Foggy
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Post by Foggy on Dec 9, 2016 0:37:11 GMT
Given the level of political awareness of this demographic, some have re-tweeted a view with which they agreed or shared it on Facebook, whilst signing a petition on Fracking offered them by a friend, whom they'd quite like to ask out, but are scared to death, because a refusal might cause them to retreat to a " Safe- Space ", and get them reported to the authorities. That sounds depressingly familiar.  Have to agree. My polling district which has the largest university population in it this May, was the PD with the highest turnout (and my best PD too). So, you are privy to the results down to polling district level for Southampton City Council (or at least for Swaythling) this year? Cool! |
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Adrian
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Post by Adrian on Dec 9, 2016 0:43:39 GMT
How many students are registered to vote on campus anymore? The electorates of campus wards have fallen sharply in the last couple of years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 0:45:07 GMT
I recall a friend of mine when I was at Lancaster saying that he didn't vote in local elections there because he didn't feel they were relevant to him - but given the importance of the University to the city, I didn't agree - the University provides a great deal of employment and economic benefit and a campus university needs to be seen as part of an area not just a bubble within it . Though I don;t think creating essentially a university ward is a good idea - we always used to vote within marginal Scotfoth East Well, the alternative would be splitting the university. There is enough students living in campus to almost make a 3-seater by themselves. That's right. Splitting the campus would be somewhat arbitrary and it's as legitimate a 'community' as any other. You could have put a chunk of Lancaster City proper with it but it would be a fairly small chunk and that area in turn could claim to have been severed from its natural community (much though it would likely also have been full of students). |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 0:46:29 GMT
How many students are registered to vote on campus anymore? The electorates of campus wards have fallen sharply in the last couple of years. When LGBCE drew this ward it was recorded as 5k. The boundary review figure dropped to 2k because of the post-IER scrub. It's apparently now back up to 4k as the University has found another way to do mass registration of new students. |
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Dec 9, 2016 0:50:59 GMT
Thought Horsehay & Lightmoor would be close but didn't expect a gain. Very pleasant surprise.
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 9, 2016 0:53:36 GMT
Well, the alternative would be splitting the university. There is enough students living in campus to almost make a 3-seater by themselves. That's right. Splitting the campus would be somewhat arbitrary and it's as legitimate a 'community' as any other. You could have put a chunk of Lancaster City proper with it but it would be a fairly small chunk and that area in turn could claim to have been severed from its natural community (much though it would likely also have been full of students). With something like 60,000 students in Sheffield we could get close to sticking them all in one constituency. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 9, 2016 0:53:45 GMT
Have to agree. My polling district which has the largest university population in it this May, was the PD with the highest turnout (and my best PD too). So, you are privy to the results down to polling district level for Southampton City Council (or at least for Swaythling) this year? Cool! Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. |
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J.G.Harston
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 9, 2016 0:58:59 GMT
So, you are privy to the results down to polling district level for Southampton City Council (or at least for Swaythling) this year? Cool! Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. What? We've been doing it for decades by observing the count. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Dec 9, 2016 1:01:33 GMT
Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. What? We've been doing it for decades by observing the count. Yes, you can do sampling - but that's fairly random and unofficial. I thought the implication was that the actual polling district breakdown was available. |
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Post by maxque on Dec 9, 2016 1:04:45 GMT
So, you are privy to the results down to polling district level for Southampton City Council (or at least for Swaythling) this year? Cool! Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. Yet another terrible law to repeal. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 1:24:15 GMT
Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. Yet another terrible law to repeal. We do in this country have a very weird attitude to disclosure of electoral information. Even the relatively transparent London mayoral count stops at about 90% because there's some taboo about knowing the result before the man reads it out on the grainy video. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 9, 2016 9:27:34 GMT
That worked out well lol. Seemed to be more effective in Telford, where it was unstated |
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Post by maxque on Dec 9, 2016 9:42:27 GMT
Anybody has news from Maldon?
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Post by middleenglander on Dec 9, 2016 10:14:36 GMT
Anybody has news from Maldon? Maybe a "D" notice has been issued. Wikipedia has a template awaiting the result but no figures as yet. Council website is being reconfigured but must be a candidate for the most useless in the country. |
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Post by John Chanin on Dec 9, 2016 10:15:52 GMT
The tide's in.....
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Post by hedgehog on Dec 9, 2016 10:39:01 GMT
That worked out well lol. Seemed to be more effective in Telford, where it was unstated I think the Greens on this forum are pretty much in agreement that the progressive alliance isn't a good idea. |
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 9, 2016 11:08:42 GMT
Who actually thinks it is?
Pete actually makes a very good point above I feel.
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Post by gwynthegriff on Dec 9, 2016 12:29:42 GMT
Getting turnout by polling district has always been possible, but it's in theory unlawful to get results by polling district. Yet another terrible law to repeal. Isn't the issue that in a very small polling district a candidate could take 100% of the vote, thus revealing how individuals voted? |
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 9, 2016 12:35:49 GMT
Seems the Independent won in Maldon. So when are we actually going to get a, you know, result there?? |
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Post by Lord Twaddleford on Dec 9, 2016 13:13:57 GMT
Yet another terrible law to repeal. Isn't the issue that in a very small polling district a candidate could take 100% of the vote, thus revealing how individuals voted? Perhaps a allowing the display of results by principal authority wards (as opposed to polling districts) would be an acceptable compromise? Though come to think of it, whilst it would be nice for psephelogical purposes to gauge how individual wards voted in elections to the Westminster and/or devolved parliaments, I suppose a good reason for not disclosing such information would be the potential for it to be abused to facilitate gerrymandering. Sure, local council election results should also give an idea of how an area is likely to vote, but the different factors that matter in local election (e.g. turnout, local issues, independents...) will likely make it a bit harder to effectively determine the political leanings of a particular area. |
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