Police Commisioner Elections : November 2012

[minionofmidas]

I think he has been told before that he doesn't need permission to create maps here, and he'll be told if anything else he does was not okay. He just needs to get that into his somewhat thickish skull.

[minionofmidas]

No one's, unless you're using a rather odd definition of "bright".

[minionofmidas]

I tend to think that the position should be open to ex-cons only.

[minionofmidas]

Make no mistake, people will try and spin these results as good/bad/otherwise.

The fact that they're in England and Wales only, using two different voting systems, without a full slate by all parties, mean nowt.

They are not using two different voting systems - it's just that SV (or even AV) with two candidates is indistuingishable from fptp.

[minionofmidas]

I say every single police officer should be up for reelection by the residents of his beat every other week.

[minionofmidas]

Reports of polling stations with no votes cast in some areas.

[minionofmidas]

Durham result...

Labour    51.56%
Independent    26.83%
UKIP    11.77%
Conservative    9.84%

Hilarious.

The Tories very well might have lost Essex on full AV, and almost certainly would have under Australian style IRV, ie where you have to rank all the candidates.