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Post by warofdreams on Apr 29, 2020 15:05:50 GMT
Bristol North West has had 10 since 1950 Belfast West has only had 9, but two of them served two separate stints.
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Post by warofdreams on Apr 29, 2020 15:07:37 GMT
Based on a point that @barnabymarder was making in the Huddersfield thread, which seat has had the most MPs since the war? (where a roughly contiguous seat of the same name exists) Fermanagh and South Tyrone has had 13 since 1950. From 1945 to 1950, it was in the dual-member Fermanagh and Tyrone, providing two more MPs.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 29, 2020 15:53:40 GMT
Peterborough has had four in the last five years.
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Post by ColinJ on Apr 30, 2020 16:42:24 GMT
My query relates to elections to Boards of Guardians.
Following the Local Government Act 1894, persons elected as Rural District Councillors automatically became Guardians for their areas. Specific elections to Boards of Guardians were restricted to urban areas. The term of office was for three years.
My question is: If a vacancy occurred for a Guardian who had been elected from an urban area, was the vacancy filled by a by-election or by co-option? Any help would be appreciated.
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 30, 2020 16:53:36 GMT
My query relates to elections to Boards of Guardians. Following the Local Government Act 1894, persons elected as Rural District Councillors automatically became Guardians for their areas. Specific elections to Boards of Guardians were restricted to urban areas. The term of office was for three years. My question is: If a vacancy occurred for a Guardian who had been elected from an urban area, was the vacancy filled by a by-election or by co-option? Any help would be appreciated. Well, a quick search found a bye-election for a Guardian for the Bridge ward in Sunderland on December 4th 1899 and another one for three wards in Swansea in May of the same year, so it looks like the former, although I suppose it could well have been both.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 30, 2020 16:55:25 GMT
My query relates to elections to Boards of Guardians. Following the Local Government Act 1894, persons elected as Rural District Councillors automatically became Guardians for their areas. Specific elections to Boards of Guardians were restricted to urban areas. The term of office was for three years. My question is: If a vacancy occurred for a Guardian who had been elected from an urban area, was the vacancy filled by a by-election or by co-option? Any help would be appreciated. From the Sheffield Independent on Monday 18 May 1914. "PENISTONE GUARDIAN ELECTION The poll to fill a vacancy in the representation of on the Penistone Board of Guardians, caused by the death of Mr. N. S. Moore, took place Saturday"
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Post by ColinJ on Apr 30, 2020 17:56:28 GMT
Thanks chaps. Very helpful. I guess the 'nuclear option' of co-opting would only then occur in the case of insufficient nominations.
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 30, 2020 21:06:46 GMT
Has any constituency been represented by as many, or more, different political parties in one year as Penistone & Stocksbridge was in 2019?
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on May 1, 2020 8:37:28 GMT
Has anybody worked out the lead Labour would need on UNS to win an overall majority? For a bit of fun, I went onto Electoral calculus and simply reversed the Conservative and Labour shares This was the result, which sort of answers the question Some really weird gains going on there. For instance, Labour last won Wycombe in 1950. The last time anyone other than a Conservative won Altrincham was a Liberal in 1923. For the Cities of London and Westminster, one has to go back as far as 1880 (City of London, Liberals won 1/4) or 1868 (Westminster, Liberals won 1/2).
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Post by The Bishop on May 1, 2020 10:21:34 GMT
In practice of course, reversing last year's vote shares would likely lead to a somewhat bigger Labour majority than that.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on May 1, 2020 13:20:56 GMT
Following David Ashforth's question about Change UK, does anyone have a handle on what happened to the various councillors and groups of councillors who switched to them? Is there much of a pattern as to what they did next?
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Post by ColinJ on May 1, 2020 14:29:51 GMT
The Local Government Board oversaw local administration in England and Wales for the period 1871-1919. The wikipedia entry is here. The Board was responsible for drawing up orders to bring into effect, amongst other things, boundary changes. Does anyone know of any online facility where one can access the specific text/maps associated with these orders? (I know the order numbers of interest.) Alternatively, can anyone confirm a location where they are catalogued and may be accessed in person?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2020 14:37:56 GMT
The Local Government Board oversaw local administration in England and Wales for the period 1871-1919. The wikipedia entry is here. The Board was responsible for drawing up orders to bring into effect, amongst other things, boundary changes. Does anyone know of any online facility where one can access the specific text/maps associated with these orders? (I know the order numbers of interest.) Alternatively, can anyone confirm a location where they are catalogued and may be accessed in person? National Archives. It's shut. But you might find descriptions in The London Gazette: www.thegazette.co.uk/
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Post by hullenedge on May 1, 2020 14:45:59 GMT
Following David Ashforth's question about Change UK, does anyone have a handle on what happened to the various councillors and groups of councillors who switched to them? Is there much of a pattern as to what they did next? Colin Peel (Brighouse) is now 'Independent'. He was up for election next week and would have been panned.
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 1, 2020 16:10:51 GMT
The Local Government Board oversaw local administration in England and Wales for the period 1871-1919. The wikipedia entry is here. The Board was responsible for drawing up orders to bring into effect, amongst other things, boundary changes. Does anyone know of any online facility where one can access the specific text/maps associated with these orders? (I know the order numbers of interest.) Alternatively, can anyone confirm a location where they are catalogued and may be accessed in person? National Archives. It's shut. But you might find descriptions in The London Gazette: www.thegazette.co.uk/Vision Of Britain has some. Give me a few minutes...
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Post by J.G.Harston on May 1, 2020 16:29:10 GMT
National Archives. It's shut. But you might find descriptions in The London Gazette: www.thegazette.co.uk/Vision Of Britain has some. Give me a few minutes... Here we are, this sort of thing. It's a bit difficult to find, I stumbled on them by accident some years ago.
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Post by ColinJ on May 1, 2020 16:48:19 GMT
Vision Of Britain has some. Give me a few minutes... Here we are, this sort of thing. It's a bit difficult to find, I stumbled on them by accident some years ago Thanks, I'll have a look after dinner!
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Post by nodealbrexiteer on May 1, 2020 17:52:03 GMT
Has anybody worked out the lead Labour would need on UNS to win an overall majority? For a bit of fun, I went onto Electoral calculus and simply reversed the Conservative and Labour shares This was the result, which sort of answers the question I'm still trying to find any calculations done to show the lead Labour needs on UNS to draw level on seats with the Tories as well as the lead for a bare Tory majority-we do know on equal votes the Tories would be 23 seats ahead(see below): blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/ge2019-bias/
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 1, 2020 18:12:12 GMT
Here we are, this sort of thing. It's a bit difficult to find, I stumbled on them by accident some years ago Thanks, I'll have a look after dinner! Also keep looking at National Library of Scotland's maps - the large scale ones have ward boundaries on them.
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Post by tonyhill on May 3, 2020 14:19:39 GMT
This is bound to be a question that has been asked before, but I have a fairly large collection of Liberal Party literature from around the country dating from the 1970s. Is there anywhere this could usefully be sent, or should I bin it before my partner and daughters do when I am no longer around?
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