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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 28, 2020 8:17:35 GMT
Ah but what if any old MP who didn't agree with the delay tried to move the writ? And do the rules still allow an MP who doesn't like a particular Private Member's Bill to move the writ to filibuster it? Yes, I wondered that. If a writ is moved, does parliament have any powers to overturn that? I assume not. I agree with manchesterman that it is strange there are no protocols in place which ensure a by-election does take place within a set time limit. If writ of election is delivered to a Returning Officer, but the Parliament to which the Member is returned is then dissolved, then the writ is automatically null and void. Parliament does also have the power to cancel a Parliamentary byelection, which is done by authorising the Clerk of the Crown to issue a supersedeas to the writ of election (in general, a supersedeas is a further instruction from a court to suspend one of its previous orders). When Theresa May was allowed to dissolve Parliament shortly after the Manchester Gorton byelection had been called, the government moved to issue a supersedeas to make it clear that the election was to be cancelled: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-04-20/debates/E11A5F46-DE00-4194-8AD3-03C26419127F/ManchesterGorton(Writ)There is a protocol on byelection timing, in the form of guidelines agreed between the main parties made at the Speaker's Conference in 1973. It was officially published (if not enacted) by a letter to the Speaker of 26 November 1973 published in Cmnd 5500. The wording of the letter is: (a) The motion for a writ for a by-election should normally be moved within three months of a vacancy arising. (b) It is inexpedient for by-elections to be held in August, or at the time of local elections in April/May, or in the period from mid-December to mid-February before (under present arrangements) a new Register is issued. (c) Consequently, if this restriction should bring the date of the by-election into one of these periods, the by-election should if practicable be held earlier. If this is impractical the period should be lengthened by the shortest possible additional time. The total period (from vacancy to the moving of the writ) should not be more than four months. (d) In the fifth year of a Parliament, some relaxation of these guidelines should be allowed, in order if possible to avoid by-elections being held immediately before a general election.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2020 18:03:23 GMT
Cumulative vote totals of parties and candidates who have stood in Chingford/Chingford and Woodford Green between 1992 and the present. So the Iain Duncan Smith collection. No editing, this is the full list of 12. Conservative (Iain Duncan Smith) | 175,527 | 50.94 | Labour | 113,698 | 33.00 | Liberal Democrats | 35,590 | 11.49 | UKIP | 7,855 | 2.28 | Green | 4,283 | 1.24 | BNP | 2,121 | 0.62 | Liberal | 602 | 0.17 | Barry White | 337 | 0.10 | TUSC | 241 | 0.07 | "None of the Above" | 202 | 0.06 | Class War | 53 | 0.02 | Christine Johns | 41 | 0.01 |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Aug 4, 2020 18:14:46 GMT
There is no legal requirement to hold a by-election. Even in normal circumstances, there has been delays of up to six months before a by-election was held, so I suspect the seat would be left vacant, at least for a few months and then see what the situation is then. Can Parliament fill a vacancy by co-option? I suppose Parliament is sovereign and can pass an act achieving anything it likes...
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Post by greenhert on Aug 4, 2020 18:29:03 GMT
There is no legal requirement to hold a by-election. Even in normal circumstances, there has been delays of up to six months before a by-election was held, so I suspect the seat would be left vacant, at least for a few months and then see what the situation is then. Can Parliament fill a vacancy by co-option? I suppose Parliament is sovereign and can pass an act achieving anything it likes... No it cannot, and even during World Wars I and II vacancies were always filled by by-election.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Aug 4, 2020 18:35:25 GMT
Can Parliament fill a vacancy by co-option? I suppose Parliament is sovereign and can pass an act achieving anything it likes... No it cannot, and even during World Wars I and II vacancies were always filled by by-election. In 1801 it co-opted some members of the defunct Irish House of Commons. When was this provision repealed?
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Post by pl on Aug 4, 2020 18:36:59 GMT
Can Parliament fill a vacancy by co-option? I suppose Parliament is sovereign and can pass an act achieving anything it likes... No it cannot, and even during World Wars I and II vacancies were always filled by by-election. Legally, it could via act of parliament. Co-option as a precident exists in NI (Assembly and Council). However, it is not politically possible, and it flies against all convention.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 4, 2020 19:20:37 GMT
No it cannot, and even during World Wars I and II vacancies were always filled by by-election. In 1801 it co-opted some members of the defunct Irish House of Commons. When was this provision repealed? They had all been elected to the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union; it was the Irish Parliament which decided which constituencies would be deemed to have returned Members to the Union Parliament under a statute (40 Geo. III, c. 29). And in 1707-08, the 45 MPs representing Scotland were elected as a delegation by the Parliament of Scotland.
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 4, 2020 23:27:59 GMT
Cumulative vote totals of parties and candidates who have stood in Chingford/Chingford and Woodford Green between 1992 and the present. So the Iain Duncan Smith collection. No editing, this is the full list of 12. Conservative (Iain Duncan Smith) | 175,527 | 50.94 | Labour | 113,698 | 33.00 | Liberal Democrats | 35,590 | 11.49 | UKIP | 7,855 | 2.28 | Green | 4,283 | 1.24 | BNP | 2,121 | 0.62 | Liberal | 602 | 0.17 | Barry White | 337 | 0.10 | TUSC | 241 | 0.07 | "None of the Above" | 202 | 0.06 | Class War | 53 | 0.02 | Christine Johns | 41 | 0.01 |
"None of the Above" was very successful. Not a single vote was cast for any candidate higher up the ballot paper. The only slight problem was that they were using the phrase as a name and failed to realise "Above, None of The" would be top of the ballot paper.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2020 16:52:05 GMT
Left-hand side, Sheffield Hallam cumulative vote totals between 1979 and 1997; right-hand side is the same constituency between 2005-2019. Top 10 for each, the latter excludes 5 additional parties/candidates with around 600 votes between them. 46.61 | 123,703 | Conservative | 1 | Liberal Democrats | 109,002 | 41.84 | 20.85 | 55,332 | Labour | 2 | Labour | 74,790 | 28.71 | 15.85 | 42,071 | Liberal (original) | 3 | Conservative | 59,869 | 22.98 | 15.56 | 41,297 | Liberal Democrats | 4 | Green | 6,475 | 2.49 | 0.35 | 932 | Green | 5 | UKIP | 6,305 | 2.42 | 0.30 | 788 | Referendum | 6 | Brexit | 1,562 | 0.60 | 0.29 | 781 | P. Booler | 7 | English Democrats | 753 | 0.29 | 0.11 | 300 | National Front | 8 | Christian Peoples Alliance | 441 | 0.17 | 0.04 | 101 | Natural Law | 9 | BNP | 369 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 99 | Revolutionary Communist | 10 | Christian Party | 250 | 0.10 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 6:54:01 GMT
Cumulative totals for parties/candidates standing in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross from 1997 to present. Liberal Democrats | 80,039 | 38.66 | SNP | 57,534 | 27.79 | Labour | 36,119 | 17.45 | Conservative | 27,732 | 13.40 | G. Campbell | 1,567 | 0.76 | UKIP | 1,193 | 0.58 | Brexit | 1,139 | 0.55 | Scottish Socialist | 1,092 | 0.53 | Referendum | 369 | 0.18 | Green | 230 | 0.11 |
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Post by greenhert on Aug 8, 2020 13:40:26 GMT
Due to Denis Pritt standing as an Independent Labour candidate, Hammersmith North, of all constituencies, was the only constituency in the 1945 general election to record a lost deposit for the Labour Party.
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Post by Sandy on Aug 8, 2020 19:53:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 12:16:48 GMT
On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon resigned.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 9, 2020 12:54:36 GMT
Not really electoral is it?
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Post by yellowperil on Aug 9, 2020 13:01:45 GMT
Not really electoral is it? Well I suppose he wouldn't have had to resign bar the activities of the committee to re-elect the president, so does that make it electoral?
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Post by hullenedge on Aug 25, 2020 13:29:50 GMT
Correlation between Con-Lab lead and constituency population density (rural to urban, 2011 Census) for England & Wales:-
2010 -0.46 2015 -0.50 2017 -0.59 2019 -0.64
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 6:07:30 GMT
After 26 House/Senate victories for the Kennedy family in Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy III is the first in his family to lose an election in the state.
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Post by timrollpickering on Sept 2, 2020 9:31:24 GMT
The first with the Kennedy name though IIRC his Fitzgerald great great (?) grandfather lost a Senate challenge to Henry Cabot Lodge Sr back in 1916. JFK was first elected to the Senate in 1952 in an all grandson rematch.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2020 11:04:51 GMT
The first with the Kennedy name though IIRC his Fitzgerald great great (?) grandfather lost a Senate challenge to Henry Cabot Lodge Sr back in 1916. JFK was first elected to the Senate in 1952 in an all grandson rematch. You recall that far back?
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Post by timrollpickering on Sept 2, 2020 12:49:11 GMT
LOL! Not directly but the Lodge/Kennedy battle recurred across the generations over half a century - as well as those two Senate contests Lodge Jr's son fought Edward Kennedy in the 1962 special election. And Lodge Jr was the Republican Veep nominee in 1960.
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