Local election leaflets online

The Straight Choice election leaflet project is an archive of election leaflets distributed throughout the campaign. This is a helpful thing to be doing as ….. Promises that candidates make in their leaflets can be compared to what they promise to do elsewhere. In the future we can also compare the voting record of MPs with what they promised on the campaign trail. It helps catch parties or candidates who are breaking electoral law - 2 parties have been reported to the authorities based on leaflets uploaded to TheStraightChoice....

April 23, 2010 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Boundary changes: Winners and losers

The BBC have an article on the electoral ward boundary changes. London looses Brent East. The BBCs prediction for the larger seats that gain territory from Brent East are ‘labour marginal’.

February 5, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Local elections - Look for the BIRD!

In Brent, we don’t do anything by halves. So today we elect all of our Councillors. Over at Brent East Campaigning there are a few last posts and a really great graph… when I post again we’ll know what we’ve got for the next four years…

May 3, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Past Election Results

One sure-fire way of demonstrating that you have some skill with a computer is to generate a barchart from some data in a spreadsheet program like Calc (in openoffice) or a program from Microsoft. Both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives have got someone on their team that would pass a European Computer Driving License test no problem. Both parties have proved that you can prove anything with stats. Brent last elected its Councillors in 2002: long before the Iraq war, two (three?...

April 26, 2006 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

More on Brent East Campaigning

The b.e.c weblog fears without loathing the Brent East Campaign trail, posting articles and images that catalogue the activism of the political parties and some independent candidates in this area. I blogged the 2005 General Election, now I’m back for more during the four weeks prior to the local elections in May.

April 11, 2006 · 1 min · Rob Dyke