Lincolnshire CC, Heighington and Washingborough
Con 877 (61.8;+14.5), Lab 206 (14.5;-26.9), LD 137 (9.7;+9.7), 
BNP 126 (8.9;+8.9), UKIP 52 (3.7;-7.6), Ind 21 (1.5;+1.5) 
Majority 671. Turnout 26.2%. Con hold. Last fought 2007. 
 

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-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge

On 16 Nov, 07:50, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
> The number of Lib Dems would be barely affected. Labour and Tories lose
> as many deposits as Lib Dems these days.


I was thinking more in terms of the difficulty of arranging the number
of nomination signatures (and possibly raising the money for the
deposit) in the first place, rather than the risk of losing the
deposit.

In article
,
john.loony@tiscali.co.uk (JohnLoony) wrote:

> In article
> ,
> john.loony@tiscali.co.uk (JohnLoony) wrote:
> 
> > Conversely, Parliamentary elections require 10 signatures and a
> > deposit of £500, which is about right because it produces a
reasonable
> > number of candidates (about 4 to 8 per constituency).  If the deposit
> > for parliamentary candidates were £5,000 and requiring 100
signatures,
> > then minor party or independent candidates would be cut to a maximum,
> > and even the Lib Dems would have to reduce drastically their number
> > of candidates.

> On 16 Nov, 07:50, rosenst...@cix.co.uk (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
> > The number of Lib Dems would be barely affected. Labour and 
> > Tories lose as many deposits as Lib Dems these days.
> 
> I was thinking more in terms of the difficulty of arranging the number
> of nomination signatures (and possibly raising the money for the
> deposit) in the first place, rather than the risk of losing the
> deposit.

I think you'd be surprised how many parties that proposition would
seriously tax in some parts of the country, not to mention the burden it
would impose on election administrators in checking all the signatures in
the very limited time available.

The latter reason is why governments have strongly resisted the idea for
the last 25 years or so.

-- 
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge                    http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/