On the Unlock Democracy Elections - General Points

[danieldwilliam]

So, that’s the analysis of the Unlock Democracy Council elections by Constituency.

 West

 North

 East  

London and South East

 Some broader picture points.

Turnout was quite low.

The West had the best turnout at 22.8%, London and the South East 16.9%. Overall turnout was 20.7%.

Whilst the allocation of seats by elector could not be bettered, the allocation of seats by actual voter favours London and disfavours the North with 68.57 votes cast for each seat elected in London and 110 votes cast per seat in the North. This is obviously a feature of the differential turnout.

Spoilt Ballots were 1% of the total cast which compares unfavourably with UK Westminster spoilt ballots of between 0.11% and 0.35% between 1945 and 2001.

Out of 19 members of council, 9 have not served on the council before.

Unlock Democracy operates protected seats for gender (1/3^rd at least of men and women) and ethnicity (at least 2 self-identified ethnic minorities).  All of the gender protected seats fell naturally and one of the ethnic protected seats fell naturally leaving 1 councillor elected as a result of protected seats.

Once again, thanks to Lalland Peat Worrier for his method of presentation

Comments

Re discussion on DRM etc

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

http://gyrovague.com/2012/04/30/why-e-books-will-soon-be-obsolete-and-no-its-not-just-because-of-drm/

Re: Re discussion on DRM etc

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I can well believe that in five years’ time I won’t be buying a second Kindle and instead will put the money towards a tablet with one or more ebook readers loaded on to it.

On the other hand, if the price of the Kindle X is not very much I might be prepared to give it another round. Either in addition to a tablet or instead of one. Depends a lot on the relative prices.

But I guess the main thrust of the guy’s argument is that ebooks as a format will obsolete in 5 or so years’ time. On a technical level he might be right. There might be a different (and in some way better) way of delivering a book in to my hand but that is a distinction without a difference to me.

I value the work that publishers do. Turns out I don’t value the work that bookshops do enough to buy books from them. How the books that publishers have produced gets from their desks to my hands and eyes and brain turns out not to matter that much to me. So, in five years’ time when my Kindle expires and I’m looking for a replacement the How, the format and the actual device isn’t likely to be much of a consideration.

The main consideration is likely to be, can I effortlessly and legally read all my current purchases on my new reader? (Or will new things on the new reader be sufficiently cheap that I’ll be able re-stock my back catalogue and be no worse off?)