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Post by timrollpickering on May 14, 2017 10:11:02 GMT
Is anybody keen enough to help collect electronic copies of the SOPNs for every constituency? It's useful to have a record of them all to check things like which constituencies are especially good or bad at producing candidates, and many disappear into the ether after the election.
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Post by andrewteale on May 14, 2017 13:38:07 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 14, 2017 13:54:27 GMT
I've got a collection of PDFs of every SOPN from the 2015 election, and am going through 2017.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 24, 2017 19:07:55 GMT
The runner-up is Haringey, who have published Statements of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll which include only the Name of Proposer, and not the Seconder or eight other assenting electors. But the wooden spoon goes to East Staffordshire Borough Council for this effort purporting to be the SOPN for Burton. It doesn't give either home address or Parliamentary constituency of the candidates, nor any details of the proposer, seconder and eight other assenting electors. |
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Post by timrollpickering on May 24, 2017 20:32:05 GMT
The runner-up is Haringey, who have published Statements of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll which include only the Name of Proposer, and not the Seconder or eight other assenting electors. Oh the number of times that (or just proposer & seconder) happens in council elections... Also annoyingly common in council elections. |
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Post by casualobserver on May 24, 2017 23:35:22 GMT
I've never seen registration numbers in the form shown on the Burton SOPN. What software are they using? Is it unique to East Staffs? Does anyone know how it works, precisely? I assume the numbers after the decimal point are used for rolling register additions? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 29, 2017 11:16:20 GMT
The Cabinet Papers released for 1992 include a lengthy discussion in the Cabinet meeting of 5 March 1992 about introducing a quick emergency Bill to allow candidates to withhold their home addresses from ballot papers. The government had consulted with opposition parties in the previous month and Labour had eventually agreed, while Liberal Democrat opposition had seemed to fall away. There are arguments on both sides mentioned in the minutes but the Prime Minister sums up in favour. It seems that opposition from a significant number of Conservative backbenchers blocked the move as this was the only thing mentioned as possibly stopping it.
The change was not made then, but was made in 2009 in the Political Parties and Elections Act 2009.
On this issue there's an interesting note in Tim Shipman's book 'Fall Out' (p. 320-321) about the surprise when, shortly after the Manchester attack, someone spotted that Theresa May had not withheld her constituency home address which was (and indeed still is) therefore publicly available - "the Metropolitan Police .. response was laced with profanity". Indeed it's not actually difficult to discover her home phone number.
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 10, 2018 8:43:31 GMT
Did anyone download and keep of set of the 2016 National Assembly for Wales SOPNs?
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 10, 2018 19:03:06 GMT
Did anyone download and keep of set of the 2016 National Assembly for Wales SOPNs? I did. |
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Oct 10, 2018 19:15:01 GMT
Did anyone download and keep of set of the 2016 National Assembly for Wales SOPNs? I did. Snap, and regional lists as well. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Oct 11, 2018 8:44:59 GMT
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