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19/10/2001
Sinn Féin retain Westminster seat
A legal bid to oust Sinn Féin MP Michelle Gildernew from her Westminster seat has been rejected at Northern Ireland’s High Court.
Ulster Unionist James Cooper’s had brought the case against Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew who won the Fermanagh-South Tyrone seat in June’s general election by 53 votes.
At the High Court on Friday October 19, Mr Cooper, an Enniskillen solicitor, said “threats and actions” by Sinn Féin members led to votes being cast after closing time in a polling station at Garrison in County Fermanagh.
At a two-day hearing held in the Belfast High Court in Belfast last month, two polling clerks said there had been voting after the 10pm closing time. One of them said 15 or 16 votes were cast, while the other estimated the number at between 15 and 20.
Mr Cooper said in his petition that if the number of invalid votes wrongly included in the count were disallowed, then he would have a majority.
The Lord Chief Justice Sir Robert Carswell who heard the case alongside Lord Justice McCollum said: “We do not consider that the number of voting papers issued in that time could be materially more than 30, and that number falls well short of the successful candidate’s majority of 53 votes. We therefore hold that the breaches of the regulations did not affect the result of the election.” (AMcE)
Ulster Unionist James Cooper’s had brought the case against Sinn Fein’s Michelle Gildernew who won the Fermanagh-South Tyrone seat in June’s general election by 53 votes.
At the High Court on Friday October 19, Mr Cooper, an Enniskillen solicitor, said “threats and actions” by Sinn Féin members led to votes being cast after closing time in a polling station at Garrison in County Fermanagh.
At a two-day hearing held in the Belfast High Court in Belfast last month, two polling clerks said there had been voting after the 10pm closing time. One of them said 15 or 16 votes were cast, while the other estimated the number at between 15 and 20.
Mr Cooper said in his petition that if the number of invalid votes wrongly included in the count were disallowed, then he would have a majority.
The Lord Chief Justice Sir Robert Carswell who heard the case alongside Lord Justice McCollum said: “We do not consider that the number of voting papers issued in that time could be materially more than 30, and that number falls well short of the successful candidate’s majority of 53 votes. We therefore hold that the breaches of the regulations did not affect the result of the election.” (AMcE)
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