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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Nov 27, 2020 20:52:29 GMT
Though as i posted elsewhere some of the figures are wrong
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 28, 2020 13:42:03 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Nov 30, 2020 1:37:56 GMT
Hippopotamus: 1921 Workers Revolutionary Party: 1977 Revolutionary Communist Party: 1947 treacle pudding: 1934 globule: 1944 Obama: 29th June 2007 Donald Trump: 1996 Joe Biden: 1999 Joseph Biden: 1979 Hillary Clinton: 1993 George Bush: 1978 Ronald Reagan: 1975 Floccinaucinihilipilification: 2012 (by Jacob Rees-Mogg) Antidisestablishmentarianism: 2000 Llongyfarchiadau: 1997 (Paul Flynn) Monty Python: 1973 frasmotic / cromulent / contrafibularities: no record duck-billed platypus: 1952 Loch Ness monster: 1933
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Post by hullenedge on Jan 15, 2021 9:19:47 GMT
Bless the BNA (paywall):- www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003359/19550522/001/0001The newspaper had commissioned a 'new' way of forecasting election results...speak to local correspondents. The forecast for 1955 was Con 344, Lab 278, Lib 6 and Others 2, which was practically spot on. The individual seat forecasts were a bit hit-and-miss:- Con gain from Lab - Falmouth & Camborne, Maldon, Hornchurch, Walthamstow E, Gloucs S, Watford, Faversham, Rochester & Chatham, Dartford, Gravesend, Preston S, Chorley, Liverpool Kirkdale, Leicester NW, Wandsworth C, Clapham, Uxbridge, Newcastle E, Nottingham C, Nottingham S, Rugby, Dunbartonshire W, Glasgow Provan and UU gain from Irish Lab - Belfast W. Lab gain from Con - Epping, Romford, Bristol NW, Oldham E, Grantham, Battersea S, Tynemouth, Doncaster and Glasgow Craigton.
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jan 15, 2021 11:30:39 GMT
Bless the BNA (paywall):- www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003359/19550522/001/0001The newspaper had commissioned a 'new' way of forecasting election results...speak to local correspondents. The forecast for 1955 was Con 344, Lab 278, Lib 6 and Others 2, which was practically spot on. The individual seat forecasts were a bit hit-and-miss:- Con gain from Lab - Falmouth & Camborne, Maldon, Hornchurch, Walthamstow E, Gloucs S, Watford, Faversham, Rochester & Chatham, Dartford, Gravesend, Preston S, Chorley, Liverpool Kirkdale, Leicester NW, Wandsworth C, Clapham, Uxbridge, Newcastle E, Nottingham C, Nottingham S, Rugby, Dunbartonshire W, Glasgow Provan and UU gain from Irish Lab - Belfast W. Lab gain from Con - Epping, Romford, Bristol NW, Oldham E, Grantham, Battersea S, Tynemouth, Doncaster and Glasgow Craigton. Did i read in the 1966 Nuffield study that The Times did something like that ?
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Post by hullenedge on Jan 15, 2021 12:36:35 GMT
Bless the BNA (paywall):- www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0003359/19550522/001/0001The newspaper had commissioned a 'new' way of forecasting election results...speak to local correspondents. The forecast for 1955 was Con 344, Lab 278, Lib 6 and Others 2, which was practically spot on. The individual seat forecasts were a bit hit-and-miss:- Con gain from Lab - Falmouth & Camborne, Maldon, Hornchurch, Walthamstow E, Gloucs S, Watford, Faversham, Rochester & Chatham, Dartford, Gravesend, Preston S, Chorley, Liverpool Kirkdale, Leicester NW, Wandsworth C, Clapham, Uxbridge, Newcastle E, Nottingham C, Nottingham S, Rugby, Dunbartonshire W, Glasgow Provan and UU gain from Irish Lab - Belfast W. Lab gain from Con - Epping, Romford, Bristol NW, Oldham E, Grantham, Battersea S, Tynemouth, Doncaster and Glasgow Craigton. Did i read in the 1966 Nuffield study that The Times did something like that ? Not sure (without checking). The Express tried this method in 1945 (a failure).
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on Jan 15, 2021 13:01:35 GMT
Did i read in the 1966 Nuffield study that The Times did something like that ? Not sure (without checking). The Express tried this method in 1945 (a failure). Yes a bad failure I believe!
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Post by David Ashforth on Jan 18, 2021 21:48:00 GMT
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 2, 2021 15:40:59 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Feb 2, 2021 20:32:29 GMT
If you read the judgement carefully it states that per se people cannot be deprived of the vote by reason of mental disability alone, only if their mental disability results in them being declared incapable of managing their own affairs by a court; this can also arise as a result of progressive dementia (e.g. Alzheimer's disease).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 8:16:40 GMT
Westminster by-election ballots with 10+ candidates Where boundaries have changed I have tried my best to match like for like. There are some seats where the "higher" of the two ballot papers overwrites the lower. Croydon North 2012 and Croydon North West 1981 both had 12 candidates Kensington 1988 and Kensington and Chelsea 1999 had 15 and 18 candidates respectively Littleborough and Saddleworth 1995 had 10 candidates, as did Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2010 Lambeth Central in 1978 had 11 candidates. Its successor Vauxhall in 1989 had 14 candidates.
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Post by The Bishop on Feb 8, 2021 11:32:24 GMT
Littleborough and Saddleworth 1995 had 10 candidates, as did Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2010 201*1*.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 15:26:26 GMT
Littleborough and Saddleworth 1995 had 10 candidates, as did Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2010 201*1*. There is always something I miss. Always.
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Post by greenhert on Feb 8, 2021 20:40:47 GMT
Westminster by-election ballots with 10+ candidates Where boundaries have changed I have tried my best to match like for like. There are some seats where the "higher" of the two ballot papers overwrites the lower. Croydon North 2012 and Croydon North West 1981 both had 12 candidates Kensington 1988 and Kensington and Chelsea 1999 had 15 and 18 candidates respectively Littleborough and Saddleworth 1995 had 10 candidates, as did Oldham East and Saddleworth in 2010 Lambeth Central in 1978 had 11 candidates. Its successor Vauxhall in 1989 had 14 candidates.
Lambeth Central had no successor-it was divided up amongst the three other Lambeth constituencies (Vauxhall, Streatham, Norwood) in 1983. The 1997-2010 constituencyu of Kensington & Chelsea was a successor to Chelsea technically speaking, not Kensington.
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Post by hullenedge on Feb 9, 2021 8:30:49 GMT
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Post by johnloony on Feb 9, 2021 15:34:39 GMT
George & Barbara Bush were the only President & First Lady of the USA to have both died in the same calendar year.
Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are the only three consecutive Presidents of the USA to have the same number of letters in their surname.
There have been 14 occasions on which an incoming President of the USA has been older than his predecessor. There have only been 2 occasions on which it has happened twice in a row: Roosevelt-Taft-Wilson (born in 1858, 1857, 1856) Obama-Trump-Biden (born in 1961, 1946, 1942)
There have been 17 occasions on which a President of the USA died before his immediate predecessor, including 2 chains of 3, and 1 chain of 4: Fillmore-Pierce-Buchanan-Lincoln (1874, 1869, 1868, 1865) Taft-Wilson-Harding (1930, 1924, 1923) Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy (1972, 1969, 1963)
There have been 5 pairs, and 1 group of 3, consecutive Presidents of the USA with the same number of letters in their surname: Van Buren-Harrison Lincoln-Johnson Grant-Hayes Kennedy-Johnson Carter-Reagan Obama-Trump-Biden
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Post by David Ashforth on Feb 12, 2021 11:56:04 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on Feb 24, 2021 12:19:41 GMT
71 years ago folk were listening to their wirelesses (very few had telly, Sutton Coldfield had switched on in late 1949 but reception was appalling in the North until Holme Moss was switched on in October 1951) or reliant upon notice boards as the results trickled in.
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Post by greenhert on Feb 28, 2021 19:02:47 GMT
Lowest votes polled by a third placed candidate in a UK general election: Arthur Braybrooke, 63 votes, Fulham, 1964. Lowest votes polled by a fourth placed candidate in a UK general election: Geoffrey Cramp, 72 votes, Harrow East, 1970.
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Post by greatkingrat on Feb 28, 2021 20:56:54 GMT
Lowest votes polled by a third placed candidate in a UK general election: Arthur Braybrooke, 63 votes, Fulham, 1964. He tried again in 1966, doubling both his votes and his position (6th with 126 votes!)
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