Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

kindai · 9 May 2015 at 23:27

PermaBanned said:
Err, no, not even nearly that. Show me one single constituency where the conservative candidate got a majority of the vote.

Enjoy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromsgrove_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Danthus · 9 May 2015 at 23:27

PiKe said:
Funny how there's absolutey no media coverage on the anti-Tory protests...

Apart from all the media coverage of the anti Tory protests, you are spot on.

Danthus · 9 May 2015 at 23:28

PiKe said:
To me it is. I only just found out from Facebook.

Broadsheets, BBC, ITV and Channel 4.

Take your pick.

Tefal · 9 May 2015 at 23:28

PiKe said:
To me it is. I only just found out from Facebook.

did your face book also tell you they were defacing war memorials?

Macro · 9 May 2015 at 23:30

PiKe said:
Funny how there's absolutey no media coverage on the anti-Tory protests...

200 people having a temper tantrum, not exactly earth shattering response with a population of 64 million. You'd be able to find more people picking a fight with the old bill at closing time tonight that that. Hardly a mass rejection of "the ebil toriez" is it... More like Tarquin showing how he's not mummy and daddys little angel any more, honest...

Macro · 9 May 2015 at 23:30

OldCoals said:
Apart from all the media coverage of the anti Tory protests, you are spot on.

lol

thebennyboy · 9 May 2015 at 23:30

Tefal said:
did your face book also tell you they were defacing war memorials?

I don't condone defacing a war memorial, but i doubt even 2% of the protesters had anything to do with it. Most were exercising their right to protest against the new government.

PiKe · 9 May 2015 at 23:31

I saw they had in a video clip, I can't see anything on the BBC site and ITV has only just posted it in the last couple of hours. Haven't the demonstrations been going on all day?

PermaBanned · 9 May 2015 at 23:32

Does anyone have a spreadsheet of election results by constituency? Ideally including spoiled ballots, which aren't included on the BBC or guardian site for some reason.

Macro · 9 May 2015 at 23:34

PiKe said:
I saw they had in a video clip, I can't see anything on the BBC site and ITV has only just posted it in the last couple of hours. Haven't the demonstrations been going on all day?

Nope, nothing on the BBC, well, apart form the report of course... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32678518

Tunney · 9 May 2015 at 23:36

Moses said:
Can you highlight the key changes which were wrong, and explain why?

The fiasco with replacing GCSEs? Give allowing unqualified people to teach kids in school? The endless pet projects funnelling money out of the system? The Victorian-era curriculum that emphasises rote learning over understanding?

Just one example: Gove took £100 million of sixth form colleges. This left colleges dropping courses and stopping adult learning completely. This money was then invested in just a handful of new 16-19 year old colleges. Surprise, surprise these new incredibly well-funded colleges underperformed the newly defunded colleges in the rest of the system.

Danthus · 9 May 2015 at 23:37

I would be interested to see the age groups of people who have and haven't seen the media coverage.

I think it would tell you a lot about how news is consumed in this country.

PermaBanned · 9 May 2015 at 23:46

Jono8 said:
Don't bother, he is very wrong. There are a lot where the Conservatives got 50% + ( probably most of Surrey and West Sussex from a cursory glance)

I'm wrong for asking a question?

There are constituencies where they do have a majority, sure, but i would be surprised if there was more than a dozen of them, or at least any significant proportion of their overall seats. Definitely not enough to justify FPTP, especially considering one of its main problems - that you can completely change the outcome just by redrawing the constituency boundaries.

[TW]Fox · 9 May 2015 at 23:46

PermaBanned said:
Not under STV.

Hardly any voting contest in the world uses STV.

You know what's a travesty? The UK Number 1 Pop single didn't get more than 50% of the total purchases. How dare it be declared number 1.

Tosno · 9 May 2015 at 23:47

Tunney said:
Give allowing unqualified people to teach kids in school?

You don't need a qualification to be good at a job.

Jokester · 9 May 2015 at 23:50

Tosno said:
You don't need a qualification to be good at a job.

It's a good way to find out though before they wreck the education of a bunch of kids.

PermaBanned · 9 May 2015 at 23:52

[TW]Fox;28019177 said:
Hardly any voting contest in the world uses STV.

You know what's a travesty? The UK Number 1 Pop single didn't get more than 50% of the total purchases. How dare it be declared number 1.

How is that a criticism of STV? Besides, it's already used in a bunch of countries for various purposes.

I'm not arguing that the party with the biggest proportion of the vote shouldn't be able to form a government... usually. I'm arguing that FPTP leaves most voters represented by someone they didn't vote for.

Malevolence · 9 May 2015 at 23:54

Any deliberate vandalism of a war memorial should carry a mandatory five year jail sentence.

Jono8 · 9 May 2015 at 23:55

PermaBanned said:
I'm wrong for asking a question? There are constituencies where they do have a majority, sure, but i would be surprised if there was more than a dozen of them, or at least any significant proportion of their overall seats. Definitely not enough to justify FPTP, especially considering one of its main problems - that you can completely change the outcome just by redrawing the constituency boundaries.

. In fact that was too easy. I reckon there are many more.

PermaBanned · 9 May 2015 at 23:56

Is that all of them?

Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

Who did you vote for?

Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

Conservative

Democratic Unionist Party

Green Party

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Didn't vote / spoiled ballot

Other party

Plaid Cymru

Respect Party

SNP

Social Democratic and Labour Party

Sinn Fein

UKIP

Sgarrista