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If only I could vote in my parents' ward: its a marginal Lib Dem/Tory seat. (Currently Lib Dem, but has teetered back and forth).
;nonono ;doh ;puzzled
The last year has not been the best advert.
From Wikipedia
Christchurch is represented by a single parliamentary constituency in the House of Commons. The seat was created in 1983 from parts of the Christchurch and Lymington, North Dorset and New Forest constituencies. It had been held by Robert Adley (Conservative) since its creation until his death in 1993. At the by-election Diana Maddock (Liberal Democrat) was elected in one of the largest ever swings (35.4%) against the sitting party.[43] The seat was retaken by Conservative candidate Christopher Chope in 1997 and retained in 2001 and 2005. In the 2010 general election, Chope retained his seat with a considerable majority of 15,410 and 56.4% of the vote, making Christchurch one of the safest Conservative constituencies in the country.[
The first past the post system is deeply flawed & when the results come in I'll be interested to see what it would look like under proportional representation. The last election UKIP would have got 84 seats & as unpalatable as that is to a lifelong socialist like me,it's fairer.I'm voting out of principle simply because I hate the Tories so much but my vote is going to one of the safest Labour seats of the lot.I want my vote to make a difference like it would with P R. A second choice option would also be welcome & would give parties like the Greens more of a voice.
Finally,if the system isn't going to change then the other parties need to think about the so called progressive alliance a bit more because in my view the Tories need to be stopped at all costs.
Outline here. According to most sources, the exit polls have been pretty accurate in recent years.
According to the ES, by 3am(ish) if there's a clear majority winner. Later if it goes closer or is a hung Parliament.
Labour actually got 1075 more votes in 2015 than in 2010 but because of a 7.1%/3075 voter increase in the turnout their share was down from 42.1% to 41.5%
On the plus side there have been reports of people queuing to vote so it sounds like we're going to get a high turnout. When I voted the staff were having to explain to an EU citizen (not sure from where exactly) that he wasn't eligible to vote.
I have been reading of UK citizens elsewhere in the EU eligible to vote but prevented by various snafus ;angry
Really hoping I'm not one of them... still waiting to hear from my proxy that it all went ok.
Let me see if I can copy and paste the story...
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[The voter who had been refused] had tried calling the Electoral Commission, with no success.Then someone at the polling station [an official?] called a number and was told that [she] was ineligible to vote as a Polish citizen. "Well, wasn’t I glad to whip out my British passport and wave it in her face. And then whoever was at the end of the line started crumbling. Oh, it’s a clerical error they say. She is indeed a UK citizen. So what do I do? asked the nice [official at the polling station]. ‘Give her a ballot and mark a clerical error in your register’ they said.
So that was that. They said at the station that there had been four other people who were refused the ballot there despite being apparently naturalised and registered, but they didn’t persevere like I did, and walked away."
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If true, how many other people were wrongly refused their democratic right to vote? ;angry
100% genuine.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jun/08/press-gang-up-on-jeremy-corbyn-in-election-day-coverage
Led to a social-media driven 'thing' of Bin the Sun, apparently.
I would have voted Lib dem as always
Surely not, but could be a tense night.
To stay up, or not to say up ;hmm