As it happened was just looking at the Banbury (Oxon) parliamentary
elections the other day. One of them also published the state of the poll
at- I think - half hourly intervals.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gatley [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 December 1999 11:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Stoke by-election
>
> Similarly in the 1862 Stoke-upon-Trent by-election, an hour
> by hour analyse of the vote was produced and published.
>
> There is clear evidence that this had an influence on the
> result, because once it became apparent where the major
> opposition to the Tory candidate lay, later voters put
> their support behind the candidate most likely to beat him.
>
> Given our crazy electoral system I do wonder if this
> suggests that the sectret ballot has benefited the
> Conservative Party far more than the Labour and Liberal
> Parties. But, then can one generalise from one election
> result?
>
> As a side note, it must be added that Tory candidate's
> support for the Confederacy in the US Civil War dis not do
> his campaign much good!!!
>
> David
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:33:39 +0000 (GMT) "G.P.Moss"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Although concerned with parliamentary elections I was fascinated in the
> > details of the elections for the pocket borough of Reigate in the
> > Parliamentary Paper report on the enquiring into treating which resulted
> > in the Borough election of 1865 being declared void and the Borough
> > loosing the vote.
> >
> > The report lists by name who voted and for whom for the previous four
> > elections. For the relevant election there is an hour by hour analysis
> of
> > how many had so far voted for each candidate. Presumably the electorial
> > roll is used to record the vote of each elector.
> >
> > For those interested there are some extraordinary accounts of "bribery"
> > and other devices to obtain votes. (I will dig out the full reference
> for
> > any one requiring details of the PP - just e-mail a request)
> >
> > Gerry
> >
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