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if you were to determine the voting preferences of your town/constituency purely based on the number of posters you've seen in people's houses / farmers' fields people's houses / shops / farmers' fields
who would win?
I'll do two - one for where I work and one for where I live.
So:
North West Norfolk:
Conservatives 95%
Greens 5%
Cambridge City:
Greens 50%
Lib Dems 35%
Labour 15%
this did appear
now it's gone.
come back!
Wouldn't there be more ad materials
in an area less likely to vote for the party using those ads? For instance, the consituency I live in has been petty safely Labour for a while, and looks reasonably likely to stay that way. There are no Labour ads up, but fuckloads of Tory campaign materials around.
I actually saw Andy Slaughter and Shaun Bailey at the same tub station this morning. They should have just had it out, man to man.
Interesting thought.
Given the Tories are the only party with any money to do poster and leaflet this time round I hope you're not going to give us the ammunition to claim the Tories only won because of that?
it's a good question
i think it's probably possible to spend enough money canvassing a marginal seat that the balance of power swings in your direction. But if, for instance, the socialist worker party decided it was going to spend £5million canvassing Huntingdonshire (or some other Tory heartland) it probabyl wouldn't work.
So in summary: yes, to a certain extent.
If it didn’t,
the Conservatives have demonstrated a major error in judgement in spending the Ashcroft millions in massive campaigns in marginal seats then.
When the incumbant’s majority is so small, a huge presence in the constituency (lots of posters and boards imply momentum and a groundswell of support, lots of campaigners working the front doors to get the message across, lots of leaflet drops to spread the word) is going to make a difference.
QPR
I've only seen one poster in my area.
It was pinned to the inside of someone's windscreen over the passenger side. Still, I'm assuming that was illegal for them to be driving around like that.
It was for Labour.
So, our area is 100% Labour based on that.
lewisham and deptford
95% Green
5% Lib Dem
Chipping Barnet
50% Conservative
25% Lib Dem
25% Bairstone Eves
Watford
100% Lib Dem
in oxford east,
it would be labour, followed by greens, followed by lib dems, with the conservatives nowhere to be seen. in truth, it will probably be lib dem, labour, conservative, green.
i was in a village in the witney constituencty yesterday. if placards were an indicator, cameron wouldn't get elected.
I'd say it is more
Libdem ..... Labour . Green. Not seen one Tory poster in a window either. Did you get a leaflet from the animal rights twats saying about "Dr Death"? Idiots.
nah, thats oxford west, right?
evan harris? i must confess that my assessment is only really based on rectory road, princes street and cross street. so not really very meaningful.
Sorry, you're right.
It was just such a ridiculous piece of propoganda, skull and crossbones, pictures of monkeys being tortured. Real class.
Lib Dems winning here!
Lib Dems 70%
Labour 28%
Animals Count 2%
British Unicorn Party 1%
1% margin of error
wtf is "animals count"?
You're not questioning the British Unicorn Party?
I put them down in the 1% margin of error
http://registers.electoralcommission.org.uk/regulatory-issues/regpoliticalparties.cfm?frmGB=1&frmPartyID=905&frmType=partydetail
wow
you weren't joking!
Their main policy is extending the NHS to include animals
or creating a new one or something.
RICHARD J DEBOO, MOTHERFUCKER.
I'm so looking forward to voting for him. He's gonna change my life.
Really?
I'm just off Newington Green and I've noticed probably 50% Lib Dem, 30% Lab
Truro Falmouth
Lib Dem 50%
Conservatives 40%
Mebyon Kernow 5%
Labour 5%
There are probably more small LD posters in windows, but the Tories seemed to have the edge on the spamming of roadside verges with signs (though somebody's doctored the one down the road from "Vote for Change" to "Vote for Flange").
that doctoring might actually result in more Tory votes.
I wonder if anyone has ever been influenced by a poster?
OOh that lovely house has a UKIP poster, that's who I'll vote for.
Work: UKIP (2 of them, nothing else)
Home: Conservative (just the one, at my mate's parent's house)
Leyton and Wanstead (Leytonstone area)
Lib Dems - 95% (most of the shops)
Labour - 5%
Conservatives - 0%
Islington North
LibDem 50%
Labour 33%
Green 17%
Tory 0%
Between Chelmsford and a few nearby towns:
An even split of Tory and Lib Dem, with one garish purple UKIP banner at one particular roundabout. I wouldn't vote for them purely on aesthetic grounds.
Leeds North East
80% Labour
10% Tory
5% Lib Dem
5% Alliance for Green Socialism
Although up until yesterday I'd only seen labour signs, so maybe the other parties poster people are getting their acts together now.
I can only think of one labour sign ive actually seen
on street lane. and then a couple of small conservative onces and then matthew lobley's horrible lobley-mobile he smugly drives around in.
really do not like matthew lobley.
Edinburgh South
70% Lib Dem
20% Labour
10% Green
Biggleswade
MC BIG TONE MASH UP FEAT DJ SPANNERZ - 100%
Hornsey & Wood Green
80% Labour
20% Lib Dem
Currently a Lib Dem constituency with a small majority. Labour have gone on a complete spamfest. Flyer goons at every tube/train station, signs in people's front gardens, posters in windows. I'd be a bit worried if I was working for the Lib Dems.
Disagree with Cambridge City
I'd go
Lib dems 50%
Greens 30%
Labour 20%
i do cycle through down Devonshire Road / Kingston Road / Sturton Street
which is full of bohemian ageing hippy types and women's housing co-operatives. so it might be a bit biased.
York Central:
100% Labour so far
York Outer:
50% Lib Dem
50% Conservative
Ruislip/Eastcote/Northwood
80% UKIP
20% National Front
Bristol West
Lib Dem 50%
Labour 50%
I reckon anyway
From what I've seen and heard
the greens are due a landslide victory in Brighon O_O
No posters at all in my mega safe labour seat.
Not seen a single one.
It's a 50/50 Lab/SNP split around my work.
Farmer country, North Lancashire
10000zillion conservative signs. 2 labour ones, nothing for the other parties.
I think the general attitude of the youths is that our region is so remote that it is more worthwhile to deface the posters of Cameron with comedy penises than it is to vote.*
*Might just be me
The general attitude of the youths is that your region is so remote that it is more worthwhile to deface you with comedy penises than it is to vote?
yeahman :D
I haven't noticed any
but I'm not really looking for them
cheers
Sussex
80% conservative
20% lib dems
Bournemouth West
Tory 80%
Lib Dem 20%
The only Labour poster I've seen is in the Unison building.
birmingham selly oak
lib dem 100%
seen quite a lot of lib dem posters here, and none for any other party, although it's supposed to be a labour safe seat. maybe the lib dems have just been more active at giving people posters to put up.