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Post by msc on Jul 29, 2024 17:57:01 GMT
Ah at uni for the SRC elections I stood in there was a turnout of twenty voters (from an electorate of circa 2000). And I still bloody lost.
On the bright side one of my very few voters later became my wife!
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 29, 2024 18:07:27 GMT
Ah at uni for the SRC elections I stood in there was a turnout of twenty voters (from an electorate of circa 2000). And I still bloody lost. On the bright side one of my very few voters later became my wife! Well I think you got the better half of the deal there!
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Post by r34t on Jul 29, 2024 18:15:45 GMT
I beg to differ, and unless you up your act you’ll be lucky to get 93 on the 15th. We shall see. General yield I had from voter contact to votes is about 4/1, meaning if I put out 5,000 handwritten leaflets, getting max 1,250 votes isn't impossible. Joshi was at my Oxford college FWIW, not that I'm making excuses. Oxford Dank Memes Society powered me to victory as only ODMS could. I’m afraid that isn’t how life or elections work.
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Post by sanders on Jul 29, 2024 18:15:55 GMT
Ah at uni for the SRC elections I stood in there was a turnout of twenty voters (from an electorate of circa 2000). And I still bloody lost. On the bright side one of my very few voters later became my wife! Met mine on Bumble. Congratulations, sir.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 29, 2024 19:47:03 GMT
Anything happening in Bargoed or Dunblane?
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Post by iainbhx on Jul 29, 2024 20:04:21 GMT
Anything happening in Bargoed or Dunblane? Dunblane must be sick of these by-elections. Is it one more needed to replace all the councillors. Bargoed is a bit of an odd place, fearsome rugby team in its day.
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Post by European Lefty on Jul 29, 2024 21:41:27 GMT
Initial prediction - I win with 22%? I think 22 votes might be nearer the mark than 22%
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Post by london(ex)tory on Jul 29, 2024 22:14:11 GMT
People are welcome to do more than anticipate if they want to help with canvassing or GOTV. I would be quite possibly the only Leave voting Councillor in Islington. Unfortunately I’m away on polling day, otherwise I would happily have come over to help GOTV for the Labour candidate.
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Post by sanders on Jul 29, 2024 23:26:02 GMT
People are welcome to do more than anticipate if they want to help with canvassing or GOTV. I would be quite possibly the only Leave voting Councillor in Islington. Unfortunately I’m away on polling day, otherwise I would happily have come over to help GOTV for the Labour candidate. My views are probably most in line with your own as a Brexiteer, but, of course, one shouldn't just see politics, especially electoral politics, through such a narrow lens.
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Post by tonyhil on Jul 30, 2024 5:41:25 GMT
This has probably been asked before on this thread, but what on earth has Brexit got to do with a council by-election. You won that election more than eight years ago - and even then it had nothing to do with local politics.
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Post by sanders on Jul 30, 2024 5:42:43 GMT
This has probably been asked before on this thread, but what on earth has Brexit got to do with a council by-election. You won that election more than eight years ago - and even then it had nothing to do with local politics. I worry Labour might reverse it.
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Post by noorderling on Jul 30, 2024 5:52:35 GMT
This has probably been asked before on this thread, but what on earth has Brexit got to do with a council by-election. You won that election more than eight years ago - and even then it had nothing to do with local politics. I worry Labour might reverse it. WOW, I didn’t know that Islington council had that authority.
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Post by sanders on Jul 30, 2024 5:53:43 GMT
I worry Labour might reverse it. WOW, I didn’t know that Islington council had that authority. We're focusing on local services, SEN funding and similar, but Brexit came up on the doorstep on Sunnyside Road hence why I brought it up.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jul 30, 2024 6:21:06 GMT
The Oxford Union is not a student union and never has been and most students don't belong to it And indeed a great many students utterly despise it. I never joined (not least because the membership fee was about two or three weeks' living costs!) and didn't much like the atmosphere on the handful of occasions I went in as a guest. That didn't stop dozens of wannabe candidates from messaging me around election time - to the point that (lectures/tutorials permitting) I used to make a point of going as far out of town as possible on their polling day. I think my record was Cardiff! I joined, went to a lot of debates, used the bar and the nightclub downstairs a lot. Scrounged a lot of free food and drink. But a certain type of person took it very seriously and they often ended up cocking up their exams. Then again, the Student Union wasn't dissimilar, but was aggressively useless. A diversion, but certainly nothing to bother with once you hit your final year.
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Post by sanders on Jul 30, 2024 6:24:35 GMT
I lost Secretary of course. Result:
Leah 667 (elected) Railton 509 (runner-up) Parr-Reid 255 (eliminated second) RON 20 (eliminated first)
18.09% after the elimination of RON.
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Post by batman on Jul 30, 2024 7:35:24 GMT
I think that this is going to be the most keenly anticipated local by-election result this year (on this Forum at least), so fair play to weld/sanders for that. I disagree on this Tony. All this chatter is obscuring the real contests which are taking place on the 15th. Although the Hillrise by-election is potentially interesting, it is not because of this particular independent candidacy, and I for one can't wait for it to be finished.
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Post by tonyhil on Jul 30, 2024 8:02:57 GMT
It has had a certain entertainment value though for those of us whose partisanship has waned over the years: you quite understandably care about who wins this election whereas I don't.
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Post by sanders on Jul 30, 2024 8:08:45 GMT
I think that this is going to be the most keenly anticipated local by-election result this year (on this Forum at least), so fair play to weld/sanders for that. I disagree on this Tony. All this chatter is obscuring the real contests which are taking place on the 15th. Although the Hillrise by-election is potentially interesting, it is not because of this particular independent candidacy, and I for one can't wait for it to be finished. Incredibly patronising, We have no clue.
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Post by batman on Jul 30, 2024 8:12:29 GMT
Nor do you since you haven't done any canvassing. Whether I'm being patronising is not the point anyway. The point is, you're basically spamming & I'm very, very bored.
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Post by sanders on Jul 30, 2024 8:14:22 GMT
The idea is leaflet everyone first before the postal vote deadline and then start street canvassing (did a bit of that yesterday). You don't have to follow this thread FYI.
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