The Liberal Democrat candidate received a total of 13,555 votes making him the next Mayor of Bedford.
He beat the Conservative candidate Parvez Akhtar by around 2,000 votes in the second round of the count.
None of the candidates won 50 per cent of the votes in the first count for the next Mayor of Bedford.
Conservative candidate Parvez Akhtar and Liberal Democrat Dave Hodgson received the most votes and went through to the next round.
The number of votes for each candidate counted in the first round were:
Conservative - Parvez Akhtar 9,105
Liberal Democrats - Dave Hodgson 9,428
Independent - Apu Bagchi 7,631
Independent - Tony Hare 4,316
Labour - James Valentine 3,482
Green Party - Eve Robinson Morley 1,183
The number of votes in the second round were:
Parvez Akhtar 11,543
Dave Hodgson 13, 555
Following a verification at Bedford Corn Exhange this morning it was revealed that the decision will have been made by just over 30 per cent of the voting public within Bedford Borough 35,807)