john07
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Post by john07 on Oct 23, 2014 11:58:35 GMT
My mother went to school with someone called Teresa Green.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Oct 23, 2014 12:50:00 GMT
Sounds like one of the people who would write in to Wogan's radio show.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 13:49:07 GMT
You mean a Tog?
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Crimson King
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Be nice to each other and sing in tune
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Post by Crimson King on Oct 23, 2014 13:49:23 GMT
My favoutite patient was young Luke North (only works in some parts of the country)
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neilm
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Post by neilm on Oct 23, 2014 13:50:39 GMT
He'd be called Luke Leeds everywhere else in Yorkshire, then.
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Pimpernal
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Post by Pimpernal on Oct 23, 2014 14:17:23 GMT
I went to school with a lad called Mark Hunt... wittily we called him Mike anyway...
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 23, 2014 17:34:21 GMT
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Richard Allen
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Post by Richard Allen on Oct 23, 2014 17:46:30 GMT
I went to school with a lad called Mark Hunt... wittily we called him Mike anyway... I knew I guy who actually was called Michael Hunt. Understandably he went by his middle name which was Steve.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 17:49:05 GMT
Full result apparently due to be confirmed at 8pm tonight
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 18:11:07 GMT
Most of the previous Conservative Party Parliamentary Primaries have been open meetings like the one in Clacton. There have (as far as I am aware) only been two previous postal primaries like this one, both in 2009, Totnes and Gosport. In terms of turnout the turnout at Totnes was 16,497 and that as Gosport was 12,695
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 23, 2014 18:14:53 GMT
Though I think the timetable was a bit more compressed in Rochester and Strood.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 18:39:27 GMT
Though I think the timetable was a bit more compressed in Rochester and Strood. Still doesn't look good though and that's the point. Although now a number of 6,000 is being reported. I guess we'll see the official number soon enough.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 23, 2014 18:50:23 GMT
Though I think the timetable was a bit more compressed in Rochester and Strood. Still doesn't look good though and that's the point. Although now a number of 6,000 is being reported. I guess we'll see the official number soon enough. Turnouts for open primaries: R&S: 4,000 (apparently) Gosport: 12,659 Totnes: 16,497 The electorate in Rochester & Strood is higher than Gosport and Totnes. 2010 figures: R&S: 73,882 Gosport: 72,720 Totnes: 67,937
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 19:07:19 GMT
Turnout 5688. Kelly Tolhurst apparently got 54% of vote
Kelly Tolhurst 50.44%, Anna Firth 49.56%
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 23, 2014 19:08:39 GMT
50.44% to 49.56% for Anna Firth. Which means 2,869 to 2819, if there were no spoilt ballots.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 19:39:09 GMT
50.44% to 49.56% for Anna Firth. Which means 2,869 to 2819, if there were no spoilt ballots. Still no publication of how many votes each candidate got. I wonder if we'll get to hear how many spoilt ballots there were?
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 23, 2014 19:41:04 GMT
50.44% to 49.56% for Anna Firth. Which means 2,869 to 2819, if there were no spoilt ballots. I would have expected a fair number of spoilt ballots, assuming the 5,688 figure includes people writing obscene messages, etc.
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Post by Devonian on Oct 23, 2014 20:27:17 GMT
50.44% to 49.56% for Anna Firth. Which means 2,869 to 2819, if there were no spoilt ballots. I would have expected a fair number of spoilt ballots, assuming the 5,688 figure includes people writing obscene messages, etc. I would have thought the circumstances of the by election would encourage spoilt ballots. I would have also thought that sending out a personal message from the Prime Minister together with a first class pre paid envelope which people could then use to post back their thoughts about this message was also a recipe for spoilt ballots. I'm wondering if the number of spoilt ballots was somewhat higher than might be expected (perhaps somewhere in the low hundreds) and they are keeping quiet about it (and hoping no one notices) in order to pad out the number primary voters.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 23, 2014 20:34:27 GMT
It's possible the original 4,000 figure was correct for valid votes and that there were as many as c.1,500 spoilt ballots.
This is supposed to be an open primary so I hope the Tories release the actual figures for each candidate. In other words I hope they don't try to pass off spoilt papers as valid votes by not releasing the full numbers.
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Post by Andrew_S on Oct 23, 2014 20:45:44 GMT
Why won't the Tories reveal how many of those 5,688 votes were spoilt papers?
By just giving the percentages it looks like they're trying to hide something.
Maybe this is a new definition of an "open primary" which isn't in fact particularly open.
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