Sunderland Count

yeh,watching their football team

Newcastle  are copying them

Yeah, what is wrong with them?

Last Tyne-Wear derby for a while...

We have to try and finish top in something

Health & safety goes out the window when it comes to moving them ballot boxes
around

Adam Johnson

Postal 60/40 leave Ron ,Come on the Mackems

its clear the counters are being put under pressure for speed. Just watched on sky news. an absolute disgrace

those skateboards need a hi vis imho

High postal VOTE

90,000 out of 210,000 postal vote? Did I hear that right?

i think you did sumo.. 87,000?

89k from 207k (from i-player)

Over 40% postal vote in a city. That seems odd to me.

That's about what you'd expect
e.g. General Election 2015
Houghton and Sunderland South
Valid Postal Votes: 22950
Total valid Votes: 38489

At 59.60% this was the highest % postal votes in any UK constituency.

Many other NE constituencies in the 40% area.

Just ask if you want any more.

I've been very uncomfortable with the postal vote business for a long while.

good stuff bongo

Wow. Is it just in the NE or does it happen in big cities nationwide? What are the reasons given?

john prescott had campaign to get north easterners onto postal votes when he tried to set up
north east assembly

Top 10 constituencies by postal vote at the 2015 GE:

Houghton and Sunderland South    59.60%
Washington and Sunderland West    57.50%
Sunderland Central    56.20%
Newcastle upon Tyne North    51.90%
Newcastle upon Tyne Central    49.10%
South Shields    45.60%
Blaydon    45.10%
Jarrow    43.20%
Stevenage    42.60%
Doncaster North    42.10%

This is a guess ( as I kept the data for a different purpose ).
Most of these are strong Labour areas ( not all ) with low labour mobility and low mobility generally.
It makes sense to save money and encourage your hard core support to register for a postal vote. It saves quite a bit of money from party funds compared to taking people to the polling station on the day by car and mini-bus. Labour funds being especially tight as union dues have dropped away.

Jaywick could still swing it

Disco Dave couldn't keep the pencil still enough to place his vote

There was a bus from Sunderland in Manachester on Saturday and they all had Brexit badges on

Ok, I get the NE ones with the assembly tie in. Stevenage looks a bit of an anomaly on that list. Do you know roughly what the postal % would be in a standard town or city?

The 18 lowest postal vote %s at the 2015 GE were the Northern Ireland constituencies where postal voting has different rules - medical justification typically required.

Excluding Northern Ireland the ten lowest constituencies for % postal votes at the GE 2015 were:

Stoke-on-Trent North    10.80%
Oxford East    10.80%
Bury St Edmunds    10.80%
Birmingham, Ladywood    10.70%
Dagenham and Rainham    10.50%
Wolverhampton South East    10.40%
Halton    10.20%
Birmingham, Perry Barr    9.90%
Sherwood    9.50%
Weaver Vale    7.80%

Nice. It'll be online voting at some point in the future I guess. There must be somewhere in the world already doing it.

The median constituencies were:

Horsham    20.30%
Knowsley    20.30%
Reading West    20.30%
Louth and Horncastle    20.30%
Clwyd West    20.30%
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich    20.30%

beaten by the foreigners

ffs

fiddling little rock c***s

800 odd out - for ever more i'll hope hatred on them selfish f--kers

That postal vote in Sunderland is slightly below what you'd expect. If this was a General Election you would say it's a bad result for Labour by a single % or 2.
What that means for the Remain-Leave split, I don't know, but it could slightly favour Leave.

Please don't bet on this analysis though.

sunderland are leaving as far as im aware

Sunderland was expected about 54% leave - BBC rumour is that Leave is 62%

Can't believe them rock b@stard's - really p1ssed me off

Sunderland could represent a big swing in Labour seats,mostly they will get high turnouts so the extra majorities may be an issue.

So many remainians  in Newcastle ? 

find that hard to believe

could somone  care to explain why so many ....sad stuff

Newcastle tends to be more cross section with a large quantity of students who were expected to back Remain heavily with Labour getting chunks to follow the party line. That deficit of expectations could be ominous for Remain.

The biggest employer in Newcastle by a country mile is the civil service

A lot of those civil servants are hacking in their motors daily to Four Lane Ends from areas like Northumberland and Wearside.
I'd expect Newcastle Civic Centre is a contender for biggest employer of constituents, as well as the 2 universities.

TheChaser 23 Jun 16 23:22 Joined: 23 May 12 | Topic/replies: 30,602 | Blogger: TheChaser's blog
There was a bus from Sunderland in Manachester on Saturday and they all had Brexit badges on

61% ffs.

61% for Leave and 39% Remain, a majority of 31k in an area dominated by Labour

They must have been banging doors today few coaches down for roses gig all signing brexit songs

Labour are finished

could we please refrain from turning this into right v left ,its about in/out of EU .
Why let them pigeon hole everyone  so easily ?
they want to polarise this so they can manipulate and control ,this is not about party politics imo ,shameful imo .
maybe its just me ...a dont get it

OK bb but it get nauseating that Milipede,Eagle,etc all parrot the line that it is a protest vote about austerity when Labour were confident of delivering a Remain majority. If I hear one more politician saying we have to listen I will smash my TV.