The
results from Hampshire and the IOW are interesting because they show the value of the Alternative Vote system (which we were allowed to use for this election, presumably because the Government didn't think it was important enough...!)
After the first round Michael Mates (Conservative) was in the lead with 52,616 votes, but that was only 24.8% of the votes cast.
Simon Hayes (Independent) was in second place with 47,632 votes and 22.5%
However after the second place votes were counted (Mates with 13,188 and Hayes with 33,037), Simon Hayes was elected with 55.1% of electors preferring him over 44.9% for Michael Mates.
Now if we'd had First Past the Post, Michael Mates would have been elected even though over 75% of the voters didn't want him, instead we got a candidate which over 50% of the voters *did* want!
PS of course I still think the whole thing was a total waste of time and money...!