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Post by finsobruce on Jul 22, 2017 9:23:15 GMT
Focusing on the Metropolitan Boroughs between 73-85, a flavour of what I'm after:- ACL Sefton 76-79
ALT P Rochdale 73
Antidis Rotherham 75
ASDAG Sunderland 75
CAG St Helens 80
CFGC Kirklees 79
Comm All Gateshead 79
Dem South Tyneside 78
DIG Walsall 76
DSPLA Newcastle 83
HHF Knowsley 76
IWAGB Coventry 78
KHF Knowsley 73-82
OBOESD Stockport 79
Own Occ Tameside 73
Ppl Rights Tameside 83
PR/PPR Kirklees 73-75
Protest Coventry 73
PRP Bury 82
RAG Newcastle 75
Rytonian Gateshead 75-82
Save Newt Pty Tameside 78
SLR/SCTC Kirklees 79-80
STFM Salford 78
TAG Salford 75
TBAPPA Sandwell 83
TUUF Wolverhampton 73
UDI Kirklees 79-80
UF Sandwell 83Obviously many of these will be parochial and here today, gone tomorrow labels but if anyone knows what they were in full I'd appreciate the info. The CAG was presumably a Community Action Group and the Comm All somebody branding as a Communist Alliance. The RCG used to call for one Communist party but I don't think it was them. EDIT: could be Community Alliance of course (the ward would probably give it away). Oh, and Tameside has a population of Great Crested Newts which had to be re-located as part of a re-development of a rubbish site about fifteen years ago. Maybe this was an earlier skirmish over them! |
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Post by hullenedge on Jul 22, 2017 10:13:38 GMT
Kirklees 1979 CFGC - Campaign for Good Causes, Jake Mangel Wurzel:- www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/who-is-jake-mangle-wurzel-11831406The local 'consensus' was that his candidature prevented the Tories retaining the ward! Kirklees 1973/1975 PR/PPR - People's Representative - chap named Ainley, who had been a Labour councillor for Longwood ward on Huddersfield CB. He fell out with Labour (think that he was on the right of the party) in the late 1960s. (Definitely PR by 1969). Kirklees 1979/1980 SLR/SCTC - Paul Vokes of Shaw Cross Land Reclamation then Shaw Cross Tip Campaign. Kirklees 1979/1980 UDI - Union (or United) for Dewsbury Independence. A group that campaigned for the splitting of Kirklees into two metro boroughs. There was much dissatisfaction that the eastern half of the borough was underfunded and neglected. Tameside 1973 Own Occ - Owner Occupiers Salford 1975 TAG - Tenants' Action Group |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 22, 2017 10:39:11 GMT
Focusing on the Metropolitan Boroughs between 73-85, a flavour of what I'm after:-
ASDAG Sunderland 75
Obviously many of these will be parochial and here today, gone tomorrow labels but if anyone knows what they were in full I'd appreciate the info. All Sunderland District Action Group - one of the many groups formed to oppose the heavy rate rises in the mid 70s, particularly in the North East. There were similar associations in Newcastle, Gateshead and North and South Tyneside. The RAG in Newcastle is almost certainly "Ratepayers Action Group". this is all chronicled in a book I have mentioned on here before , "Respectable Rebels-Middle class campaigns in Britain in the 1970s" edited by Roger King and Neill Nugent. |
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 22, 2017 10:51:58 GMT
Focusing on the Metropolitan Boroughs between 73-85, a flavour of what I'm after:-
IWAGB Coventry 78
Obviously many of these will be parochial and here today, gone tomorrow labels but if anyone knows what they were in full I'd appreciate the info. I suspect this might be the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain, which although it became most famous for its Southall branch, was actually founded in Coventry in 1938. |
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Post by thetop on Jul 22, 2017 22:29:09 GMT
Focusing on the Metropolitan Boroughs between 73-85, a flavour of what I'm after:- Comm All Gateshead 79
Save Newt Pty Tameside 78Obviously many of these will be parochial and here today, gone tomorrow labels but if anyone knows what they were in full I'd appreciate the info. The CAG was presumably a Community Action Group and the Comm All somebody branding as a Communist Alliance. The RCG used to call for one Communist party but I don't think it was them. EDIT: could be Community Alliance of course (the ward would probably give it away). Oh, and Tameside has a population of Great Crested Newts which had to be re-located as part of a re-development of a rubbish site about fifteen years ago. Maybe this was an earlier skirmish over them! Chopwell, a very strong Labour ward (uncontested mostly prior to '79, with the one time being a 80/20 Lab/Con split) that would be a contender for a Communist candidate, however the Comm All candidate "Charlton J." bares a striking resemblance to a Liberal candidate standing the following year in a different ward "Charlton J. Ms." and who is presumably related to the perennial Liberal candidate "Charlton L." who stood in Chopwell in 1980. On the basis of that I would presume the short-lived Community Alliance was subsumed into the Liberals in less than a year. |
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Post by David Ashforth on Jul 22, 2017 23:19:47 GMT
Chopwell, a very strong Labour ward (uncontested mostly prior to '79, with the one time being a 80/20 Lab/Con split) that would be a contender for a Communist candidate, however the Comm All candidate "Charlton J." bares a striking resemblance to a Liberal candidate standing the following year in a different ward "Charlton J. Ms." and who is presumably related to the perennial Liberal candidate "Charlton L." who stood in Chopwell in 1980. On the basis of that I would presume the short-lived Community Alliance was subsumed into the Liberals in less than a year. Speaking of Communist and Liberal candidates bearing a striking resemblance, in 1968 in Nether Shire ward, Sheffield, the Communist candidate was Ken Hattersley and the Liberal candidate was Albert Hattersley. They were brothers. As far as I know they were not related to former Sheffield councillor Roy Hattersley (Crookesmoor ward) or his mother Cllr Enid Hattersley (Cathedral ward from 1960, Netherthorpe ward from 1967) or Roy's father Cllr Frederick Hattersley (Darnall ward). And I don't think any of them were related to Moira Hattersley who stood for the Conservatives in Netherthorpe ward (Enid's ward) in the 1970s. |
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Post by swanarcadian on Nov 18, 2017 21:18:58 GMT
The Elections Centre is inviting people to add more pre-1973 local election results to their online database. Already online are various results from non-county boroughs from 1945 to 1960 from Abergavenny to Woking. There are also three volumes of NCB results from 1945 and 1972 available on request by e-mail.
Anyone wanting to volunteer to add data can e-mail the Elections Centre and they will give you "write" privileges. It sounds a very exciting project!
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Post by Andrew_S on Nov 18, 2017 22:11:21 GMT
I'm probably going to end up spending time I don't really have contributing to this project.  |
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Nov 19, 2017 8:25:41 GMT
On the subject of interesting party names at local elections, Ceredigion has had one or two interesting ones over the years. The ones that spring instantly to mind are:
Borth: Anti Racialist candidate (I think 1991 or 1995 but cannot remember rightly)
Ciliau Aeron: At my first election in 2008 Iain Sheldon (formerly of UKIP then Veritas) stood as the Popular Alliance candidate
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Post by swanarcadian on Jul 21, 2018 15:22:52 GMT
At the time of posting, there are complete results (with candidates' names, party labels etc) for the following Non-County Boroughs for the period 1945-1972 on the Elections Centre. With thanks to Alan Willis. Bilston (abolished 1966) Cambridge Cheltenham Edmonton (abolished 1964) Guildford Halesowen Leamington Spa Lichfield Nuneaton Rowley Regis (abolished 1966) Rugby Solihull (existed 1954-1964) Stafford Stretford Tipton (abolished 1966) Warwick Wednesbury (abolished 1966) |
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Post by swanarcadian on Jul 23, 2018 19:31:21 GMT
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Post by neilm on Jul 29, 2018 23:16:52 GMT
Focusing on the Metropolitan Boroughs between 73-85, a flavour of what I'm after:-
IWAGB Coventry 78
Obviously many of these will be parochial and here today, gone tomorrow labels but if anyone knows what they were in full I'd appreciate the info. I suspect this might be the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain, which although it became most famous for its Southall branch, was actually founded in Coventry in 1938. Isn't johnloony friends with someone in the Southall branch? |
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Post by johnloony on Jul 31, 2018 17:09:29 GMT
I suspect this might be the Indian Workers Association of Great Britain, which although it became most famous for its Southall branch, was actually founded in Coventry in 1938. Isn't johnloony friends with someone in the Southall branch? More accurate to say "occasional acquaintance" rather than "friend". In Southall there are two Indian Workers' Associations: the Trotskyite one which has links with the SWP, and the Stalinist one which has some overlap with the CPGB(ML). I presume that they originally split from each other, and naturally the each claim to be the correct one. |
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Post by andrewp on Jan 31, 2019 10:11:35 GMT
Has anyone else tried to access the ElectionsCentre website this week? It’s down for me?
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Post by AdminSTB on Jan 31, 2019 17:45:56 GMT
Has anyone else tried to access the ElectionsCentre website this week? It’s down for me? I'm getting a blank screen. According to isitdownrightnow.com the server is not responding, so it's not just us. |
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Post by andrewp on Jan 31, 2019 18:04:13 GMT
Has anyone else tried to access the ElectionsCentre website this week? It’s down for me? I'm getting a blank screen. According to isitdownrightnow.com the server is not responding, so it's not just us. Hope that’s not permanent! |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Feb 2, 2019 11:41:52 GMT
It's still down currently. Quite concerning
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Post by andrewp on Feb 2, 2019 12:06:55 GMT
It's still down currently. Quite concerning Very concerning. It’s a fantastic resource. Do we know who administers it now that they have left Plymouth? |
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Post by hullenedge on Feb 2, 2019 13:04:29 GMT
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Post by andrewp on Feb 3, 2019 12:17:49 GMT
It's still down currently. Quite concerning I emailed Michael Thrasher. He said ‘I am migrating the website to a different hosting service - hence, it's down. hopefully back up next week. ‘ |
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