Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

Who did you vote for?

  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • Conservative

    Votes: 518 39.5%

  • Democratic Unionist Party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 65 5.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 241 18.4%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 99 7.5%

  • Didn't vote / spoiled ballot

    Votes: 136 10.4%

  • Other party

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Respect Party

    Votes: 1 0.1%

  • SNP

    Votes: 67 5.1%

  • Social Democratic and Labour Party

    Votes: 2 0.2%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 0.3%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 158 12.0%
  • Total voters
    1,313
atpbx said:
Labours share of the popular vote has been decreasing UK wide since Blair came to power.
His last victory had a lower share of the vote than the Tories have got today.

They rely so heavily on Scottish support that once it's gone, this is what you are left with.
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True, but that just shows how many years we've had to cope with an unfair electoral system.

At the very least we should be getting coalitions of parties, because at least two parties working together should represent 50%+ of the public.
 
Evangelion said:
It's an outstanding result for the SNP, who now have an overwhelming mandate to request another referendum for Scottish freedom. Bring it on!
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How on earth do you reach that conclusion? The SNPs "mandate" for independence was told exactly what the scottish people thought of it last year.
 
joeyjojo said:
True, but that just shows how many years we've had to cope with an unfair electoral system.

At the very least we should be getting coalitions of parties, because at least two parties working together should represent 50%+ of the public.
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Would rather a change away from popularity vote towards a strong constitution that forced governments to do what is thought is best for the country. Unfortunately most policies are not what is good for the country and are demonstrably so. Would rather a system where you vote in experts in each area and ban party politics or at least the whip with hefty prison sentences if found guilty.
 
platypus said:
How on earth do you reach that conclusion? The SNPs "mandate" for independence was told exactly what the scottish people thought of it last year.
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+1 I voted SNP but I'd vote NO in a referendum if it came up despite voting YES last year. They were not elected with a mandate for another referendum, they were voted to represent us and do it well, nothing more.
 
Morning fellas, feeling quite chipper this morning!
Looks like the country might be in safer hands for the next 5 years. Now... let's just wait and see about my promised EU vote in 2017.
 
Halfmad said:
The UK government has to grant a referendum, the SNP have been elected without a mandate for one. In short - they can't have another one, literally no way they can without being elected, including it in their manifesto and shouting about it during an election campaign.

They'd also loose if they had another one, probably worse than they did last year.

The English seem fixated on giving Scotland another one, the SNP are in Westminster to represent us, not break up the UK.
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That's not really true though, is it? There would have been a referendum in Scotland last year without Westminster's consent. The result just wouldn't have been binding.

The SNP won't push for another referendum now because it would be pointless. Little has changed since last year. It's only worth doing again if something changes - the Smith Commission reforms aren't delivered, the UK votes to leave the EU or the Barnett Formula is scrapped and Scotland's budget gets squeezed. If none of that happens, it will be a long time until the next referendum. Next decade at the earliest.
 
FTM said:
its the crashing lib dem vote that has swung those extra seats to the tories that has given them the majority

labour failing to swing enough seats in England has lost them this, not scotland
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In England, Labour didn't do that badly - just the Liberal Democrats did significantly worse & in the areas where it mattered, the Conservatives were second. Multiple factors are attributed to the loss, but hopefully the progressive entities can learn from this experience & come back stronger at the next election.

On a side note, this has been a pretty horrible election regarding negative politics, with them all simply pointing out flaws of the opposition, feeding paranoia regarding what will happen if they get in. As opposed to winning by having the best arguments & the strongest manifestos.
 
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