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Post by agbutler on Aug 29, 2019 23:27:51 GMT
66.5% turnout
Which is higher than 2016!
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Post by liverpoolliberal on Aug 29, 2019 23:32:03 GMT
That's a record for Shetland in a Scottish parliament election. Has it happened where the turnout for a by-election has been higher than the previous GE? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 29, 2019 23:36:25 GMT
Electorate 17,810 Verified votes 11,835 Turnout 66.5% which is an increase on the last general election.  |
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 29, 2019 23:41:19 GMT
That's a record for Shetland in a Scottish parliament election. Has it happened where the turnout for a by-election has been higher than the previous GE? Chesterfield, 1984. |
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Post by justin124 on Aug 29, 2019 23:47:48 GMT
Also Darlington 1983.
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Post by evergreenadam on Aug 29, 2019 23:56:19 GMT
Electorate 17,810 Verified votes 11,835 Turnout 66.5% which is an increase on the last general election. Interesting spread of turnout from 55% to 76%, but no idea of significance or impact of differential turnout. |
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Post by Andrew_S on Aug 29, 2019 23:58:26 GMT
The turnout at the Mid Staffs by-election in 1990 was 77.5% compared to 79.4% at the 1987 general election.
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Post by johnloony on Aug 30, 2019 0:04:35 GMT
Interesting spread of turnout from 55% to 76%, but no idea of significance or impact of differential turnout. 52 to 77, but anyway. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 30, 2019 0:08:59 GMT
The earlier tweet referred to the arrival (at about midnight) of the final box by road & ferry.. I'm slightly surprised that some of them were not transported by helicopter. I wonder what the normal ferry journey times are from the outlying islands? Presumably the police had arranged ferries which were specifically contracted to be available to transport the ballot boxes.
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Post by cogload on Aug 30, 2019 0:50:33 GMT
LD hold.
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Post by syorkssocialist on Aug 30, 2019 0:59:20 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 30, 2019 1:02:28 GMT
If you just want to go to bed now, yes.
If you insist on waiting for the actual declaration, no.
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Post by cogload on Aug 30, 2019 1:14:19 GMT
The earlier tweet referred to the arrival (at about midnight) of the final box by road & ferry.. I'm slightly surprised that some of them were not transported by helicopter. I wonder what the normal ferry journey times are from the outlying islands? Presumably the police had arranged ferries which were specifically contracted to be available to transport the ballot boxes. There are ferries which are on standby throughout the night for medical reasons etc |
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Post by BucksDucks on Aug 30, 2019 1:17:35 GMT
The earlier tweet referred to the arrival (at about midnight) of the final box by road & ferry.. I'm slightly surprised that some of them were not transported by helicopter. I wonder what the normal ferry journey times are from the outlying islands? Presumably the police had arranged ferries which were specifically contracted to be available to transport the ballot boxes. There are ferries which are on standby throughout the night for medical reasons etc I should probably get some sleep, I misread that and was wondering what possible medical use ferrets have. |
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Post by johnloony on Aug 30, 2019 1:32:45 GMT
I was going to ask if there was any live coverage of the count or the result on any TV channels or websites (I checked what was on BBC Alba, just in case) but I noticed that there are people on Twitter complaining about the lack of any live stream or whatever.
I don't even know why I'm staying up so late. These days I usually go to bed before midnight, and manage to get up at about 9 am. I could easily have waited until daylight before bothering to find out the result.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 30, 2019 1:36:30 GMT
SIBC is 'broadcasting' a series of unremarkable current pop songs with occasional interruptions for station identification. Don't know if it will interrupt them when the declaraion comes but just in case: www.sibc.co.uk |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 30, 2019 1:38:31 GMT
Declaration imminent - live on SIBC
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Post by timmullen1 on Aug 30, 2019 1:42:29 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Aug 30, 2019 1:44:37 GMT
I clicked on your link just in time to hear the applause at the end of the declaration. I expect you're typing the result while I'm typing this.  |
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Post by bjornhattan on Aug 30, 2019 1:45:25 GMT
47.8% for the Lib Dems, 32.3% for the SNP according to that SIBC link. |
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