New Member of Youth Parliament for B&NES Elected

The Bath and North East Somerset constituency elections for the UK Youth Parliament 2009 were the biggest ever, with over 44% of young people in the area taking part.

Fred Cotterill, 15, was elected as MYP with 1,282 votes. He is the first MYP to come from the Chew Valley area, and secured almost 20% of the total votes. Arran Shargall, 17 years old and currently attending Wellsway School, was elected Deputy with 717 votes.

7,522 votes were cast overall (a striking increase of over 3,000 from last year. This means 44% of young people in the area voted, achieving the best turnout ever. Now hosted in all 13 state schools in B&NES, polling stations were also set up in special schools for the first time, in addition to many local youth centres.

Full rankings:

1st: Fred Cotterill (1,282 votes / 18%)
2nd: Arran Shargal (717 votes / 10%)
3rd: Tara Sexton (697 votes / 10%)
4th: Katy Phillips (673 votes / 9%)
5th: George Lindars-Hammond (602 votes / 8%)
6th: Joshua Barnes (487 votes / 7%)
7th: Samuel Marlow-Stevens (349 votes / 5%)
8th: Guy Baldwin (331 votes / 5%)
9th: Leo McIntyre (326 votes / 4%)
10th: Amber Sims (275 votes / 4%)
11th: Ruby Daniel (269 votes / 4%)
12th: Lydia Richards (236 votes / 3%)
13th: Ursula Cherry (220 votes / 3%)
14th: Poppy Mist (185 votes / 3%)
15th: Benjamin Partridge (177 votes / 2%)
16th: Sid Janota (124 votes / 2%)
17th: Charlie Hickman (110 votes / 2%)
18th: Olivia Styles (102 votes / 1%)
19th: Hannah Appleby-Matthews (96 votes / 1%)
20th: Natasha Hawes (57 votes / 1%)