When will the General Election count to be held?

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• Guest 655

  • Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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  26 October 2009     17:3931590
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  A lot of Constituencies will be holding their General Election counts on the morning after the election instead of immediately after the polls close.
  
  There are no cost issues here for local authorities because 'reasonable costs' of General Election counts are recoverable from the Government.
  
  Delaying counts provides concerns about a vacuum of power for up to 24 hours after an election, the security of ballot boxes and the sheer loss of the excitement and 'immediacy' that a count provides when done immediately after the polling stations close. In this day and age when fewer people are taking an interest it can only damage the electoral process to reduce devalue the excitement that attaches to counts.
  
  Over 200 MPs have signed an early day motion supporting having counts immediately after the polls close. A Facebook Group has 5,500 members of the public signed up as well so pressure is building for Councils to abandon late counts for general elections.
  
  The Electoral Commission has written to all Constituencies, 646 of them to find out when they plan to hold their counts. So far less than 250 have replied (2 weeks later) of which 27, just over 10% have said they would start the count Friday morning. 134 have said immediately after the polls close and 86 said they have not made up their minds.
  
  Dover has not yet replied. Neither have Shepway, in case they intend to repeat that horrible joint count farce.
  
  So can we ask what will be happening in Dover?
  
  Given that funding is not a big issue there is no compelling reason for a Friday am start. Doing so would merely be a matter of convenience for the staff, who themselves, as largely volunteers, may not be too happy about losing out on some out of hours extra pay.
  
  Link to the list here: http://www.parliament.uk/deposits/depositedpapers/2009/DEP2009-2588.pdf
• Guest 649

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  26 October 2009     17:4231591
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  Right Barry I can tell you when it will be it is May the 6th next year.
  Later you will find out how I know.
• Guest 691

  • Registered: 24 Oct 2009
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  26 October 2009     17:5331595
  #3      
  Good God, I agree with Barry. Shoot me!
  "In this world there are 10 sorts of people - those that understand binary and those that don't."
• Guest 655

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  26 October 2009     17:5631598
  #4      
  Vic - the election date is indeed likely to be the 6th May but this is about when to count is to be held.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  26 October 2009     18:0431602
  #5      
  whatever is decided the counting should be simultaneous around the country.
  
  the polling stations all open and close at the same time.
  
  if the count is held over, we will have had the exit polls late thursday evening, usually giving a good indication, then
  a long delay before the actual result.
  will take all the excitement away.
• Guest 649

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  26 October 2009     18:1231610
  #6      
  And not one of you asked me how I know and the count will be done as before on the night.
• Brian Dixon

  • Location: Dover
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  26 October 2009     18:1531612
  #7      
  just wondering if there is a comminist candidate standing.
• Guest 691

  • Registered: 24 Oct 2009
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  26 October 2009     18:1731615
  #8      
  Go on then Victor, you are clearly bursting to tell us. I will indulge you...
  "In this world there are 10 sorts of people - those that understand binary and those that don't."
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  26 October 2009     18:2131617
  #9      
  victor
  
  no one will rise to the bait, you have played too many of these games.
  
  also you are not right, no one knows(probably not even the PM) but a lot of people will be clearing the decks as it looks 90% certain.
• Guest 651

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  26 October 2009     18:3331619
  #10      
  I know I won't be staying up all night this time to count, even if I do get to see an amazing sunrise when I head back from Ashford in the early hours
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 649

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  26 October 2009     19:2231626
  #11      
  I would love to tell you all but I said I would not gave it out .
  Yes I do play games like Howard said but in the end i do come out with i told you so.
  Howard was I not right about MORRINSONS I told you all and the papers avery long time before the council even found out,again was I not right about Burlington HOUSE not coming down for years and still saying it will still be there in four years time.How do I fine things out easy by talking to the right ones.I have been wrong big time like with Status Quo and geting in at the last General Election and I put my hands up. So again it is just wait and see, Yes I do like being in the headlines I have all ways been like that, and like some pop groups about now.I am back.
  With lots to come.
• Guest 672

  • Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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  26 October 2009     19:4731632
  #12      
  There you go again Vic. some of your predictions are not rocket science, any one can usualy see the out come.
  
  If your not going to tell anyone what you know then why bother posting about it?
  Then when it does happen you say I told you so, you havent told us anything.
  grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
• Guest 649

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  26 October 2009     20:0231634
  #13      
  Yes I have I told you that the G/e WILL BE ON THE 6TH OF MAY 2010 and that the count will we done the same night.
  That is what was aske for on this post and i have just told you that.
• Guest 655

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  26 October 2009     20:1731636
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  Vic it has been said by me many times on the forum that the election will be on the 6th and unlike you gave the reasons why this is almost certainly the date. Many counts, at least 27 are going to be held on the Friday not right after the pollls close, unless pressure forces a rethink. I want to lnow whether DDC will be doing the count as usual or will join those counting Friday. After all they did this last June. I am sure you have no beemn given any inside information or if so who and when were you told? The truth is tha( you know nothing, you let you excessive ego carry you away, its also just the kind of attention seeking behaviour you expect from children (and my dog come to that!)
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  26 October 2009     20:2231638
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  quite a lot of counts are normally held on the friday.
  
  northern ireland seats and remote parts of scotland are the usual ones.
• Guest 649

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  26 October 2009     21:2831652
  #16      
  Barry I have taken a dislike to your posts of late does your dog bite.
• Guest 655

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  27 October 2009     00:5631682
  #17      
  You leave yourself wide open Vic. I will often say what others are thinking, better you know.
• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  27 October 2009     07:3731683
  #18      
  Was that a green car?
• Guest 645

  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  27 October 2009     07:4731686
  #19      
  Bern
  
  Lol.... Naughty girl ,,so long as it wasn't a blue Tory car....
  
  Not really bothered about when the General Election is called (so Vic you can keep your little secret and put it where the sun don't shine) or how and when the votes are counted.I am more interested in the result.
  
  Will I be celebrating a Labour win or drowning my sorrows because of a Labour loss.Which ever way I'd better start buying the booze now before the Tories tax the bloody lot to death.Therefore making the going for a drink a 'rich Tory past time only'.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Guest 653

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  27 October 2009     08:3031692
  #20      
  With all the lies and deceit - on virtually every level, the total incompetance as a Chancellor and PM, the stealing of our money and not improving the services the money was taken from us for - all these and much, much more, how could anyone vote for a Labour Government - ever again ?
  
  The thought of having another term of greedy, selfish, incompetant people like our present government and its cabinet is made up of, run our country, fills me with dread, it really does
  
  
  
  
  
  Roger

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