Here are the facts and figures from Sunday’s Special Conference:
- Time taken to organise: 4 days – compared to the year that a Lib Dem conference usually takes. Even the Liberal-SDP merger conference of 1988 was arranged with 4 months’ notice.
- Total number of delegates: 1650 (of whom 250 registered on the day). This was larger than any Lib Dem Spring Conference.
- It featured the longest debate at a Liberal Democrat conference (3.5 hours)
- Number of speakers cards submitted: 172
- Number of speeches made: 38
- Number of intervention cards submitted: 110
- Number of interventions taken: 30
- Number of amendments: 9 (all passed)
- Speeches against the motion as a whole: 6 (from a total of 13 cards put in to speak against; so speeches against were over-represented)
- Number of journalists: 0 (Stephen has already blogged about this)
However:
- Number of tweets with the #LDConf hashtag: Tweetminster estimates there were just under 10,000 tweets with this hashtag, which trended in the UK during the conference.
Thanks – and congratulations – to the Federal Conference Committee for organising this historic and extraordinary day, and to party President Ros Scott for chairing the event.
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It was a good day, and I’m glad I went.
Can the FE have a small thank you for passing a motion a couple of days before the coalition agreement meeting deciding we would call a special conference whatever the outcome of the “triple lock” votes among MPs and the FE…
This really was a stunning event, and unbelievably well organised; congratulations to all involved in putting it together. I’d be fascinated to know the financial statistics – maybe a question for Autumn Conference?
The decision not to admit the media was a wasted opportunity.
Was the conference recorded and, if so, can the film be made available online?
There were cameras in the room, but I don’t know, they may have just been to run the big screen.