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The BBC's Projected National Share in GB translates into the following seat tally:
➡️REF: 376 (+371)
🌹LAB: 113 (-299)
🔸LD: 71 (-1)
🌳CON: 12 (-109)
🟢Green: 5 (+1)
Reform Majority of 100.
I don't know if there was a huge local issue at play here, but on paper this result sums up the Green's fortunes outside of cities: horrendous.
This sort of result also confirms why in seats like North Herefordshire and Waveney Valley, the Greens are doomed.
The Right (Conservative/Reform/RESTORE) is forecast to receive 49% of the vote, yet they are projected to receive 40% of the seats across GB.
The Left (Labour/LibDem/Green/Nationalist) is forecast to receive 49% of the vote. They are projected to receive 60% of the seats across GB.
The Right in Britiain has never been more divided.
🚨SEPTEMBER MRP POLL 2026🚨
We at @electcalculus asked over 5k people who they intended to vote for in the 2029 GE.
Seats tally
🌹LAB: 288 (-124)
🌳CON: 165 (+44)
➡️Reform: 84 (+79)
🟠LD: 61 (-11)
🟢Green: 7 (+3)
🟡SNP: 18 (+9)
🟡PC: 7 (+3)
🇬🇧RES: 1 (+1)
Changes w/ GE 2024
🚨SEPTEMBER MRP POLL 2026🚨
We at @electcalculus asked over 5k people who they intended to vote for in the 2029 GE.
Seats tally
🌹LAB: 288 (-124)
🌳CON: 165 (+44)
➡️Reform: 84 (+79)
🟠LD: 61 (-11)
🟢Green: 7 (+3)
🟡SNP: 18 (+9)
🟡PC: 7 (+3)
🇬🇧RES: 1 (+1)
Changes w/ GE 2024
3/ The Greens appear to be going back in their rural seats of Herefordshire North and Waveney Valley with the Conservatives currently projected to take back both seats.
Those losses, however, are offset by gains in urban areas like London and Greater Manchester.
Interesting idea in principle, but how would such a card work at a supermarket or corner shop where the merchant is Tesco, Sainsbury's etc..?
You buy groceries and booze and cigarettes all in one transaction.
Almost impossible to discriminate as to what one buys.
By-election projection for Holborn & St Pancras constituency:
🌹 LAB: 46% (−3)
🟢 Green: 35% (+25)
🌳 CON: 6% (−1)
➡️ RFM: 6% (−)
🟠 LD: 4% (−2)
⚪ OTH: 3%
LAB -> Green swing: 14%
LAB Hold
No surprises here.
Burnham wins in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are quashed.
The Right is divided and the left is united.
Perfect opportunity for an early election from Burnham's perspective.
My hunch is Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras by more than a 10% margin.
Exclusive for @Independent: Starmer by-election is Burnham’s ‘test run’ for early general election, according to Labour sources
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The first by-election in Greater London of this Parliament and a seat that is very fertile territory for the Greens.
Outside of Andy Burnham's stronghold of Greater Manchester, this is his first major electoral test.
NEW via @NewJournal Keir Starmer is standing down as an MP camdennewjournal.co.uk/artic…
This is the first council by-election result I've seen that matches the narrative of the Burnham bounce.
Labour getting more than double the vote of Reform UK, in a split ward that Labour very narrowly held onto only 3 months ago.
Perhaps the Burnham bounce is only an electoral phenomenon in the North.
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Yup. I texted a journalist earlier that I’d have expected half this number. 43% - and only fifteen points down on general - is really rather high given the lack of other parties standing
“This is the number that I'm actually most interested in.”
Luke Tryl, UK director of polling company More in Common, says that the provisional turnout in the Clacton by-election of around 43% suggests that a significant number of people have gone out to vote.
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Clacton goes to the polls tomorrow.
Nigel Farage will win, but there are two targets that he must hit in order for his victory to be considered a success.
1) He must poll more raw votes than he did in the General Election which was 21,225.
2) He must secure a higher vote share than Giles Watling did in 2019 which was 72%.
This grade inflation is crazy.
In the 1980s, only about 9% of A-levels were A graded.
Now, in 2026, it stands at just under 30%.
I've never understood why all A levels can't just be on a strict bell curve.
For people saying that I'm conflating the number of A-level entries that received an A or above with the number of students who received at least one A at A level, see my clarification below.
nitter.cf/i/status/2087890365097…
For those of you in the comments saying that what I'm saying doesn't add up, take a look at the graph below.
In 1980, just 8.8% of A-level entries received an A.
By 2009, it was 26.7%.
That's more than 3x the proportion.
The turnout in Clacton will be much, much lower than in the GE.
I reckon between 30 and 35%.