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I suspect many didn't vote UKIP because with the first past the post system life is very difficult for them. In fact it's downright unfair. I've done an analysis of the results and this is what I've found:Labour votes - 26,552UKIP votes- 22,096Labour seats in the council - 48UKIP seats in the council - 1This is not democracy. Labour get 20% more votes than UKIP but get 48 times as many seats (4,700% more). This is plainly ridiculous. Never mind. Next time even with first past the post, UKIP will make substantial gains. One day they will be the majority party and can sort Doncaster out good and proper instead of the useless Labour councillors we've had to put up with for far too long.
TRB1) As I said earlier this week, Oppositions NEVER win elections. Govts lose them and Oppositions' tactics are ALWAYS negative. 2) I'm genuinely fascinated by the attacks on Miliband. He is apparently a geek who can't function in the real world, whilst simultaneously being a nasty, devious, fratricidal extreme left wing maniac who will destroy the country. A bit inconsistent. Seems to me like people deciding they don't like Miliband, then picking a suitable reason afterwards.
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Quote from: IC1967 on May 24, 2014, 06:48:21 pmNo. are those statistics not available online yet ??? ;-)
Quote from: IC1967 on May 24, 2014, 06:48:21 pmNo. 31.66% which means 1 in 3 throughout the borough voted UKIP, very impressive!
SavvyI'm not manipulating anything. I'm stating a fact. Local and European Elections regularly throw up occasions where smaller parties, on a roll, get a stunning level of support among those who voted. The two key issues are1) Whether the party on a roll gets a disproportionate share of its supporters out in a small turnout.2) Whether those votes are a "f*** all the rest of them" protest vote that won't be repeated in a more critical election.History suggests that the answer to both is "usually yes". The Greens took 15% of the vote in the 89 Euro elections in the UK. They've not topped 1% in any of the 5 subsequent General Elections. There are plenty of other examples, not least UKIP getting 16.5% of the vote in the 2009 Euro elections and 3.1% in the General Election 12 months later. I understand that UKIP supporters are jubilant. I don't know if you are one. If you are, you are welcome to believe that 31% of people in TLOD support UKIP and will vote UKIP in a General Election. I suspect you'll be in for a disappointment though.
What UKIP have done in Donny is to lose most matches 3-2. A football team that did that would get relegated. One that lost a few matches 4-2 and won the odd one 2-1 would have the same GD, but more points.