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Returning officer   /rɪtˈərnɪŋ ˈɔfəsər/   Listen
Returning officer

noun
1.
The official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results.






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"Returning officer" Quotes from Famous Books



... or so marked that it is uncertain for whom the vote is given. The counted and rejected papers, and also the "tendered" papers, counterfoils and marked register (which have not been opened), are, in parliamentary elections, transmitted by the returning officer to the clerk of the crown in chancery in England, or the sheriff-clerk in Scotland, who destroys them at the end of one year, unless otherwise directed by an order of the House of Commons, or of some court having jurisdiction in election petitions. Such petitions either simply dispute ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... Astley can make his dance minuets and hornpipes: which is more extraordinary than to make them vote at an election, or act the part of a magistrate, which animals of less capacities can perform as dexterously as a returning officer or a master in chancery. But I shall not have even Astley now: her Majesty the Queen of France, who has as much taste as Caligula, has sent for the whole dramatis personae to Paris. Sir William Hamilton was at Park-place, ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... There were just over four thousand electors in the division, but only 530 of them recorded their votes. A good many more, nearly a thousand more, went to the polling booths and deliberately spoiled their voting papers. The returning officer, who kindly came round to my hotel to announce the result, told me that he had never seen so many spoiled votes at any election. The usual way of invalidating the voting paper was to bracket the three names and write ...
— Lalage's Lovers - 1911 • George A. Birmingham



Words linked to "Returning officer" :   Commonwealth of Australia, functionary, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, U.K., Britain, Australia, UK, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, official, Great Britain



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