Thanks, jim. Seems I must pay more attention to Mikey's pollster posts, in future.
It is, frankly, quite amusing to witness Clegga strutting aroun and making a big deal about LibDem voteshare when, as your analysis (of Mikey's analysis?) points out, they were protest votes, all along.
Last time around, I came dangerously close to "I haven't voted for this lot yet, why not give them a go?" but they didn't field a candidate and it's a safe Tory seat in any case, so Labour was the only protest vote option.
I did get enthused by the AV issue and was deeplu disappointed that the result was based on such a low turnout and in spite of my qualms about minority parties being key to individual issues ("that's democracy", as Zacs put it - more on that story later)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011
Got to go out, things to do. Keep the replies coming, any and all relevant statistics welcome. I'll be back this evening.