Mansfield voter adds Darth Vader to the list of candidates in place of Labour's Alan Meale in the 2015 parliamentary elections.

A Mansfield voter decided to plunge the General election into a parallel universe by voting for Star Wars infiltrator Darth Vader.

Mr Vader, a Death Star proprietor was a late entrant as a Mansfield candidate in this year’s general election - at least on this voting card, which was revealed on a Tweet from @killer_kitsch last night.

Vader, who appeared as a Galactic Empire candidate, from Nottinghamshire postcode NG196DZ, had mysteriously replaced Labour’s Sir Alan Meale.

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It appears the Force was not with Mr Vader on this particular occasion as his dastardly plan to exercise power through the democratic process unravelled.