d’Hondt

You may have seen the post I did last month that had Sheffield as a fictional super constituency electing six MPs. Using the numbers from this years elections under my fantastical system we would now have 3 Labour, 2 LibDem and a Conservative.

 

Labour	101909	50954.5	33969.67	25477.25
Liberal Democrats	83131	41565.5	27710.33	20782.75
Conservative	49513	24756.5	16504.33	12378.25
BNP	10741	5370.5	3580.333	2685.25
UKIP	8798	4399	2932.667	2199.5
Green	3464	1732	1154.667	866
English Democrats	1078	539	359.3333	269.5
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition	656	328	218.6667	164
Martin Fitzpatrick	429	214.5	143	107.25
Christian Party	250	125	83.33333	62.5
Official Monster Raving Loony Party	164	82	54.66667	41
Communist Party of Britain	139	69.5	46.33333	34.75
Rod Rodgers	40	20	13.33333	10

Sheffield Council AGM - Wednesday May 19th

Seats on the council: Liberal Democrats 42, Labour 39, Greens 2, Independent 1

There will will be a lot of interesting manoeuvres going on between the parties over the next 11 days as they try and work out who can take some semblance of control of the council. It will be interesting to see if yesterday's rumours pan out. Coverage from the Star

No Overall Control

The new make up of the council is Liberal Democrats 42 seats, Labour 39, Greens 2, Independent 1. As I understand it the current cabinet will remain until the council AGM, but the AGM will apoint a LAB lord mayor on the muggins turn principle who will have the casting vote. There is also a strong rumor that the greens will side with the Labour group.

Last Night

Last night, obviously, blogging failed. This is something I can only apologise for, I do hope some of you were following on twitter. I am now off to watch the local election count, which should be much quicker ;-)

General Election live blog

Will appear here from 10pm. Live from Ponds Forge. 10:50 - Blogger being slow, updates will be more frequent on twitter @shefvotes. Ballot box contents being checked atm and local ballots being seperated. 01:20 - Still having issues updating blogger, nothing concrete to report from any seat, just avoided being in shot behind Mr Blunkett. 01:30 - Only other laptop I have seen not in the hands of a media type is being used by the lib dems by the poweraid machine. 02:16 - No official word but the rumour mill says Sheffield counts running ~2 hours late, have seen other parties with laptops now though 02:20 - Again huge apologies for my blogging technology letting me down somewhat, twitter is where it is at. 03:14 - some typos creeping into tweets, all 6 counts still seem far off 03:51 - Difficult to stay out of camera shot now Nick Clegg is here, he made almost strait for Paul Scriven

Live blogging/Tweeting the count

Today is of course polling day.
GO VOTE
So tonight will be the General Election count, as I have been accredited as an observer by the electoral commission I will be there tweeting and blogging.
If that doesn't kill me I will then be at the local count tomorrow afternoon.

A difficult campaign

It has been far harder than I expected having this blog during the electoral campaign. This has been due to how interesting it has been "politically" which as this blog is written from a neutral standpoint made it difficult to cover. The point of this was to see if the internet would be important in raising engagement this time round but that has been pretty much blown out of the water by the TV debates.