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edited November 2015 in General

imagepoliticalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Local By-Election Results : November 5th 2015

Huntly, Strathbogie and the Howe of Alford on Aberdeenshire (SNP and Lib Dem defence)
Result: Conservative 1,469 (36% +9%), Scottish National Party 1,433 (35% unchanged), Liberal Democrats 928 (23% +5%), Labour 196 (5%, no candidate in 2012), Scottish Libertarians 20 (0%, no candidate in 2012)
No candidate elected on first preferences.

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  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,996
    Scottish Tory Surge!
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    Hope they have enough tissues!
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    FPT
    Richard_Tyndall said:

    flightpath01 said:

    slade said:

    I have just been looking at the make-up of the Canadian cabinet - as you do. The Transport minister is an astronaut, the science minister is a Nobel prize winner ( and is nicknamed Brains), the defence minister is a Sikh, and the Veterans affairs minster is a paraplegic. And there are 15 men and 15 women. How so different from our own dear Cabinet.

    Fascinating. A Nobel Prize winner? In her dreams.
    She is not a Nobel Prize winner and she is not a Nobel Laureate as claimed on her Facebook page a few years ago (she had to withdraw it I think).
    Kirsty Duncan contributed to some work by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the IPCC shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007.
    Good luck to Canada is all I can say with this level of both scientific competence and honesty.

    (It turns out she was one of hundreds of people who worked on a 517-page report titled The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability. Published in 1997, this wasn’t one of the IPCC’s opus climate assessments, but a smaller publication.
    She helped write Chapter 8)
    Hat tip Larry Moran - Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto AKA the 'Sandwalk' blog
    She clearly suffers from the same delusion as Michael Mann who used to claim he had won the same Nobel prize until he got called on it.
    I don't recall Michael winning the year I did.
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,996

    New Thread New Thread

  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,046
    Bloody hell.

    Not the Tory gain (OMG), but the shortness of thread!
  • Tim_BTim_B Posts: 7,669
    HurstLlama said:

    Tim_B said:

    HurstLlama said:

    HYUFD said:

    slade said:

    I have just been looking at the make-up of the Canadian cabinet - as you do. The Transport minister is an astronaut, the science minister is a Nobel prize winner ( and is nicknamed Brains), the defence minister is a Sikh, and the Veterans affairs minster is a paraplegic. And there are 15 men and 15 women. How so different from our own dear Cabinet.

    And Justin Trudeau himself is a former part time high school drama teacher, ski instructor and nightclub bouncer.
    Is that work experience better or worse for a PM than being a PR spiv and then a SpAd?
    He doesn't look big enough for a bouncer. But he's good looking so could be a porn star and has the perfect name - Justin
    I didn't think he had a moustache. Don't all male porn stars have a moustache? I thought the did, because if not why do so many people accuse me of looking like an aging porn star?
    Could it be because you look like Ron Jeremy plus 50 lbs? ;)
  • Moses_Moses_ Posts: 4,865
    Abandon thread !! abandon thread!!
    Every SNP'er for themselves. ........
  • scotslassscotslass Posts: 912
    This is one Tory Moses who won't reach the promised land.

    Remember remember on the 5th November the 14% Independent/Tory vote last time who didn't stand this time and that the late SNP Councillor was a parliamentary candidate and one of the most popular political figures in the North East of Scotland. The loss of the Liberals is the story in Huntly which is why the Nats will be perfectly content with a hold.
  • KenKen Posts: 24
    Just to remind people that Scottish local elections are held under the STV system. Most wards have four councillors and yesterdays vote was to fill two vacancies. Thus all the parties only ran one candidate, as the fear is that if two run then the party could end up losing both seats as people mess up the preferences.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    Council doesn't have a breakdown of which votes went where yet as far as I can see. Was super interesting in the leith walk by election.
  • chestnutchestnut Posts: 7,341
    Excellent results for the last government.
  • AlistairAlistair Posts: 23,670
    The turnout in the Aberdeen by election almost the same as the main council election in 2012. No Green candidate this time round, or Independent.
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