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      <h1 rel="openelection:electionArea">2007 Election Results for <span about="http://statistics.data.gov.uk/id/local-authority-ward/41UDGE">All Saints Ward</span></h1>

    <!-- The Election is held on (has a start-date property of) May 3, 2007. By putting the date in a machine-readable form, we're making it clear what the date is, without have to try to figure it out from the letters numbers humans see -->
    <p><strong>Election date:</strong> <span datatype="xsd:date" content="2007-05-03" property="cal:dtstart">May 3, 2007</span></p>
    <!-- This Election has a possible total electorate of 2919 -->
    <p><strong>Electorate:</strong> <span property="openelection:electorate" datatype="xsd:integer">2919</span></p>
    <!-- 1035 ballot papers were issued -->
    <p><strong>Ballot Papers Issued: </strong><span property="openelection:ballotsIssued" datatype="xsd:integer">1035</span></p>
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    <p><strong>Rejected Ballot Papers: </strong><span property="openelection:rejectedBallots" datatype="xsd:integer">10</span></p>
    
    <p><strong>Turnout:</strong><span>35.5%</span></p>
    
    <table width="100%" border="0" summary="2007 Election Results for All Saints Ward">
      <tr>
        <th scope="col">Candidate's Name </th>
        <th scope="col">Party</th>
        <th scope="col">Votes</th>
        <th scope="col">Percentage of Electorate </th>
    
        <th scope="col">Elected? </th>
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        <!-- Here we are saying the candidate has given names of Keith William and a familyName Cockroft -->
        <th scope="row" rel="openelection:candidate"><span property="foaf:givenName">Keith William</span> <span property="foaf:familyName">Cockroft</span></th>
        
        <!-- Here we are saying the candidacy is for a party identified by the resource at http://openelectiondata.org/id/parties/6 (The Labour Party). This is one of the core benefits to using linked data -- being able to specify exactly what we mean by a party. Given that political parties use many different names, it's important that it's clear which party they are standing for.  -->
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      	<td rel="openelection:party" resource="http://openelectiondata.org/id/parties/6"><span property="rdfs:label">Labour</span></td>
        <!-- The candidacy got 330 votes -->
      	<td property="openelection:candidateVoteCount" datatype="xsd:integer">330</td>
        <td>16.6%</td>
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        <td property="openelection:elected" datatype="xsd:boolean" content="false">No</td>
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          <span typeof="openelection:Candidate" property="foaf:name">Brenda Lilian Constable</span> 
          <span rel="openelection:address">
            <span property="v:street-address">37 Morley Road</span>, 
            <span property="v:locality">Burntwood</span>, 
            <span property="v:region">Staffordshire</span> 
            <span property="v:postal-code">WS7 2DE</span>
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        </th>
        <!-- Here, we showing an example of what to do if it's not possible to use the URI that identifies the party, putting it in as a literal -->
    		<td rel="openelection:party"><span property="rdfs:label">Conservative</span></td>
    		<td property="openelection:candidateVoteCount" datatype="xsd:integer">671</td>
        <td>33.8%</td>
    		<td property="openelection:elected" datatype="xsd:boolean" content="true">Yes</td>
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    	<tr rel='openelection:candidacy'>
        <th scope="row" rel="openelection:candidate"><span typeof="openelection:Candidate" property="foaf:name">Helen Elizabeth Fisher</span></th>
    		<td rel="openelection:party" resource="http://openelectiondata.org/id/parties/25"><span property="rdfs:label">Conservative</span></td>
    		<td property="openelection:candidateVoteCount" datatype="xsd:integer">655</td>
        <td>33.0%</td>
    		<td property="openelection:elected" datatype="xsd:boolean" content="true">Yes</td>
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        <th scope="row" rel="openelection:candidate"><span typeof="openelection:Candidate"><span property="foaf:givenName">William Edward</span> <span property="foaf:familyName">Harrison</span></th>
    		<td  rel="openelection:party" resource="http://openelectiondata.org/id/parties/6"><span property="rdfs:label">Labour</span></td>
        <td property="openelection:candidateVoteCount" datatype="xsd:integer">331</td>
        <td>16.7%</td>
    		<td property="openelection:elected" datatype="xsd:boolean" content="false">No</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <h2>Duly Elected:</h2>
    <p>Brenda Lilian Constable (Conservative), Helen Elizabeth Fisher (Conservative)</p>
    
    <!-- Finally, here we are saying that the election information (but not the rest of the info on the page) is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 Open Licence -->
    <p rel="foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf" rev="foaf:primaryTopic" resource="#content">Licence for election data: <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal</a></p>
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