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Very cool website which tells you how much your vote is really worth....

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catinthehat2 · 09/04/2010 12:22

Find out how powerful your vote is compared to the UK average

I live in a safe seat, my vote is worthless.

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BooKangerooWonders · 09/04/2010 17:54

I've got 0.082 - so no chance of getting rid of Peter Lilley who hates foreigners like my dh

LeninGrad · 09/04/2010 17:54

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preggersplayspop · 09/04/2010 17:48

Oooh, my parents live in a very marginal seat! I'm sending the link to them.

preggersplayspop · 09/04/2010 17:46

Great website. 0.043 safe Tory seat unfortunately. Still going to vote though.

goygoy · 09/04/2010 17:36

0.045 Ultra safe labour seat (no surprise).

farmerjones · 09/04/2010 17:25

0.544. which means i have more than 2.15times the power of the average voter in the uk.
as london tipton says, yeah me!

MrsJohnDeere · 09/04/2010 17:23

0.082

Safe Tory seat.

UndertheBoredWalk · 09/04/2010 17:19

My constituency or postcode do not appear to exist either

thedollshouse · 09/04/2010 17:15

0.148. Tory stronghold.

onepairofhands · 09/04/2010 17:15

OrientCalf - you'll probably find those letters are being funded by Michael Ashcroft who's funding activities in key marginals. That's Lord 'I don't pay taxes here but want to tell you how to run the country' Ashcroft.

onepairofhands · 09/04/2010 17:11

Great website,(nr 380 so v safe seat). However our (standing down) Labour MP has really made himself unpopular as it became clear that he lives 100+miles away and spends his time doing consultancy work for a big company so it might be a bit closer than previously. I'll be voting anyway - women died for my vote.

OrientCalf · 09/04/2010 14:29

ooh mine is 0.811 - so very marginal

explains why the Tories ahve sent us ELEVEN letters EACH over the past six weeks - is getting very irritating

jofeb04 · 09/04/2010 14:17

and the Average voter has 50x more power than I do.

jofeb04 · 09/04/2010 14:16

O.004 - Ultra safe - Labour area (South Wales Valleys so no surprise there!).

CaptainNancy · 09/04/2010 14:10

My post code is fine and works... but like MissAnneElk, it shows the old constituency. (Probably because it works off legacy data, and there aren't any for the new constituency which has been formed due to population increase)

Actually... whereabouts are you MissAnneElk?

TwentiethCenturyHeffa · 09/04/2010 14:00

It doesn't take my postcode whichever way I put it in. Our constituency is changing for this election but it doesn't recognise the current one or the new one either.

MissAnneElk · 09/04/2010 13:47

captainnancy, our boundary has moved and it still shows us in the old constituency. It does look as though my vote may count now that the boundaries have moved which is good news.

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catinthehat2 · 09/04/2010 13:43

@CaptainNAncy

"By wubblybubbly Fri 09-Apr-10 13:37:24
I tried the postcode every which way, no joy. I've put the name of the constituency, as Dhruvisintheheart (great name!) suggested and that has worked!"

Try this and stop yer grumbling it might work?

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wubblybubbly · 09/04/2010 13:37

I tried the postcode every which way, no joy. I've put the name of the constituency, as Dhruvisintheheart (great name!) suggested and that has worked!

I'm now on 0.013, 611 out of 650 and the average vote is 20x more powerful than mine! No longer average

MoreCrackThanHarlem · 09/04/2010 13:30

0.017

v depressing

confusedfirsttimemum · 09/04/2010 13:26

Jeez, I am in an ultra safe seat ranked in the high 500s. The average voter has 8.5x my voting power.

Quite frankly, I might as well not bother....

megapixels · 09/04/2010 13:24

Mine is worth 0.7 and ranked 66 out of 650.

LittleWhiteWolf · 09/04/2010 13:19

Wow, I'm in a different constituency than I thought! Apparently I'm in Banburys constituency which is larger than average by about 20,000 voters so one voter is apparently less likely to affect the national vote.

My DH and I have been sent through 2 polling cards each...do we get 4 votes?

CaptainNancy · 09/04/2010 13:14

It's not particularly cool- I live in a new constituency, but it doesn't recognise that and lists the old (ultra safe) one