Election of Club Directors, Summer 2025 – The Results

The election closed on the 18th August 2025 and the results are as follows;

The total email vote invites sent were 5908

  •  4,118 were opened (69.7%)
  •  1,532 unopened (25.9%)
  •  177 bounced (3.0%)

Total responses to email invite were 639 (10.8%)

Then there were additional responses from;

ClubNews     115

Website        8

Gazette        7

Forum        30

Office        1

There were a total of 800 responses from a total membership of 6765 (inc joint members)=11.8% turnout

Final votes as follows. There were only 4 votes cast that I had to be removed due to no match in the membership list for membership number, First and last name or last name with wrong spelling.

Final Votes

Name

For

Against

Abstain

Eleanor Thain

670

15

24

Paul Micklethwaite

649

15

48

Keith Newell

588

30

94

Phil John

606

18

88

Therefore  all four candidates will become directors with effect from the AGM in October 2025 with a term of office of 3 years.