There were about 15 seats that in the big picture of the model were won by the Liberal Democrats, but given the 2005 results and how close the Conservatives were, I assigned those seats to the Conservatives.
All the seats are in England, I am not confident of the data from Wales or Scotland to make predictions for those seats.
Here are the 65 seats I am 90% certain will fall to the Cleggista Revolution:
- Briminghan Hodge Hill
- Brimingham Ladywood – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Brimingham Perry Barr
- Bishop Auckland
- Blackburn
- Blaydon
- Blyth Valley
- Bradford East
- Brent Central
- Bristol East
- Bristol North West
- Bristol South
- Burnley
- Colne Valley
- Cotswolds
- Coventry North West
- Derby North
- Derby South
- Derbyshire North East
- Doncaster Central
- Dulwich and West Norwood
- City of Durham
- Exeter
- Feltham and Heston– the low turn out is a big factor here
- Great Grimsby – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Hackney North and Stoke Newington – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Hartlepool
- Holborn and St Pancras – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Huddersfield
- Hull North
- Hull West and Hessle
- Ilford South
- Ipswich
- Islington North
- Islington South and Finsbury
- Lancaster and Fleetwood
- Leicester South
- Lewisham West and Penge
- Leyton and Wanstead
- Liverpool Riverside – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Liverpoll Wavertree
- Luton South
- Manchester Gordon – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central
- Newcastle upon Tyne East
- Newcastle upon Tyne North
- Northhampton North
- Norwich South
- Nottingham East
- Nottingham South
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Oxford East
- Plymouth Moor View
- Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
- Preston
- Sheffield Central
- Southampton Itchen
- Southampton Test
- St Helens South and Whiston
- Streatham
- Vauxhall – the low turn out is a big factor here
- Wakefield
- Walthamstow
- Wansbeck
- Watford
Potential Conservative held seats that the Liberal Democrats could win.
- Bournemouth West
- Broadland
- Dorset North
- Dorset West
- Eastbourne
I am not certain what will happen in any of these five as I can not be certain of what voters will do in seats where Labour is not a factor. Let us call it 2 LibDem and 3 Conservative.
On the above alone, Nick Clegg would be over 130 seats in Westminster and this is the absolute minimum seats for them.
I am off camping this weekend and may not get another post in - I have to finish laying a floor before I can go. If I do, or on Monday, I will detail 76 more Labour seats that are under threat to be lost to the Liberal Democrats. My estimate is that Labour will lose at least 50 of those seats to one of the other parties.
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Bunley? Surely you mean Burnley, but no worries. Excellent stuff. Let's hoping you're 100% right.
Rallings and Thrasher give Glenda Jackson MP (Hampstead and Kilburn) a revised 2005 majority of 474 over the Lib Dems, yet that seat does not appear in your list. Surely it is within the LDs' grasp.
The figures I was using showed that the new Hampstead and Kilburn seat would have been won by LibDems in 2005, but looking into it a bit further, I can see there are different numbers out there for it.
I was using the numbers for the changed boundaries from http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/
This is a seat that should be a Liberal Democrat win. Do I add it to this list?
I suspect I should do a complete list of all the seats in England that I believe the Liberal Democrats will win, could win and might win.
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