In article , lyn@cibwr.plus.com 
(Lyn David Thomas) wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:12:43 -0500
> rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > In article , pah@invalid.invalid
> > (Paul Hyett) wrote:
> > 
> > > How come nobody is posting about them??
> > 
> > Would you like to hear about the Lib Dem triumph in Cambridge? 11
> > seats won out of 14 for the first time ever (by any party). Even
> > though Labour were extremely unpopular,losing a seat each to us and
> > the Greens, the Tories managed to be even less popular and won
> > nothing. despite getting more votes across the City (not across the
> > constituency) than Labour. :-))
> 
> The wonders of first past the post.

The Tories refuse to support PR though!

> I had a look at the Cornish results in some detail there, hardly any
> one got a majority in each of the single member seats, commonly people
> were winning on 25% of the votes.

What were the party total vote shares then?

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

In article , 
rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk () wrote:

> What were the party total vote shares then?
> 
According to Cornwall's website:
Party name      Seats elected           % of votes 
 Conservative           50                      34% 
 Liberal Democrat       38                      28% 
 Independent            32                      23% 
 Mebyon Kernow          3                       4% 

Matthew

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 at 09:13:25, abbotslangley@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote 
in uk.politics.electoral :

>In article ,
>rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk () wrote:
>
>> What were the party total vote shares then?
>>
>According to Cornwall's website:
>Party name      Seats elected           % of votes
> Conservative           50                      34%
> Liberal Democrat       38                      28%
> Independent            32                      23%
> Mebyon Kernow          3                       4%
>
What - no-one voted for Labour at all in Cornwall? :p
-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham