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08-06-2017, 10:21
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Today we’re having the second General Election in just over two years. For the past few weeks, I’ve been running an opinion poll in the sidebar of the desktop version of the blog. I deliberately haven’t promoted it at all on social media, so the results are rather more representative of wider public opinion than they were last time (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/polling-station-then-pub.html). Indeed, some professional opinion polls have come up with fairly similar figures. The original poll results and the associated comments are here (http://poll.pollcode.com/47586484_result?v).
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If I put these through the Electoral Calculus (http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html) model, assuming a uniform swing, the results are as follows, giving an overall Conservative majority of 24:
Conservative 337
Green 1
Labour 229
Liberal Democrat 7
Plaid Cymru 2
SNP 55
UKIP 1
NI Parties 18
I’ve eliminated the non-voters and bumped up the PC/SNP vote share to a more realistic 5.5%. It may seem surprising that the Conservatives end up with an overall majority on such a small lead in vote share, but, since they were wiped out in Scotland by the SNP in 2015, Labour no longer have the edge in terms of seats per vote that they once enjoyed. The one UKIP seat is Clacton, which they would retain on that vote share, but are unlikely to do in practice.
I’m not aware that lifestyle issues have featured at all in the campaign. Sadly, it seems that, whoever gets into power, more things will be banned or restricted. But it will be very interesting to see what the final results turn out to be later tonight.


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