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Post by lennon on Nov 15, 2016 17:46:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 17:52:46 GMT
There are ten candidates in Sleaford and North Hykeham. This joins the following other such contests:
1977 - City of London and Westminster South*
1977 - Birmingham Ladywood
1990 - Bradford North
1994 - Dudley West
1995 - Littleborough and Saddleworth
1996 - Hemsworth
2002 - Ogmore
2005 - Livingston
2008 - Crewe and Nantwich
2010 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
2016 - Batley and Spen
2016 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
*Wikipedia tells me this was the first Westminster by-election with to break the 10 candidate barrier
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 15, 2016 17:54:41 GMT
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Post by Foggy on Nov 15, 2016 18:46:13 GMT
1977 - City of London and Westminster South* [ ...] *Wikipedia tells me this was the first Westminster by-election with to break the 10-candidate barrier Well, how many by-elections had there been in a constituency containing part of Westminster up to that point?  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 18:54:42 GMT
1977 - City of London and Westminster South* [ ...] *Wikipedia tells me this was the first Westminster by-election with to break the 10-candidate barrier Well, how many by-elections had there been in a constituency containing part of Westminster up to that point? It doesn't happen very often but I'm going to smile and say "Fair cop guv" to that |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 15, 2016 18:57:27 GMT
1977 - City of London and Westminster South* [ ...] *Wikipedia tells me this was the first Westminster by-election with to break the 10-candidate barrier Well, how many by-elections had there been in a constituency containing part of Westminster up to that point? There were 27 by-elections in the single Westminster seat between 1680 and 1885. They were almost an annual event in the 1780s and in the 1830s (occasionally bi-annual) |
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Post by Foggy on Nov 15, 2016 19:00:28 GMT
Thanks. I had thought that this might well have been the case before 1885, but I doubt any of those attracted anything like 10 candidates even if there were more than one vacancy.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 15, 2016 19:04:11 GMT
There were an additional 13 byelections within Westminster between 1885 and 1939 (2 in The Strand, 4 in Westminster Abbey, 7 in St Georges)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 19:06:13 GMT
With the voice of my former English teacher firmly in my ear. Wikipedia informs me that was the first by-election for the Commons to have at least 10 candidates.
This, this right there, is why I keep my ideas for novels in my head and not on Microsoft Word. My grammar is HOWLING.
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 15, 2016 19:06:40 GMT
Sounds like the usual Loony candidate these days- a dull bloke with nothing interesting to recommend him by, so he has to put on an 'interesting' facade- except it's all so dull and prosaic. |
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Post by Foggy on Nov 15, 2016 19:16:36 GMT
With the voice of my former English teacher firmly in my ear. Wikipedia informs me that was the first by-election for the Commons to have at least 10 candidates. This, this right there, is why I keep my ideas for novels in my head and not on Microsoft Word. My grammar is HOWLING. Plenty of popular current authors are said to be great storytellers but terrible writers. You were very lucky if you actually had an English teacher that cared about grammar and tried to teach it. I learned most of my grammar knowledge from private perusal of books on the subject, and through other languages that gave me the curiosity to find such books in the first place. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 19:33:59 GMT
With the voice of my former English teacher firmly in my ear. Wikipedia informs me that was the first by-election for the Commons to have at least 10 candidates. This, this right there, is why I keep my ideas for novels in my head and not on Microsoft Word. My grammar is HOWLING. Plenty of popular current authors are said to be great storytellers but terrible writers. You were very lucky if you actually had an English teacher that cared about grammar and tried to teach it. I learned most of my grammar knowledge from private perusal of books on the subject, and through other languages that gave me the curiosity to find such books in the first place. It would turn out to be the French teacher who had to help with grammar lessons, as it was something of a handicap to have the structured grammatical rules of French swoop over our heads because of a lack of general knowledge. |
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Post by YL on Nov 15, 2016 19:34:13 GMT
Paul Coyne: Sleaford town councillor.
Mark Suffield: North Kesteven district councillor.
Marianne Overton: North Kesteven district councillor and Lincolnshire county councillor, has stood here before (and saved her deposit in both 2010 and 2015, not bad for an independent)
All three of these are listed on the Lincolnshire Independents' website "Your Tean for May 2015" (sic), so have they suffered a three-way split?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 19:52:29 GMT
Is there a reason as to why the Labour candidate has 3 sets of nominators and another candidate has 2 sets of nominators? |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 15, 2016 19:56:42 GMT
Is there a reason as to why the Labour candidate has 3 sets of nominators and another candidate has 2 sets of nominators? Because the Labour candidate went out and got 3 sets of nominators and the other person only went and got two... Sorry. But seriously folks, you can have as many as you like. I'm not sure when this tailed off but certainly before WWII, the press was always full of reports of local arms races between candidates of who could get more lists of nominators.. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 15, 2016 19:57:34 GMT
Is there a reason as to why the Labour candidate has 3 sets of nominators and another candidate has 2 sets of nominators? There's nothing better to do in Lincolnshire? |
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Post by greenhert on Nov 15, 2016 20:16:44 GMT
Is there a reason as to why the Labour candidate has 3 sets of nominators and another candidate has 2 sets of nominators? There's nothing better to do in Lincolnshire? Actually, it is to minimise the risk of their nomination being declared invalid-the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats do that as well, for local and national elections. It has only a very, very faint chance of failing. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Nov 15, 2016 20:50:17 GMT
There's nothing better to do in Lincolnshire? Actually, it is to minimise the risk of their nomination being declared invalid-the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats do that as well, for local and national elections. It has only a very, very faint chance of failing. Yes, I know that. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2016 20:57:16 GMT
The first parliamentary by-election to have two candidates using no ballot paper description, I think.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 15, 2016 21:34:09 GMT
Is there a reason as to why the Labour candidate has 3 sets of nominators and another candidate has 2 sets of nominators? Because the Labour candidate went out and got 3 sets of nominators and the other person only went and got two... Sorry. But seriously folks, you can have as many as you like. I'm not sure when this tailed off but certainly before WWII, the press was always full of reports of local arms races between candidates of who could get more lists of nominators.. Indeed. The record was in Northern Ireland where thousands of people used to sign nomination papers. |
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