Day of Terror, Fear, Worry and Anxiety. If you're a politician that is. For the rest of us, it's a day we get to go into a ballot station and pick a box from many to lay our trust in. Some of us will be voting for the party leaders, whilst some will be voting for party policies, some will vote nationally, whilst others vote locally, some of us will be voting tactically to keep another party out, whilst others vote with their hearts, some have voted already, while there are still others will not vote at all. But it is a day of 'big decisions' and will culminate in the knowing of who will lead us through the next 4/5 years. If you haven't decided yet, you have until 10pm to make up your mind and if you have any inkling at all for or against any politician or any political party I urge you to get out there and use your vote!
Here are my results from monitering facebook political party groups, up till Tuesday done in 3 day windows. However since the end of my tallying, the conservatives have slightly regained their lead over the Lib Dems. Overall, the Lib Dems have had the most success on their online campaign - gaining almost twice as many members as the conservatives and even more than other parties. What about the other political parties? Why did I not tally them? Because they were too small to find when I began! Plaid Cymru and the SNP have less than 200 members between them, UKIP don't have a facebook greoup as far as I'm aware, but the Green's have grown to almost 10,000 members. All other parties I disregard as I cannot name any more!
But I relent, happy voting and I hope you're happy with who we put in charge of Parliament come tomorrow!


You got to look harder
ReplyDeletePlaid: 4,439
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Plaid-Cymru/26416930992?ref=search&sid=515418953.391864425..1
SNP
2,992
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/voteSNP?ref=search&sid=515418953.42809358..1
Thanks for the corrections. The numbers I quoted reflected what came up on the drop down search box in facebook when you start searching - which were accurate for the parties whose data I collected, though apparently not for Plaid Cymru or SNP. I should have been more thorough and appologise!
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