Clark
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Post by Clark on May 27, 2024 13:38:12 GMT
Conservatives are 7/4 to hold Aberdeenshire West & Kincardine which looks tasty.
Is there not a betting thread on this site somewhere?
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2024 16:50:07 GMT
Did the Lib Dems overtake Labour in any constituency in 1997? Not in any of the ones they won, it seems.
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Post by johnloony on May 29, 2024 20:29:25 GMT
Now that Madame HaHa is retiring, who is likely to be the next Mother of the House?
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Post by greatkingrat on May 29, 2024 20:30:51 GMT
Angela Eagle (assuming Abbott isn't elected.)
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 29, 2024 20:44:25 GMT
Did the Lib Dems overtake Labour in any constituency in 1997? Not in any of the ones they won, it seems. Just checked and no, it didn't happen anywhere. There were narrowings of the gap in a few select seats: Chesterfield and Cardiff Central were two, and prefigured their future change of hands. North West Cambridgeshire also saw an unusual narrowing - the Liberal Democrat vote increased marginally more than Labour.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 29, 2024 20:52:31 GMT
Did the Lib Dems overtake Labour in any constituency in 1997? Not in any of the ones they won, it seems. Just checked and no, it didn't happen anywhere. There were narrowings of the gap in a few select seats: Chesterfield and Cardiff Central were two, and prefigured their future change of hands. North West Cambridgeshire also saw an unusual narrowing - the Liberal Democrat vote increased marginally more than Labour. I assume that was down to the voters coming in from Huntingdon where the Lib Dems had spectacularly underperformed in 1992 to the benefit of John Major (but also some of those from Peterborough who had moved from a Con/Lab marginal to a non-marginal seat)
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Post by manchesterman on Jun 1, 2024 21:08:17 GMT
I'm sure this cant be permissible?
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Post by greenchristian on Jun 1, 2024 21:22:27 GMT
I'm sure this cant be permissible? There are plenty of examples of election literature that uses the colours of some other party, so this practice has clearly not been found illegal in court. The imprint is legible and does identify him as a Conservative candidate so it is almost certainly within the law.
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Post by manchesterman on Jun 1, 2024 21:35:13 GMT
I dont think its the colour so much as the use of the strapline "labour for Largan", which would inevitably mislead many voters to believe that he was the Labour candidate
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2024 21:59:19 GMT
Though there is a distinct difference between "Labour for Largan" and "Largan for Labour", the second of which would identify him as a/the Labour candidate and would be a lie.
It's dishonest, unethical, dirty and cheap but it's also clever and probably not illegal. As he's highly likely to lose anyway it's also largely irrelevant
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Post by jamie on Jun 7, 2024 18:15:13 GMT
When was the law changed to allow people to use either their constituency or council as their address on the SOPN? I’m sure I remember it only being one introduced as an option a few years ago.
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Post by jm on Jun 8, 2024 17:19:05 GMT
The Tories have failed to field a full slate of candidates in Great Britain in this election, with no candidate in Rotherham. I wonder when this last occurred, excluding, of course, the seat occupied by the Speaker, which is not normally contested by the main parties.
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Post by Johncrane on Jun 8, 2024 17:26:52 GMT
The Tories have failed to field a full slate of candidates in Great Britain in this election, with no candidate in Rotherham. I wonder when this last occurred, excluding, of course, the seat occupied by the Speaker, which is not normally contested by the main parties. In 1970 There wasn’t a conservative candidate in Greenock
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jun 8, 2024 18:37:58 GMT
The Tories have failed to field a full slate of candidates in Great Britain in this election, with no candidate in Rotherham. I wonder when this last occurred, excluding, of course, the seat occupied by the Speaker, which is not normally contested by the main parties. I'm actually surprised. CCHQ found a mother of ten from Bridgend to stand in Neath and Swansea East (they didn't ask me, even though my response would have been the one from Arkell v Pressdram). I was anticipating no Conservative candidate, as there was no sign of any activity at all.
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Post by polupolu on Jun 12, 2024 13:27:29 GMT
Have the Conservatives ever won fewer that 156 seats at a general election since the Reform Act of 1832?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 12, 2024 15:28:53 GMT
Have the Conservatives ever won fewer that 156 seats at a general election since the Reform Act of 1832? Only 130 Conservatives were elected in 1906 (plus 27 Liberal Unionists).
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Post by Peter Wilkinson on Jun 12, 2024 16:04:05 GMT
Have the Conservatives ever won fewer that 156 seats at a general election since the Reform Act of 1832? The Wikipedia page on the 1906 general election tells me that the Conservatives won 156 seats. The Wikipedia page on the Conservative Party tells me that they only won 131 seats at the 1906 general election. The Wikipedia page on the Liberal Unionist Party tells me that they won 27 seats at the 1906 general election. The Conservative and Liberal Unionist parties were effectively in permanent coalition from 1886 until they merged as the Conservative and Unionist Party in 1912. Choose your facts, and get your answer.
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Post by john07 on Jun 13, 2024 1:07:19 GMT
Have the Conservatives ever won fewer that 156 seats at a general election since the Reform Act of 1832? The Wikipedia page on the 1906 general election tells me that the Conservatives won 156 seats. The Wikipedia page on the Conservative Party tells me that they only won 131 seats at the 1906 general election. The Wikipedia page on the Liberal Unionist Party tells me that they won 27 seats at the 1906 general election. The Conservative and Liberal Unionist parties were effectively in permanent coalition from 1886 until they merged as the Conservative and Unionist Party in 1912. Not unlike the subsequent National Liberal party that operated from the creation of the National Government in the 1930s. The party continued with sizable presence up to 1959 (11 MPs in 1945, 17 in 1950, 19 in 1951, 21 in 1955, and 19 in 1959). After that the National Liberals declined with 6 elected in 1964 and 3 in 1966 and the party merged with the Conservatives. Some had stood as Conservative and National Liberal candidates. Michael Heseltine stood for Gower in 1959 as a National Liberal, and John Nott won St Ives in 1966 as a National Liberal. John Poulson was chairman of their national executive committee in their latter years.
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Post by Clark on Jun 22, 2024 21:30:00 GMT
Candidates near the top of the ballot paper - is it really a thing where a candidate has an advantage if their first at the top of the ballot paper? I've just seen my Mum's postal vote paper for Aberdeen South and Flynn, Stephen - SNP is very prominent near the top. The Tory candidate is at the very bottom and those who are hard of sight would need glasses to identity the 'Scottish Conservatives' logo adjacent to the candidates name.
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Post by greyfriar on Jun 22, 2024 21:38:31 GMT
Candidates near the top of the ballot paper - is it really a thing where a candidate has an advantage if their first at the top of the ballot paper? I've just seen my Mum's postal vote paper for Aberdeen South and Flynn, Stephen - SNP is very prominent near the top. The Tory candidate is at the very bottom and those who are hard of sight would need glasses to identity the 'Scottish Conservatives' logo adjacent to the candidates name. It’s more of an issue where parties have multiple candidates on the same paper. Flynn’s neighbour in Aberdeen North went from West to Blackman through marriage, whilst a couple of local councillors tweaked their names to go further up ballot paper in multi-member wards - Gill Samarai became Al-Samarai in her second outing as a candidate.
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