Should Siân Berry have won the London mayoral election?
Posted on Jul 14 2008 | Tagged as: Politics
Firstly, forgive the crudity of my methodology.
These have probably been up for some time, but I’ve just had a look at the overall results [scroll down a bit] collated from more than 25,000 people who took the Vote Match quiz before the London Mayoral election.
I then ran the archived version of the quiz, clicking “agree” for those issues with which a clear majority of particpants agree, “disagree” for those with which a clear majority of participants disagree and “neither” for those with a small difference (less than around 7%) between the two.
For which issues were considered important, I picked the top five — the table is ranked in order of importance.
Doing this gives the order of preference of candidates as follows:
While this isn’t entirely accurate, it does seem to lend weight to the idea that past electoral habits and/or the probability of victory are as big a factor in determining who to vote for as the parties’ actual policies are. More on this later.
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