Is Your Mp's Seat A Done Deal?

[Zacs-Master]

Very interesting:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11527109/Has-your-constituency-already-been-won-in-the-2015-general-election-Find-our-here.html

I'm still voting tho!

[naomi24]

I don't need to look at the link.

[aelmpvw]

nor do i :-)

[Cloverjo]

I can't get the link to work for me.
I am a Labour supporter, but its candidate always trails in a distant third. I don't even know who he is. To keep the Tory out, I have to vote LibDem which I vowed I wouldn't do again after last time. Nothing else for it, though.
I still get a thrill from voting. I feel so lucky.

[Hymie]

Yes

[Quizmonster]

Nor do I and, if this link had been available to me throughout the past sixty years, it still wouldn't have been of any great use to me. My vote would always have been wasted, because of my movements around the UK. They would have ensured that my MP would inevitably have represented the "wrong" party...that's why I've never voted.
And, please, I don't want to hear any sermons about how people have died for my right to vote and that I should be ashamed of myself for not voting. I generally feel perfectly comfortable about NOT doing things which are utterly pointless.

[Tilly2]

No, marginal here.

[mikey4444]

Mine is shown as a marginal. The Labour encumbent has a majority of about 2600. But its always been Labour, since 1906, so I am not too concerned !

It even survived an attack by Michael Heseltine, in 1959 ! Now, whatever happened to him ?

[naomi24]

He's 82 now.

[DTCwordfan]

Marginal on here - no wonder we are seeing lots of Cameron etc down here with all those LibDem seats up for grabs for the Tories.

[Tilly2]

In, not en, Mikey.

[DTCwordfan]

Was the number 1 man for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, mikey....

[murraymints]

strong labour hold here !

[naomi24]

Mikey, //The Labour encumbent has a majority of about 2600. But its always been Labour, since 1906, so I am not too concerned !//

Perhaps you should be. I just had a quick look at the figures and Labour’s majority there appears to have fallen consistently over recent years…. 2600 isn’t a lot.

[EDDIE51]

I'm in NE Hertfordshire one of the safest conservative seats in the UK.
I have never voted conservative in a general election.

[Zacs-Master]

Crikey, I didn't expect such a response so early. I just thought it was interesting as I hadn't quite appreciated how many seats were safe (and I'm a map-fiend).

[mikey4444]

Yeah, but Heseltine was ultimately a failure.

He is now known as the Minister that flounced out of a Cabinet Meeting, not as the Tory Nearly Man. His only saving grace for me, other than he is a Swansea Boy (!) is that he is pro-Europe, although not many listen to him nowadays alas.

[EDDIE51]

I have always known my area was a safe conservative seat, surprised that so many other places are also ' safe'.

[naomi24]

Mikey, you’re talking about almost 60 years ago!! How is that relevant in today’s world? Like all dyed in the wool Labour supporters you find it impossible to move on.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, 60 years ago when the Labour Party actually had a purpose.

[naomi24]

^Indeed.