Is it worth you voting?

[mondeoman]

50.2% Richard Shepherd (Conservative): 18974 votes.
40.2% Ian Geary (Labour): 15206 votes.
8.6% Monica Howes (Liberal Democrat): 3251 votes.
1% John Rothery (Socialist Alliance): 379 votes


Found this info about my area from the last election, 60% turn-out and a 10% majority, so I WILL be voting, just to make sure.

Whats it like in your area?

[robdickinson]

(71.3%)Eddie O'Hara(Labour): 26,071
(13%)David Smithson(Liberal Democrat) : 4,755
(11.6%)Paul Jemetta(Conservative) : 4,250

Majority 21k.
Turnout 51%.

I shant be getting out of bed early.

What they should do is give you the day off as bank holiday to vote. that'd get em in...

[Raify]

True Blue where I live. Tunbridge Wells, the home of retired generals and fragrant, laura ashley wives:

48.9% Archie Norman (Conservative): 19643 votes.
24.7% Keith Brown (Liberal Democrat): 9913 votes.
23.2% Ian Carvell (Labour): 9332 votes.
3.3% Victor Webb (UK Independence Party): 1313 votes.

40201 votes were cast 62% turnout.

I will vote, but it won't make a blind bit of difference to the result!

[maxf]

Is there a link to find out the stats?

I suppose 1 vote could make the difference but is unlikely to - thats why I try an animate everyone who isn't bothered into voting.

[KITT]

Judging by the huge number of Conservative placards, banners etc round my local area, I don't think it'll change anything. I will still be voting Tory though, just so I can say I voted If I was living in Bristol I could make a difference as all three parties have a good chance of winning there.

[chrisgr31]

Blue where I live too.

Wealden last results: Con Majority of 13,772 or 63.5% turnout. (Results from BBC website

Conservative 49.8%

Liberal Democrat 23.7%

Labour 20.3%

UKIP 2.9%

Green 2.4%

pensioner 0.9%

[james p]

For me in 2001 and on a 60% turnout.

45% Tom Brake (Liberal Democrat): 18289 votes.
33.8% Ken Andrew (Conservative): 13742 votes.
18.4% Maggie Cooper (Labour): 7466 votes.
1.5% Simon Dixon (Green Party): 614 votes.
1.2% Martin Haley (UK Independence Party): 501 votes.

I hope my vote will count this time

[minornut]

Labour 21,506 (55.3%)
Conservative 11,758 (30.2%)
Lib Dem 4,942 (12.7%)
Socialist Labour 689 (1.8%)

Turn-out 56.9% Majority - 9,748

Bassetlaw has returned a Labour MP ever since 1935

I'll still vote for all the good it will do

[chrisgr31]

chrisgr31 said:

Results from BBC website

Incidentially the BBC site also shows how many votes the parties got as a whole last time.

Labour 10,724,895 413 seats

Conservative 8,357,622 166 seats

Lib Dems 4,812,333 52 seats

Seems to be an inbalance on proportion of vote and number of seats!

[mechsympathy]

maxf said:

Is there a link to find out the stats?

I found the details here

Lab 20,505
Lib D 16,079
Con 16,040
Green 1,961

Thanks for making me go and look, cos I assumed Labour had an unassailable lead, so I was planning to spoil my paper

[scruffy]

I got an official poll card.

But I wear sandals, eat lentils, and prefer the more ecologist point of view...

I can't vote for any one, they're all facists.

[mechsympathy]

scruffy said:

I got an official poll card. But I wear sandals, eat lentils, and prefer the more ecologist point of view... I can't vote for any one, they're all facists.

Then just scrawl "You're all a bunch of fascist wnakers" on it. It's very satisfying.

[off_again]

Not really worth it here:

Wiltshire North

Conservative 45.5%
Liberal Democrat 38.2%
Labour 14.3%
Others 2.0%

Current forecasts are that the Lib Dem percentage is dropping and are looking at less than 30% for them. Means 8% for the others and hence the chances of anyone other than Cons getting in are very limited.

Basically it means that my vote is pretty meaningless. No PR as FPTP means that it makes no difference to anything centrally either....

Funny to be in this situation. Never happened to me before. Dont think I will bother and will take the advantage of clearer roads...

[Mrs Fish]

Derbyshire West

Patrick McLoughlin Conservative 24,280 48.0%

Stephen Clamp Labour 16,910 33.4%

Jeremy Beckett Liberal Democrat 7,922 15.7%


Majority 7,370 14.6%
Turnout 50,589 67.4%

Although every other part of Derby is labour held.

The seat covers a large part of the Peak District: the uplands and dales made famous by the ITV series "Peak Practice". The stately home Chatsworth House is a leading tourist attraction in an area where tourism has become a major industry, employing over 6,000 people.

There has been a steep decline in farming jobs over the last 15 years and many farmers work only part-time nowadays. Other traditional industries, including textiles and quarrying, are also in decline, and while some hi-tech firms have sprung up, few companies in the seat employ more than 100 people. Despite this, unemployment remains relatively low.

By-elections have played an important part in the electoral history of Derbyshire West. Three months after the Liberal victory at Orpington in 1962 the Tories escaped another by-election defeat at their hands with a majority of 1,220.

Having established themselves as the principal challengers in 1983, the Liberals were 100 votes short of victory after Matthew Parris resigned his seat to pursue a career in the media. Since then the victor, Patrick McLoughlin, has represented the seat for the Conservatives, with the best of his election victories coming in 1992 when he recorded the largest post-war Conservative majority in the constituency - over 18,000 votes.

[Mrs Fish]

LINK HERE

[Duncan23]

Not much point here.
Lib Dems by 48% to Tories 33%.
Gonna turn up, thtough I'll probably just spoil the paper. Any interesting or witty things I should say?

[Zod]

Mine (not good)


Name Party Votes % +/- %
Glenda Jackson Labour 16,601 46.9 -10.5
Andrew Mennear Conservative 8,725 24.6 -2.6
Jonathan Simpson Liberal Democrat 7,273 20.5 +8.1
Andrew Cornwell Green 1,654 4.7
Helen Cooper Socialist Alliance 559 1.6
Brian McDermott UK Independence 316 0.9 +0.6
Sister Xnunoftheabove Independent 144 0.4
Mary Teale ProLife Alliance 92 0.3
Amos Klein Independent 43 0.1

Majority 7,876 22.2
Turnout 35,407 54.2 -13.7

[fid]

Ours was a bit of a close one...

Conservative 23,033 41.7% +3.0
Liberal Democrat 22,798 41.3% -1.4
Labour 8,254 14.9% +1.4
UK Independence 1,140 2.1%

Turnout 55,225 67.6% -8.9

[sadoksevoli]

Labour (ballot in person) : 30%
Next party - Con/LibDem/Other (ballot in person) : 32%
...
Labour (Postal ballot) : 5%
...
Increase in postal ballot : 5%
...
Stolen votes : 5%


Robert Mugabe will be so proud of us come May 6th.

[esselte]

2001


Dennis Skinner Labour 26,249 68.6%
Simon Massey Conservative 7,472 19.5%
Marie Bradley Liberal Democrat 4,550 11.9%

I think this year they're putting a donkey with a red ribbon round it's neck up for election.It'll get in.This must be one of the safest Red seats around.