{"id":1550,"date":"2007-05-05T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T09:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/final-local-election-results\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T10:22:41","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T10:22:41","slug":"final-local-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/final-local-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Final local election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/local-election-results-an-immediate-analysis-before-even-half-the-results-are-in-from-someone-who-doesnt-really-care-anyway-and-didnt-vote-thanks-to-being-in-london\/\">wrong<\/a>  in my premature analysis, it would seem:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/pics\/localelections2007.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The SNP did rather better than I thought, as did the Tories. Labour still did a lot better than everyone was expecting, though. Apart from the Scottish situation (which was hardly a disaster, even if the SNP do have one more seat than them), they&#8217;ve got off lightly. They should all be breathing a big sigh of relief. (Good Scottish elections analysis at <a href=\"http:\/\/theselectsociety.com\/blog\/?p=190\">The Select Society<\/a>, by the by.)<\/p>\n<p><small>(Image stolen and swiftly spliced together from the BBC&#8217;s three maps of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/bsp\/hi\/vote2007\/maps\/eng_councils\/html\/eng_councils_map.stm\">English<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/bsp\/hi\/vote2007\/maps\/wales_constituencies\/html\/wales_constituencies_map.stm\">Welsh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/bsp\/hi\/vote2007\/maps\/scot_constituencies\/html\/scot_constituencies_map.stm\">Scottish<\/a> results. For non-Brits, red is Labour, blue Tory, orange Lib Dem, yellow the Scottish National Party, green the Welsh nationalists Plaid Cymru, and black is no overall control.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a bit wrong in my premature analysis, it would seem: The SNP did rather better than I thought, as did the Tories. Labour still did a lot better than everyone was expecting, though. Apart from the Scottish situation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/final-local-election-results\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}