{"id":496,"date":"2006-05-04T21:19:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/off-to-the-polls\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T05:04:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T04:04:10","slug":"off-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/off-to-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Off To The Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off to the Polling Station, then to Alexandra Palace for The Count. I&#8217;m taking my camera.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/wp-content\/election\/poll1.jpg\" width=\"309\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/wp-content\/election\/poll2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note unused &#8220;Candidate&#8217;s Partner&#8221; pass. <\/p>\n<p>At the last local elections for this area (2002), the Green Party fielded one candidate. He received 278 votes out of a total 8154 cast. Which works out as 3.5%. <\/p>\n<p>This year there&#8217;s three GP candidates, including myself. Plus an independent candidate called Mr Ralph Crisp. So I&#8217;ll be pleased if I get a third of 3.5% of the total vote for the ward. Which is 1.17%.  <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this is the closest I&#8217;ll get to &#8220;playing&#8221; Ally Pally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to the Polling Station, then to Alexandra Palace for The Count. I&#8217;m taking my camera. Note unused &#8220;Candidate&#8217;s Partner&#8221; pass. At the last local elections for this area (2002), the Green Party fielded one candidate. He received 278 votes out of a total 8154 cast. Which works out as 3.5%. This year there&#8217;s three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-may-2006-local-elections","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}