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Henley by-election results - Green 3rd, BNP 4th, Labour 5th

John Michael Howell- Conservative : 19,796
Stephen Andrew Kearney- Lib Dem: 9,680
Mark Christopher Stevenson - Green: 1,321
Timothy Sylvester Rait - BNP: 1,243
Richard Mark McKenzie - Labour: 1,066
Christopher Mark Adams -UKIP: 843
Peter Thomas Owen - Loony : 242
John Derek Allpass - English Democrats : 157
Amanda Jayne Harrington - Independent: 128
Richard Rodgers - Common Good: 121
Louise Anne Cole - Independent: 91
James Christopher Poole - Fur Play: 73

Parpsicles!
 
Still not many votes between them, those 3 parties could easily have swapped places.

Here's the 2005 results for comparison:

Boris Johnson Conservative 24,894
David Turner Liberal Democrat 12,101
Kaleem Saeed Labour 6,862
Mark Stevenson Green 1,518
Delphine Gray-Fisk UK Independence Party 1,162

Labour are destroyed. Still turnout was also down this time compared to 2005. Bah to the BNP, not that this is the sort of area they are likely to ever do extremely well in unless the Tory party somehow self-destructed completely.
 
Those results in full

John Howell: Conservative 19,796
Stephen Kearney: Lib Dems 9,680
Mark Stevenson: Green 1,321
Timothy Rait: BNP 1,243
Richard McKenzie: Labour 1,066
Chris Adams: UKIP 843

2005
Boris Johnson: Conservative 24,894
David Turner: Liberal Democrat 12,101
Kaleem Saeed: Labour 6,862
Mark Stevenson: Green 1,518
Delphine Gray-Fisk: UKIP 1,162

2001
Boris Johnson (Conservative): 20466 votes.
Catherine Bearder (Liberal Democrat): 12008 votes.
Janet Matthews (Labour): 9367 votes.
Philip Collings (UKIP): 1413 votes.
Oliver Tickell (Green Party): 1147 votes.
 
Sorry about that. I always get confused about what UK-relaeted news ends up in the politics forum and which in general.

Dumb de dumb dumb oopsie I wish the ground would open up and swallow me.
 
Congratulations to Mark Stevenson on defeating the far right and New Labour (how easily that phrase trips off the tongue these days!). An excellent starting point for the Howden and Haltemprice by-election campaign.:)
 
The fact that there was less than 200 votes difference between the fash and greens shows that the bnp are picking up votes from a broader electorate than before. Very concerning.

<kbj looks at Germany as an option to move to> :(
 
Wow, turnout was really low compared with previous votes.

Once again, it looks to me as less of a switch of votes from one party to another and more like the supporters of one party simply staying home.

If that is the case, Labour really should be worried, because if their supporters decide en masse to stay at home whilst the Tories that have previously not wanted to vote start getting out there again, they will lose big time.
 
2008
John Howell: Conservative 19,796
Stephen Kearney: Lib Dems 9,680
Mark Stevenson: Green 1,321
Timothy Rait: BNP 1,243
Richard McKenzie: Labour 1,066
Chris Adams: UKIP 843

2005
Boris Johnson: Conservative 24,894
David Turner: Liberal Democrat 12,101
Kaleem Saeed: Labour 6,862
Mark Stevenson: Green 1,518
Delphine Gray-Fisk: UKIP 1,162

2001
Boris Johnson (Conservative): 20466 votes.
Catherine Bearder (Liberal Democrat): 12008 votes.
Janet Matthews (Labour): 9367 votes.
Philip Collings (UKIP): 1413 votes.
Oliver Tickell (Green Party): 1147 votes.

1997
Michael Heseltine Conservative 23,908
Timothy Horton Liberal Democrat 12,741
Duncan Enright Labour 11,700
Sebastian Sainsbury Referendum 2,299
Susan Miles Green 514
Nigel Barlow Natural Law 221
Thomas Hibbert Independent 160

Just adding 1997, so people can see that in hte 10 years labour has been in power they have lost 10,000 votes in Henley.

Yeah it is Henley, and yeah they were never going to vote labour in, but in 97 10,000 of them turned out and voted Labour. In 2008 only 1,000.

The best bit?

They lost their deposit! :D
 
kabbes said:
Wow, turnout was really low compared with previous votes.

Once again, it looks to me as less of a switch of votes from one party to another and more like the supporters of one party simply staying home.

If that is the case, Labour really should be worried, because if their supporters decide en masse to stay at home whilst the Tories that have previously not wanted to vote start getting out there again, they will lose big time.
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Yup.

NL were fucked the minute Brown took over. He could have made a decisive break with the past. He could have dumped the authortiarian 'bin snooper' culture that developed under Blair, he could have spoken out against pfi hey even if he'd put his hands up and said 'I fucked up pfi is a bad idea after all' the voters would have accepted that, he could have focused resources towards social housing, he could have reformed the tax system to remove the hated stealth taxes and raise the money in a more transparent way through income tax. However Brown didn't. He's a weak PM who is tossed about from crisis to crisis with no sense that he is making decisions himself. You get the impression that he is just a figure head for a cabal of self interested policy wonks.

FFS if they continue to sink at this rate you won't just be able to count the Tory vote at the next GE you will weigh it. :(
 
KeyboardJockey said:
Yup.

NL were fucked the minute Brown took over. He could have made a decisive break with the past. He could have dumped the authortiarian 'bin snooper' culture that developed under Blair, he could have spoken out against pfi hey even if he'd put his hands up and said 'I fucked up pfi is a bad idea after all' the voters would have accepted that, he could have focused resources towards social housing, he could have reformed the tax system to remove the hated stealth taxes and raise the money in a more transparent way through income tax. However Brown didn't. He's a weak PM who is tossed about from crisis to crisis with no sense that he is making decisions himself. You get the impression that he is just a figure head for a cabal of self interested policy wonks.

FFS if they continue to sink at this rate you won't just be able to count the Tory vote at the next GE you will weigh it. :(
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I think the next election has been settled for a long long time now. It has been the Tories election I would say as far back as 2006.

Which is worrying, at least in '97 people believed that Tony Blair was different, we were all wrong or may be not, he was different, he was even more of a git then the rest. But at least we had some hope for awhile.

I have no hope in David Cameron at all, I know he will be terrible for this country. I know he doesn't give a toss about the people where I live, I know his Party will never suggest anything that helps the people were I live, and it is depressing because the people around here are desperately in need of some help.

While Labour is shit, they did bring in the Decent Standard for Homes as an example, it has improved the lot of quite a few people I know. I know the new builds are all HA and not Council owned and that bothers me, but there is new housing, actual new housing for social tenants...though admittedly, I am not sure it added many buildings to the Council list, as they had to demolish loads of old buildings to create the room for the new ones.

I wouldn't be expecting anything like that from Cameron, ever. The last time his party touched housing they brought in the 25+ rule in Housing Benefit that limited payment to amount neccessary for a Bedsit only for anyone under 25....cause you can just live in one room, you don't need no more that, don't mind David with his farm with many acres, his big London house with many rooms, you only need 1 room to live in til you are 25.

That is the kind of bullshit we are going to get from the Conservatives.

The future is looking very bleak indeed.
 
militant atheist said:
Has this ever happend before - a governing party coming fifth in a by-election?:eek: I know it's Henley, but it really must be all over for newLabour now. Beaten by the BNP ffs!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7476703.stm
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Given that the average house price in henley is about £3 million why would the labour candidate even bother turning up.

Lets see if the tory's "crush" labour in Leeds or Liverpool or Newcastle or any of the towns and cities they destroyed under the cunt thatcher
 
nino_savatte said:
It's Henley innit? Labour are never going to do well there.
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In 1997 they got almost half as many votes as Michael Heseltine.

In this by election they got a tenth - that's not doing badly, that's meltdown.

If I was a Lesbian whale drop in centre "worker", i'd be looking for new career opportunities before the next election.
 
Cobbles said:
In 1997 they got almost half as many votes as Michael Heseltine.

In this by election they got a tenth - that's not doing badly, that's meltdown.

If I was a Lesbian whale drop in centre "worker", i'd be looking for new career opportunities before the next election.
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I do not think so. There were far more candidates this time and so the 'other' vote could spread out more. It is bad certainly, but I think it is far removed from a crisis. In a general election for example I can see their vote increasing dramatically.
 
inferno said:
Given that the average house price in henley is about £3 million why would the labour candidate even bother turning up.

Lets see if the tory's "crush" labour in Leeds or Liverpool or Newcastle or any of the towns and cities they destroyed under the cunt thatcher
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Oh yes, because it is IMPOSSIBLE that people with expensive houses might actually want to vote for the Labour party. No point even giving them the option.
 
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