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
wunkley said:
Hs2 won't happen in our lifetimes most probably. Get over it. But it needs doing, and it needs starting now. **** it, it needs to be hs4 really. If people had the dull mentality of all the naysayers about hs2, there wouldn't be any trains, or roads, or fire.
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I am a massive supporter of our railways. Just not HS2. The network needs a lot of investment but it does not in any way need HS2 as it is planned.
 
D.P. said:
IF Houghton and Sunderland South is in anyway Representative then ti would show the exit polls wildly wrong, UKIP doing far better than any poll expected, and the Tories getting destroyed.
But it is one seat so fairly meaningless in itself.
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I think you need a sense of perspective. A Tory loss in a safe Labour seat means nothing. The result for those parties was largely in line with expectation.
 
D.P. said:
Youguvs aren't they are online and anonymous.
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YouGov's 'Exit Poll' isn't an Exit Poll. They just surveyed some more people today, compared it to yesterday's numbers and ran with it. It's not much more up to date or relevant than this morning's ICM poll.
 
snapdragon said:
A sample of 22,000 doesn't give me much faith in it's accuracy so I won't be holding my breath based on the exit polls.

Had an interesting debate on the voting age today with my stepson, we are of differing political opinions and he wasn't best pleased when I suggested he and the majority of people his age (19) aren't really qualified to vote.


"But I've studied politics for three years, I know more about politics than you do"

"Politics isn't some thing you learn from a text book or a documentary, it's something you experience, do you imagine you could learn to drive from a text book without any practical lessons ? no you couldn't and so it is with politics, the only thing you've learned over the past three years is how to be a politician"

Without creating a new thread is there anyone else who feels we need to address the age at which people can vote ?
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No, to be honest I think you were quite patronising towards him.
 
Not impressed with the poll booth, two people pushed in and 70% of the room was empty with one small booth being used. Queue outside too.
 
Kenai said:
The deficit we're running is substantially reduced though, because it'd be economic suicide to try and produce a budget that eliminated the entire deficit within 5 years.

The point is, labelling austerity a failure because it doesn't promote growth is somewhat disingenuous as that wasn't it's only aim, it's supposed to cut the deficit without completely collapsing the economy so it can then be properly redeveloped with real growth, not just ever increasing public borrowing to falsely prop it up but destroy it in the long term. We couldn't carry on running a £100b deficit like we did in 2009
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The defecit was only that high during the crash because we had to bail out the banks. Which is not something the tories disagree with.
 
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