TV coverage of elections

[Andrew_S]

There are some brief clips of 1992 election declarations on this video that I haven't seen before:

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Report on the Warrington byelection from the Monday before polling day:

[Andrew_S]

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Eve of poll report on the Beaconsfield byelection in 1982. Doesn't that Labour candidate look young?

[johnloony]

Sept 19, 2018 19:54:31 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Eve of poll report on the Beaconsfield byelection in 1982. Doesn't that Labour candidate look young?

Not particularly, for a chap of 28

[beastofbedfordshire]

Sept 19, 2018 19:54:31 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Eve of poll report on the Beaconsfield byelection in 1982. Doesn't that Labour candidate look young?

There's something not quite right about him. Can't quite put my finger on it...

[manchesterman]

Sept 19, 2018 19:54:31 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Eve of poll report on the Beaconsfield byelection in 1982. Doesn't that Labour candidate look young?

Paul Tyler too.

Ggreat to hear dear old John Cole on that report. Erudite and amiable.

Pity it got cut off just before going on to Villa's amazing European Cup win over Bayern!!

[Andrew_S]

(Off topic)

A Panorama programme about the Labour Party from the same month that Jeremy Corbyn was selected as candidate for Islington North:



Incidentally, the Bishop's Stortford meeting in January 1982 is mentioned in this piece:

"Benn’s defeat sparked debate in the Labour left. Many Labour people had been alarmed by the splitting-away of a large chunk of Labour’s right wing in March 1981, to form the SDP, which later united with the Liberals to form the “Liberal Democrats”. The union leaders were repenting of their rebellion, and signalling that they wanted a compromise with the Labour right, which they would cut at a meeting in Bishops Stortford in January 1982. Already many MPs previously considered left-wing had backed off by refusing to back Benn for deputy."

www.workersliberty.org/story/2014/06/24/when-we-debated-vladimir-derer

[The Bishop]

MPs considered to be in the latter category included not just Neil Kinnock but.......Frank Field.

Hard to imagine now.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

[johnloony]

Nov 5, 2018 22:17:13 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Gorbals_by-election,_1969

Frank McElhone (Lab) 7,834
Tom Brady (SNP) 3,671
William Shearer (Con) 2,732
John Kay (Comm) 361
Matt Lygate (WPS) 72

The last of those candidates seems very interesting: Maoist, poet, anarchist, bank robber (11 years in prison), Scottish nationalist (his party published Mao's little red book in Gaelic)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Lygate

According to a report of one conference which he attended in November 1983: "As befits a conference attended by such veteran anti-imperialist supporters of the Asian socialist countries as Comrade Matt Lygate, delegates repeatedly stressed the vanguard role of the Asian communist tradition and the teachings of the great leaders Comrade Mao Zedong and Comrade Kim Il Sung. A reception was held in a warm atmosphere overflowing with proletarian internationalism, at which the delegates joined together in singing revolutionary songs including the ‘Song of General Kim Il Sung’, ‘Scots wha hae’, ‘the Soldier’s Song’ and ‘the Internationale’.

(bold added)
He tried to re-launch the WPS after coming out of prison in 1983:

news.google.com/newspapers?id=pLZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t6UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3645%2C4877919

[Davıd Boothroyd]

[timmullen1]

Nov 21, 2018 22:03:10 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

And in the next N-u-L by-election some 15 years later I got caught up in a near riot and had to take refuge in The Guildhall with a WPC on her first month in the job as protection.

[johnloony]

Nov 21, 2018 22:03:10 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

In that clip, it was mentioned that there were five by-elections all on the same day. Glasgow Gorbals was held by Labour with a majority of 4,163 over the SNP, but the four by-elections in England were all very close: Islington North had a swing of 9% and a Labour majority of 1,534*; Paddington North had a swing of 11% and a Labour majority of 517; Swindon had a swing of 13% and a Conservative majority of 478, and Newcastle under Lyme had a swing of 11% and a Labour majority of 1,042.

* "close" in the case of Islington North in terms of absolute number of votes, but not so much in terms of percentages: an electorate of only 45k and a turnout of 32% meant that the majority of 1,534 was actually 10.3%.

The previous majorities (all Labour) in 1966 had been: Glasgow Gorbals 9,940, Islington North 7,831, Paddington North 6,464, Swindon 10,443, Newcastle-under-Lyme 12,051.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

I'd forgotten the son et lumière show that Ipswich council put on after the result of the 2001 byelection was announced.

[Izzyeviel]

For those of us blessed with the gift of Netflix, there's a documentary series on there covering the 1828, '60, 1948, '60, '88, and '92 Presidential elections. It's seems to be quite good. I'm watching 1948 and there's a lot of campaign footage I've never seen before. link

[Harry Hayfield]

2019 has the anniversary of five general elections in the UK. 1959, 1964, 1974 (Feb), 1974 (Oct) and 1979. However, as we cannot say that BBC Parliament will be showing these archive elections, I would like to formally propose that we do our own recreation of those election days. If so, then the days and times would be as follows:

1974 (Feb): February 28th from 10.00am GMT
1979: May 3rd from 10.00am BST
1959: October 8th from 9.30am BST
1974 (Oct): October 10th from 10.00am BST
1964: October 15th from 9.30m BST

[finsobruce]

Jan 6, 2019 12:26:41 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

2019 has the anniversary of five general elections in the UK. 1959, 1964, 1974 (Feb), 1974 (Oct) and 1979. However, as we cannot say that BBC Parliament will be showing these archive elections, I would like to formally propose that we do our own recreation of those election days. If so, then the days and times would be as follows:

1974 (Feb): February 28th from 10.00am GMT
1979: May 3rd from 10.00am BST
1959: October 8th from 9.30am BST
1974 (Oct): October 10th from 10.00am BST
1964: October 15th from 9.30m BST

Isn't it technically the anniversary of all previous UK general elections? every year? 

[swanarcadian]

Jan 6, 2019 12:26:41 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

2019 has the anniversary of five general elections in the UK. 1959, 1964, 1974 (Feb), 1974 (Oct) and 1979. However, as we cannot say that BBC Parliament will be showing these archive elections, I would like to formally propose that we do our own recreation of those election days. If so, then the days and times would be as follows:

1974 (Feb): February 28th from 10.00am GMT
1979: May 3rd from 10.00am BST
1959: October 8th from 9.30am BST
1974 (Oct): October 10th from 10.00am BST
1964: October 15th from 9.30m BST

I doubt BBC Parliament will broadcast old general election coverage from 45 or 55 years ago.  They probably will for elections held 40 or 60 years ago.

[Harry Hayfield]

Jan 6, 2019 22:20:47 GMT swanarcadian said:

Jan 6, 2019 12:26:41 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

2019 has the anniversary of five general elections in the UK. 1959, 1964, 1974 (Feb), 1974 (Oct) and 1979. However, as we cannot say that BBC Parliament will be showing these archive elections, I would like to formally propose that we do our own recreation of those election days. If so, then the days and times would be as follows:

1974 (Feb): February 28th from 10.00am GMT
1979: May 3rd from 10.00am BST
1959: October 8th from 9.30am BST
1974 (Oct): October 10th from 10.00am BST
1964: October 15th from 9.30m BST

I doubt BBC Parliament will broadcast old general election coverage from 45 or 55 years ago.  They probably will for elections held 40 or 60 years ago.

The 1974 (Feb) election was shown in 2003 (not an anniversary), 2010 (not an anniversary), 1979 was shown in 2004 (25th anniversary) and 1983 was shown in 2008 (25th anniversary). However, following what they have said in the past this is why I think we should re-create these election nights on our own (as BBC Parliament is unlikely to do so anyway)