Voting miscount could mean wrong woman announced as Conservative parliamentary candiate The final result was announced as 84 for Miss Frazer and 48 for Miss Allen. If 23 of Ms Frazer's votes were in fact for Miss Allen, Miss Allen would have won by 71 to 61. The possible error was discovered after an activist took the ballot papers home from the South-East Cambridgeshire primary and decided to recount them. The constituency is a safe Conservative seat with a current majority of 5,946 votes. A letter to local members from association president Brian Ashton, reported in the Cambridge Evening News said: "Although the original count took place in the normal way and was witnessed by others, during the following week unsubstantiatable suggestions were made to officers that the ballot result announced at that meeting was incorrect. Given that no-one else was present when the ballot papers were recounted, your officers are not able to verify beyond doubt the validity of these claims. At the time Ms Frazer's victory surprised some members because she had done well in the previous two rounds of voting and had a very active campaign in the community. However some Conservative commentators put the result down to a "bad day" for Ms Allen. On Friday the national nominating officer Paul Mabbutt and head of candidates Gareth Fox oversee a vote on whether to re-verify Miss Frazer or re-open the ballot and vote all over again. It is understood that the orignal vote cannot simply recounted as there can be no guarantee that the votes have not been tampered with since the election. A Conservative Party spokesman said: "This is an internal party matter which is currently being investigated."