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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results Thursday, 13th September 2007
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:23 +0100 (BST)
In article <5l4o8bF6at1rU1@mid.individual.net>,
T.C.Roll-Pickering@qmul.ac.uk (Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:
> JNugent wrote:
>
> > Is the SDP still going?
>
> Sort of - after the "continuing" SDP decided to fold in 1990 a
> group who disagreed with the decision founded a "continuing
> continuing" SDP which ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results Thursday, 13th September 2007
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:53:52 -0700
On 15 Sep, 11:05, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
> when did a candidate of a UK major party last
> come 7th in an election?
Does the SDP coming 7th in Bootle in 1990 count as a "major" party?
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results Thursday, 13th September 2007
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:50:57 GMT
In uk.politics.electoral on Sat, 15 Sep 2007, JNugent
<not.telling@noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote :
>>>
>>>>Liverpool City MBC, Warbreck
>>>>Lab 1796 (55.2;+10.9), LD 1024 (31.4;-13.8), BNP 136 (4.2;+4.2),
>>>>Ind 131 (4.0;+4.0), UKIP 52 (1.6;+1.6), Green 45 (1.4;+1.4),
>>>>Con 40 (1.2;-3.2) Liverpool Lab Com ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 16th August 2007.
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:14:53 -0700
James Farrar <james.s.far...@gmail.com> wrote
> <use...@bondegezou.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >"Proportional representation" is a standard, recognised term that
> >describes the most proportional electoral systems.
>
> Specifically, IME it's generally used to describe those electoral
> systems that are more proportio ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results Thursday, 13th September 2007
Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:05 +0100 (BST)
In article <+iLTDNPUL56GFwH6@blueyonder.co.uk>, pah@invalid.invalid (Paul
Hyett) wrote:
> In uk.politics.electoral on Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Colin Rosenstiel
> <rosenstiel@cix.co.uk> wrote :
> >
> >Liverpool City MBC, Warbreck
> >Lab 1796 (55.2;+10.9), LD 1024 (31.4;-13.8), BNP 136 (4.2;+4.2),
> >Ind 131 (4.0;+4. ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 30th August 2007
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:28:53 -0700
On 13 Sep, 23:47, John M Ward <j...@acornusers.org> wrote:
> Not all the ones I know. Some are very clearly serving only their own
> personal and/or party ends -- fairly transparently, too, so anyone
> reasonably alert would spot it (some here do, many don't).
Why are some people self-serving instead of wanti ...
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Local Authority Byelection Results Thursday, 13th September 2007
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:11 +0100 (BST)
Brent LBC, Stonebridge
Lab 1432 (51.9;-1.6), LD 864 (31.3;+16.2), Respect 237 (8.6;+8.6),
Con 177 (6.4;-13.3), Green 51 (1.8;-5.2)
[Ind (0.0 -4.7)]
Majority 568. Turnout 24.03. Lab hold. Last fought 2006.
Chelmsford BC, Broomfield and The Walthams
LD 1198 (56.3;+38.1), Con 742 (34.9;-20.8), Lab 76 (3.6 ;-4.2) ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 16th August 2007.
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:18 +0100 (BST)
In article <4f223005b3john@acornusers.org>, john@acornusers.org (John M
Ward) wrote:
> I didn't say that. I just said stop pretending that other systems
> are "PR" -- they are not. That's it, nothing more.
Rubbish. First of all you are considering party proportionality only. The
greatest advantage of STV i ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 16th August 2007.
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:35:12 -0700
John M Ward <j...@acornusers.org> wrote
> use...@bondegezou.demon.co.uk wrote
> > John M Ward <j...@acornusers.org> wrote [...]
> > > There is no such thing as a PR system in which we do not vote for
> > > *all* contested seats in an election. Here that would mean 55
> > > votes(!) Nothing but nothing else is pr ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results: Thursday 16th August 2007.
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:27:06 -0700
John M Ward <j...@acornusers.org> wrote [...]
> There is no such thing as a PR system in which we do not vote for *all*
> contested seats in an election. Here that would mean 55 votes(!)
> Nothing but nothing else is proportional -- as was accepted here a while
> ago. End of argument.
It is mindless to sugges ...
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