Former MP for Peterborough
Mr Michael Ward is a former MP for Peterborough.
Former MP for Peterborough
Entered the House of Commons on 10 October 1974 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 7 April 1979 — General election
Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in 1966, when we had seven recounts in my constituency, on the first count a complete village set of papers, amounting to about 600, were put back into a box and locked away in an outside room? It would surely be possible in this complicated situation for such accidents to occur. However, does not the hon. Gentleman agree that that is just a price of delay...
Is not the hon. Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop) nit-picking? Is not the task of having notices published by the man who does it regularly for the returning officer a very simple and straightforward operation? Will he not have planned them and had them printed some time before?
Another problem sometimes arises. In Warmington in 1966, in that famous election, the lights failed in a polling station. There was an enormous and inordinate delay in getting people through.
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