April 7th, 2010 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Unless it escaped your attention, Gordon Brown called the much anticipated UK General Election yesterday. It will take place on May 6th 2010. In line with guidelines for civil service and other public sector employees, I will be curtailing my blogging and tweeting activities until after the election. If I do post anything, it won’t [...]
May 9th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the final part of a series of entries looking at websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Over the last few entries, I’ve looked at some of the websites used by county councils to provide details of the 2008 local elections. Some of these websites (mainly Monmouthshire County Council) were [...]
May 7th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 2 Comments.
This is the third part of a series of entries covering websites operated by county councils for the 2008 local elections. Previous I evaluated websites operated by Monmouthshire County Council and the City and County of Swansea. In this entry, I will look at the site run by Cardiff Council. Cardiff Council’s local election website [...]
May 5th, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is the second part in a series of entries looking at local election websites run by various county councils across Wales. Previously I examined the county of Monmouthshire. In this entry, I take a look at the website run by Swansea City Council. Swansea City Council has taken a very different approach to that [...]
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
This is part of a series of blog entries looking at local election websites run by various county council’s across Wales. In this entry I look at the live election site run by Monmouthshire County Council. MCC made use of a piece of software by Associated Knowledge Systems Ltd to show the results from each [...]
May 3rd, 2008 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
The latest round of local elections were held last Thursday (May 1st 2008) which resulted in huge losses for Labour, and great wins for the Conservatives. This latest set of elections was of particular importance to me, for reasons I’ll discuss at a later date. This meant I spent a large amount of time on [...]
May 4th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Damn. Conservatives won by miles in the Welsh Assembly Election for my area. It wasn’t a case of re-election as the person who had the seat before has vacated it and taken up a seat in Westminster instead. The guy who won is an idiot. Results: – Candidate Votes % % +/- Con Nick Ramsay [...]
November 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
The chaos that is the US Mid-term elections have begun today with millions of voters going to the polls to decide whether the Republicans – lead by President George Bush – retain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the next two years. For those that don’t know much about the US [...]