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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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
15,389
52.0
- 5.5

Lab
Richard Clark
5,920
23.4
- 3.5

Lib Dem
Jacqui Sillivan
4,359
14.7
+ 4.0

Plaid
Jonathan Clark
2,093
7.1
+ [...]

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 government, [...]