Re: Local Authority Byelection Results - week ending 24 July 2009
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:28:30 -0500
In article <FahIMhYT4JbKFwa6@blueyonder.co.uk>, pah@invalid.invalid (Paul
Hyett) wrote:
> >Cambridgeshire CC, Ramsey
> >UKIP 865 (45.3;+45.3),
> >Con 682 (35.7;-10.6),
> >LD 308 (16.1;-21.5),
> >Lab 53 (2.8;-13.3)
> >Majority 183.
> >Turnout 30.14%.
> >UKIP gain from Con.
> >Percentage change is since 200 ...
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Re: Local Authority Byelection Results - week ending 24 July 2009
Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:56:45 -0500
In article <20090726153124.5ec748b1@AngelOne.cibwr.org>,
lyn@cibwr.plus.com (Lyn David Thomas) wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:04:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Henry Potts <usenet@bondegezou.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 10 elections. The "others" (UKIP, Green, BNP) won three, got over 10%
> > in another, and over 5% in thre ...
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Re: Norwich North By-Election
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:31:14 -0500
In article <QvWdnQtr54Po6vbXnZ2dnUVZ8nCdnZ2d@pipex.net>,
JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:
> Nick Russell wrote:
> > thinks ... when was the last time Norwich North returned a
> > non-Labour MP?
>
> According to <http://www.election.demon.co.uk/1983EB2.html>, the
> Conservatives won it in 1983 ...
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Are Labour now doing as bad as the Tories did from 1992-1997?
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:08:32 -0700 (PDT)
The Tories lost ALL of the by-elections in which they were previously
incumbent in that Parliament.
They lost:
Newbury 1993 - 52% of their previous vote share
Christchurch 1993 - 51% of their previous vote
Eastleigh 1994 - 52% of their previous vote
Dudley W 1994 - 63% of their previous vote
Perth & Kinross 1 ...
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Re: Norwich North By-Election
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:16:53 -0500
In article <7cuqe3F2a8lc0U1@mid.individual.net>,
dnorth@abbeymanor.fsbusiness.co.uk (David North) wrote:
> "John M Ward" <john@acornusers.org> wrote in message
> news:507fef405fjohn@acornusers.org...
> > this was a stupendous result with a 16.5% swing to the Conservatives,
> > despite what Gordon Brown tried ...
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Re: Norwich North By-Election
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:16:51 -0500
In article <7cvplhF28fi54U1@mid.individual.net>,
T.C.Roll-Pickering@qmul.ac.uk (Tim Roll-Pickering) wrote:
> It possibly shows a split between "main parties" and the usual
> "others", what are emerging as the main "other others" and the
> insignificance of the "other other others".
>
> There was a time whe ...
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Re: First Liberal Democrat ever elected in Kensington and Chelsea!
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:01:02 -0500
In article <gbKdnWh0nZ8b9vfXnZ2dnUVZ8scAAAAA@pipex.net>,
JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:
> rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
>
> > JN@noparticularplacetogo.com (JNugent) wrote:
> >> Henry Potts wrote:
> >>> JNugent <J...@noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> Look at the *names* of t ...
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Re: Norwich North By-Election
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:01:01 -0500
In article <508019d346john@acornusers.org>, john@acornusers.org (John M
Ward) wrote:
> > On a different point, is the new MP the first one ever to be named
> > "Chloe"?
>
> Apparently so. Then again, I suspect that Tooting's MP was the first to
> be named Sadiq :-)
Probably.
--
Cllr. Colin Rosensti ...
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Re: First Liberal Democrat ever elected in Kensington and Chelsea!
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:01:50 GMT
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 at 17:11:03, rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk wrote in
uk.politics.electoral :
>>
>> I am a very realistic observer of the political scene. I *know*
>> that the LibDems devoted more resources in their campaign against
>> the Conservative candidate in Cheltenham in 1992 than they would
>> have ...
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Re: Norwich North By-Election
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:36:08 +0100
In message <rdednbF5hvmcovfXnZ2dnUVZ8rqdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
rosenstiel@cix.compulink.co.uk writes
>In article <7cuqe3F2a8lc0U1@mid.individual.net>,
>dnorth@abbeymanor.fsbusiness.co.uk (David North) wrote:
>
>> "John M Ward" <john@acornusers.org> wrote in message
>> news:507fef405fjohn@acornusers.org...
>> > th ...
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