority concerned of the result of the election.