March 02, 2006

Ming's In

So Ming Campbell has made it. Three cheers! One thing the BBC commentators and analysts didn't bother about was the effect of the Single Transferable Vote. In the first round, Cambell had 45%, Huhne 32% and Hughes 23%. So Hughes' voters' second preferences were allocated. If the Media insistance that Hughes was left-wing, Huhne right wing and Campbell in the middle was correct, then most of Hughes second preferences would have been for Campbell. In fact, while 6% had no second preference, the others split in almost exactly the same proportions as the first preferences for Campbell and Huhne. The differences between the three are in personality and style rather than policy.

Posted by Richard Hall at 09:34 PM | Comments (0)