And two more. Three Tory seats held in Rottingdean and three Labour held in East Brighton.
Month: May 2007
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And another two. Labour lose one, hold one in North Portslade. Tories hold three in Patcham.
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Two more. Greens hold St Peter’s and Labour lose one seat (that of deputy leader Sue John) to the Tories. Party standing C7 G5 LD2 Lab1
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Two more wards declared: Tory holds in Central Hove and Westbourne.
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Three wards declared. Tories hold Woodingdean, Lib dems hold Brunswick and Greens gain both seats in Regency. Current state of the parties 2C 2G 2LD
Morning of the count
Morning. I’m at the count of the local elections here and I’ll be trying to liveblog the results as they’re announced. First one should be through at 11ish.
3rd of May
VOTE!
People have died for it.
Blair not voting tomorrow
Interesting little factoid from Downing Street Says…. Apparently the Prime Minister does not vote in local elections in his constituency, because he receives council services in London. As there are no elections in London tomorrow, he will not be able to vote in the last election of his premiership.
π
Factoid of the day is from Dr. Neil Basescu, in
Knowing pi to 39 decimal places would nearly suffice for computing the
circumference of a circle enclosing the known universe with an error no greater than the
nucleus of a hydrogen atom
Movement to the left of you
Interesting article in Salon (sub or watch an ad, sorry) about the way that the leftish “netroots” of the Democratic Party are aping the tactics of the conservative movement.