General Election: After the debate 15th April #GE2010

by Lee Smallwood on April 15, 2010

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The figures don’t lie

Reviewing the online conversations that took place during that debate, Nick Clegg looks to have won that round! From 7k + plus before the debate there are now 16,997 posts, with LibDems taking 51.6% of those, Labour 29.8% and Conservatives 18.6%

But the devils in the detail so…:

Labour Sentiment

And without Neutral Sentiment:

And where those positive, neutral and negative sentiment conversations happened:


Conservative Sentiment

And without Neutral Sentiment:

And where those positive, neutral and negative sentiment conversations happened:


Liberal Democrat Sentiment

And without Neutral Sentiment:

And where those positive, neutral and negative sentiment conversations happened:


… And finally

I think this post and the the previous published just before the debate shows that there still is everything to play for in this General Election. What will be interesting is to monitor the effect it’s had on the polls tomorrow…

I’ve published all of the positive and negative conversations in the following links for the 3 parties – just in case you want to have a bit of bedtime reading.

Labour

Positive sentiment conversations

Negative sentiment conversations

Conservative

Positive sentiment conversations

Negative sentiment conversations

Liberal Democrat

Positive sentiment conversations

Negative sentiment conversations

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1 Silicon Beach Training April 16, 2010 at 2:09 pm

Thanks for doing that analysis Lee! I've just written a blog post on how the political parties are using social media in light of last night's debates and I'm going to add a link to you if that's okay. Check it out here: http://www.siliconbeachtraining.co.uk/blog/soci… :-)
Natasha

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