Wednesday, May 09, 2007

911

The final number of newly elected Conservative Councillors has reached 911 with the delayed result from Warwick and Breckland. The BBC had the results summary until lunch time, and replaced it with a postcode search they could just not bring themselves to printing over 900 gains for the Conservatives. I think a 50% better result than excellent.
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2 comments:

Jeremy Moulton said...

Gavin

Dan Hannan has written an interesting piece on his blog on the Telegraph website.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/danielhannan/may2007/electionfigures.htm

He questions some of the reports about the degree of Conservative sucess that has appeared in the media. Our share of the vote stayed the same according to the official figures. However we gained over 900 seats. It doesn't sound quite right does it? Meanwhile Labour and Lib Dems lost hundreds of seats and their vote again stayed about the same in % of the poll.

Dan Hannan questions the statistical assumptions have lie behind the offical figures and his analysis shows that in fact the Conservatives did much much better than has been reported. One intresting fact is that they extrapolate the vote share from seats where all the parties fielded candidates. Of course the Conservative fielded many more candidates that the other parties.

It also seems that the media hasnt really explained just how bad the result was for Labour in Scotland. It was truely disasterous. To put it in perspective it would be like the Conservtives losing all across Surrey! Given that the hier apparent, Gordon Brown, is a scot, it makes the result all the more worrying for Labour.

Jeremy

4:32 am
Ryan Newell said...

The BBC will always report heavily in favour of Labour.

They are a very biased news company.

The Tories obviouslly had a very good election.

It will be interesting to see if it is carried forward to next May.

3:31 pm

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