Save General Election Night FaceBook Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126713799469
Stumbled upon the above group earlier and it throws up an interesting question, would moving the counting of political votes on a general election to Friday morning rather than the traditional “count the votes as fast as possible” harm to UK politics?
It’s hard enough getting people interested in politics at the best of times, I could see this harming the excitement of waiting up late at night to see who wins. I have to admit I do stay up on general election night until I know for sure who won.
Apparently these 25 parliamentary seats will be counting Friday morning with a further 135 undecided.
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Bracknell
Broadland
Canterbury
Great Yarmouth (unless it is not on the same day as local elections)
Huntingdon
Maidenhead (wants to count Thursday but currently being boxed in by Wokingham)
Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
Newbury
All three Newcastle-upon-Tyne constituencies
Norfolk North West
Norfolk South West
Norwich North
Both Reading seats
Redcar
Rossendale and Darwen
Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Slough
South Ribble
St Ives
Windsor (wants to count Thursday but currently being boxed in by Wokingham)
Wokingham
If a significant number won’t count until Friday there is little point staying up on election night, which would be a shame.
This quote sums things up for me:
DON FOSTER MP (Lib Dem): “The excitement of watching the results unfold through the night is one of the things that stimulates interest. We could be in for a very exciting result this time around, and there could even be a hung parliament. But dragging the results out across two days like this will only dilute interest.”
David
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