Our Euroelection campaign
- This topic has 174 replies, 16 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 8 months ago by
.
-
Posts
-
I think unfortunately leaflets get mixed in with the pizza delivery and clothes donation bags. Even when you do it by foot you find yourself debating housing which are for sale or let, or simply don’t look lived in. Buildings with 9 flats, how many should go through the door? People could not be registered to vote.
It’s not targeted but it’s hard to know how else to distribute, especially given that it’s free. Perhaps actually knocking on doors would help, and use the resources more efficiently. Following up in the areas more open to our ideas statistically. But it would be incredibly time consuming and requires a few people for safety.
The EU election is good in that it’s PR so it encourages people to cast a direct vote, but it is hard to direct your resources I should imagine.
All of those cities with higher returns are University cities from the looks of it, wonder if that has an influence.
Could other papers or online ad spaces be considered?
“No I mean the total number of individual leaflets inserted in these 4 campaigns. Did each campaign involved 185K inserts or did they vary?”
No, they varied. The insert campaign in the i newspaper started in June 2018 with 150k in the South region, followed in September 2018 by 100k (the minimum permissible) in the London region and, finally in November 2018 with 100k in the Midlands/Northern editions.
The responses from the first two were comparable with those now being received.
We had earlier placed inserts in The Guardian and New Statesman, the former being particularly disappointing in terms of responses.
Yes there is some co-relation between from where we get comparatively more replies and university towns. The next on the list was Canterbury at 0.4% (equal fifth with Lewes). On the other hand, the response from Reading wasn’t high up on the list while Hastings isn’t a university town. Maybe it was because it’s the Mugsborough of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and there are some descendants of those Owen convinced to become socialists. More likely because it has a Labour council and we tend to do better in Labour areas. In Oxford we got more votes than the BNP, so we are talking about “socially liberal” places.
I’m moving to Leamington or Warwick soon most probably so perhaps it falls more under that bracket than Yardley Brum
Message from one of our sympathisers in Oxford, who will also be a counting agent for us at the count there this evening:
“For information: in the end the two of us did stalls on 3 afternoons, & I also did 5 or 10 shorter leafleting sessions. Definitely met a few likely voters, but not huge numbers.“
I should have warned you that the count starts with the verification of the ballot papers, i.e that the number of papers is the same as the number of names ticked off on the electoral register. That takes hours and is deadly boring. The real counting of the votes for each list does not start till this has been in done. In Guildford, where I’m going to start with, this isn’t scheduled till 4pm; which is why I’m not planning to get there till then. If they’ve finished in time for me to get to Southampton before 10pm I will see you there but it will have been a long day for you.
What is the latest information concerning responses to our four batches of inserts in the Independent Newspaper? I think last time this was discussed a figure of about 500 responses was mentioned but this has presumably risen since then. I am in discussion with comrades in the US and Canada about their own proposed publicity campaigns.
One lesson that seems to have been learnt from the euro election campaign is that, if you want to elicit a higher response rate, it is imperative that you include in the insert a mention of the 3 month free trail subscription to the SS. I think the comrades in the US and Canada have taken this on board and so once can expect an increased number of subscribers to the SS from that part of the world in the near future…
That’s not a good result for us in Oxford considering we received 221 votes in 2014. However our vote in Basingstoke increased to 155, up from 116 in 2014.
Here’s the full result:
Brexit Party – 915,686
Liberal Democrats – 653,743
Green Party – 343,249
Conservative and Unionist Party – 260,277
Labour Party – 184,678
Change UK – the Independent Group – 105,832
UK Independence Party (UKIP) – 56,487
UK European Party (UKEUP) – 7,645
Jason McMahon (Ind) – 3,650
Socialist Party – 3,505
David Round (Ind) – 2,606
Michael Turberville (Ind) – 1,587
Rather disappointing. I’d expected our vote to go up a bit because there’d be a higher turnout (and not to finish so low down the list). However, the election did turn out to be a proxy referendum (won, by the way, despite what most of the media are saying, by Remain) and we lost out in the same way as Labour did for not taking sides in this.
The areas where we did best last time, Oxford and Brighton, are strong Remain areas and the fall in our vote and share there was dramatic. Down from 221 to 83 in Oxford and from 397 to 103 in Brighton. What this suggests is that a large proportion of those prepared to vote for socialism in other circumstances, faced with a referendum on the EU, opted for Remain. This makes some sense as we would hardly expect them to prefer insular English nationalism.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.