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May 1, 2019 16:08:07 GMT
Post by finsobruce on May 1, 2019 16:08:07 GMT
There are almost certainly loads. Smith comes to mind for a start. The question is badly worded, but it seems they mean just one of the vowels a, e, i, o and u, between in the whole of the name they are commonly known by. In which case, it's a shame Elfyn Llwyd is no longer an MP.But, presumably Y is a vowel in the Welsh language....
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Post by John Chanin on May 1, 2019 16:10:30 GMT
The question is badly worded, but it seems they mean just one of the vowels a, e, i, o and u, between in the whole of the name they are commonly known by. In which case, it's a shame Elfyn Llwyd is no longer an MP.But, presumably Y is a vowel in the Welsh language.... And w
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May 1, 2019 16:12:59 GMT
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Post by LDCaerdydd on May 1, 2019 16:12:59 GMT
But, presumably Y is a vowel in the Welsh language.... And w (As I did say in my post)
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May 1, 2019 17:10:43 GMT
Post by gwynthegriff on May 1, 2019 17:10:43 GMT
But, presumably Y is a vowel in the Welsh language.... And w In English, if u is a vowel, why isn't w (double-u) a vowel ? Asking for a cyfaill.
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May 1, 2019 17:11:43 GMT
Post by gwynthegriff on May 1, 2019 17:11:43 GMT
There are almost certainly loads. Smith comes to mind for a start. The question is badly worded, but it seems they mean just one of the vowels a, e, i, o and u, between in the whole of the name they are commonly known by. In which case, it's a shame Elfyn Llwyd is no longer an MP. I once saw Elfyn Llwyd on Shrewsbury station. (New thread alert ...)
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Post by hullenedge on May 5, 2019 10:31:26 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on May 5, 2019 10:42:17 GMT
The 'Index of Dispersion':- Formulated by William Hampton, the Sheffield psephologist. Calculation for my ward in 2004 (all out) Lib Dem 16% Con 15.5% Lab 2%. (One Tory, he won, lived in the ward the other two didn't. One Lib Dem, he lost, didn't live in the ward).
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May 12, 2019 14:22:11 GMT
Post by hullenedge on May 12, 2019 14:22:11 GMT
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Post by David Ashforth on May 30, 2019 9:25:20 GMT
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Jun 7, 2019 13:59:30 GMT
Post by YL on Jun 7, 2019 13:59:30 GMT
Post-merger SDP by-election record
Owenite SDP, 1988-90
1988 Kensington: 1190 votes, 5.0%, 4th Epping Forest: 4077 votes, 12.2%, 4th 1989 Pontypridd: 1199 votes, 3.1%, 5th Richmond (Yorkshire): 16909 votes, 32.2%, 2nd Vale of Glamorgan: 1098 votes, 2.3%, 5th Glasgow Central: 253 votes, 1.0%, 6th 1990 Mid Staffordshire: 1422 votes, 2.5%, 4th Upper Bann: 154 votes, 0.4%, 11th and last Bootle: 155 votes, 0.4%, 7th, beaten by OMRLP
Post-Bootle SDP, 1990-present
1991 Neath: 1826 votes, 5.3%, 5th 1993 Newbury: 33 votes, 0.1%, 17th 2019 Newport West: 202 votes, 0.9%, 9th Peterborough: 135 votes, 0.4%, 9th
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Jun 18, 2019 0:49:45 GMT
Post by johnloony on Jun 18, 2019 0:49:45 GMT
I was looking for numbers of votes for candidates in parliamentary by-elections, particularly the numbers in which only one digit is used. There are loads of candidates who got 11 to 99 votes (a multiple of 11) and a few single-digit numbers. But in the last 50 years there have only been 7 candidates with 111 votes. The most recent candidate with a non-one multiple of 111 votes was 888 votes for the NF candidate in Birmingham Ladywood in 1977.
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Jun 18, 2019 9:17:36 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 9:17:36 GMT
I was looking for numbers of votes for candidates in parliamentary by-elections, particularly the numbers in which only one digit is used. There are loads of candidates who got 11 to 99 votes (a multiple of 11) and a few single-digit numbers. But in the last 50 years there have only been 7 candidates with 111 votes. The most recent candidate with a non-one multiple of 111 votes was 888 votes for the NF candidate in Birmingham Ladywood in 1977.That may be related to Benford's Law: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 18, 2019 13:16:08 GMT
It's strange the way he says 'actually', as if this fact has only just occurred to him or as if anybody would have ever suggested otherwise
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Jun 18, 2019 13:43:22 GMT
Post by Andrew_S on Jun 18, 2019 13:43:22 GMT
I wonder which ward has the shortest name. Ince used to be one of the shortest constituency names if not the shortest before it was needlessly renamed as Makerfield.
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Jun 18, 2019 13:47:44 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 18, 2019 13:47:44 GMT
I wonder which ward has the shortest name. Ince used to be one of the shortest constituency names if not the shortest before it was needlessly renamed as Makerfield. The shortest constituency name used to be Eye. I would think Eye (Mid Suffolk DC) is now the shortest ward name.
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Jun 18, 2019 13:49:00 GMT
Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 18, 2019 13:49:00 GMT
Ince was moved into the Wigan seat in 1983 so the name change was sadly necessary. It did 'return' to Makerfield in 1997 but was then removed again in 2010 I guess Ayr, Eye and Rye were the shortest constituency names at that time
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Jun 18, 2019 14:23:00 GMT
Post by Merseymike on Jun 18, 2019 14:23:00 GMT
I wonder which ward has the shortest name. Ince used to be one of the shortest constituency names if not the shortest before it was needlessly renamed as Makerfield. Also, Ince is essentially a suburb of Wigan, not a place in its own right. The old Ince seat included Skelmersdale which was actually the largest town in it
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Jun 18, 2019 16:18:26 GMT
Post by greenhert on Jun 18, 2019 16:18:26 GMT
Ince was moved into the Wigan seat in 1983 so the name change was sadly necessary. It did 'return' to Makerfield in 1997 but was then removed again in 2010 I guess Ayr, Eye and Rye were the shortest constituency names at that time They were indeed. Rye was mostly replaced by Bexhill & Battle in 1983, with Eye mainly being replaced by Central Suffolk with its eastern part going to Suffolk Coastal. Ayr survived as a constituency name until 2005 when the Scottish Westminster constituencies were radically redrawn (all but three, anyway).
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Jun 18, 2019 17:33:18 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2019 17:33:18 GMT
Hove is probably the shortest current constituency name?
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Jun 18, 2019 18:59:53 GMT
Hove is probably the shortest current constituency name? Only if you miss off the implied "actually".
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