DISCLAIMER and CREDITS

DISCLAIMER

All results in this guide have been compiled by me from various sources (principally the BBC and national newspapers). I believe that all figures and facts given here are correct (including the credits, which are my own opinions). If you find a mistake in the figures/writing, contact me and I will do what I can to help. However, I will accept NO (no) responsibility for:

1. Investigating the source of the mistake
2. Correcting the mistake
3. Any of the consequences of using information provided by me which is later found to be incorrect
4. Damage which has been incurred to this website in transit, or
5. Anything else you or your lawyer can think up.

This website is provided on an "as is" basis and you should use at your own peril. (Sorry: "risk".) So there.

Now that legal paragraph is over with, I freely admit there are mistakes. The figures given for the votes cast for the major parties in the General Election are almost certainly incorrect (they differ from other published data), which is a consequence of incorrect addition. Since the addition involved is the summation of 641 (six hundred and forty-one) different statistics for each of the big three parties, all of them consisting of numbers of four or five figures, there is no way I am going back to add it up again and get it right this time. I do not have a lot of free time and am currently studying for a mathematics degree at Warwick University. However, I advise that the figures are approximately correct; rounding off to (say) the nearest 1 or 10 thousand will be good enough for most purposes and roughly equal to the actual result.

CREDITS (in no particular order):

• J. Whitaker and Sons, for producing Whitaker's Almanack which provided me with a copy of the '92 election results (and the '97 results as well) and got me into this whole game in the first place
• British Broadcasting Corporation Television News for providing the nation with outstanding election night coverage, dodgy (sometimes seriously dodgy!) computer predictions and the inimitable Peter Snow
• BBC News 24 for being completely consistent in mucking up coverage of every single election they do
• The Times and The Independent for giving me the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly election results but not giving me the abbreviations they used (thanks a bundle)
• The Internet for making STV election results available for every count (NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY SHOPS)
• The European Parliament for winning the Worst Website Design In The World Award by several miles. (No link is given in protest.) Why should I have to search the list of MEPs eight times to find the party strength in the European Parliament?
• My father for throwing out the Daily Telegraph supplement I originally tried adding up the 1997 results from.
• Commodore-Amiga, Inc., for providing me with the Amiga A1200, a great and sadly neglected machine the first two versions of this website were drafted on. (It had 2MB RAM and ran off floppies, which was quite a good deal when it was made in 1990, so you will find no pictures here.)
• Sen. George Mitchell for doing so much for peace in Northern Ireland and making me change the Peace Process section every other day
• The Provisional Irish Republican Army: Look, all you have to do is hand over your guns, ammo, Semtex, etc. and we can all live happily ever after
• Peter Mandelson: The best hate figure you could hope to get
• Screaming Lord Sutch: The most sensible politician Britain ever had, in a Raving Loony way...

v1.2: Compilation by Andrew Teale (c) 1997-2002, writing up by Andrew Teale (c) 1999-2002, all rights reserved.

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Last updated 4 Feb 2002