The Results Thread

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What is the blank consituency in the BBC map in Eastern England? It's surrounded by Tory precincts, so I imagine it should go Tory as well (provided its not some urban district).

*Never mind--harlow*  What's it's chances of going Tory?

And Staffordshire South is still undecided

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I thought Paisley is elected, but never actually sits in Parliament.

By the way...incidentally...what are all the parties of Northern Ireland?

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Can someone tell me why the DUP is up so high in NI?  Why, after so much progress for peace, are people voting for an extremist whacko party?  Do these people want to go back to war?

They want peace, but only at no cost whatsoever to themselves. Maybe they have still not bled enough. Maybe what Northern Ireland needs is troubles mark 2 with the UK government as firmly at the Nats side as it used to be at the Unionst side once upon a time. [/pessimism]

I've looked at the Fermanagh result: Who are the 12% of the electorate who voted DUP from Sinn Fein??

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We need to evacuate the SDLP and UUP folks out of NI, hand SF and DUP some low-level nukes and wait for the satelite photos to show everyone dead.

I'm thinking the same thing...

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Look again. That "swing" is a purely statistical thing, "change winner minus change runner-up divide by 2". It does not actually provide a measure of what happened. The DUP hadn't run here last time. It's votes come from the UUP.

Oh, ok. That makes more sense. I thought 12% of the N Irish electorate was just psychotic.

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What was Trimble's consituency?

*just found out. Pretty humiliating*

And about the UK mayorships: I'd be surprised to see any not held by Labour

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And about the UK mayorships: I'd be surprised to see any not held by Labour

Very few local authorities have elected mayors and the initial round of elections for them was marked by lots and lots of protest voting.

Wow. I thought that the centralization of the 1980s was reversed by Labour. So how are the rest of the localities governed?