Comments on: What did a constituency election campaign cost in 1910? http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark Pack http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html#comment-105513 Mark Pack Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:20:39 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=17500#comment-105513 Tim: figures came from various academic books on 1906 and 1910. Can't recall off top of my head which of the various price adjustment series I used for them. Michael: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_and_Illegal_Practices_Prevention_Act_1883 Tim: figures came from various academic books on 1906 and 1910. Can’t recall off top of my head which of the various price adjustment series I used for them.

Michael: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_and_Illegal_Practices_Prevention_Act_1883

]]> By: ,Michael Braham http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html#comment-105493 ,Michael Braham Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:50:58 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=17500#comment-105493 I can`t say how much the cost of mounting a constituency campaign would have been in 1906 but I have recently found details of the election returns for the parliamentary by election which took place in the Southport Division on 24th August 1898. In that by election which was caused when George Nathaniel Curzon was made viceroy of India , the Liberal candidate, Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, gained the seat from the Tories whose candidate was Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, otherwise known as Lord Skelmersdale. The voting figures were 5,100 to 4,828 Anyway Leyland spent £1182 . 14s. 2d. and Skelmersdale £997. 9s.. 9d. during the campaign. Fast forward sixty years to the 1959 General Election campaign when Tory candidate Ian Percival spent £826.7s. 2d,Charlie Hadfield £425. 7s. for Labour and Sam Goldberg ,who only entered the lists five minutes before the close of nominations and regained second place for the Liberals for the first time since 1929 polled 11,292 votes at a cost of just £198.6s. .I think that works out at 4d per vote! Does anyone know what were the election expenses limits of 100 years ago ? I can`t say how much the cost of mounting a constituency campaign would have been in 1906 but I have recently found details of the election returns for the parliamentary by election which took place in the Southport Division on 24th August 1898.
In that by election which was caused when George Nathaniel Curzon was made viceroy of India , the Liberal candidate, Sir Herbert Naylor-Leyland, gained the seat from the Tories whose candidate was Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, otherwise known as Lord Skelmersdale. The voting figures were 5,100 to 4,828
Anyway Leyland spent £1182 . 14s. 2d. and Skelmersdale £997. 9s.. 9d. during the campaign.

Fast forward sixty years to the 1959 General Election campaign when Tory candidate Ian Percival spent £826.7s. 2d,Charlie Hadfield £425. 7s. for Labour and Sam Goldberg ,who only entered the lists five minutes before the close of nominations and regained second place for the Liberals for the first time since 1929 polled 11,292 votes at a cost of just £198.6s. .I think that works out at 4d per vote!
Does anyone know what were the election expenses limits of 100 years ago ?

]]> By: Tim Leunig http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html#comment-105459 Tim Leunig Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:07 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=17500#comment-105459 What index did you use to uprate your figures, and where did you get your numbers from? What index did you use to uprate your figures, and where did you get your numbers from?

]]> By: Niklas Smith http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html#comment-105434 Niklas Smith Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:44:45 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=17500#comment-105434 I second Nigel's point. Many other things have changed since 1906 - I doubt any party has run a significant profit on an election campaign for decades! If you can dig out the figures, it would be interesting to do a 1906 version of Duncan Stott's graphic: http://splithorizons.blogspot.com/2010/01/lib-dems-are-most-effective-spenders.html I second Nigel’s point. Many other things have changed since 1906 – I doubt any party has run a significant profit on an election campaign for decades!

If you can dig out the figures, it would be interesting to do a 1906 version of Duncan Stott’s graphic: http://splithorizons.blogspot.com/2010/01/lib-dems-are-most-effective-spenders.html

]]> By: Nigel Ashton http://www.libdemvoice.org/what-did-a-constituency-election-campaign-cost-in-1910-17500.html#comment-105432 Nigel Ashton Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:21:38 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/?p=17500#comment-105432 The electorate was much smaller in those days (before women had the vote). It would be interesting to see the comparison for cost per vote. The electorate was much smaller in those days (before women had the vote). It would be interesting to see the comparison for cost per vote.

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