i'm a bit confused as to the figures quoted for votes etc in some of the older elections in former times before for sure a large number of seats would have been uncontested rremember that a borough county might return up to three members and as i understand it from what i have read if there were more than the requisite number of persons nominated to stand and often there would be no additional challengers a show of hands would first be taken and a result declared on that basis if one of the nominated persons objected to the result a poll result and votes counted how is the vote for these constituencies managed in say the united kingdom general election c page is the vote for the entire electorate placedinto the pot for the winning party or are they left out entirey