During the live TV debate I took a snapshot of the general election poll on the site:
* Labour Party (21.19%, 15,726 Votes)
* Conservative Party (25.9%, 19,227 Votes)
* Liberal Democrats Party (28.1%, 20,860 Votes)
* UK Independence Party (UKIP) (5.31%, 3,939 Votes)
* Green Party (3.74%, 2,773 Votes)
* British National Party (BNP) (4.9%, 3,634 Votes)
* Plaid Cymru Party (0.7%, 517 Votes)
* Other Political Party (3.43%, 2,546 Votes)
* NONE OF THE ABOVE (2.06%, 1,527 Votes)
* Don’t Know : Floating Voter (4.68%, 3,476 Votes)
Total Voters: 74,225
I took the snapshot at around 8:45pm, so it was half way through the debate, but no where near enough time for the actual debate to have a major impact on the election poll results.
We can now take these numbers as the starting point for how the nation are voting after the second TV debate.
For example right now (just gone 1am, so 4 or so hours later), there’s been a total of 75,799 which is an extra 1,574 votes.
Labour votes 284 – 18.04%
Conservative votes 315 – 20.01%
Lib Dems votes 701 – 44.54%
UKIP votes 34 – 2.16%
Green votes 22 – 1.40%
BNP votes 143 – 9.09%
Rest around – 5%
Looks like the BNP are in force on my site again. Since adding the BNP back on the poll on Saturday (5 days ago) the sites received over 1,000 visitors directly from right-wing websites (most from the BNP official site). Before re-adding the BNP to the poll I barely got any traffic from right-wing sites during early April (they stopped linking to the site :-)).
The only domain to send more traffic for the entire month is Facebook with around 4,000 visitors (that’s over 23 days, not 5 though).
Means probably half the BNP votes are not from organic traffic, but due to campaigning by BNP supporters: I have to admit they are good at it, they link from the BNP websites comments randomly telling BNP supporters to come here and vote BNP.
Anyway, Lib Dems are doing really well again, will be interesting to see how they do by this time next week.
David
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