The Socialist Labour party received 0.1% of the vote in the 2005

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

The Socialist Labour party received 0.1% of the vote in the 2005 general election with just 20,192 votes through the entire country.

I used to have the top 25 political parties by popular vote, but anything beyond the main parties is meaningless in a poll even with 10,s of thousands of votes because if a party like the Socialist Labour party receives similar support in 2010 as it did in 2005 then when this poll hits 30,000 votes the Socialist Labour party would expect to have around 30 votes.

To throw the general election poll number off all it would take is one website that has a lot of Socialist Labour party support to ask their visitors to vote in the poll. If a few hundred voted it would suggest support for that party has increased 10 fold since the 2005 general election.

I had this problem with the British National Party when it was a option in the general election poll, at one point the BNP had about a third of the votes because of BNP activists manipulating the vote!!! Also had this issue with the Monster Raving Loony party when a forum decided to send 800+ of it’s visitors over a 24hr period as a joke to vote Monster Raving Loony Party!

With the poll now only including major parties, it’s harder to manipulate. Yes a popular website could manipulate the results, but as far as I can tell it’s only happened with two minor parties, BNP and Monster Raving Loony Party.

If you want to show your support for a minor party like the Socialist Labour party, make your vote as Other Political Party and make a comment here saying why you plan to vote for them. Just make it more than:

“I’ll be voting Socialist Labour party”

As comments like that are irritatingly pointless and add nothing to the debate and I delete a lot of comments like that.

David