I went to a count as well, and had similar thoughts to Paul. The most concrete thing is the turnout for individual wards and/or polling stations. You can also get at least an estimate of more granular vote share.
You can find both of these out quite early on at the "verification" stage, when the ballot papers are all emptied out and bundled into 50s. You literally sit there and do your own (sampled) count. I'm looking on the Electoral Commission site for a good overview of how vote counting works, but can't find it. Anyone else know of one? Until I actually went to a count, I had no idea. And Paul - you really should join the Democracy Club list if you're interested in it. Yes, it is run by Google Groups, but it is just a email list, exactly like any other email list. You don't have to use the web interface. This is the wrong place to discuss what Democracy Club should do. Francis On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:41:19AM +0100, 'Dragon' Dave McKee wrote: > What sort of information? > > > As a first time candidate I was a the vote count for the first ever time... > > And I saw that each party had a load of people each doing the exact same > > thing collecting info for their party. > > Really I think this info should be open - the returning officer or some such > > should collect and distribute it. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
