{"id":87,"date":"2005-05-06T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2005-05-06T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-05-06T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2005-05-06T17:18:25","slug":"election-2005-i-didnt-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/06\/election-2005-i-didnt-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Election 2005: I didn’t count…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I said two entries ago only, 1 out of every 323 voters votes in the UK<\/a> actually make a difference. I also stated that based upon the 2001 election<\/a> results, I didn’t count.<\/p>\n

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<\/a> had a majority of 12090 in 2001)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/strong><\/th>\nParty<\/strong><\/th>\nVotes<\/strong><\/th>\n%age<\/strong><\/th>\n+\/- %age<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Colin Challen<\/td>\nLabour<\/a><\/td>\n20570<\/td>\n48.4<\/td>\n-8.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nick Vineall<\/td>\nConservative<\/a><\/td>\n8227<\/td>\n19.4<\/td>\n-6.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stewart Golton<\/td>\nLiberal Democrats<\/a><\/td>\n6819<\/td>\n16.0<\/td>\n+1.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Finnigan<\/td>\nIndependent<\/a><\/td>\n4608<\/td>\n10.8<\/td>\n+10.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chris Beverley<\/td>\nBritish National Party<\/a><\/td>\n2271<\/td>\n5.3<\/td>\n+5.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMajority<\/strong><\/td>\n12343<\/td>\n29.0<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTurnout<\/strong><\/td>\n42492<\/td>\n58.8<\/td>\n+5.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a> from Labour<\/a> to Conservative<\/a>. Which annoys me greatly.<\/p>\n

The current political make up of Yorkshire and the Humber<\/a> 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<\/a> in there too (three I think)… see a map showing this in detail (from the BBC<\/a>) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I hope you got the result you wanted.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[82,380,524,730,771,772,1022,1508,1712,1755,1779,1857,1920,2038,2403,2923,3189,3336],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2005","tag-82","tag-bbc","tag-british-national-party","tag-colin-challen","tag-conservative","tag-conservatives","tag-election","tag-independent","tag-labour","tag-leeds","tag-liberal-democrat","tag-make-votes-count","tag-may","tag-morley","tag-politics","tag-swing-politics","tag-votes","tag-yorkshire-and-the-humber","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-1p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}