2014 Elections: Urban Exit Poll

[kebabking]

for the locals i voted for the independant chap - he's quite good, and amazingly he was actually walking the streets yesterday.

we didn't even have an LD in the locals...

for the Euro's i couldn't go through with my idea of voting UKIP - it might have been the tactical start of a somewhat long-winded process that ends in the UK staying in the EU rather than leaving it, but i just could not give their not-very-well-disgiused-xenophobia/racism, climate change denial, homophobia and generally unpleasant fruitloopery the legitimacy that comes with a vote.

 

[hash tag]

Yet to vote in a true blue stronghold. It's a toss up between Neil Hamilton or Lois Davis (Greens).

 

[Dr. Furface]

Haven't voted yet but just had a Green party canvasser call round and she was bloody gorgeous, so she can have mine!

 

[Wilf]

Haven't voted for about 15 years. I'm feeling guilty about all that wasted time. Could have been 15 years of cock and balls drawings.

 

[Wilf]

Incidentally, the votes don't get counted till Sunday (to allow all the other countries who vote over a couple of days to get theirs done). Can't remember if there will be actual exit polls before then? Might have been some sort of 'gentleman's agreement' in the past about not publishing them till (all) the polls close. Can't imagine that will survive in an internet era. [dull speculation, I'm just wondering when Falange's crowing will start in earnest]

 

[butchersapron]

Incidentally, the votes don't get counted till Sunday (to allow all the other countries who vote over a couple of days to get theirs done). Can't remember if there will be actual exit polls before then? Might have been some sort of 'gentleman's agreement' in the past about not publishing them till (all) the polls close. Can't imagine that will survive in an internet era. [dull speculation, I'm just wondering when Falange's crowing will start in earnest]

No exit polls at all. Cuts. Seriously.

 

[Treacle Toes]

According to Urban, UKIP's vote has completely collapsed overnight. Not a sausage. Keine Wurst. Pas de saucisson. Chorizo Nada!

If only.

 

[Dogsauce]

We get the local election results, which may be a story in themselves.

It's been speculated that because local elections are mostly taking place in urban areas this year that this will affect the euro vote, as people are more likely to come out to vote for two elections rather than one (and will be mobilised by party machines which have an easier time canvassing/leafleting in dense areas). It could put a bit of an urban skew (read leftish-slant) on results.

It'll also possibly mean a lot of motivated UKIP voters casting ballots in local elections they might not otherwise have bothered with, so conversely could slant local results towards UKIP or parties UKIP voters would support.

 

[krink]

I opt for a postal vote as I usually draw something on them. Here's this election's efforts. I'm no artist, I know, but I still think I've improved my ballot not spoiled it

 

[belboid]

How long were you in there?

 

[CNT36]

Local Euro lot.

Spoiler: What a fucking choice.

Labour
1

CLARE MOODY (Labour) Trade union officer. Contested South West region 2004 European elections, Salisbury 2005, Wiltshire police commissioner election 2012.
2

GLYN FORD (Labour) Born 1950, Gloucester. Educated at Reading University. Former research fellow. Former Tameside councillor. MEP for Greater Manchester 1984-1999, MEP for South West England 1999-2009.
3

ANN REEDER (Labour) Educated at Lancaster University. Local government consultant. Brent councillor 1994-2002.


4. Hadleigh Roberts5. Jude Robinson
6. Junab Ali
Tory
1

ASHLEY FOX (Conservative) Born 1969. Educated at Kings School Worcester and Bristol Polytechnic. Solicitor. Bristol councillor 2002-2009. Contested Bath 2001. MEP for South West England since 2009.
2

JULIE GIRLING (Conservative) Former Cotswold councillor. Former Gloucestershire councillor. Contested South West region 2004 European elections. MEP for South West England since 2009.
3

JAMES CRACKNELL (Conservative) Born 1972, Sutton. Educated at Kingston Grammar School and Reading University. Television sports presenter and former Olympic rower.


4. Georgina Butler5. Sophie Swire
6. Melissa Maynard
Lib dems
1

GRAHAM WATSON (Liberal Democrat) Born 1956, Rothesay. Educated at City of Bath Boys School and Heriot-Watt University. Prior to his election worked as a university administrator, head of David Steel’s office and for HSBC. MEP for Somerset and North Devon 1994-1999. MEP for South West England since 1999. Leader of the Liberal Group in the European parliament 2002-2009. Knighted in 2011.
2

KAY BARNARD (Liberal Democrat) Farmer. Former Somerset councillor. Contested Bristol South 2005, South West region 2009 European election.
3

BRIAN MATHEW (Liberal Democrat) Born in Sussex. Educated at Millfield. Engineer and international aid worker. Contested North Somerset 2010.


4. Andrew Wigley5. Jay Risbridger
6. Lyana Armstrong-Emery
UKIP
1

WILLIAM DARTMOUTH (UKIP) Born 1949. Educated at Eton and Oxford University. MEP for South West England since 2009. As the Earl of Dartmouth was a Conservative member of the House of Lords until the exclusion of hereditary peers. Defected to UKIP in 2007.
2

JULIA REID (UKIP) Born in London. Educated at John Bentley School and Bath University. Research biochemist. Contested South West Region 2009, Chippenham 2010. Former member of the SDP.
3

GAWAIN TOWLER (UKIP) Educated at Clayesmore School and York University. Press officer. Contested Glasgow Maryhill 2001 for the Conservatives, South West Region 2009 European elections for UKIP.


4. Tony McIntyre5. Robert Smith
6. Keith Crawford
Greens
1

MOLLY SCOTT CATO (Green) Born 1963, Wales. Educated at Oxford University. University professor. Stroud councillor since 2011. Contested Preseli Pembrokeshire 1997, 2005, South West region 2009 European election.
2

EMILY MCIVOR (Green) Policy advisor. Contested Tiverton and Honiton 1997.


3. Ricky Knight4. Audaye Elesedy
5. Judy Maciejowska6. Mark Chivers
BNP

ADRIAN ROMILLY (BNP) Born in Kent. Educated at University College London. Contested South West region 2009 European elections.
2

CLIFF JONES (BNP) Maths tutor.


3. Arnold Brindle4. Wayne Tomlinson
5. Andrew Webster6. Giuseppe De Santis
English Democrats
1

ALAN ENGLAND (English Democrats) Born in Exeter. Former civil servant. Contested South Wales East 2007 Welsh Assembly election.


2. Mike Blundell3. Clive Lavelle
4. Barbara Wright5. Steve Wright
6. Ray Carr
An Independence from Europe

DAVID SMITH (An Independence from Europe) Born Devon. Educated at Exeter University. Teacher. Former UKIP member.


2. Helen Webster3. Mike Camp
4. Andrew Edwards5. Phil Dunn
6. John Taverner

 

[jakethesnake]

Voted Green for the Euro one and Left Unity for the council one - I know the bloke standing and he is sound (ex AFA) plus I know the local Labour councillor (he lives next door) and he is an utter bellend.

 

[geminisnake]

I went with Green having realised that one of the SNP candidates has been in two other parties. Couldn't vote for them knowing that, and not sure the standing MEP is worth voting for tbh.

 

[JTG]

Disgusted by the numbers of mung bean types here frankly

 

[chilango]

why the green party is shit

I know, I know...

... I fear I'll come to regret my Green vote.

 

[butchersapron]

I know, I know...

... I fear I'll come to regret my Green vote.

Hippies never learn.

 

[chilango]

Hippies never learn.

Fuck off!

I'm not, and never have been,a hippy.


...crusty, perhaps, but never ever a fucking hippy. Not even in my darkest primmo wanderings.

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[JTG]

Hippies never learn.

Because they're genocidal fascists

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck off!

I'm not, and never have been a hippy.

Did you ever vote for the green party? Did you join the party? I hold in my hand a printout...

 

[chilango]

Did you ever vote for the green party? Did you join the party? I hold in my hand a printout...

Heh heh. Bastard. "No comment". Or something. Ok you got me bang to rights.

If I fess up to GPEW membership in days gone by, can I get the hippy charge dropped?

 

[butchersapron]

Heh heh. Bastard. "No comment". Or something. Ok you got me bang to rights.

If I fess up to GPEW membership in days gone by, can I get the hippy charge dropped?

Of course. We want all the info though.

 

[sojourner]

Euros: Green
Locals: Green

Postal vote - same as

No Left Unity or owt round here yet otherwise they'd have got it

 

[Dogsauce]

A fair few people on my facebook feed (friends and people commenting on friend's feeds) saying they're voting for the first time in years to (for example) 'see off UKIP fascists'. Quite a bit of election chatter relative to normal locals/euros. People seem motivated.

 

[chilango]

*Singing like a bird*

 

[butchersapron]

A fair few people on my facebook feed (friends and people commenting on friend's feeds) saying they're voting for the first time in years to (for example) 'see off UKIP fascists'. Quite a bit of election chatter relative to normal locals/euros. People seem motivated.

To do what though? I don't trust 'em.

 

[Wilf]

Local Euro lot.

GAWAIN TOWLER (UKIP) Educated at Clayesmore School and York University. Press officer. Contested Glasgow Maryhill 2001 for the Conservatives, South West Region 2009 European elections for UKIP.

Gawain Fucking Towler! Fuck me, what's next Sir Lancelot throwing his hat in the ring for the Elvis Bus Pass Party?

 

[plurker]

A fair few people on my facebook feed (friends and people commenting on friend's feeds) saying they're voting for the first time in years to (for example) 'see off UKIP fascists'. Quite a bit of election chatter relative to normal locals/euros. People seem motivated.

I voted at 11am. Officers said they'd had less than 60 in by that point.
Surprised by how many parties named after either anti-eu or send-them-back policies. Splits the nutjob vote i guess. Nice to see UKIP right at the bottom, in a paper-fold of its own so you'd really have to look for it to find them...

 

[DotCommunist]

Gawain Fucking Towler! Fuck me, what's next Sir Lancelot throwing his hat in the ring for the Elvis Bus Pass Party?

'There was once a boy called Eustance Clarence Scrubb and he almost deserved it'

 

[JTG]

Bloke at my polling station said it was slow. He didn't know there was an election until last week