Alan Hope, Mark Beech, and Nick the Flying Brick at an election count.

Elections

Between January 2010 and December 2019 I contested 3 UK general Elections, 2 Welsh General Elections, and several Council Elections, the results of these endevours are listed below.

Pontypridd – Pontypridd Town Council By-election (2010-02-18)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	30	5.9
Jones, Clayton	PLAID	100	19.5
Price, Philip	LD	196	38.1
Thomas, Lynda	LAB	188	36.6

Cardiff Central – UK General Election (2010-05-06)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	142	0.4
Coates, Sam	GREEN	575	1.6
Davies, Sue	UKIP	765	2.1
Mathias, Alun	Ind.	86	0.2
Rathbone, Jenny	LAB	10,400	28.8
Robson, Karen	CON	7,799	21.6
Saunders, Ross	TUSC	162	0.4
Williams, Chris	PLAID	1,246	3.4
Willott, Jenny	LD	14,976	41.4

Ilan – Pontypridd Town Council By-election (2010-07-22)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	1	0.6
Hurn, Ronald	PLAID	14	7.7
Payne, Joe	LD	25	13.8
Yeo, Ann	LAB	141	77.9

Rushall – Walsall MBC By-election (2010-11-11)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	42	2.8
Melville, Tim	UKIP	90	5.9
Rattigan, Lorna	CON	639	42.0
Vaughan, William	BNP	141	9.0
Worrall, Richard	LAB	611	40.1

South Wales Central – Welsh General Election (2011-05-05)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark et al	OMRLP	1,237	0.6
Brencher, Jane et al	LAB	85,445	41.0
Connors, Gareth et al	BNP	3,805	1.8
Davies, Andrew et al	CON	45,751	22.0
Dixon, John et al	LD	16,514	7.9
Griffiths, Jake et al	GREEN	10,774	5.2
Griffiths, Robert et al	COM	516	0.2
Harrold, John et al	XTIAN	1,873	0.9
Jordan, Andrew et al	S.LAB	4,690	2.3
Mahoney, Kevin et al	UKIP	8,292	4.0
Saunders, Ross et al	TUSC	830	0.4
Wood, Leanne et al	PLAID	28,606	13.7

Aldridge-Brownhills – UK General Election (2015-05-07)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	197	0.5
Curzey, Martyn	GREEN	826	2.1
Fisher, John	LAB	8,835	22.4
Garrett, Ian	LD	1,330	3.4
Morton, Wendy	CON	20,558	52.0
Thompson, Anthony	UKIP	7,751	19.6

Pelsall – Walsall MBC Election (2015-05-07)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Bashir, Haijm	LAB	1,171	19.8
Beech, Mark		220	3.7
Harries, Richard	GREEN	67	1.1
Longhi, Marco	CON	3,547	59.9
Mayou, Sim		923	15.5

Pelsall – Walsall MBC Election (2016-05-05)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark		64	2.0
Eardley, Graham	UKIP	477	15.2
Perry, Gary	CON	2,166	69.2
Williams, Grant	LAB	425	13.6

South Wales Central – Welsh General Election (2016-05-05)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark et al	OMRLP	1,096	0.5
Bennett, Gareth et al	UKIP	23,958	10.4
Bishop, Jonathan	Ind.	651	0.3
Davies, Andrew et al	CON	42,185	18.3
Evans, Bernice	VIP	470	0.2
Parrott, Eluned et al	LD	14,875	6.4
Robertson, Belinda et al	LAB	78,366	33.9
Rose, Emma et al	WEP	2,807	1.2
Womack, Amilia et al	GREEN	7,949	3.4
Wood, Leanne et al	PLAID	48,357	20.9

Aldridge-Brownhills – UK General Election (2017-06-08)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	565	1.4
Fisher, John	LAB	12,010	29.8
Garrett, Ian	LD	1,343	3.3
Morton, Wendy	CON	26,317	65.4

Aldridge-Brownhills – UK General Election (2019-12-12)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	336	0.9
Garrett, Ian	LD	2,371	6.0
McComish, Bill	GREEN	771	2.0
Morgan, David	LAB	8,014	20.4
Morton, Wendy	CON	27,850	70.8

I announced my retirement from competetive politics at the end of 2019, but in common with Doctors, Teachers, and Truck Drivers I was encouraged to come out of retirement during the Covid-19 pandemic – and so contested the 2022 Birmingham Erdington by-election.

Birmingham Erdington – UK by-election (2022-03-03)

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Alden, Robert	CON	6,147	36.3
Beech, Mark	OMRLP	49	0.3
Bishop, Dave	ELVIS	8	0
Brookes, Jake	RUK	293	1.7
Dargue, Lee	LD	173	1
Hamilton, Paulette	LAB	9,413	55.5
Harper-Nunes, Sibhan	GREEN	236	1.4
Holmes, Clifton	IND	14	0.1
Lutwyche, Michael	IND	109	0.6
Mbondian, Mel	CPA	79	0.5
Nellist, Dave	TUSC	360	2.1
O’Rouke, Thomas	IND	76	0.4