Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on May 11, 2014 15:48:38 GMT
Now, this is just to see if there would be any interest, but as the Euros will be counting on local council boundaries in all parts of Great Britain, how would members feel about having a competition to guess the vote share in the following 35 local authorities around Britain. The authorities would be:
South Western England
Cotswold, Plymouth, West Devon
South Eastern England
Eastleigh, Gosport, Milton Keynes, Vale of the White Horse, Guildford, Waverley
Greater London
Ealing, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham
Eastern England
Tendring, Hertsmere. Babergh, St. Edmundsbury, Brentwood
East Midlands
Chesterfield, Rushcliffe, South Derbyshire, Lincoln
West Midlands
Cannock Chase, Warwick, North Warwickshire
Wales
Newport, Gwynedd
North Western England
Copeland, Knowsley, Wigan
Yorkshire and the Humber
Kingston upon Hull, Hambleton
North Eastern England
Middlesborough
Scotland
West Dunbartonshire, Western Isles, Perth and Kinross
I will be contacting the regional count centres tomorrow asking for the electorates and if they will be publishing the local count areas as well and it would help if I could say that there was a lot of interest in the local area results not just from local residents but across the UK.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2014 16:32:23 GMT
Now, this is just to see if there would be any interest, but as the Euros will be counting on local council boundaries in all parts of Great Britain, how would members feel about having a competition to guess the vote share in the following 35 local authorities around Britain. The authorities would be: South Western EnglandCotswold, Plymouth, West Devon South Eastern EnglandEastleigh, Gosport, Milton Keynes, Vale of the White Horse, Guildford, Waverley Greater LondonEaling, Kensington and Chelsea, Lewisham Eastern EnglandTendring, Hertsmere. Babergh, St. Edmundsbury, Brentwood East MidlandsChesterfield, Rushcliffe, South Derbyshire, Lincoln West MidlandsCannock Chase, Warwick, North Warwickshire WalesNewport, Gwynedd North Western EnglandCopeland, Knowsley, Wigan Yorkshire and the HumberKingston upon Hull, Hambleton North Eastern EnglandMiddlesborough ScotlandWest Dunbartonshire, Western Isles, Perth and Kinross I will be contacting the regional count centres tomorrow asking for the electorates and if they will be publishing the local count areas as well and it would help if I could say that there was a lot of interest in the local area results not just from local residents but across the UK.Just one for the North East? Would like to see somewhere like Berwick or Redcar as well. I really like the idea, but in a couple of Regions the areas you have picked are a little sub-optimal. E.g. NW is almost exclusively WWC. In the West Midlands Cannock and N Warwickshire are pretty damm similar seats. Warwick and Lemington also is a Con-Lab marginal. Why not a safe inner city labour seat, a WWC marginal and a tory rural seat for example. For example, Birmingham Ladywood, Cannock Chase and Hereford Yorkshire deserves a third seat - possibly taking one from the East Midlands. London deserves a fourth. |
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Post by greatkingrat on May 11, 2014 16:55:17 GMT
I'm not sure many people will have the time or inclination to make 35 separate predictions. I would stick to something simpler - maybe just predict the MEPs elected in each region plus the national vote share.
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 11, 2014 18:07:46 GMT
Now, this is just to see if there would be any interest, but as the Euros will be counting on local council boundaries in all parts of Great Britain, how would members feel about having a competition to guess the vote share in the following 35 local authorities around Britain. The authorities would be: (...) Why those 35? |
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Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on May 11, 2014 18:31:41 GMT
Well, that was just a suggestion to see if anyone would be interested in doing such a competition. If you want to do something different to my suggestion then you go right ahead
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Post by Pimpernal on May 11, 2014 20:05:31 GMT
not Swale then...
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2014 10:28:12 GMT
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Post by carlton43 on May 12, 2014 12:59:30 GMT
'Swale'. Now there is a wealth in a word. I always think of an odd channel, mud, birds, whispering reeds and a childhood of visits to Leysdown and Harty; of stopping at an ungated crossing for mixed taffic trains at Brambledown Halt; all on an island consisting solely of layers of silt from the River Rhine that passed there on a long circle to an estuary near Southampton. Sheppey is a mystical island of intense geological and historical interest. |
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 17, 2014 22:28:40 GMT
Well, that was just a suggestion to see if anyone would be interested in doing such a competition. If you want to do something different to my suggestion then you go right ahead I could have a punt at number of MEPs per party, having brushed up my D'Hondt. |
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