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Post by thirdchill on Dec 5, 2014 19:03:59 GMT
Never voted in a by-election. Have lived in 4 different wards, two in liverpool, one in salford, one in county durham, and none have had by-elections since I've been able to vote.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 5, 2014 19:31:21 GMT
I voted yes for council elections, but arguably it didn't count because it was simultaneous with the GLA elections in 2012 and I would have voted on that day anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2014 19:41:03 GMT
Preston byelection 2000
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 5, 2014 20:57:45 GMT
I don't think I ever have. I thought I had voted in a town council by-election in Hatfield East but I can't find any evidence of such a byelection taking place (It would have been on the same day as the normal local elections and therefore can only have been in 2010). There was a borough council election for the ward in 2009 on the same day as the European elections but although I lived in the ward then I had only moved there in March and was still registred to vote in Hertsmere (I wanted to help vote out the LDs in Bushey North).
I lived in a parliamentary constituency where there was a by-election but was too young to vote (SW Herts 1979)
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 5, 2014 20:57:59 GMT
I voted in a council byelection (High Peak, College ward) within two weeks of my 18th birthday.
Never since (41 years), unless you count council vacancies filled in the regular May slot before the term was completed.
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Post by greatkingrat on Dec 5, 2014 21:24:38 GMT
Checking back the dates, I notice that Trafford has had 24 by-elections since its creation in 1974. Does anyone know which local authorities have had the most or fewest by-elections? I did a count by authority of this list about a year ago and got the following results. The top three seem to be unchanged, while Orkney has just broken its duck. Councils with the most by-elections since 1996 25: Allerdale 24: Lewisham, Suffolk 22: Cumbria, Hackney, Hertfordshire 21: Aylesbury Vale, Dover, Huntingdonshire, Newark & Sherwood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Telford & Wrekin 20: Cambridgeshire, Camden, Conwy, Lancaster, Oxfordshire, Scarborough 19: Barnet, Birmingham, Chichester, Fenland, Redcar & Cleveland, St Edmundsbury, Shepway, Test Valley, Wealden Councils with the fewest by-elections since 1996 (excluding recently reorganised areas) 0: Orkney 1: Eastleigh, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, North Warwickshire 2: Bolsover, Dorset, Gloucester, Renfrewshire, West Lothian, Worcester 3: Chorley, East Dunbartonshire, Gedling, Halton, Midlothian, Oadby & Wigston, Worthing 4: Bolton, East Dorset, Exeter, Fareham, Lewes, Milton Keynes, Perth & Kinross, Portsmouth, Reading, Rochdale, Shetland, South Ayrshire, Southend-on-Sea, South Norfolk, Trafford, Wandsworth |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 5, 2014 21:50:57 GMT
Checking back the dates, I notice that Trafford has had 24 by-elections since its creation in 1974. Does anyone know which local authorities have had the most or fewest by-elections? I did a count by authority of this list about a year ago and got the following results. The top three seem to be unchanged, while Orkney has just broken its duck. Councils with the most by-elections since 1996 25: Allerdale 24: Lewisham, Suffolk 22: Cumbria, Hackney, Hertfordshire 21: Aylesbury Vale, Dover, Huntingdonshire, Newark & Sherwood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Telford & Wrekin 20: Cambridgeshire, Camden, Conwy, Lancaster, Oxfordshire, Scarborough 19: Barnet, Birmingham, Chichester, Fenland, Redcar & Cleveland, St Edmundsbury, Shepway, Test Valley, Wealden Councils with the fewest by-elections since 1996 (excluding recently reorganised areas) 0: Orkney 1: Eastleigh, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, North Warwickshire 2: Bolsover, Dorset, Gloucester, Renfrewshire, West Lothian, Worcester 3: Chorley, East Dunbartonshire, Gedling, Halton, Midlothian, Oadby & Wigston, Worthing 4: Bolton, East Dorset, Exeter, Fareham, Lewes, Milton Keynes, Perth & Kinross, Portsmouth, Reading, Rochdale, Shetland, South Ayrshire, Southend-on-Sea, South Norfolk, Trafford, Wandsworth At Hackney, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, by elections are hoften happening. |
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Post by Tony Otim on Dec 5, 2014 22:07:42 GMT
Oxford must be moving up the list the way they've been going this year.
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Post by psephos on Dec 5, 2014 22:24:54 GMT
I did a count by authority of this list about a year ago and got the following results. The top three seem to be unchanged, while Orkney has just broken its duck. Councils with the most by-elections since 1996 25: Allerdale 24: Lewisham, Suffolk 22: Cumbria, Hackney, Hertfordshire 21: Aylesbury Vale, Dover, Huntingdonshire, Newark & Sherwood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Telford & Wrekin 20: Cambridgeshire, Camden, Conwy, Lancaster, Oxfordshire, Scarborough 19: Barnet, Birmingham, Chichester, Fenland, Redcar & Cleveland, St Edmundsbury, Shepway, Test Valley, Wealden Councils with the fewest by-elections since 1996 (excluding recently reorganised areas) 0: Orkney 1: Eastleigh, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, North Warwickshire 2: Bolsover, Dorset, Gloucester, Renfrewshire, West Lothian, Worcester 3: Chorley, East Dunbartonshire, Gedling, Halton, Midlothian, Oadby & Wigston, Worthing 4: Bolton, East Dorset, Exeter, Fareham, Lewes, Milton Keynes, Perth & Kinross, Portsmouth, Reading, Rochdale, Shetland, South Ayrshire, Southend-on-Sea, South Norfolk, Trafford, Wandsworth At Hackney, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, by elections are hoften happening. Hallerdale hand Haylesbury Vale halso. |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 5, 2014 22:33:54 GMT
At Hackney, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, by elections are hoften happening. Hallerdale hand Haylesbury Vale halso. Whereas Worcester, Worthing and Wandsworth wait in wanticipation... |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 5, 2014 22:37:02 GMT
Hallerdale hand Haylesbury Vale halso. Whereas Worcester, Worthing and Wandsworth wait in wanticipation... And the Leith Police dismisseth us? |
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Post by finsobruce on Dec 5, 2014 22:59:10 GMT
Whereas Worcester, Worthing and Wandsworth wait in wanticipation... And the Leith Police dismisseth us? they thought we'd post all day... |
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 6, 2014 12:05:35 GMT
You may call it sad, but it was also the last time (not just UK but Europe-wide) that an MEP was elected under FPTP - so you could equally describe it as an historic event  |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 6, 2014 12:10:34 GMT
An 'historic event' to people for whom Tony Greaves is a 'famous person' certainly
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 6, 2014 12:19:09 GMT
An 'historic event' to people for whom Tony Greaves is a 'famous person' certainly People like us, in other words |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2014 16:49:11 GMT
I answered no but on reflection I think I may have voted in a by-election to Fulford Parish Council on the day that I cast my first ever vote (2001 GE, Selby constituency). In subsequent years I got it into my head that this had been a regular election but it was outside the cycle and was, I recall, for a single councillor rather than a group. Can't find it online though.
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Post by Sibboleth on Dec 6, 2014 18:35:51 GMT
I once spoiled my ballot for a parish council by-election. Does that count?
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Dec 6, 2014 19:53:41 GMT
I was asked to stand by three different parties for a single parish council by-election, but lived a couple of hundred yards outside the ward boundaries so didn't actually vote. Does that count?
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Post by piperdave on Dec 22, 2014 22:03:54 GMT
The 1998 North East of Scotland Euro by-election was my first ever internet search Beat that geeks! |
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Post by Pimpernal on Dec 23, 2014 6:30:22 GMT
Campaigned in so many, but just realised I've never been able to vote in a byelection ever  |
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