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Post by johnloony on Apr 14, 2023 19:26:46 GMT
78. Beckenham - I considered whether I wanted to stand in the by-election for the OMRLP, but decided not to. 79. Winchester - another fun result in which the Lib Dem majority went up from 2 to 21,556. 80. Leeds Central - when I told my mother that the new MP was Hilary Benn, she asked me "Is she daughter of Tony Benn?".
103. Bromley & Chislehurst - the nastiest election campaign of all the 21 elections in which I stood as a candidate (lots of mud-slinging by the Lib Dem campaign against the Conservative candidate) 105. Ealing Southall - the most enjoyable election campaign of all the 21 elections in which I stood as a candidate (an interesting 3-way marginal with lots of lively street campaigning. 10 of the 12 candidates were ethnically Asian.) 124. Croydon North - the last of the 21 elections in which I stood as a candidate. I gradually realised during the campaign that I was enjoying the process of walking around the constituency more than the actual campaigning I was supposed to be doing, and I didn't bother organising a mass leaflet drop. I realised that I was sort-of going through the motions and didn't really care about how many votes I got (although I was slightly disappointed that I didn't beat the National Front or the Communist Party).
138. Batley & Spen and 155. Southend West - I disagreed with the decision by the main parties not to contest the by-elections (q.v. my comments about Eastbourne).
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 14, 2023 19:38:20 GMT
The fifteen by-elections in Northern Ireland in 1986 were counted in the daytime when I was at school. I remember that I had not even been able to find any list of candidates for them beforehand (i.e. the lists were not published in the Daily Telegraph as they normally would have been) and I even had difficulty finding the results afterwards. I think that I knew in advance that 4 of them had a token pro-Agreement candidate in them in order to avoid an unopposed return, and I knew that about 4 of them were being contested by the main parties properly, but otherwise I didn't know which candidates were standing. The first information I found out was from John Craven's Newsround on the Friday afternoon, when it was vaguely mentioned that Ian Paisley had got 97% of the votes in his constituency. There was special coverage of them that afternoon on BBC1 and this was one of the first occasions when CBBC (the brand had only launched the previous September) was displaced to BBC2 for the afternoon; this may have been one of the ones where Philip Schofield made a big thing of BBC2 being a highbrow channel and so presented wearing a dinner jacket in a rather bland continuity booth instead of the regular Broom Cupboard. (I assume you were instead watching Grange Hill with a somewhat weak episode in an otherwise strong season; this particular one has Gonch's sandwich business, the start of Fay's attraction to Mr King (which would have attracted publicity in most other years but this was the one with Zammo on drugs and a teacher being revealed as an unmarried mother).) Nicholas Whyte's account of the latter has a small hours declaration. Northern Ireland did a few of these in the 1990s before switching to next day/after everyone's stopped paying attention declarations for the next ten years. Then they went back to on the nights come 2010 - and still managed to muck up their Portillo moment.
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Post by timrollpickering on Apr 14, 2023 19:43:00 GMT
Results, total of, Category F (Northern Ireland others) SF 54,664 (30.6%) UUP 41,853 (23.5%) SDLP 26,014 (14.6%) DUP 21,384 (12.0%) Independent Unionist (Mid Ulster) 12,781 (7.2%) Alliance 11,688 (6.5%) Independent Unionist (Down North) 2,170 (1.2%) People Before Profit 1,751 (1.0%) Conservative 1,621 (0.9%) Ulster Independence Party 1,534 (0.9%) Workers Party 1,083 (0.6%) Ulster Democratic Party 600 (0.3%) Green 576 (0.3%) SDP 154 (0.1%) Others 593 (0.3%) Total 178,466 I think you've omitted the UK Unionist in North Down in 1995. This is a rather awkward case as this was still the era when anyone could just declare themselves a party (and ISTR Bob McCartney was inconsistent about whether or not he was already part of one prior to the 1996 Forum elections) so the winning MP has been listed as all sorts over the years.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 14, 2023 20:24:03 GMT
Results, total of, Category F (Northern Ireland others) SF 54,664 (30.6%) UUP 41,853 (23.5%) SDLP 26,014 (14.6%) DUP 21,384 (12.0%) Independent Unionist (Mid Ulster) 12,781 (7.2%) Alliance 11,688 (6.5%) Independent Unionist (Down North) 2,170 (1.2%) People Before Profit 1,751 (1.0%) Conservative 1,621 (0.9%) Ulster Independence Party 1,534 (0.9%) Workers Party 1,083 (0.6%) Ulster Democratic Party 600 (0.3%) Green 576 (0.3%) SDP 154 (0.1%) Others 593 (0.3%) Total 178,466 I think you've omitted the UK Unionist in North Down in 1995. This is a rather awkward case as this was still the era when anyone could just declare themselves a party (and ISTR Bob McCartney was inconsistent about whether or not he was already part of one prior to the 1996 Forum elections) so the winning MP has been listed as all sorts over the years. Oh poo. I had it written down in my notes but I must have mistyped.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 17, 2023 17:14:33 GMT
I was sorting out some old piles of paper (looking for something completely different) and i found my result sheet for the Glasgow Govan by-election, 1988.
Party - 1987 result - prediction - 1988 result Labour - 24,071 - 17,600 - 14,677 SNP - 3,851 - 9,700 - 14,677 Con - 4,411 - 3,800 - 2,207 LD - 4,562 - 3,100 - 1,246 Comm - 237 - 160 - 281 Green - xxx - 400 - 345 OMRLP - xxx - 120 - 174 RA - xxx - 50 - 51
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Post by johnloony on Apr 26, 2023 14:15:21 GMT
I was clearing out some old clutter and found the Daily Telegraph page from 25th January 1986 showing the results of the by-elections in Northern Ireland. (On the other side of the page is the resignation of Leon Brittan after the Westland scandal, but that's not why I kept the paper)
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Post by The Bishop on Apr 26, 2023 14:22:34 GMT
Nicholas Whyte's account of the latter has a small hours declaration. Northern Ireland did a few of these in the 1990s before switching to next day/after everyone's stopped paying attention declarations for the next ten years. Then they went back to on the nights come 2010 - and still managed to muck up their Portillo moment. Upper Bann in 1990 (not 1989) was definitely a daytime count, I think the 1992 GE was the start of a move towards earlier declarations in at least a few NI seats.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 26, 2023 15:38:42 GMT
Nicholas Whyte's account of the latter has a small hours declaration. Northern Ireland did a few of these in the 1990s before switching to next day/after everyone's stopped paying attention declarations for the next ten years. Then they went back to on the nights come 2010 - and still managed to muck up their Portillo moment. Upper Bann in 1990 (not 1989) was definitely a daytime count, I think the 1992 GE was the start of a move towards earlier declarations in at least a few seats. Yes - why did I write "1989" instead of "1990"? I've just checked my handwritten notes, and it says "1990". My keyboard must have been sabotaged by Piers Corbyn.
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Post by johnloony on Apr 30, 2023 15:36:13 GMT
Results, total of: Category A (1983-1997) Labour 811,409 (37.4%) Lib/SDP/Lib Dem 603,529 (27.9%) Conservative 544,519 (25.1%) SNP 74,689 (3.4%) SDP(a) 28,162 (1.3%) Plaid Cymru 26,823 (1.2%) Green(b) 16,497 (0.8%) OMRLP 12,020 (0.6%) UKIP(c) 8,250 (0.4%) Liberal(d) 3,189 (0.1%) National Front 2,720 (0.1%) Socialist Labour Party 2,298 (0.1%) British National Party 1,627 (0.1%) Communist Party of Great Britain(e) 1,245 (0.1%) Revolutionary Communist Party 1,111(f) (0.1%) Others 28,812 (1.3%) Total 2,166,900 Total votes for each party in the same constituencies in the previous general election(s) (1979-1992): Conservative 1,116,795 (39.9%) Labour 1,054,850 (37.7%) LD/Lib/SDP 556,311 (19.9%) SNP 45,021 (1.6%) PC 12,296 (0.4%) Green/Ecology 4,154 (0.1%) NF 2,127 (0.1%) Others 6,868 (0.2%) Total 2,798,422 changes: Con -13.8% Lab -0.3% LD +8.0%
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Post by johnloony on Apr 30, 2023 15:49:39 GMT
Results, total of: Category B (1997-2010) Labour 314,110 (31.7%) Conservative 263,169 (26.6%) Lib Dem 227,906 (23.0%) SNP 71,726 (7.2%) UKIP 17,847 (1.8%) Plaid Cymru 16,298 (1.6%) Green 13,734 (1.4%) Independent (Blaenau Gwent) 12,543 (1.3%) British National Party 6,919 (0.7%) Respect 6,166 (0.6%) Scottish Socialist Party 6,140 (0.6%) Socialist Alliance 3,119 (0.3%) OMRLP 3,004 (0.3%) National Front 2,448 (0.2%) Socialist Labour Party 2,036 (0.2%) Others 23,121 (2.3%) Total 990,286 Total votes for each party in the previous general election(s) (1997 to 2005): Labour 618,570 (42.0%) Conservative 375,890 (25.5%) Lib Dem 251,542 (17.1%) SNP 65,953 (4.5%) Speaker 39,122 (2.7%) Plaid Cymru 21,830 (1.5%) Independent (Blaenau Gwent) 20,505 (1.4%) Referendum Party 12,908 (0.9%) UKIP 11,680 (0.8%) Green 10,494 (0.7%) Independent 8,546 (0.6%) Socialist Labour Party 7,164 (0.5%) Scottish Socialist Party 5,056 (0.3%) Independent 4,252 (0.3%) National Democrats 4,181 (0.3%) British National Party 3,028 (0.2%) Others 11,697 (0.8%) Total 1,472,418 changes: Lab -10.3% Con +1.1% LD +5.9% SNP +2.7%
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