Talk:2008 Glenrothes by-election

Speculation
I think that we need to keep all the 'speculation' to an absolute minimum, or omit it altogether. You know that it will only lead to edit warring.

Is reporting idle (or more likely, malicious) newspaper 'speculation' really what Wikipedia articles are about? Nope! --Mais oui! (talk) 10:03, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Which parts do you think fall under idle speculation? Perhaps the thoughts on the date of the election, but you must concede that this has been very widely discussed and is worthy of mention.  To some extent, the potential candidates, but this can easily be reworked and made more accurate as selections are made.  The only part which could really be called idle speculation is on the Lib Dem/SNP vote interaction, and I'm coming round to agreeing that this might be better removed. Warofdreams talk 11:42, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Fairy nuff. 'Analysis' of how the eventual Lib Dem vote (whether good, bad or indifferent) is going to affect the final result between the two 'big boys' is always going to be pure hot air. Such 'analysis' (almost always hopelessly partisan and wildly inaccurate) is best kept to blogs and newspaper comment threads. --Mais oui! (talk) 11:49, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Opinion polls ?
At this date, have there been any ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.242.171.39 (talk) 16:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

2008 results gone?
Looks like people have somehow deleted results and doubled the 05 result, but for future reference, the percentages are as follows, with rough votes (just to make filling in %ages easier.) 19000	55.1 13000	36.6 1380	3.8 950	2.6 200	0.6 296	0.8 117	0.3 87	0.2

If that helps the editors in any way... --Woodgreener (talk) 01:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

If redirects are anything to go by, the senior citizens party is the same as the pensioners party last time. PatGallacher (talk) 01:49, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Postal votes?
What percentage of postal votes were involved in the result? I cant find any data to tell what amount of postal votes were used in the final tally. also what percentage of postal votes went to Labour? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.73.245 (talk) 08:19, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It is not possible to get this infomation, especially the specific number of votes given to Labour. The Council may be able to supply you with postal vote numbers. however, if you contact them doktorb wordsdeeds 09:01, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

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