NSC: The General Election Game

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park

NSC Patron

Apr 5, 2014

23,528

• May 4, 2015

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A competition to predict the outcome of affairs both nationally, and locally in Brighton & Hove if you wish.

You are predicting the following:

Nationally:

Amount of seats taken

The local results for the above (if you wish)

Notes:

There are 650 National seats

Locally (Brighton & Hove):

The amount of seats taken by each party

Notes:

There are 54 Local seats

To show how the predictions should look, mine are below:

 

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park

NSC Patron

Apr 5, 2014

23,528

• May 4, 2015

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Nationally:

Labour: 273
Conservative: 267
SNP: 57
Liberal Democrat: 27
Green: 1
UKIP: 3
Other: 22

Brighton Kemptown: Labour GAIN
Brighton Pavilion: Green HOLD
Hove: Conservative HOLD
Lewes: Liberal Democrat HOLD

Locally:

Labour: 26
Conservative: 14
Green: 14

No overall control

 

M

Machiavelli

Well-known member

Oct 11, 2013

16,643

Fiveways

• May 4, 2015

• #3

Brighton Lines said:

Nationally:

Labour: 273
Conservative: 267
SNP: 57
Liberal Democrat: 27
Green: 1
UKIP: 3
Other: 22

Brighton Kemptown: Labour GAIN
Brighton Pavilion: Green HOLD
Hove: Conservative HOLD
Lewes: Liberal Democrat HOLD

Locally:

Labour: 26
Conservative: 14
Green: 14

No overall control

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Have copied-and-pasted the others from your starting pistol, but changed the big two to:
SNP: 57
Liberal Democrat: 27
Green: 1
UKIP: 3
Other: 22

Con: 274
Labour: 266

Hove: LAB gain
Pavilion: GREEN hold
Kemptown: an election decider -- incredibly marginal: LAB gain

Locally:

Lab: 24
Con (merchants): 15
Green: 15
UKIP: zilch, nada, etc

 

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick

Nov 29, 2005

20,261

somewhere in Eastbourne

• May 4, 2015

• #4

Brighton Lines said:

Nationally:

Labour: 273
Conservative: 267
SNP: 57
Liberal Democrat: 27
Green: 1
UKIP: 3
Other: 22

Brighton Kemptown: Labour GAIN
Brighton Pavilion: Green HOLD
Hove: Conservative HOLD
Lewes: Liberal Democrat HOLD

Locally:

Labour: 26
Conservative: 14
Green: 14

No overall control

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that will do for me ....................can you order it online

 

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park

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glasfryn said:

that will do for me ....................can you order it online

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Would you like an Eastbourne 'Lib Dem HOLD' with that, Sir ?

 

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick

Nov 29, 2005

20,261

somewhere in Eastbourne

• May 4, 2015

• #6

Brighton Lines said:

Would you like an Eastbourne 'Lib Dem HOLD' with that, Sir ?

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must say I have met Stephen Lloyd a few times and he is not a bad bloke, and my instinct is to vote towards the left, but I would not have a breakdown if he got in again

 

Eeyore

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Apr 5, 2014

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glasfryn said:

must say I have met Stephen Lloyd a few times and he is not a bad bloke, and my instinct is to vote towards the left, but I would not have a breakdown if he got in again

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The last Ashcroft poll suggested that he may be alright. I guess it may be down to whether UKIP voters come back over to the Tories in the end

 

jimhigham

Je Suis Rhino

Apr 25, 2009

7,735

Woking

• May 5, 2015

• #8

Conservatives 281
Labour 265
SNP 54
LibDems 27
UKIP 4
Green 1
Others 18

I'm not local so I use my amazing political punditry to prognosticate a Conservative HOLD in Woking. Bold, huh?