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Post by finsobruce on Feb 28, 2021 21:17:00 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!) He had been the Liberal candidate at Guildford in 1959 where he managed a considerable more weighty 6,318 votes.
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 12, 2021 14:57:41 GMT
Latest forecast from LeanTossup (Canadian outfit):-
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 13, 2021 11:04:49 GMT
Given that only one poll this year has shown the Tories matching their 2019 GE performance, what exactly is this nonsense?
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 13, 2021 11:06:53 GMT
Given that only one poll this year has shown the Tories matching their 2019 GE performance, what exactly is this nonsense? Canadian forecasters. Treat with a pinch of salt but great graphics.
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Post by zoe on Mar 13, 2021 16:07:21 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. Is this ever, including the old rotten boroughs!
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Post by greenchristian on Mar 13, 2021 16:48:27 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. Is this ever, including the old rotten boroughs! Surely there can't have been anybody foolish enough to stand for a rotten borough seat they weren't certain to win.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 13, 2021 17:09:45 GMT
Is this ever, including the old rotten boroughs! Surely there can't have been anybody foolish enough to stand for a rotten borough seat they weren't certain to win. Happened quite often because of the frequent disputes about who was entitled to vote. It was often worthwhile candidates standing, seeing all their votes ruled out by the Returning Officer, and then petitioning in the hope of a favourable hearing in Parliament. There was also another category of rotten borough, where two patrons were fighting it out for control.
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 27, 2021 11:58:54 GMT
Noting the death of John Vincent (author of The Formation of the Liberal Party 1857-68), his 1967 New Society article. Prof. Vincent was a Labour voter at that time, and the article is of its time, but it does suggest that different avenues could have been persued by the Liberals than today's 'Greavesian' formula:-
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 27, 2021 12:23:25 GMT
Well that opening paragraph doesn't read so brilliantly given all that happened within a decade.
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 29, 2021 11:05:40 GMT
Interesting (and really not a surprise) but flawed:-
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 29, 2021 11:22:40 GMT
Attlee still has a clear positive rating, which is interesting. And most people, as ever, aren't rating Churchill as a *peacetime* PM here!
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Post by minionofmidas on Mar 29, 2021 11:31:02 GMT
Evidently Eden (and Douglas-Home I guess) is utterly unknown to most people.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 29, 2021 11:44:34 GMT
Anyone under 50 is only going to have the very vaguest memories of PMs before Thatcher. This sort of poll is really rather pointless.
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Mar 29, 2021 15:56:19 GMT
Anyone under 50 is only going to have the very vaguest memories of PMs before Thatcher. This sort of poll is really rather pointless. A lesson that those who continue to talk about Labour wanting to take us back to the 1970s could heed. My impression is that it's as much of a 'being interested in politics' thing as it is an age thing. Those who aren't regularly interested in politics (that is, most of the population) don't know anything more about most current cabinet ministers than they do about the premiership of Eden.
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Post by johnloony on Mar 31, 2021 21:34:02 GMT
Croydon: 1995 to 2009: 10 by-elections, all with me as a candidate 2009-2015: no by-elections in 6 years 2015-2021: 5 by-elections in 6 years, without me as a candidate 2021 May 6th: 5 by-elections, all on the same day
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Apr 1, 2021 13:09:15 GMT
Croydon: 1995 to 2009: 10 by-elections, all with me as a candidate 2009-2015: no by-elections in 6 years 2015-2021: 5 by-elections in 6 years, without me as a candidate 2021 May 6th: 5 by-elections, all on the same day
I'm more than half expecting you to publish the London Assembly sopn before the council does.
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Post by hullenedge on Apr 9, 2021 19:51:49 GMT
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Post by hullenedge on Apr 20, 2021 7:16:19 GMT
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 20, 2021 8:10:54 GMT
TV Times articles for The Nearly Man (1975) and Bill Brand (1976):- Katherine Fahy is currently doing recently did a stint in Coronation Street.
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Post by timmullen1 on Apr 20, 2021 8:40:00 GMT
TV Times articles for The Nearly Man (1975) and Bill Brand (1976):- Katherine Fahy is currently doing a stint in Coronation Street. Is she? I thought that was back in 2020 and only a couple of episodes at that.
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