No Super Thursday for us

Posted on March 11, 2007
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The Sunday People’s on a roll. Last week it predicted when Blair would stand down. This week it’s when the next election will be- 11th June 2009 if the People is to be believed.

The political editor Nigel Nelson notes that the Government have changed the date of the local elections from May to June 2009 to coincide with the European election. Brown also wants to hold the general election on that day.- A good move by my account.

Nelson then goes on to suggest that the Government wants to eventually hold the Welsh, Scottish and London Mayoral elections on the same day- making it a “Super Thursday” polling day!

Well the mayoral, general election and some of the local elections could all coincide in 2024.* The Scottish and Welsh elections could never coincide unless one of their terms were extended. However you are also unlikely to get the UK general election on the same day, because of the nature of the election system.

Unless there is some major fiddling with the electoral cycles, I can’t see there being anything special with Thursdays in the near future.

*Calculations:
Mayor: every 4 years- 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028
EU: every 5 years- 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024, 2029
Scottish/Welsh: every 4 years- 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023, 2027
UK: every 4-5 years or earlier- 2009?, 2013?, 2017?, 2021?
or 2009?, 2014?, 2019?, 2024?

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2 Responses to “No Super Thursday for us”

  1. IanP on March 11th, 2007 5:01 pm

    So in a single day there will be,
    Local Elections
    General Election
    Assembly Election
    London Mayoral elections

    and no doubt by 2009 most areas will have uncertified electronic voting.

    Sounds like the perfect set up to me.

    Think we need to write to the European Commission Electorial Board and get those International Monitors in place now.

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