NO, it wasn’t a rigged election; we just stuffed up our own vote count in last week’s story about Mark Irwin’s historic win in Stirling’s first popular vote (“Mr Popular,” Voice, October 26).

Mr Irwin was re-elected with 14,903 votes (39 per cent) with Cr Elizabeth Re second on 8775 votes (23 per cent). We also inadvertently attributed the story to David Bell, which wasn’t the case.