As I said two entries ago only, 1 out of every 323 voters votes in the UK actually make a difference. I also stated that based upon the 2001 election results, I didn’t count.
Now that we’ve had the election and the results are in, well it seems it was right… here’s what the result is from my constituency: (remember that Colin Challen had a majority of 12090 in 2001)
| Name | Party | Votes | %age | +/- %age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colin Challen | Labour | 20570 | 48.4 | -8.6 |
| Nick Vineall | Conservative | 8227 | 19.4 | -6.2 |
| Stewart Golton | Liberal Democrats | 6819 | 16.0 | +1.8 |
| Robert Finnigan | Independent | 4608 | 10.8 | +10.8 |
| Chris Beverley | British National Party | 2271 | 5.3 | +5.3 |
| Majority | 12343 | 29.0 | ||
| Turnout | 42492 | 58.8 | +5.3 |
So there you are… my vote didn’t make one jot of a difference, the earthquake to change things here didn’t happen, and even though Mr Challen’s majority increased, there was a whole 1.2% swing from Labour to Conservative. Which annoys me greatly.
The current political make up of Yorkshire and the Humber is pretty split, with the Conservatives dominating the larger, more northern areas and Labour controlling the smaller, more dense southern areas. There’s a smattering of Liberal Democrats in there too (three I think)… see a map showing this in detail (from the BBC) here.
I hope you got the result you wanted.
