Talk:List of narrow elections

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It is fairly common in UK local elections for exact ties to occur where two candidates receive exactly the same number of votes. Such an incident occured, for example, in the Osterley ward of the London Borough of Hounslow in 1998. In such cases, the Returning Officer uses 'any random method' to award the casting vote to one of the candidates and thus determine the winner.

A couple of such incidents occur in every set of local elections (i.e. every year) and they'd probably be too numerous to list in this table. Perhaps a List of tied elections article should be set up? --81.19.57.170 10:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

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