Posted on 05/09/2010 10:01:17 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
DAVID CAMERON was deprived of a Commons majority by failing to secure the votes of just 16,000 people, according to an expert analysis of election results.
The findings by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher reveal that the Tories came tantalisingly close to securing a clean victory at the polls.
“Cameron came so near and yet so far,” write the directors of the elections centre at Plymouth University. “Just 16,000 extra votes for the Tories, distributed in the 19 constituencies in which the party came closest to winning, would have spared us a weekend of negotiation and speculation.”
The Tories failed to win majorities in about 30 Labour-held marginal constituencies they had expected to win, suggesting that in some seats the extra funds of Lord Ashcroft, the billionaire party donor, were less effective than hoped.
The smallest Labour majority, just 42 votes, was secured by Glenda Jackson, the former actress, in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in north London.
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Could something like this happen to Republicans here, missing the majority by the smallest of margins?
Could happen here if voters are given an echo instead of a choice.
Nope, we don’t have a third party and Obozo is not just disliked but passionately despised.
Could happen here if voters are given an echo instead of a choice.
Could happen here if voters are given an echo instead of a choice.
I think they should let Labour and LibDems keep it. Its all going to crumble soon and the party in power will get the most blame.
Don’t call them “conservatives”. They’re “Tories” but NOT Conservative by any stretch.
Here in Ohio if people are in line at 7:30pm to vote you are supposed to call the BOE and tell them then have one of the judges stand at the end of the line to inform anyone else who miht try to get in line that the cut off was at 7:30pm and this is the end of the line. From what I read they just shut the doors on people in line to vote when the time came to close the polls.
Sure it could. Remember 1992 when it happened to all of us & we got saddled with a 34% president thanks to Ross Perot.
The UK election is a cautionary tale about why we don’t want a 3d party in case everyone forgot what happened in 1992.
I saw this on Neil Cavuto “Is this an omen for Republicans”.
I don’t think it is but still we mustn’t be overconfident.
Umm, how many people were turned away at the polls this election and not allowed to vote?
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