Former mayor and Portslade school teacher Harry Steer has been re-elected to Brighton and Hove Older People’s Council (OPC).
He will represent North Portslade, South Portslade and Wish wards on the advisory body which is now in its tenth year.
The seat is one of nine, although only one of the other seats attracted enough candidates for an election to take place.
In seven seats the candidates were elected unopposed.
In the other contested seat Peter Terry won the election to represent East Brighton and Queen’s Park wards.
The full results in the two zones were
Zone 2 – East Brighton and Queen’s Park wards
- Marina Murphy 297 votes
- Peter Terry 799 votes *elected
Zone 8 – North Portslade, South Portslade and Wish wards
- Ronald Graham Gurney 186 votes
- John Gisbert Kapp 169 votes
- Harold Dunaway Steer 1194 votes *elected
The turnout for the all-postal ballot, which took place from Thursday 16 June to Thursday 30 June was 42.85 per cent overall.
The nine zones and their representatives are
- Zone 1 – Rottingdean Coastal and Woodingdean wards – Colin Charles Carden
- Zone 2 – East Brighton and Queen’s Park wards – Peter Terry
- Zone 3 – Hollingdean and Stanmer and Moulsecoomb and Bevendean wards – Jack Allan Hazelgrove
- Zone 4 – Hanover and Elm Grove, Preston Park, and St Peter’s and North Laine wards – Francis Tonks
- Zone 5 – Patcham and Withdean wards – Colin Vincent
- Zone 6 – Brunswick and Adelaide, Goldsmid and Regency wards – John Anthony Eyles
- Zone 7 – Hangleton and Knoll, and Hove Park wards – Valerie Anne Brown
- Zone 8 – North Portslade, South Portslade and Wish wards – Harold Dunaway Steer
- Zone 9 – Central Hove and Westbourne wards – Mike Bojczuk
During May and June members of the OPC publicised the election and sought to attract eligible candidates to stand in the nine zones across Brighton and Hove.
About 4,000 leaflets were distributed to libraries, Brighton Town Hall and Hove Town Hall, sheltered accommodation schemes and community and voluntary sector venues.
The council said that despite this marketing drive multiple candidates came forward in only two zones to enable an election.
After the votes were counted for those two zones Valerie Pearce, deputy returning officer, said: “We are delighted to deliver a safe result for the Older People’s Council elections in what is its tenth year.
“Across the city there are nine representatives on the council with only two zones contested where there was an all-postal ballot and this delivered a healthy turnout.”
