ELECTION 24: Boston and Skegness Count

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We are live from the Peter Paine Performance Centre in Boston for the Boston and Skegness count. Acting Returning Officer John Leach explains what will happen.

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00:00We're at the Peter Payne Sports Centre in Boston and I'm with the Acting Returning Officer

00:13for tonight's count for the Boston and Skegness constituency. Welcome! Can you explain what

00:21is going to be going on tonight? Because it looks like there's a few people who are going

00:25to be doing the count who are arriving now. Yeah, well during today we've obviously been

00:30open to the polls, 72 polling stations, with a large deployment of staff. We've got something

00:36like 72 presiding officers and 109 poll clerks. They've been busy receiving votes during the

00:44day from 7am to 10pm. From 10pm, those poll clerks, those presiding officers will be providing

00:52their ballot boxes here to the Peter Payne Centre. The ballot boxes will arrive through

00:58the entrance door and they'll go into an area to be checked off. They'll then come into the

01:02count room and we'll undergo verification. We'll just check that the ballots all tally with the

01:08accounts and then we'll move into a counting process to establish who is the winning candidate

01:15for the MP for Boston and Skegness. What time are you expecting a result? In terms of the result,

01:22we're expecting that to arrive by about 4.30am, so the early hours of tomorrow morning.

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