2014 EU/Local Election Thread - Predictions and Results

[J Ed]

You stole that sentence from the Britain First page didn't you? Haha your pain is palpable J Ed. Brown people voting and electing other brown people to spend our money, disgusting innit.

How dare you accuse me of racism you ignorant rape denying cunt.

Here is a link from the Guardian, feel free to read it if you can still see after your constant wanking over Comrade Delta's honour

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/24/lutfur-rahman-tower-hamlets-reelection

Outside the count in an art deco cinema in Limehouse, more than 300 supporters of Rahman gathered to hear the result, accompanied by dozens of police officers.

Many supporters claimed that Rahman had been the victim of racism in both the media and the government.

Amid tense scenes some Labour activists, including the shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan, were stopped from leaving the building after being warned that the police could not guarantee their safety.

I wouldn't claim for a second that Rahman's campaign was the only campaign which used intimidation, or that all of the intimidation in Tower Hamlets came from 'brown people' because neither are true.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

47% turnout in TH, well above the national average and a wonderful snub to the racists and islamophobes.

Yes it's great that an extremist bigot has been re-elected in Tower Hamlets so he can continue taking money from established community groups and giving it to new ones set up by his supporters....

The only thing this is a victory for divisive communal politics. Ones that the Labour bloke would have no doubt continued in his own way, but probably in a slightly less corrosive way.

 

[Kerensky]

I've had this happen,large squat registration cards lying about in the hall.Mate took my card and voted,later I wander down without card and ask to vote,concerned looks all around,me shrugs shoulders mumbling oh I must have forgot and sidling out past policeman.Stupid fucker might have told me.

If you had insisted that you hadn't voted, then the Presiding Officer should have offered to supply you with a Tendered vote.
(He'll basically call you to one side, ask you a series of prescribed questions.... and if your answers are satisfactory, will issue you with a Tendered ballot paper).
HOWEVER..... this tendered ballot paper does NOT go into the box with the other votes, and is reported separately to the Election Office / count ...... and does NOT register on the tally of vote cast / votes allocated.

... so basically a sop, to head of problems/complaints/aggressive behaviour etc at the Polling Station.

Also ... the election ain't that anonymous as you think... but that's for another day/story.

(ex Polling Clerk & current Presiding Officer)

 

[peterkro]

If you had insisted that you hadn't voted, then the Presiding Officer should have offered to supply you with a Tendered vote.
(He'll basically call you to one side, ask you a series of prescribed questions.... and if your answers are satisfactory, will issue you with a Tendered ballot paper).
HOWEVER..... this tendered ballot paper does NOT go into the box with the other votes, and is reported separately to the Election Office / count ...... and does NOT register on the tally of vote cast / votes allocated.

... so basically a sop, to head of problems/complaints/aggressive behaviour etc at the Polling Station.

Also ... the election ain't that anonymous as you think... but that's for another day/story.

(ex Polling Clerk & current Presiding Officer)

Thanks for the info.
Big squat (several hundred people) with a very cynical view of the electoral system,personation happened a lot (probably not enough to effect any outcomes).Dogs where amongst the voters.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Just looked at Hackney's results and a terrible set for TUSC in a borough I would have expected them to do OK, anyone know what the story is?

dennisr ? Fozzie Bear ?

I know Hackney Unites and similar groups are still active, did they simply not vote or even call for a Labour vote?

 

[butchersapron]

Hu were on the don't vote ukip/hnh tip according to a post by fozzie before the election, so effectively calling for a labour vote i suppose.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Hu were on the don't vote ukip/hnh tip according to a post by fozzie before the election, so effectively calling for a labour vote i suppose.

Ah yes of course I saw that on facebook...

I wonder if this reflects demographic changes in Hackney as well, a lot of the old trot types from Hackney seem to have ended up in Walthamstow not that it's done TUSC much good there either... (you can't move without bumping into ex-SWP cc members at the tube station).

 

[emanymton]

Well if you fancy a pint let us know when you're coming and I'll show you the best pubs

Thanks but will probably just leave it as the two of us.

 

[ska invita]

Apart from one Green, looking like everything non-Labour in Lewisham has been annihilated. Bullock also re-elected as mayor.

Labour 53 +14
Green Party 1 0
Conservative 0 -2
Liberal Democrat 0 -12


--
Mayor of LewishamName of candidate Party Number of votes Percentage
of vote
Steve Bullock Labour Party 36,659 50.77%
Simon Nundy Conservative Party 8,041 11.14%
Duwayne Brooks Liberal Democrats 7,234 10.02%
Mike Keogh The Green Party 7,224 10.00%
John Hamilton Lewisham People Before Profit 6,014 8.33%
Peter Lello UK Independence Party (UKIP) 5,684 7.87%
Chris Flood Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 1,354 1.88%

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Just looked at Hackney's results and a terrible set for TUSC in a borough I would have expected them to do OK, anyone know what the story is?

dennisr ? Fozzie Bear ?

I know Hackney Unites and similar groups are still active, did they simply not vote or even call for a Labour vote?

TUSC had no presence whatsoever here as far as I can tell.

The Hackney Unites lot organised a few hustings (and got into trouble for not inviting UKIP) and did a bit of "vote anyone to keep UKIP and the BNP out".

It's been a very low key election apart from a few key wards like Cazenove where there was a big dust up between Lib Dems and Labour (held by LDs after a recount).

Diane Abbott has mainly been tweeting about Labour trying to take Hornsey.

 

[Coolfonz]

So here you have the Greens, TUSC and People Before Profit standing against each other...if they had stood on one ticket they would have come second...belief, beggars etc

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've put all the numbers for Manchester City Council into a spreadsheet and the average turnout across the city was 30%. Its not surprising that Labour took the lions share of the votes, as they always do here, but its interesting how poorly UKIP did overall. The parties got the following shares:

Labour 58%
Green 13%
Libdem 11%
Tory 8%
UKIP 8%
TUSC 1%

This is the distribution of total votes across the city:



And this is the ward breakdown. Thankfully, the BNP only stood in two wards - ones which have returned quite strong votes for that type of racist scum in the past. Interestingly, UKIP only stood in 12 out of the 32 wards.



God knows what the Christian Democrat Party for a Consensus is about, and the Motorcycle Alliance is just odd.

ETA - some of the ward columns for labour look a bit purple in this image, so this must be the result of the excel graph being processed through Paint into a jpg. The highest column in each ward should be red.

 

[Geri]

So here you have the Greens, TUSC and People Before Profit standing against each other...if they had stood on one ticket they would have come second...belief, beggars etc

I don't know anything about People for Profit but I can't see why TUSC would want to stand on the same ticket as the Greens.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Chukka tries to argue the toss with Curtiss, and, as a result, ends up looking an even bigger cunt than normal.

"Bigger cunt" is normal for Chuckie!

 

[Sue]

TUSC had no presence whatsoever here as far as I can tell.

The Hackney Unites lot organised a few hustings (and got into trouble for not inviting UKIP) and did a bit of "vote anyone to keep UKIP and the BNP out".

It's been a very low key election apart from a few key wards like Cazenove where there was a big dust up between Lib Dems and Labour (held by LDs after a recount).

Diane Abbott has mainly been tweeting about Labour trying to take Hornsey.

Had a hand delivered leaflet from them last weekend. London Fields ward though I'm now on the electoral register in Shacklewell where they weren't standing.

 

[ViolentPanda]

The exact opposite has been happening. UKIP has been hoovering up labour voters in w/c areas damaging labours popular vote and costing them seats all over.

20 years ago I left the Labour Party after realising that the party's attitude to the w/c (illustrated by the "re-writing" of Clause 4) meant that the w/c no longer mattered except as a source of tribal votes. I'm sad that it's UKIP reaping the benefit, but it's hardly as if it wasn't obvious that even the staunchest "tribal" Labourites wouldn't allow themselves to be taken for granted forever.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Thanks but will probably just leave it as the two of us.

Ah, one of those kinds of friends - have fun!

 

[Cid]

Thanks but will probably just leave it as the two of us.

If you did make it, can I just say that the weather has been lovely until today. Well, Thursday.

 

[gosub]

Farage spends a month banging on about Romanians and Bulgarians and the need to send an earthquake:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/160796/Earthquake+Shakes+Bulgaria,+Greece,+Saturday

 

[Awesome Wells]

Where do i find the results for the EU elecftions? My local council website has no mention of them at all.

 

[magneze]

They come out tomorrow.

 

[rekil]

lol

 

[belboid]

Polling day for the Irish locals and Euros and a couple of Dail by-elections today.

The Socialist Party is in with a shout for an extra Dail seat. Dublin looks likely to increase on its 12.5% Vote for a Trotskyist in the last euros, but this time the hard left vote will be split thanks to the fucking SWP. In the council elections, there will be a fair few leftists elected.

The more general picture will be a big vote for Sinn Fein and a collapse by a Labour.

Up North, the usual shite will happen with almost all councillors divided between the four sectarian parties (DUP, UUUP, SF, SdLP) and the upper middle class liberals of the Alliance. The BBC are apparently reporting that the Socialist Party activist running as an anti-fracking candidate is "one to watch" based on early tallies. He used to be a Sinn Fein councillor.

neck and neck between Pottinger & SF apparently. People Before Profit look like winning 5 seats in Dun Laoghaire

 

[belboid]

Blind goat herder elected for PBP in Cork.

Pottinger 8 votes behind SF in Dublin West (& still counting)

 

[Nigel Irritable]

neck and neck between Pottinger & SF apparently. People Before Profit look like winning 5 seats in Dun Laoghaire

Coppinger. That's going to be a long night.

Dublin Euros, the Trot vote went from 12.5 to aprox 16% but will almost certainly result in a lost seat (once more: fucking SWP splitting the vote).

SP/AAA gains seats in Cork, Limerick, Tallaght. Loses one in Castleknock. Don't know most of the others yet.

SWP/PBP gain a number in Dublin, particularly in Dun Laoghaire.

 

[belboid]

Coppinger, yes, sorry. No idea why I kept writing Pottinger.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Blind goat herder elected for PBP in Cork.

Pottinger 8 votes behind SF in Dublin West (& still counting)

Probably going to expose my ignorance here, but is blind goat herder some kind of euphemism or is it actually a blind bloke/woman whose occupation revolves around the herding of goats?

SpineyNorman - asking the important questions since 2009

 

[dennisr]

Spineynorman - The the thinking fellas forageporage since 2009 - "just saying what everyone else was thinking"

 

[belboid]

Probably going to expose my ignorance here, but is blind goat herder some kind of euphemism or is it actually a blind bloke/woman whose occupation revolves around the herding of goats?

SpineyNorman - asking the important questions since 2009

It is just what it says on the tin!


Tangentially...I never knew Richard Boyd Barrett was Sinead Cusacks son

 

[rekil]

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Probably going to expose my ignorance here, but is blind goat herder some kind of euphemism or is it actually a blind bloke/woman whose occupation revolves around the herding of goats?

SpineyNorman - asking the important questions since 2009

Ed Harper.

"You have goat to be kidding" etc

Coppinger 500 ahead now.