Poll: Who will you be voting for on May 5th?

Which political party will you vote for?

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 187 20.5%
  • Conservative

    Votes: 311 34.1%
  • Labour

    Votes: 161 17.6%
  • Regional Party (Plaid Cymru, SNP, etc.)

    Votes: 23 2.5%
  • Issues Party (BNP, Greens, UKIP)

    Votes: 45 4.9%
  • Independent candidate

    Votes: 5 0.5%
  • Abstaining from voting

    Votes: 107 11.7%
  • Not eligible for voting

    Votes: 74 8.1%

  • Total voters
    913
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Sam0r said:
I wonder how I actually vote.

I'm 18, but I havn't had my voting slip through the post. What do I do?!
You probably can't at this late stage. You should get a polling card if you're on the electoral roll. Usually the household recieves a sheet a lot earlier in the year asking who'll be 18 in the house at a certain date. So if you don't get a polling card, you're not on it. Deadline for registration was sometime in March, I think.
 
Goldy said:
Is it a 'class' thing?

I would think so. Most users here have lots of computer gear. Computer gear is expensive. More affluent voters tend to vote Conservative as a general trend.

Also maybe we have lots of young people here, who are less drawn to Labour's emphasis on family, etc.?
 
Just been and put 3 crosses next to UKIP candidates. I would never vote lib dem, and I dislike Tony Blair and Micheal Howard. I would probably have voted conservative if anyone other than Howard was leader, and I might but probably wouldnt have voted labour if Tony Blair had stood aside for someone else.

Besides UKIP is more intune with what I want.
 
Sam0r said:
I wonder how I actually vote.

I'm 18, but I havn't had my voting slip through the post. What do I do?!

Are you sure you or the house owner actually put your name down on the electoral form thing that would have come to your house last year sometime?

It would have been a form that you had to list all those eligible, and wanting, to vote and then send it off.
 
Haly said:
Liberal Democrat, I figure if everyone stops thinking of it as a wasted vote and still voted for them they might actually get somewhere.

I'm with you on that. Although I can't vote, I'd definitely vote Lib Dem if I was eligible.
The majority of my year seem to be voting them :) But I've heard a lot of people saying "Oh they'll never be in power so why bother....mayaswell vote Labour" Grr.
 
Jenjey said:
But I've heard a lot of people saying "Oh they'll never be in power so why bother....mayaswell vote Labour" Grr.

I've never quite figured that one out......if no one voted for any party the parties would never change, seems to be some sort of stigma the Lib Dems have now which they really need to sort out in time for the next General Election :/
 
Haly said:
I've never quite figured that one out......if no one voted for any party the parties would never change, seems to be some sort of stigma the Lib Dems have now which they really need to sort out in time for the next General Election :/
Definitely.
It really frustrates me hearing people say it. I say exactly what you're saying and in return I usually get a shrug of some sort and a bit of mumble.
 
The Exit poll and results tonight will show just how bent this Ock poll is

83 seat majority to labour is what I'm hearing from locals round here:D

LABOUR
 
Antx777 said:
The Exit poll and results tonight will show just how bent this Ock poll is

83 seat majority to labour is what I'm hearing from locals round here:D

LABOUR
Polls haven't closed so that isn't definate, but it does look like labour will win, doubt it will be conservative, Howards worse than Blair, hes too negative, people don't like that, and he looks like a vampire tbh :D. Lib Dem probably wont win, but their style is positive unlike any of the others, so they will get a decent amount of votes.
 
Haly said:
I've never quite figured that one out......if no one voted for any party the parties would never change, seems to be some sort of stigma the Lib Dems have now which they really need to sort out in time for the next General Election :/

I can understand it to an extent.. voting for Lib dems with the way the voting is at the moment could be construed as a wasted vote. They're not likely to take power, and all it results in is a weakened opposition to the government.

However... if people actually got out there and voted based on their political viewpoints I suspect we'd see a bit of a change. Instead today I went and tactically voted.
 
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