15%

[BigonaBianchi]

apparently the turn out for the pplice election thingamywotsit only got about 15% turnout...big surprise that....all I knew about it was I got a voting card. No info at all on what it was about, who was standing, what they were all about...nothing...just the card...if the this was what everybody else got as well how can it be any surprise at all that hardly anybody showed up?

 

[vernon]

There was one polling station where no-one turned up.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I knew nothing about it at all but I'm not sure if that's because Londoners weren't taking part and I only watch the BBC London news at night. If it was such a big deal then surely the press should have been all over it and encouraging people to get out there and cast their votes?

 

[Peteaud]

What election?



We had the cards although its not something i am interested enough in to vote.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I got the polling card a while ago and I put it on my magnetic white board in the office, the next time I remembered it was there was when the radio were on about how low the turn out was

 

[DiddlyDodds]

We had the voting card but no info unless you went looking on the internet to try and find out who these people were.
They all said the same thing "will make the police accountable , better law and order Blah Blah" just more bullshit politicians but now in plod outfits.

 

[Brains]

Some Facts from todays Guardian:
At £100m to run the election, it means that each vote cost £20-25 !
The number of people who voted on the X Factor was 1.5 times more than voted for the PCC
The number of officials involved in Devon and Cornwall probably outstripped the number of voters.

I'm all for Democracy, but a turnout of less than 50% is not Democracy

 

[Archie_tect]

It's a vote of no-confidence and it should be recorded as a null and void result... go back and re-think the policy and the ideas.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

It surprised me that we were being asked to elect political party members.
It didn't surprise me a Labour guy got in here - Most around these parts still think they're helping Arthur Scargill.

 

[Aperitif]

The polic

It's a vote of no-confidence and it should be recorded as a null and void result... go back and re-think the policy and the ideas.

The policy is based on an Old Bill.

 

[snorri]

I knew nothing about it at all but I'm not sure if that's because Londoners weren't taking part and I only watch the BBC London news at night.

You should sign-up to Cycle Chat, it was covered there.

 

[Monsieur]

You may mock the elections but as a Lincolnshire resident, and a voter who bothered to vote, I'm chuffed at the result!
I live in a lovely village which also houses, on the outskirts, the county police HQ. G4S who now run much of the force wanted to close the Lincoln police station down and build a new custody suite in my village.

The new PCC has now said the those plans will now be scrapped forever

Good result!

 

[Archie_tect]

The policy is based on an Old Bill.

So?
It's a vote of no-confidence and it should be recorded as a null and void result... go back and re-think the policy and the ideas.

 

[TVC]

This was the first election where I made a conscious decision not to vote. The tiny turnout was the result I hoped for.

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2158701, member: 259"]This is not a manifesto, but in the local elections here, once you are regiistered, you have to vote, so turnout is about 95%. If you don't vote they fine you about 20 euros and that is used for adverts for all parties next time.[/quote]
80% spoilt papers would be an equally acceptable response.