Liberal Democrats keep control of Thornbury Town Council

for the Thornbury Town and District Residents Associationwinning the other two seats with 551 and 544 votes.

Independent Gil Gilroy was the candidate who missed out, by 70 votes.

In Thornbury's South ward the four Liberal DemocratsChris Bloor, Cheryl Jenkinson, Helen Harrison and Simon Johnson - were elected to the four seats with 735, 689, 657 and 565 votes respectively.

Rosemary Millar, who ran without a party label, was fifth with 254 votes and Conservative Olivia Owusu-Antwi was another 42 votes behind in sixth, as the Lib Dem candidates secured 85% of the votes cast.

A fourth Thornbury Town Council ward, South East, did not have an election as there were not enough to force a poll and the four candidates who stood - Lib Dems Chris Davies, Kath Greenman and Maggie Tyrrell and Local Independent

Fiona Deas - were elected unopposed.

It means the town council will have 11 Lib Dems, four independents and one Green councillor.

In the other election in the area, Almondsbury Parish Council's Almondsbury ward saw Liberal Democrat Drew Clayton top the poll with 461 votes, followed by independents Antonio Piccioni and Tony Randall, with 397 and 336 votes respectively.

Marion Stooke, who ran without a party label, secured the fourth seat with 229 votes, while Diane Wilson, who also had no party label, missed out with 216 votes.

No elections took place in Alveston and Olveston parish councils, Charfield Parish Council Rockhampton and Tytherington & Itchington, as well as Almondsbury Parish Council's Compton ward, because not enough candidates came forward to make a vote necessary.

Where seats are unfilled, nominations are reopened and new councillors can be co-opted if not enough candidates have come forward to make another election necessary.

ID rules cost 58 votes

MORE than 50 voters did not cast a ballot in South Gloucestershire's elections after falling foul of new rules on photo ID.

May's elections were the first to be held under new laws requiring proof of identification from everyone turning up at polling stations.

The council's returning officer said the "overwhelming majority" of electors brought photo ID that met the requirements.

A total of 216 electors were initially turned away after turning up to vote without a passport, driving licence or one of a number of other accepted forms of ID.

Of those, 158 returned with identification and were able to cast their ballots.

That left 58 who did not return.

The council says 43,798 people voted in the election and the number of people who did not get to vote represented just over 0.1% of the total who tried.

The council issued a total of 248 Voter Authority Certificates, for people who did not have another approved form of photo ID, before the election.

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