One-Time-Only Candidates for Council Office
In the first round of council elections there were some 900 candidates. Of these,
more than half (505) did not contest the next or any further elections. This is
perhaps unsurprising for those who lost in their first attempt at election: 356 of
them. But it is noteworthy that 149 winners in the first round also chose not
to contest a second time. Some perhaps because of illness or death; others
possibly because of disenchantment.
Since the first round of elections, there has been a remarkable and constant
decline in the number and percentages of candidates who failed to return
for a second try at council office.
Here are the figures for one-time candidates:
	All	Did Not	In		Of those who did not compete again:
	Candidates	Compete	Percentage		Had	Had	In percentage
		Again	Terms		Won	Lost	terms
Round 1	900	505	56.11		149	356	16.56	39.56
Round 2	646	197	30.50		85	112	13.16	17.34
Round 3	754	215	28.51		66	149	8.75	19.76
Round 4	745	170	22.82		62	108	8.32	14.50
Round 5	746	to be determined