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thespurtle: City Centre by-election 1st pref votes: Con 837, SNP 797; Lab 682; Grn 494; Indep 394; Lib-Dem 251. 2nd round counting now begins. #edcc
Turnout 23.4%
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The candidates are
John Carson – Independent
Karen Doran – Scottish Labour Party
Alistair Hodgson - Scottish Liberal Democrats
Melanie Main – Scottish Green Party
Iain McGill - Scottish Conservative and Unionist
Alasdair Rankin - Scottish National Party (SNP)
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ainMcGill: Round 2 figures - 904 McGill; 825 SNP; Labour 716; @melaniemain 576; @JohnRtCarson 402 - Carson excluded #edcc 3rd stage starting now
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EdinReporter: stage 3 results 29 to Labour 59 to Green 139 to Cons 68 to SnP Greens now excluded
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23.4% - If Edinburgh is like Glasgow I'd encourage folk to look at their local electoral roll. In one close here we had 18 names on the register, but only 2 actually resident, and discovered actors long moved away still with a vote available from their old Glasgow address. I'd reckon that a full audit and expunging of 'dead' names would deliver a 40-50% turn out in place of the meagre figure claimed.
The Tory vote is out in force, it seems. WTF?
Apparently at my local polling station, by 6pm only 120 people had voted all day. Folk without children still on holiday, perhaps?
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EdinReporter: 1728 votes needed by the winner. Stage 4 counting being done now.
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"The Tory vote is out in force, it seems"
Some people will stick with party of their choice more than others (low turnout). It would be interesting to see turnout figures from individual polling sations.
Is #edcc a twitter account? I can't find it, or are you at the count?
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EdinReporter: Labour predicted to go out this time round
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So will Lab voters have used other prefs - if so Tory or SNP??
Interesting times!
"Is #edcc a twitter account? I can't find it,"
It's a tag some people are using
http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23edcc
Best updates here - http://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/category/liveblog-events/
"or are you at the count?"
No need!
Cheers chdot.
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EdinReporter: Stage 5 now and Labour out
EdinReporter: result now 223 to Lab 67 to Cons 188 to SNP
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That confused me, Labour have most 226, but are out ???
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thespurtle: Anti-tram Independent voters mostly transferred votes to Conservatives not anti-tram SNP in latest round. Odd.
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Not entirely - not many people 'believe' that SNP councillors want to stop tram enough to not be part of ruling coalition!
"That confused me, Labour have most 226, but are out ???"
That's just number of transferred preference votes - but it is complicated.
ALSO a curious form of PR where (in a by-election) no account is taken of party of other seats in ward - it's not really a ward by-election, just one of the seats.
Meanwhile
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Tram funding plans to push cost of building line to £1bn
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Tram-funding-plans-to-push.6821447.jp
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thespurtle: City Centre 4th round results: Con 1,110; SNP 1,084; Lab 968. Lab eliminated. Final round now. Whom do Lab voters hate least? #edcc
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IainMcGill: Well, game over - led at every stage of transfers until the last - but @theSNP hold #edcc with 1368 to my 1264 - was a great campaign though
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So more Lab votes to SNP than Tory.
What happened at the hustings (winner is last person mentioned).
http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/news/city-centre-hustings-–-how-candidates-fared
So the worst candidate won. Just goes to show that voters are still voting according to tribal party loyalties or to keep X party out (in this case the Tories?) rather than on a candidate's merits.
Also demonstrates that events like hustings do not matter to most voters. Still, 'most' is a bit academic given the turnout. Most voters didn't vote at all...
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