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Post by greenhert on Nov 19, 2019 14:27:46 GMT
How many seats have only 3 candidates standing this time? Good question. The only one I know of is Cannock Chase. Unlike most of the other examples, though, it is a Con-Lab-Green contest instead of a Con-Lab-LD contest.
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Post by greenhert on Nov 19, 2019 14:37:25 GMT
Additionally the following seats: Castle Point Chingford & Woodford Green Chippenham Corby Finchley & Golders Green South Cambridgeshire South West Surrey Southport Stoke South Swindon South Telford Witney Chorley has three candidates but is obviously a special case (Speaker, Green, Ind (Brexit) ) Six of these (Chippenham, Finchley & Golders Green, South Cambridgeshire, South West Surrey, Southport, and Witney) are on the "Unite to Remain" list.
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Post by bjornhattan on Nov 19, 2019 15:14:58 GMT
Additionally the following seats: Castle Point Chingford & Woodford Green Chippenham Corby Finchley & Golders Green South Cambridgeshire South West Surrey Southport Stoke South Swindon South Telford Witney Chorley has three candidates but is obviously a special case (Speaker, Green, Ind (Brexit) ) Six of these (Chippenham, Finchley & Golders Green, South Cambridgeshire, South West Surrey, Southport, and Witney) are on the "Unite to Remain" list. Of which two probably voted Leave, and a third was pretty close...
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Nov 19, 2019 15:31:24 GMT
Cheadle too (as it did in 2017 too).
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Post by European Lefty on Nov 28, 2019 0:02:36 GMT
Not 100% sure if it belongs here but I can't find anywhere else to put it: Botswana and Mauritius are apparently the only two African countries to have a completely clean record of free and fair elections since independence. I think there are some questions around Botswana's election this year.
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Post by lancsobserver on Nov 28, 2019 1:31:05 GMT
Additionally the following seats: Castle Point Chingford & Woodford Green Chippenham Corby Finchley & Golders Green South Cambridgeshire South West Surrey Southport Stoke South Swindon South Telford Witney Chorley has three candidates but is obviously a special case (Speaker, Green, Ind (Brexit) ) Six of these (Chippenham, Finchley & Golders Green, South Cambridgeshire, South West Surrey, Southport, and Witney) are on the "Unite to Remain" list.
Southport? Surely in order to withdraw to back the LDs you'd have to have stood there last time and the Greens didn't. Plus it voted Leave anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2019 13:39:24 GMT
YouGov are forecasting 3 Tory wins in South Yorkshire: the seats of Don Valley, Penistone and Rother Valley.
The last time the Conservatives won 3 seats in this area was in 1959 when they held Doncaster, Sheffield Hallam and Sheffield Heeley.
The Tories were led by an Etonian Balliol College Oxford Classicist then too...
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Post by hullenedge on Dec 8, 2019 22:51:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 10:03:56 GMT
This is the 14th time this decade the voters of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire are going to the polls:
2010 General Election 2011 AV Referendum; Scottish Election 2012 Local Elections 2014 European Election; Independence Referendum 2015 General Election 2016 Scottish Election; EU referendum; Inverurie by-election 2017 Local Elections; General Election 2019 European Election; General Election
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Post by Andrew_S on Dec 11, 2019 10:40:49 GMT
This is the 14th time this decade the voters of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire are going to the polls: 2010 General Election 2011 AV Referendum; Scottish Election 2012 Local Elections 2014 European Election; Independence Referendum 2015 General Election 2016 Scottish Election; EU referendum; Inverurie by-election 2017 Local Elections; General Election 2019 European Election; General Election 2013 feels lonely.
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Post by greenhert on Dec 11, 2019 13:32:00 GMT
This is the 14th time this decade the voters of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire are going to the polls: 2010 General Election 2011 AV Referendum; Scottish Election 2012 Local Elections 2014 European Election; Independence Referendum 2015 General Election 2016 Scottish Election; EU referendum; Inverurie by-election 2017 Local Elections; General Election 2019 European Election; General Election For what it is worth, though, many parts of Britain have elections every year (district/borough council elections with county council elections occurring in years without district/borough council elections) and we have had four general elections in the last decade plus two European elections and the EU referendum of 2016 (to say nothing of Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Wales outside Greater London).
Therefore, by the end of tomorrow, everyone in Britain who was at least 18 in May 2010 will have been to the polls at least 10 times this decade, assuming they have voted in every election this decade in which they have been able to vote at in their area.
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Post by greenchristian on Dec 12, 2019 1:47:38 GMT
This is the 14th time this decade the voters of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire are going to the polls: 2010 General Election 2011 AV Referendum; Scottish Election 2012 Local Elections 2014 European Election; Independence Referendum 2015 General Election 2016 Scottish Election; EU referendum; Inverurie by-election 2017 Local Elections; General Election 2019 European Election; General Election For what it is worth, though, many parts of Britain have elections every year (district/borough council elections with county council elections occurring in years without district/borough council elections) and we have had four general elections in the last decade plus two European elections and the EU referendum of 2016 (to say nothing of Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Wales outside Greater London).
Therefore, by the end of tomorrow, everyone in Britain who was at least 18 in May 2010 will have been to the polls at least 10 times this decade, assuming they have voted in every election this decade in which they have been able to vote at in their area.
Not everyone. There are some people who only get local elections once every four years (if they live in a unitary which elects by all-outs, like Shropshire or Herefordshire). Somebody who moved between the two authorities I cited as examples at the wrong time could have gone 6 whole years without the opportunity to vote in a local election.
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Post by ColinJ on Dec 12, 2019 8:19:57 GMT
This is the 14th time this decade the voters of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire are going to the polls: 2010 General Election 2011 AV Referendum; Scottish Election 2012 Local Elections 2014 European Election; Independence Referendum 2015 General Election 2016 Scottish Election; EU referendum; Inverurie by-election 2017 Local Elections; General Election 2019 European Election; General Election The frequency of elections in recent years led me to realise that my grandson, who is still 4 years old, has lived through 3 General Elections; 2015, 2017 and 2019. I was 9 years old before I had accomplished the same feat with 1959, 1964 and 1966. Not surprisingly I can't remember the first of those but in one of the other two I got into trouble with my parents for putting up a Conservative election address in the window. I explained that I was only following the instruction on it to "Please Display in your Window".
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Post by greenhert on Dec 12, 2019 8:25:01 GMT
For what it is worth, though, many parts of Britain have elections every year (district/borough council elections with county council elections occurring in years without district/borough council elections) and we have had four general elections in the last decade plus two European elections and the EU referendum of 2016 (to say nothing of Police and Crime Commissioner elections in England and Wales outside Greater London).
Therefore, by the end of tomorrow, everyone in Britain who was at least 18 in May 2010 will have been to the polls at least 10 times this decade, assuming they have voted in every election this decade in which they have been able to vote at in their area.
Not everyone. There are some people who only get local elections once every four years (if they live in a unitary which elects by all-outs, like Shropshire or Herefordshire). Somebody who moved between the two authorities I cited as examples at the wrong time could have gone 6 whole years without the opportunity to vote in a local election. I was also counting general elections, the Police & Crime Commissioner elections, European elections, and the EU referendum of 2016.
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Post by greenhert on Dec 12, 2019 8:28:25 GMT
Psephological parallels between Bolton and Wolverhampton:
In both towns: the west division is the best seat for the Conservatives; the north east division is favourable to Labour but has elected Conservative MPs in the past (and might just possibly do so this year), and the south east division is solidly Labour, had a high UKIP vote in 2015, and was only recently incorporated into the town (Bolton South East was created mostly from Farnworth in 1983; Wolverhampton South East mostly from Bilston in 1974).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 8:29:47 GMT
Psephological parallels between Bolton and Wolverhampton: In both towns: the west division is the best seat for the Conservatives; the north east division is favourable to Labour but has elected Conservative MPs in the past (and might just possibly do so this year), and the south east division is solidly Labour, had a high UKIP vote in 2015, and was only recently incorporated into the town (Bolton South East was created mostly from Farnworth in 1983; Wolverhampton South East mostly from Bilston in 1974). In 2010 the Tories had 1 MP in Wolves and 0 in Bolton which has reversed
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Dec 13, 2019 10:18:32 GMT
I am living for niche facts like this
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Dec 13, 2019 13:34:35 GMT
Last night The Yorkshire Party won 29,201 votes, UKIP won 22,817
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Post by arnieg on Dec 13, 2019 14:00:02 GMT
If I read this correctly www.election.demon.co.uk/recordswing.htmlBassetlaw was the largest ever* GE swing in a seat from Lab to Tory, but doesn't quite match the swing in the opposite direction from 1997 in Brent North and Hastings & Rye. [Ignoring the wild variations caused by S O Davies' (Merthyr Tydfil) switch from Lab to Ind and subsequent retirement] * since David Butler formulated it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 14:31:31 GMT
The Tory vote share fell in Brighton Pavilion for the 10th time since 1979.
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