Tied English council election decided on coin toss

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2007

ABERDEEN, Scotland (AFP) — An English municipal councillor held on to his seat after the election was reportedly decided by the toss of a coin.

According to BBC Christopher Underwood-Frost tied with Liberal Democrat John Birkenshaw after each polled 781 votes for the Scotter ward of West Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, eastern England.

Despite winning, the Conservative Party candidate said he did not think an election should be decided on the toss of a coin.

"We did ask whether we between ourselves could agree to disagree with the toss of a coin... but the law's the law, and the law needs to be changed in my view," he was quoted as saying.

"Here I am re-selected by a way that I don't think anybody would agree with, but that's the law."

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