#uk election
United Kingdom Nonbinary Election Campaign results and final analysis blog post and bar charts, analysing the performance of the UK Trans Info campaign in light of the general election result.
As encouraging as the 809 candidates pledging support were, the 33 of them that actually got elected didn’t include the 2 Lib Dem MPs who previously showed the most support for nonbinary people in parliament.
This means that it’s important that those 33 who were elected are kept to their word and asked to show active support, and that more MPs are told why these issues deserve consideration.
If your newly elected local MP supported the campaign, please do what you can to hold them to their pledge and remind them why this cause is important. Even if they didn’t, the blog post gives some ideas of how to ask for their support.
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Over 800 General Election candidates have now made our non-binary pledge. That’s over 20% of all candidates! New pledges can be made until polls close at 10pm tonight, so it’s not too late to ask your local candidates to pledge.
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Update to the bar charts from the earlier post on the UK general election Nonbinary Campaign based on the figures as of 11pm the night before the election.
782 candidates have taken the pledge, almost 20% of all candidates.
Top of the list are the Green Parties, which across the English & Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish Green parties have 312 pledged candidates (54% of their total candidates and 40% of all the candidates of any party who have pledged).
Only 1% of Tory candidates have pledged, just 11 candidates compared to Labour’s 101 candidates and the LibDems’ 171 candidates.
The full party breakdown is hereandthe full list of pledges can be read here.
There have been 10 more pledges since then, 19.995% of all election candidates.
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Bar charts showing the number of pledges by candidates of the top 9 parties in the UK general election Nonbinary Campaign.
Over 700 election candidates have pledged to support nonbinary rights and recognition. Practical Androgyny has a new post analysing the performance of the different political parties.
There’s still time for UK voters to ask local candidates to take the Nonbinary Campaign pledge.
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So I haven’t really commented on the UK, or anything really lately (been too busy to keep up with this), but I’d like to say that I am happy with the landslide victory for the Tories. I’m not invested in UK politics, but I am well versed and I will say that Jeremy Corbyn scares me, and even before Boris Johnson was PM, I said that he should’ve been instead of Teresa May.
I absolutely refuse to believe that 0% of Labour ads have contained a lie. That is actually impossible in politics. Literally every party will lie in their ads at some point, always for their own gain and to denounce their opposition, there’s no getting around it. Biased ‘research’ is not real research, and should not be taken as such. Sure, the Tories lied in their ads, but there is no actual way Labour did not. The fact that people don’t hold the common sense to realise that politicians - ALL POLITICIANS - lie, and they do a lot, is honestly troubling but what can you do when. the Twitter residents vote.
