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Apr 29, 2024 19:49:34 GMT
Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 19:49:34 GMT
Because Cleveland had to be abolished, and that meant either Hartlepool became a unitary on its own, or it was force-merged with Stockton.
Whereas taking Oxford out of Oxfordshire would destabilise service delivery from the County Council.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2024 19:34:03 GMT
The new Hornsey and Friern Barnet (2024-) has a very small part of the Wood Green seat before 1983 - the Alexandra Park area, which was the most Tory part of Wood Green.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 23:09:40 GMT
Probably because the pre-2010 version of the seat included Woodhouse ward, which is a pretty solidly Labour lead area.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 21:45:42 GMT
Jim Kilfedder founded the Ulster Progressive Unionist Party in January 1980 (quickly renamed Ulster Popular Unionist Party), but this was one of Northern Ireland's 'one man parties'. Gerry Fitt's 'Republican Labour Party' was in effect a merger between two 'one man parties' - his own Dock Labour Party and Harry Diamond's Socialist Republican Party.
Desmond Donnelly left Labour in 1968 and formed 'The Democratic Party' in 1969 - it had some attempt at a national organisation.
Arguably the Labour Independent Group of 1949 counts as a sort-of party.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 20:20:50 GMT
I’ll shut up after I promise, but do candidates know the results before they’re declared? Almost always (and if not, their agent will). The RO will first check the figures with the agents and candidates to ensure any of them have a chance to request a recount, or have spotted an error.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 16:39:27 GMT
The Greenwich half was in Woolwich was John Cartwright's (not that one) fiefdom; the SDP were also very strong in the Bexley half, although Erith and Crayford's SDP-defecting Jim Wellbeloved did not hold on.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 14:00:32 GMT
Because of the Sunday papers. Next question?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 28, 2024 13:31:03 GMT
There's no policy detail from Parker at all. It's just the generic "CREATE JOBS", "TACKLE CRIME", "REVITALISE HIGH STREETS". Not a single bit of detail on any of these. Apart from in his manifesto where such detail is normally put.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 16:11:43 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 13:25:38 GMT
Had the House of Commons not authorised a writ of supersedeas, the Manchester Gorton writ and byelection would have been cancelled automatically on 3 May (the eve of intended polling day) by the dissolution of Parliament. The RO would have been obliged to go through all the normal electoral processes up to then, which is why the writ was cancelled earlier.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 11:27:12 GMT
The Tory revival in working class east London in the 1980s is quite significant - look at Newham South for an even more spectacular example. But it seems not to have been sustained - a lot of floating voters coming the Tory way wasn't enough to build a proper base.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 27, 2024 11:01:32 GMT
I think Andy Straker was briefly a Labour leader of a Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition around 1999.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 23:07:29 GMT
No fuill voting figures yet but Neil McEvoy gives rough percentages:
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 22:53:43 GMT
CARDIFF Grangetown
Waheeda Abdul Sattar (Welsh Labour / Llafur Cymru) 1,470 Kirstie Kopetzki (Plaid Cymru, Green Party, Common Ground / Plaid Cymru, Plaid Werdd, Tir Cyffredin) 573 Zak Weaver (Welsh Conservative Party Candidate / Ymgeisydd Plaid Geidwadol Cymru) 387 Sash Patel (Propel: Not Politics as Usual) 292 Ahned Abdillahi Abdi Samater (Independent / Annibynnol) 205 James Robin Bear (Welsh Liberal Democrats / Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru) 123 Andrew Charles Hovord (Independent / Annibynnol) 44
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 19:36:31 GMT
Certainly when I found my parents in the register in the mid-1960s there were no birthdays listed, and they just suddenly appeared in the November after they turned 21. (What was the cut-off date then? I have 25th October in mind.) It was 10 October, except in Northern Ireland where it was 15 September.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 19:24:42 GMT
returning to Keith Raffan, didn't he subsequently join the Labour Party? There's a bloke on a polling day briefing for London Labour campaigners called Keith Raffan, who looks a lot like the former Conservative MP turned Lib Dem MSP.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 12:56:59 GMT
Widely reported today that Kate Osamor is about to have the Labour whip restored.
It was the anniversary of Diane Abbott losing the whip this week, which led to some noises demanding she be readmitted. However I don't see any shift from her previous unwillingness to help her own case.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 11:45:03 GMT
Provision for 'attainers' who came of age during the currency of the electoral register was added in the Representation of the People Act 1969, as part of the lowering of the voting age to 18. So does that mean that previously, to register to vote you had to be of age (i.e. 21) by the compilation date for the register? Yes, it did. The change to allow birthdates to be put on the register was recommended by the Speaker's Conference - see the Letter dated 8th February, 1966 from Mr. Speaker to the Prime Minister (Cmnd 2917).
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 25, 2024 10:51:32 GMT
The total 1979 electoral register, as first published, was 41,569,787. There were about 50,000 attainers who turned 18 between 4 May and 7 June, plus about 1,000 Peers who were disqualified from Parliamentary elections; the remaining difference would be made up of those who were resident on 10 October 1978 but were omitted from the register and made a successful late claim. When did registration to allow people to get the vote on their actual relevant birthday rather than requiring them to have met it on a date (*) in the registration process? And when did rolling registration come in? (And I wonder how many whose 21st birthday was the day after the qualifying date realised they were legally 21 on the day itself?) I think the switch from residency for a period to residency on a particular day came in the 1949 act (despite reference to it passing the buck on determining residency to the principles of interpreting clauses in the 1918 act that had not come to court). Provision for 'attainers' who came of age during the currency of the electoral register was added in the Representation of the People Act 1969, as part of the lowering of the voting age to 18.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 24, 2024 22:43:49 GMT
I don't know what relevance prisoners on remand have.
Can I just point out that the actual total Parliamentary electorate on 3 May 1979 in the United Kingdom was 41,095,649, and the total European Parliamentary electorate on 7 June 1979 in the United Kingdom was 41,155,166.
(Source: British Electoral Facts ed. Rallings and Thrasher)
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