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- The vote to see if Britain should adopt Alternative Voting has failed.
- Lib Dems lose lots of councils and councillors, whilst Labour make the majority of the gains in England.
- The Scottish National Party do really well in the elections.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 7th 2024 at 4:50:10 PM
I assume it's because those two are polling within margin of error of outright winning a ton of seats, which means a little bit of a pollimg miss one way result in them winning a lot of seats but a little bit of polling miss the other way means they lose pretty much all of them.
The damned queen and the relentless knight.Yes, it's an unusual election due to just how many potential swing seats there are. There are still boring seats (waves from Liverpool) but a much larger proportion of the electorate have votes that matter.
... as a consequence of which the potential for FPTP returning a disproportionate number of seats to votes is greater than usual.
Labour are on course for a massive majority with an unimpressive % of total vote share.
The fact that it’s light when the polls open at 7am and light when people get back from work (or possibly even at 10pm when the polls close) with have a major turnout impact.
There’s a solid argument for Brexit having only happened because it rained on referendum day and drove turnout down.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranCombined postal/electronic voting (where you are posted the details you need to do your vote through a website) isn’t the worst, it’s used by all the big parties for their leadership elections, frustratingly trade unions are banned from using it for strike ballots.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranNow that you mention it, I see we tend to hold elections between March and June south of the Channel. The current one stands out for how short the notice for it was (pretty much the legal minimum of 20 days), possibly so it wouldn't be held during the summer school holidays (since many people go on vacation during that time, it would very probably depress turnout).
Edited by Khudzlin on Jul 4th 2024 at 7:24:28 AM

Election Calculus are now showing the Tories have some how managed to loose what little projected seats they'd gained from Reform over to Labour.
Current seat projects are
Edited by Whowho on Jul 2nd 2024 at 12:57:35 PM