Senator Andrew Bartlett
Saturday, May 07, 2005
 
UK election - last one standing
There are a sizeable number of UK politicians who have genuine blogs, mostly focused on their local electorates (which is not a bad thing) and many of reasonable quality. It doesn’t seem to have caught on in Australia yet, and I wonder if it ever really will (This is something I’ll talk on at greater length at the BlogTalk Conference in Sydney later this month).

In amongst all the commentary, including my own, about the various aspects of the UK campaign and its ramifications, this blog from Lorna Spenceley, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Harlow (just to the north of London) is worth a quick look, as Harlow is the last seat to be declared, which is not a fun experience after a gruelling campaign. (extended waits are quite common in Australia of course, but then we have an electoral system which, while still with its flaws, has at least moved out of the stone age).

At the other (and far more comfortable) end of the spectrum, there is a curious side-contest, which I’d never heard of before, to be the first seat to declare a result. It was even possible to bet on the result. The winner was the seat of Sunderland South in a time of 45 minutes, just outside their own record from 2001 of 43 minutes. (I first read about this on an Australian blog, but I can’t remember which it was now)

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