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Post by minionofmidas on Dec 15, 2022 23:23:12 GMT
Our elections have a hard reliance on Royal Mail. If the postal votes all disappear in the system and the weather is dodgy, you are going to get serious turnout problems. If the Ashton seat wasn't disappearing in five months' time, this might make an interesting Election Court case. Wait, what happened with the postal votes? |
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Post by andrewteale on Dec 15, 2022 23:40:37 GMT
Our elections have a hard reliance on Royal Mail. If the postal votes all disappear in the system and the weather is dodgy, you are going to get serious turnout problems. If the Ashton seat wasn't disappearing in five months' time, this might make an interesting Election Court case. Wait, what happened with the postal votes? The postmen have been on strike these last two days. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 15, 2022 23:43:16 GMT
For those who like them percentaged
Barrowford and Pendleside (Pendle) council by-election result:
CON: 57.3% (-1.4)
LAB: 35.8% (-5.5)
LDEM: 6.9% (+6.9)
Votes cast: 1,219
Conservative HOLD.
Wingfield (Amber Valley) council by-election result:
CON: 54.8% (-14.0)
LDEM: 25.9% (+21.5)
LAB: 12.0% (-7.2)
GRN: 7.3% (-0.3)
Votes cast: 440
Conservative HOLD.
Toller (South Kesteven) council by-election result:
LDEM: 60.1% (+60.1)
CON: 39.9% (-8.6)
Votes cast: 426
No Ind (-51.5) as prev.
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Independent.
All from Britain Elects
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Post by andrewteale on Dec 15, 2022 23:47:39 GMT
IPSWICH, Priory Heath - Lab hold
Lab 653 C 314 LD 123
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Post by timrollpickering on Dec 15, 2022 23:51:23 GMT
Wait, what happened with the postal votes? The postmen have been on strike these last two days. And have a massive backlog. I hope someone in Wigan Electoral Services tallies all the late ballot papers that show up for information. |
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Post by Old Fashioned Leftie on Dec 15, 2022 23:54:18 GMT
The postmen have been on strike these last two days. And have a massive backlog. I hope someone in Wigan Electoral Services tallies all the late ballot papers that show up for information. Yes if you have seen online some of the pictures of the backlogs in sorting offices I imagine they will arrive at some point next year |
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Post by lackeroftalent on Dec 15, 2022 23:56:01 GMT
For those who like them percentaged Wingfield (Amber Valley) council by-election result: CON: 54.8% (-14.0) LDEM: 25.9% (+21.5) LAB: 12.0% (-7.2) GRN: 7.3% (-0.3) Votes cast: 440 Conservative HOLD. All from Britain Elects The Con percentage figure is wrong for Wingfield (should be 54.9%). Also the total votes cast was 441. |
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Dec 16, 2022 0:02:26 GMT
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Post by iang on Dec 16, 2022 0:02:36 GMT
Britain elects is saying Lib Dem gain in Andover
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Post by phil156 on Dec 16, 2022 0:21:55 GMT
The turnout in Test Valley wasnt that good either 9.71%
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 16, 2022 0:22:51 GMT
Isn't that 3 weeks running with 2 Lib Dem gains each time?
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Post by johnloony on Dec 16, 2022 2:11:22 GMT
Wait, what happened with the postal votes? The postmen have been on strike these last two days. I don’t know if this is a universal thing, but in Croydon we’ve always been told that the Post Office does a “sweep” of their offices in the last few hours of polling day to make sure that as many as possible of the last-minute postal votes are included. They don’t just rely on the normal pattern of daily deliveries. I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is (either) a specific legal requirement (or) a general good-will agreement that there is a proper effort to make sure that postal votes are collected properly, regardless of any strikes or delays which might otherwise be happening. |
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Post by peterl on Dec 16, 2022 2:13:13 GMT
The postmen have been on strike these last two days. I don’t know if this is a universal thing, but in Croydon we’ve always been told that the Post Office does a “sweep” of their offices in the last few hours of polling day to make sure that as many as possible of the last-minute postal votes are included. They don’t just rely on the normal pattern of daily deliveries. I’m not sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there is (either) a specific legal requirement (or) a general good-will agreement that there is a proper effort to make sure that postal votes are collected properly, regardless of any strikes or delays which might otherwise be happening. I've heard of sweeps of the sorting offices also (UKIP agent training at the 2009 conference I believe), but I believe they only happen if the council agrees to pay for it. |
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 16, 2022 7:25:44 GMT
Has anyone got the actual numbers for the Andover result? Everyone seems to want to quote percentage terms only ( maybe understandable with a sub-10% turnout).
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Post by jamesdoyle on Dec 16, 2022 7:38:45 GMT
Has anyone got the actual numbers for the Andover result? Everyone seems to want to quote percentage terms only ( maybe understandable with a sub-10% turnout). Can't find them, but one of the result tweets says 694 votes cast. So it's going to be roughly Con 299, LDm 400 |
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Post by jamesdoyle on Dec 16, 2022 7:39:34 GMT
GWBWI
LDm +184
Lab +72
Grn 0
Con -78
ASV
LDm +3.1
Lab +1.2
Grn 0
Con -1.3
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 16, 2022 7:54:33 GMT
Has anyone got the actual numbers for the Andover result? Everyone seems to want to quote percentage terms only ( maybe understandable with a sub-10% turnout). Can't find them, but one of the result tweets says 694 votes cast. So it's going to be roughly Con 299, LDm 400 Think that should read Con 294? Or they've found 5 votes from nowhere? |
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Dec 16, 2022 7:55:27 GMT
Has anyone got the actual numbers for the Andover result? Everyone seems to want to quote percentage terms only ( maybe understandable with a sub-10% turnout). Can't find them, but one of the result tweets says 694 votes cast. So it's going to be roughly Con 299, LDm 400
BROOKS, Katie Louise - The Conservative Party Candidate 294 SANGSTER, Jason Lloyd - Liberal Democrats 400
Rejected papers 8
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 16, 2022 8:01:47 GMT
Can't find them, but one of the result tweets says 694 votes cast. So it's going to be roughly Con 299, LDm 400
BROOKS, Katie Louise - The Conservative Party Candidate 294 SANGSTER, Jason Lloyd - Liberal Democrats 400
Rejected papers 8
so working back from the percentages was correct! |
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 16, 2022 8:06:44 GMT
Does anyone have any knowledge of middleenglander? His work on the weekly results and monthly summaries is being badly missed. I think his penultimate post suggested he had "important issues" to deal with- I'm hoping he's okay. |
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