A supervised recount of Onchan general election ballots has, as expected, not changed the result.

But there has been some adjustment of the figures, with both winning candidates picking up more votes and defeated candidate Peter Karran securing an extra 100 votes.

Meanwhile, Julie Edge, whose court petition prompted the recount, saw her vote tally actually fall from 866 to 858.

Deputy returning officer Jeremy Callin read out the results at around this afternoon, around five and a half hours after the recount began in courtroom 3 of the Courts of Justice.

He said it was not entirely surprising that the numbers of votes had changed, given this had been a forensic examination of the ballots.

Speaking afterwards, Ms Edge insisted it had been a worthwhile exercise. She said: ‘If we cannot get the intergrity of our democracy correct in our main election, I really do think we have issues.’

The results following the recount were Rachel Glover 1,252, up from 1,245; Rob Callister 1,184, up from 1,103; Julie Edge 858, down from 866; Peter Karran 838, up from 738; Gabriella Corkish 703, down from 725; and Oliver Lockwood 50, no change from previously.

In her high court petition, Ms Edge called for the election result to be declared void, alleging the constituency's vote count did not comply with election law.

She said that 79 ballot papers were unaccounted for, and claimed candidates had insufficient opportunity to request a recount and postal votes were opened without notice.

The deputy returning officer will now compile a report for Deemster Andrew Corlett who will decide the next steps.

On election night, Onchan was the first count to declare a result.

All the candidates attended the recount, with Ms Edge observing proceedings with her counting agent, and the others watching from the public gallery.

The recount was conducted under the supervision of chief registrar Stuart Quayle.

Independent deputy returning officer Steven Bevan also attended at the request of Ms Edge.

At 9.30am the doors to courtroom 3 were closed and nobody was able to leave.

Mr Callin said at the start of the proceedings that he had no idea how long it was going to take.

He described a four-stage process beginning with getting all the paperwork from the election out of secure storage then counting the total number of ballot papers issued, valid and spoiled for each of the four polling stations.