When will General Election results come through in West Northamptonshire?
Returning officer, and chief executive of West Northamptonshire Council, Anna Earnshaw explains to our video reporter David Jackson how the process works tonight
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00:00So I'm Anna Earnshaw, I am the returning officer for the elections here tonight.
00:05We start with the people who have voted by post, so those come in as you imagine in the
00:10builds up to the election and we secure those, put them into boxes in exactly the same way as
00:15all the other votes. When we start tonight and what you're seeing tonight is those postal votes
00:20being verified. Verification, just to kind of explain what that is, is the process by which
00:27we double check that the amount of votes that we've got here to count tonight are the same
00:32amount as the ones that came in the boxes. After the postal votes, next stage is obviously that
00:37as the polling stations have now closed, the boxes start coming in from the polling stations
00:41and as they come in they will be added to the queues that the council staff will start counting
00:47and then the ones from furthest away of the county will come in right at the end. So basically we'll
00:53be getting boxes between now and midnight. We hope to start about 2am with the actual
00:58count process, so four hours broadly to actually do your verification and then the count process,
01:04in theory, if we didn't have any recounts, could be done by 5am.
01:08If we end up in recounts then it could be a bit longer.