Saturday, October 13, 2007

Ming leadership causes yet more polling disasters

Election Results: Thursday 11th October 2007.

Horsham DC, Holbrook West
LD Belinda Walters 602 (43.9; +11.1), Con 554 (40.4; -6.5), BNP 163 (11.9;
+11.9), Lab 52 (3.8; +0.2), [Ind (0.0; -16.6)].
Majority 48. Turnout 32.2%. LD gain from Con. Last fought 2007.

Chippenham TC, Pewsham
LD Mark Packard 493 (58.8), Con 346 (41.2).
Majority 147. Turnout 19.5%. LD gain from Con.

It is high time we listened to our critics and elected an unknown good-looking young leader with no obvious principles, in order to reverse these disasters and hand seats back to the Tories.

- Frank Little

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I thought irony was dead!!

Tim Roll-Pickering said...

It would seem Ming thinks so!

Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats said...

We await today's by-election results with trepidation!

Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats said...

So far, so good:

Whitchurch, Basingstoke & Deane - LD hold

"The Tories threw absolutely everything at this. Nevertheless, the
result held up very well against May (also with a new candidate)..."

Eric Dunlop (LD) 858 52.8% -5.6%
Con 709 43.6% +2.0%
Lab 58 3.6% +3.6%

Turnout 42%

Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats said...

The totals are in: seven successful defences (Con 3, Lab 2, LD 1 and Ind 1). So no change where it really matters, among real voters.

But I anticipate our MORI ratings to go up, purely on the back of the extra publicity for Liberal Democrats in the last seven days.

- Frank Little