32volts present at light fitting when it's switched off!

[Rpa07]

I want to press 'like' but I 'don't like' that - what sort of person does that, apart from an incompetent one! It beggars belief

 

[CACJL]

If you are measuring the voltage with no incandescent lamp in the socket with a very high input impedance voltmeter, you could get a volt present due to capacitance between your dead live running along side an active live.

 

[sham]

I wonder if it is a back feed due to a borrowed nuetral