How many candidates have YOU got?

Aitch

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Well, people keep putting bits of paper through my letter box, asking me to vote for them. Eight so far, though I suppose I could have unthinkingly binned a couple.

So I decided to check how many candidates there are for Spelthorne. Seems there are 10. Shame there's no Monster Raving Loony this time out; but we do have a The Best of a Bad Bunch candidate to make up for it.

Anyone here from a constituency with more than 10 candiates?
 
Just the six here http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/constituency/1184/tyneside-north looks like a seat targeted by the racists, which is strange as I've seen no campaigning from any party at all.

On second thoughts I've had a Lib Dem and a NF flyer a while back. It was a little disappointing that the Lib Dems flyer was riddled with spelling mistakes, whilst the NF's was faultless (apart from the "policies" obviously).

Bloody hell things are hotting up around here, my wife has just seen what I've typed and informed me Labour put something through our door today, its all go in a safe seat....
 
Oh well, shouldn't be surprised - Spelthorne has always attracted some of the more, how can I put this, interesting candidates. :boggled:

Back in '92 or '97 we had about a dozen. In one of them, not only was there an Official Monster Raving Loony candidate, but also an Independent Monster Raving Loony one; which, as you can imagine, fatally split the Monster Raving Loony vote! :covereyes
 
Seven, including this complete loon from the Christian Democrats:

"when schoolboys are taught that homosex is OK for them, then many children are going to exhibit anti-social and criminal behaviour"

The whole flier is almost beyond parody:

http://www.thestraightchoice.org/full.php?q=3639#l8882

Priceless....

Just checked, he got 61 votes in the last general election....
 
We've got six. The four main parties, plus a green and a UKIP. The UKIP guy is a loon. Stood up during a discussion of proportional representation to say that all this discussion of pros and cons was irrelevant, he would never support PR because that was the electoral system that elected Adolf Hitler.

Whatamaroon.

Rolfe.
 
andyandy said:
Seven, including this complete loon from the Christian Democrats:

"when schoolboys are taught that homosex is OK for them, then many children are going to exhibit anti-social and criminal behaviour"

The whole flier is almost beyond parody:

http://www.thestraightchoice.org/full.php?q=3639#l8882

Priceless....

Just checked, he got 61 votes in the last general election....
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Oh dear. My UKIP buffoon is completely trumped! (And he doesn't even have a web presence.)

Rolfe.
 
Well, it shows how much attention I have been paying to local politics as I seem to have been moved from Ealing Southall to the new constituency of Ealing Central and Acton. Maybe I'm moving up in the world.

Seven candidates and seemingly a three way split between the three main parties. I am seriously thinking of breaking the habit of a lifetime and voting LibDem as I suspect they currently pose the biggest threat to the inevitable and depressing Tory victory.
 
Do candidates have to put up a bond which they forfeit if they don't get a certain number of votes? They have to here - it's a way of discouraging the real loons from nominating.
 
lionking said:
Probably not enough to deter determined idiots, but it is something.
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Interesting piece on effects of reducing the threshold for losing your deposit here (PDF version here). With figures on the number and distribution of lost deposits.

Also interesting that only three parties in the 2005 election didn't lose any deposits - Labour, the SNP and the DUP.
 
lionking said:
Probably not enough to deter determined idiots, but it is something.
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We don't really want to deter determined idiots. It's an important part of liberal democracy that people can run in elections without too many barriers being placed in their way.
 
It's always entertaining when one of the big parties loses a deposit, especially at a by-election where they've been boasting they'll win. (Who, me, rub it in about Glasgow East? Never!)

Rolfe.
 
Seven.

Main three, going to be the Tories that take it unless the vote is split with UKIP, the BNP and The English Democrats (if you don't know, think BNP but less inclusive).

We also have The Science Party.
 
Seven here; the main three plus the English Democrats, UKIP, Greens and an Independent. The Independent candidate appears to have changed his name to John "noneoftheabove" Daramy. However, his cunning plan is foiled by being second in alphabetical order, so the only person above him on the ballot paper will be the Conservative candidate. As the Conservatives managed only 8.3% of the vote last time, I don't think he's likely to trouble the result.
 
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