Election night time...

[matgb]

Well, it's Scottish Palriament elections, and non-London local elections. As the Scots are using my favourite voting system for the locals (first time used in mainland Briatin that I know of), I may be staying up late. I may also post reactions and stuff as they come. Or I may just comment elsewhere. doctorvee will be liveblogging at his site and on his Twitter, and there are already a few reaction posts on my friends page. However, rythmaning has almost certainly the best election poster ever:

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

LOL that poster RULES!

I am filling in the time between waiting for results by doing yet more tag list tidying...

[matgb]

That's plan two, first I need to read my friends page instead of commenting on yours lots. Oh, and reply to yesterdays comments here, I feel a bit rude ignoring people...

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Serves you right for having such a huge...


f-list!

* has no sympathy *

:P

[matgb]

My main view isnt' that big really, it's just that I've added a lot of active users recently, mostly from your friends page, makes for lots more post per person in it...

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, so it's MY fault?

* giggle *

I don't think I am ever going to have a tidy tags list.

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

I didn't know which system they were using, so I turned to the BBC, which tells me: "The parliament's 129 MSPs will be elected through the first-past-the-post constituency seat system and on to regional lists."

So, MMP?

Apparently not, because then it goes on to say: "A new system where voters select candidates in order of preference will be used to determine who sits on local councils."

So STV?

What is going on here? From the rest of the article, I gather it's STV, but what's that whole bit about regional lists? Good grief, I study this stuff and their explanation makes no sense. How do they expect the public to get it?

[matgb]

They don't, it's the BBC, their journalists don't get it so pretend they do.

But yeah, the Scottish Parliament uses MMP, but the local elections (city and below) is using STV, which is what I referred to. Probably should've made that a bit clearer.

I hate MMP, but that's because I tend to dislike parties and it tends to entrench them, which is also why I like STV a lot.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* hug *

Torbay was a bit of a blue drubbing then... :/

[matgb]

Looks it. Question, can you try to get to http://www.torbay.gov.uk/ and let me know?

I can't get to the eh site to look up the actual numbers, it's pretty much what I was expecting, but I want to see if it's standard Torbay "every seat's a marginal" or if it's actually a bad result percentage wise as well as seats.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

http://www.torbay.gov.uk/index/council/electoralservices/localelections.htm

Seems to be working now, but no results analysis as yet.