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The Royal College has announced the winners of the 2009 RCVS Council and VN Council elections.
This year, a special elections section was set up here on VetNurse.co.uk and on VetSurgeon.org for members to engage directly with candidates in a members forum, or directly using the social networking features on both sites. In the interests of promoting democracy, the sites offered a case of champagne to the voter who started the forum discussion which generated the greatest number of responses. Over the course of the voting period, these sections received over 23,000 page views, 53 questions for candidates, and 650 responses.
Arlo Guthrie, Editor of VetNurse.co.uk and VetSurgeon.org said: "I think it's great that the candidates agreed to try this. They could have said no, and stuck with the traditional methods of communication (which are more of a known quantity). Instead, they really got stuck in to some interesting and at times lively debate. My sincere thanks to all candidates and congratulations to the winners. And I raise my glass to Princess Ophelia Hermione MacBeth, who wins the case of champagne for starting the discussion thread which generated the greatest response from other members"
The VN Council elections saw a 25% increase in voters over last year, with 912 out of a possible 8,108 VNs casting a vote. This was an 11.2% turnout. The results were as follows:
JEFFERY, Andrea Karen. 604 votes. Elected GLYSEN, Louise. 332 votes. Elected WILLIAMS, Caroline Mary. 312 votes.IVES, Cheryl Diana. 236 votes.
Louse Glysen is the new VN Council Member (again, officially joining at RCVS Day) and Andrea Jeffery will begin her eighth year, having been the Council's chairman for the past four years.
Voting in the RCVS Council election increased from 17% to 18.2% this year, with 4,041 veterinary surgeons out of a possible 22,201 casting a vote. The results are as follows:
NUTE, Patricia Jill. 2,467 votes. Elected JINMAN, Peter. 2,346 votes. Elected GRAY, Christopher John. 2,230 votes. Elected DAVIES, Jeremy Vincent. 2,229 votes. Elected VINER, Bradley. 2,123 votes. Elected TUFNELL, Christopher Wynne. 2,088 votes. Elected SWAYNE, Nigel. 1,673 votes. McDOWELL, David Michael. 1,394 votes.LONSDALE, Thomas. 389 votes.
The new Council members are Christopher Gray and Christopher Tufnell, who will officially join Council at RCVS Day on 3 July 2009.
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Errr Baileys??? what about Bombay Sapphire?
Hello from the Princess :)
I am mortified that my name was showing as that when Arlo announced the winner - arghhhh!!!
Yeah - I reckon a deals a deal - 1/2 each and we need to all meet up at some point to drink it all at the TRVN congress....
Cheers Arlo! Here's to next year's elections and a crate of Baileys.
Aww thankyou Arlo. I had figured it out that it would be posts from others and not the poster, and thtas why princess(lol) won, anyway she owes me half, we had a deal whoever won we would go halve, so you dont need to send me any..... well unless princess does a bunk with it.......... princess, oh princess, are you polishing your throne? is that why you have not been on??lololol
Hi STRVN,
Responses / replies ... not sure there is a huge difference between the two! But I did say in my forum post (www.vetnurse.co.uk/.../1661.aspx) that the prize is for replies.
I accept I wasn't specific in the forum post, but by replies, I mean't replies from other people, so didn't include subsequent posts by the thread initiator in the final count. It seems the fairest thing to me, or people would scream that the only reason the winner won is because of their score was bumped up by their own posts!
As a consolation, STRVN, I'll send you a bottle!
Errrr did someone move the goalposts when I was not looking??
I thought it was the post that generated the most responses, but suddenly its the post that generated the most replies from members???
Remember Princess I am on halfs.......lol