Exactly as many people voted for a Conservative AND a Labour Party candidate in the Tameside ward of Hyde Godley – so the third contested council seat was decided by the drawing of a lot.
With all other wards in Tameside having declared, votes in Hyde Godley were recounted twice because of how close the numbers were.
Labour and Cooperative Party candidates Betty Affleck (1273 votes) and Joe Kitchen (1278) came top in the ward – but the same party’s David McAllister received exactly the same number of votes as the Conservatives’ Andrea Colbourne.
This led to the third council seat being decided at random, by the drawing of a slip of paper for either the Conservatives or the Labour and Cooperative Party.
The slip came out for Colbourne, meaning that the Conservatives gained one seat to Labour’s two.
Watch the winning lot be drawn here:
Image: left to right, winning councillors Andrea Colbourne, Joe Kitchen and Betty Affleck
