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Post by beastofbedfordshire on Aug 1, 2018 19:38:37 GMT
How about tightest 3 way results, defined by the margin between the first and third placed candidates.
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Post by swanarcadian on Aug 1, 2018 20:17:09 GMT
Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber in 1992 was a memorable four way marginal result, Sir Russell Johnson being elected with 26% of the vote.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 20:50:28 GMT
Thurrock was quite a shocker in 2015. UKIP of course got closer there than in South Thanet - not surprising when you consider how much of a carpetbagger Farage is - moving from Thanet to Bromley to Buckingham then back to Thanet again between 2005 and 2015.
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Post by thirdchill on Aug 1, 2018 20:58:08 GMT
Hampstead and Highgate in 2010 was a another very close three way marginal (Labour majority of 42 over the conservatives, with the lib dems 800 votes behind that).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 21:09:56 GMT
In Melcombe Regis (Weymouth & Portland) in 2014 there were 62 votes between the first (UKIP) and fourth (LD) place candidate - just below 5% of the overall vote (24.8% compared to 19.9%)
It was similar in Portland Tophill (on Dorset CC) in 2013. The first placed Labour candidate had 21.64% of the vote, and the fourth placed independent candidate had 16.75%. Both single member wards as well, FWIW.
What's also interesting is that the fourth placed candidates in both cases were the incumbents.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 21:15:40 GMT
Whilst it's not an election result, Southampton City Council had exactly one-third Labour, one-third Liberal Democrat and one-third Conservative councillors after the 2008 council election.
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Post by YL on Aug 1, 2018 21:28:34 GMT
Hampstead and Highgate in 2010 was a another very close three way marginal (Labour majority of 42 over the conservatives, with the lib dems 800 votes behind that). Lanark & Hamilton East, last year, had the Tories and Labour 266 and 360 behind the SNP respectively. There's a list (up to 2001 I think) on Davıd Boothroyd 's old site: www.election.demon.co.uk/34way.html |
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Post by Ghyl Tarvoke on Aug 1, 2018 21:36:03 GMT
In the 2002 Irish General Election on the fourth and final count in the constituency of Limerick West two Fine Gael candidates - Dan Neville (the Victor) and Michael Finucane (the Loser) - were separated by just one vote. This decided who won the third and final seat in the constituency, the total was 8,654 to Neville and 8,653 to Finucane.
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Post by therealriga on Aug 1, 2018 21:39:32 GMT
An example of a candidate winning by less than one vote. The fifth count in Dungannon Town in 1993, with three seats left to be filled. Currie, Vincent SDLP 748.88 Brown, William Ralph Ulster Unionist 725.79 McLoughlin, Michael Independent 632.09 Cullen, Gerry Democratic Left 589.77 Maginnis, Ken Ulster Unionist 588.82 Cullen, a sitting councillor, was only 0.85 votes ahead of Maginnis, the local MP and sitting councillor. The latter was eliminated and Cullen overtook McLoughlin on transfers to take the last seat. www.ark.ac.uk/elections/lgdungannon.htm#dun |
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Post by No Offence Alan on Aug 1, 2018 21:55:17 GMT
In Melcombe Regis (Weymouth & Portland) in 2014 there were 62 votes between the first (UKIP) and fourth (LD) place candidate - just below 5% of the overall vote (24.8% compared to 19.9%) It was similar in Portland Tophill (on Dorset CC) in 2013. The first placed Labour candidate had 21.64% of the vote, and the fourth placed independent candidate had 16.75%. Both single member wards as well, FWIW. What's also interesting is that the fourth placed candidates in both cases were the incumbents. Those are landslides! Here is Wellshill ward, Perthshire and Kinross Council, 1999. CON 386 SNP 374 LD 373 LAB 360 |
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 1, 2018 22:02:00 GMT
How about tightest 3 way results, defined by the margin between the first and third placed candidates. I think the closest for Westminster is Caithness and Sutherland in 1945: Eric Gandar Dower (Conservative) 5,564 33.5%Robert Ian Aonas MacInnes (Labour) 5,558 33.4%Sir Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) * 5,503 33.1%Sinclair was the sitting Liberal leader. |
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Post by greatkingrat on Aug 1, 2018 22:25:36 GMT
1977 Motherwell DC, Central Wishaw
J Mitchell (LAB) 705 33.5%
W Longmire (CON) 703 33.4%
W Killough (SNP) 699 33.2%
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Aug 2, 2018 16:46:59 GMT
Cambridge City Council, Market ward 2015:
Green 1147 27.7%
Labour 1140 27.5%
LD 1133 27.3%
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Post by mondialito on Aug 2, 2018 21:48:41 GMT
The Minnesota US Senate election of 2008. Al Franken beats Norm Coleman by just 312 votes after a number of recounts - a margin of 0.007%.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 23:53:41 GMT
1977 Motherwell DC, Central Wishaw J Mitchell (LAB) 705 33.5% W Longmire (CON) 703 33.4% W Killough (SNP) 699 33.2% Adds up to 100.1%. |
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Post by IceAgeComing on Aug 3, 2018 10:22:17 GMT
It’ll be a rounding thing: when you round percentages to a sensible number of significant figures you sometimes get them adding up to 99.9% or 100.1% or something that doesn’t add up to 100. It’s more accurate to just leave them like that rather than try to “fix” them to add up to 100 since then your numbers are much less accurate.
That’s very close to being a perfect example: if the winning candidate got slightly less then rounding that result to the nearest whole number would have been 33/33/33 which adds up to only 99% yet that’s entirely the correct thing to do.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 3, 2018 10:29:10 GMT
Three Rivers 2008
Northwick
Butwick M. Con 284 33.7%
Tippen L.* Lab 282 33.5%
Asquith J. LD 276 32.8%
It might have been even more interesting had the BNP also stood, going by the results in the other two South Oxhey wards
Ashridge
Dunne P. BNP 282 33.8%
Gould Y. Ms. Con 264 31.7%
Spellen N. Ms. Lab 244 29.3%
Shanks A. UKIP 44 5.3%
Hayling
Cross K.* Lab 234 32.3%
Gates D. Ms. BNP 220 30.3%
Worrall J. Ms. Con 186 25.7%
Lowes D. LD 55 7.6%
Evans R. UKIP 30 4.1%
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 10:37:28 GMT
The results in Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber in 1992 and Belfast South in 2015 are quite something.
The seats were won on less than 27% of the vote.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 3, 2018 10:41:55 GMT
The results in Inverness, Nairn & Lochaber in 1992 and Belfast South in 2015 are quite something. The seats were won on less than 27% of the vote. Talking of South Belfast, not a FPTP election of course but have a look at the 'winning' vote share in Botanic www.ark.ac.uk/elections/nlgbcc.htm |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 11:55:17 GMT
Part of me still sort of wishes I'd voted LibDem last year and made the margin of victory in Fife North East one vote instead of two. Admittedly, I did actually consider it.
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