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Post by johnloony on May 14, 2021 0:45:55 GMT
I had Sky News on, in the vague assumption that it was more likely to broadcast the declaration than the BBC News channel, but I wasn’t expecting the newsreader to mention it so briefly and casually in passing without even attempting to tell us any of the figures.
Bah humbug.
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Post by johnloony on May 14, 2021 0:47:55 GMT
Yet again this Twit insults us by telling us percentages without telling us the result. |
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Post by yellowperil on May 14, 2021 0:54:52 GMT
Someone has hastily set up a Wikipedia page for the newly-elected MP. It's unusual for someone to be elected to Westminster who didn't previously have a page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anum_Qaisar-JavedLove the incredible vagueness, too - like not sure how old they are. |
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Post by yellowperil on May 14, 2021 0:59:19 GMT
Yet again this Twit insults us by telling us percentages without telling us the result. Well of course it's the vital information needed if you happen to be involved in a prediction competition, and barring that why should anyone be interested?  |
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Post by Andrew_S on May 14, 2021 1:52:22 GMT
Yet again this Twit insults us by telling us percentages without telling us the result. Well of course it's the vital information needed if you happen to be involved in a prediction competition, and barring that why should anyone be interested? If they're only going to give one set of information I'd rather have the raw figures, since anyone can work out the percentages, whereas it's impossible to work out the raw data from the percentages. Statement of the obvious I know. |
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Post by johnloony on May 14, 2021 3:02:23 GMT
Well of course it's the vital information needed if you happen to be involved in a prediction competition, and barring that why should anyone be interested? If they're only going to give one set of information I'd rather have the raw figures, since anyone can work out the percentages, whereas it's impossible to work out the raw data from the percentages. Statement of the obvious I know. About 20 years ago, Croydon council had a referendum on how much Council Tax should be increased by (the options were 2%, 3.5% and 5%). For some reason, the conduct of the referendum was contracted out to Electoral Reform Services, instead of being done by the usual elections department of the council. Idiotically and annoyingly, the ERS reported the results of the referendum (with separate totals for each ward) in the form of percentages rather than numbers. But they were published to an accuracy of two decimal places, so that the numbers were precise enough that it was possible to calculate backwards to find the original numbers. But I was still annoyed because one of the wards added up to 100.05%, so there must have been a discrepancy of about 2 votes somewhere. |
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Post by Andrew_S on May 14, 2021 3:18:38 GMT
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Post by right on May 14, 2021 5:58:44 GMT
Someone has hastily set up a Wikipedia page for the newly-elected MP. It's unusual for someone to be elected to Westminster who didn't previously have a page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anum_Qaisar-JavedI remember back in the day when pages for challenger party candidates would be successfully challenged and deleted because being a candidate on its own didn't imply notability |
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Post by yellowperil on May 14, 2021 6:03:57 GMT
Quite old really by comparison with Mhairi Black or David Steel in their day. |
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Post by Merseymike on May 14, 2021 6:49:44 GMT
Yet another result which indicates that voting is based on one issue, and one side of that issue has a largely united voting force, as opposed to the other.
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Post by No Offence Alan on May 14, 2021 7:55:48 GMT
"Hey, I'm 9 today! Why are you grown ups all watching TV at my birthday party?" |
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Post by greenhert on May 14, 2021 8:25:42 GMT
This could have been interesting due to the effect of "unionist" tactical voting-but just as in the Scottish Parliament elections last week it came to nothing. This will however go down in history as the first time the SNP has had to defend a parliamentary seat in a by-election.
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Post by southpaw1 on May 14, 2021 8:48:56 GMT
Like many current SNP members, she was previously in the Labour Party
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Post by islington on May 14, 2021 8:54:27 GMT
SNP 10129 Lab 8372 Con 2812 LD 220 SDP 151 Unionist 59 Ref 45 UKIP 39 SNP maj 1757
Edited to add: Sorry, on checking back I find the numbers have already been supplied upthread.
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Post by The Bishop on May 14, 2021 9:55:14 GMT
SNP can be happy to have held, Labour to have increased their vote share. And the LibDems for narrowly beating the SDP |
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Post by justin124 on May 14, 2021 10:14:54 GMT
A mildly encouraging result for Labour which implies that the seat is a realistic target at the next GE.
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Post by afleitch on May 14, 2021 10:46:15 GMT
Solid result for the SNP given the turnout.
Worth noting that the majority here in 2017 was just 0.5%.
Labour have rebounded to 2015/2017 levels and the Tory vote is back down closer to more historic levels with Labour voters returning home.
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Post by CatholicLeft on May 14, 2021 10:59:08 GMT
Yet another result which indicates that voting is based on one issue, and one side of that issue has a largely united voting force, as opposed to the other. Well of course, nevertheless, Labour managed to pick a well-liked and capable local candidate, ran a decent campaign and managed a swing to them. |
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Post by pragmaticidealist on May 14, 2021 11:05:13 GMT
"Hey, I'm 9 today! Why are you grown ups all watching TV at my birthday party?" I wonder how the Ingrams (of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire infamy) felt on that day. They had done their deed in the immediate couple of days prior to 11/9/2001. |
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Post by edgbaston on May 14, 2021 11:15:46 GMT
Yet another result which indicates that voting is based on one issue, and one side of that issue has a largely united voting force, as opposed to the other. Well of course, nevertheless, Labour managed to pick a well-liked and capable local candidate, ran a decent campaign and managed a swing to them. Makes you wonder - with more resources we might have won it |
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