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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 10:33:16 GMT
My spreadsheet of by-election votes adds together all the votes cast in those constituencies which have had (or will have) by-elections in this parliament. Just looking at a few things now, I see how the LibDems in 2015 got less than half the Greens total but in the by-elections this Parliament have more than the Greens and UKIP combined. Of all those parties/candidates which have stood in both 2015 and subsequent by-elections (just ten out of 51), the Conservatives' vote share drop of 11.36 is by far the largest reduction.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 10:38:11 GMT
The great big spike in any graph is from the English Democracts (171 votes from a single candidate to 1,071 from 3, just the minor point of what is a 526% increase.....)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 13:28:14 GMT
Number of votes cast at the 2015 general election in those constituencies which subsequently had by-elections - 514,709 Number of votes cast in those by-elections - 291,022 Ranking of the top 10 shares of the vote at the general election and the top 10 shares of the vote in the by-elections Left hand side - 2015 vote share Right hand side - 2015-17 byelections share Conservative | 38.52 | 1 | 37.52 | Labour | Labour | 35.76 | 2 | 24.79 | Conservative | UKIP | 13.65 | 3 | 15.12 | LibDem | LibDem | 6.45 | 4 | 9.74 | UKIP | Green | 3.29 | 5 | 6.40 | Ind Zak Goldsmith | Plaid Cymru | 0.75 | 6 | 1.44 | Green | Lincolnshire Independent | 0.68 | 7 | 1.27 | Plaid Cymru | Independent Breeze | 0.45 | 8 | 0.99 | Lincolnshire Independent | TUSC | 0.15 | 9 | 0.37 | English Democrat | National Health Action | 0.13 | 10 | 0.29 | OMRLP |
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Post by Khunanup on May 8, 2017 21:15:38 GMT
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 21, 2017 9:31:28 GMT
Trump, Bush Jr and Clinton were born in June, July and August 1946 respectively
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Post by carlton43 on Jul 21, 2017 9:40:39 GMT
Trump, Bush Jr and Clinton were born in June, July and August 1946 respectively 1943 was the Vintage Year.
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Post by Andrew_S on Jul 21, 2017 21:43:14 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Jul 25, 2017 17:13:42 GMT
Labour got 54.5% of the vote in London, and I was interested to know the largest number of the 73 London constituencies that could be listed to give a Labour share of at least 60%. It turns out the answer is 63. The 10 excluded seats are Ruislip, Beckenham, Old Bexley, Hornchurch, Orpington, Sutton, Carshalton, Kingston, Twickenham, Richmond. With the other 63 seats the shares are Lab 60.19%, Con 30.21%, LD 6.00%, Greens 1.83%, UKIP 1.22%, Others 0.54%.
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Post by greatkingrat on Jul 25, 2017 22:55:22 GMT
David Davis and Zac Goldsmith could also be included in that category.
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Post by Andrew_S on Jul 26, 2017 8:30:14 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 26, 2017 9:02:53 GMT
Davis did have a gap - he was not an MP between 18 June 2008 and the early hours of 11 July 2008. During which time Parliament continued to meet and David Davis was unable to participate as a member.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 27, 2017 21:41:49 GMT
Of the ten most recent permeant Labour leaders, seven were first elected at two general elections: 1945 and 1983.
Elected in 1945: Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot Elected in 1983: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn
(Kincock (70), Smith (70 (not 74 as originally stated)) and Miliband (05))
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Post by greenchristian on Jul 27, 2017 21:56:25 GMT
Of the ten most recent permeant Labour leaders, seven were elected at two general elections: 1945 and 1983. Elected in 1945: Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot Elected in 1983: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn (Kincock (70), Smith (74) and Miliband (05)) I presume you mean first elected in that first sentence. I'm pretty sure that Kinnock and Smith were (re)elected in 83.
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Jul 27, 2017 21:59:59 GMT
Of the ten most recent permeant Labour leaders, seven were elected at two general elections: 1945 and 1983. Elected in 1945: Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot Elected in 1983: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn (Kincock (70), Smith (74) and Miliband (05)) 1983 is interesting - you can easily understand the landslide victory of 1945 producing a crop of future leaders, but the epic defeat of 1983 is a different matter. EDIT: also interesting that the 97 landslide did not produce a single leader (yet).
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Post by spqr on Jul 27, 2017 22:00:53 GMT
Of the ten most recent permeant Labour leaders, seven were elected at two general elections: 1945 and 1983. Elected in 1945: Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot Elected in 1983: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn (Kincock (70), Smith (74) and Miliband (05)) I'm afraid I'm going to be a pedant too, and remark that John Smith was first elected at the same time as Kinnock, in 1970.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 27, 2017 22:10:28 GMT
1983 is interesting - you can easily understand the landslide victory of 1945 producing a crop of future leaders, but the epic defeat of 1983 is a different matter. Where a party has a landslide defeat, quite often that election's intake are high quality - because they've gone through extreme sifting by the electorate. The Conservative intake of 1997 were notably high quality. Incidentally here is the complete 1983 Labour intake. A few duds but it's very easy to remember most of them and their contribution to British politics: Tony Banks (Newham North West) Kevin Barron (Rother Valley) Stuart Bell (Middlesbrough) Gerry Bermingham (St Helens, South) Tony Blair (Sedgefield) Roland Boyes (Houghton and Washington) Gordon Brown (Dunfermline East) Nick Brown (Newcastle upon Tyne, East) Richard Caborn (Sheffield, Central) Bob Clay (Sunderland, North) Harry Cohen (Leyton) Frank Cook (Stockton, North) Jeremy Corbyn (Islington North) Ronald Davies (Caerphilly) Derek Fatchett (Leeds, Central) Terry Fields (Liverpool, Broadgreen) Mark Fisher (Stoke-on-Trent, Central) Norman Godman (Greenock and Port Glasgow) Sean Hughes (Knowsley, South) Terry Lewis (Worsley) Tony Lloyd (Stretford) John Marek (Wrexham) Bill Michie (Sheffield, Heeley) Dave Nellist (Coventry, South East) Bill O'Brien (Normanton) Terry Patchett (Barnsley, East) Peter Pike (Burnley) Stuart Randall (Kingston upon Hull, West) Martin Redmond (Don Valley) Allan Rogers (Rhondda) Clare Short (Birmingham, Ladywood) Chris Smith (Islington South and Finsbury) John Thompson (Wansbeck) Robert Wareing (Liverpool, West Derby)
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Jul 27, 2017 23:42:55 GMT
Of the ten most recent permeant Labour leaders, seven were elected at two general elections: 1945 and 1983. Elected in 1945: Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Michael Foot Elected in 1983: Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jeremy Corbyn (Kincock (70), Smith (74) and Miliband (05)) 1983 is interesting - you can easily understand the landslide victory of 1945 producing a crop of future leaders, but the epic defeat of 1983 is a different matter. EDIT: also interesting that the 97 landslide did not produce a single leader (yet).It produced a Conservative Party leader...
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Post by greenhert on Jul 29, 2017 22:42:31 GMT
The electorate of Banff in 1979 could be expressed as precisely 2^15.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Jul 30, 2017 0:01:12 GMT
1983 is interesting - you can easily understand the landslide victory of 1945 producing a crop of future leaders, but the epic defeat of 1983 is a different matter. EDIT: also interesting that the 97 landslide did not produce a single leader (yet).It produced a Conservative Party leader... "Leader"
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 20, 2017 15:48:16 GMT
The Conservative intake of 1997 were notably high quality. do you have that to hand? Sure. John Bercow Crispin Blunt Graham Brady Tim Collins Howard Flight Christopher Fraser Nicholas Gibb James Gray Damian Green Dominic Grieve Philip Hammond John Hayes Julie Kirkbride Eleanor Laing Andrew Lansley Oliver Letwin Julian Lewis Tim Loughton Anne McIntosh Theresa May Archie Norman Owen Paterson David Prior Laurence Robertson David Ruffley Keith Simpson Caroline Spelman Nicholas St. Aubyn Desmond Swayne Robert Syms Andrew Tyrie Robert Walter Shaun Woodward
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