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It doesn’t need to be an even number. If there are 639 voting MPs (after subtracting Sinn Fein, the Speaker and his deputies), and 320 are Tory while 319 aren’t, that’s a majority of 1.
Whatever you do with the speaker and his deputies, as there’s four of them, it doesn’t affect the parity of the majority.

Treatment of Sinn Féin is the key variable.
2005
Labour: 356 (out of 646)
Others: 290
Official majority: 356-290 = 66

2015
Conservatives: 331 (out of 650)
Others: 319
Official majority: 331-319 = 12
My thinking behind my guess was that the Tories were eight short of a majority in 2017, I reckon they'll lose a couple of seats in London, so they'll have to make those up plus a few more, so even if the Tories win around 20 more seats than last time that'll still only give them a majority of somewhere around 10, so getting into the 20s means winning 30 more seats and so on.
Who would’ve thought a sweepstake would be so popular? My lord Geezer has his finger on the pulse of his audience once again:)
Snapshot at quarter past ten



So far 24 people have picked a number somebody else has already chosen.

44 is the highest unselected even number, and -14 the lowest.
Fingers crossed Alex Halpern wins.
DG, that's incorrectly phrased. 68 is a lower unselected even number, and 156 (territory in which I'd leave the country!) a higher one
As my guess will testify, I clearly am clueless about "the way subtraction works". I have always thought it was possible to have either an even or odd result following subtraction.

dg writes: X-(650-X) = 2X-650 = 2(X-325)
3pm update
All numbers between 6 and 34 taken.
All even numbers between -26 and 54 taken.
I went for 44 as the lowest available even number, though given a choice would have gone for something nearer 30!
36 people have voted for a majority already chosen. Their choices are saved elsewhere.
DG for PM!

Err . . . . Well, perhaps. Be careful what you wish for.
Time up!
(gulp)
Exit poll suggesting majority of 86.
We were nowhere near.
Good example of herd behaviour? Most people chose the nearest possible answer to everyone else’s. I imagine we’d have seen very different results if everyone had predicted blind to others’ predictions.
Consider the electoral void well and truly howled-into.










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