The Road to Alabaster House STAGE 1: Nominations STAGE 2: Campaigning and Canvassing STAGE 3: Voting STAGE 4: The winner is... STAGE 5: The Inauguration Rumour, Scandal & possibly some News

The big count and post poll party has already started in the Concert Room of the Flat Cap & Muffler Sports & Social Club. Get yourself over there and enjoy the fun!

A winner has now been announced. See The Results here.

• Each voter will put all the candidates into an order of preference.
• After each round the candidate with the lowest number of votes is disqualified, those votes are transferred to each voter's next preferred candidate.
• You don't have to vote for everyone, if you like you can just choose one candidate or your top 2,3,5,10,etc
• The first to get more than 50% of the vote share will be declared the winner.
• Voting will commence at 1PM on 26 September 2005 until 5PM on 7 October 2005 to a specially created email address.
• Voting will be by email only. The address is [email protected]
• The email must be headed "h2g2 vote 05", and the email body must contain your username, U number and your voting order of preference of candidates.
• Duplicate emails from the same person will be deleted.
• Duplicate accounts run by the same person, although they run the risk of not being detected, will be frowned upon and deleted.
• The returning officer's decision is final.

Who's in the running?