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It is encouraging to see the Greens picking up a decent number of seats, almost doubling them in fact. Less encouraging is the Nazi and the 'we're not quite Nazis but we still hate foreigners' parties doing so well.
 
Bernie Gunther said:
It is encouraging to see the Greens picking up a decent number of seats, almost doubling them in fact. Less encouraging is the Nazi and the 'we're not quite Nazis but we still hate foreigners' parties doing so well.
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The hidden truth reveals itself. But still a lot better than Le Pen in France which is something to work with.
 
butchersapron said:
That's a fantastic set of results for the greans.
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it is, would've been nice if repeated in Lancaster and Oxford though, a few good breakthroughs though, bodes well for the euros (Peter Crainie's blog says we got more votes across Lancashire than the BNP, and that we beat them in Carlisle too) a good building point for next year's (or next month's) general election, I'll probably do some maths later and work out whether we'd win norwich south (we'd not win Lancaster and Fleetwood and we'd sure as hell not win oxford east) on these results and what we can expect from the Norwich North by-election
 
Looks like the Greens lost three to Labour in Oxford.

ETA Even if you'd held onto these seats, still not a snowball's chance of winning Oxford East.
 
Sue said:
Looks like the Greens lost three to Labour in Oxford.

ETA Even if you'd held onto these seats, still not a snowball's chance of winning Oxford East.
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well yes, many will be amazed even if we win Brighton Pavillion and Norwich South, which are on the table so to speak, it will take a lot of boots on the ground and a solid national campaign, hopefully with some more MEPs we'll get on question time and suchlike a bit more often. other than those two, not this time, but there's potential
 
Any thoughts on how Labour managed to take these seats off the Greens?

(Not having a go -- would have much preferred the Greens to have held onto them - just curious about what happened.)
 
I haven't been on the ground of the Oxford electoral scene for over a year now - but it seems to me:

(a) Two of the three County Councillors we lost were non incumbents. The two we retained were incumbents. Incumbency therefore must have had some effect.

(b) All three Labour victors were well known and prominent figures in local politics (even if, as I do, you might think that they are all - umm - somewhat flawed personalities)

(c) There was, certainly in East Oxford, a serious complacency amongst Green voters, who figured that the Greens had held the seat for approaching two decades, and that the result was a forgone conclusion. A number of people I know of didn't vote - and are are now seriously regretting it, given that the second Green candidate lost by under 20 votes.

(d) Oxford Labour have historically been *incredibly* good at detaching themselves from national Labour...they managed the same thing in 06 and 08 - the Guardian even wrote an article about it...

No disguising it though, a very disappointing day for Oxford Greens.

Matt
 
interesting that the BBC are not talking the signficant drop in the vote / turnout .. or maybe i have got a unrepresentive lot of councils
 
just one last look! at Oxford .. really poor result for Greens in Oxfrod East 2360 / 2623 down to 1500 / 1500 ..and tragic that no IWCA in Barton or Leys

BUT the key thing is again .. turnout down 40% is this the same nationally??
 
Fairplay to the Greens in Norwich. It does seem like what would be described as the protest vote parties of both progressive and reactionary natures have done well.
 
Matt S said:
I haven't been on the ground of the Oxford electoral scene for over a year now - but it seems to me:

(a) Two of the three County Councillors we lost were non incumbents. The two we retained were incumbents. Incumbency therefore must have had some effect.

(b) All three Labour victors were well known and prominent figures in local politics (even if, as I do, you might think that they are all - umm - somewhat flawed personalities)

(c) There was, certainly in East Oxford, a serious complacency amongst Green voters, who figured that the Greens had held the seat for approaching two decades, and that the result was a forgone conclusion. A number of people I know of didn't vote - and are are now seriously regretting it, given that the second Green candidate lost by under 20 votes.

(d) Oxford Labour have historically been *incredibly* good at detaching themselves from national Labour...they managed the same thing in 06 and 08 - the Guardian even wrote an article about it...

No disguising it though, a very disappointing day for Oxford Greens.

Matt
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Fair enough. Were there boundary changes in Isis/West Central Oxford? Just I noticed S Dall (sp?) wasn't given as the incumbent for WCO ward but she was definitely a county councillor before?
 
Lancashire - total Labour collpase, with the BNP winning their first ever County Council seat (in Padiham, Burnley).

Mixed bag elsewhere - LibDems gain St Annes (the world clearly has gone bonkers), Conservatives gain Upholland/Withington (known as Skelmersdale East, so yes, Skem has gone Tory....).

In Preston, Labour hold on everywhere except Preston West (Lib Dem gain), far-right extremist and permatanned sleaze Mark Cotterill of the England First Party scared the bejabus out of us by looking like the shock result of the night, but only came third in the end. Still, over 500 votes, which is a hell of a protest vote.

Greens flopped everywhere in Preston, but on two seats in Lancaster.
 
durruti02 said:
just one last look! at Oxford .. really poor result for Greens in Oxfrod East 2360 / 2623 down to 1500 / 1500 ..and tragic that no IWCA in Barton or Leys

BUT the key thing is again .. turnout down 40% is this the same nationally??
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Turnout in Preston fell from 49,710 to 34,900, not sure of the percentages.
 
One of the reasons turnout was higher the last time these seats were contested is that there was a general election at the same time.
 
Does this local by-election result from London mean anything?

Harrison (Lab) 1726 (40.7%)
Roberts(LibDem) 1396 (32.9%)
Poole-Wilson (Con) 707 (16.7%)
Healey (Green) 320 (7.5%)
Polenceus (Eng Dem) 93 (2.2%)

Both Healey and Polenceus are candidates for the European Parliament too.
 
Jean-Luc said:
Does this local by-election result from London mean anything?

Harrison (Lab) 1726 (40.7%)
Roberts(LibDem) 1396 (32.9%)
Poole-Wilson (Con) 707 (16.7%)
Healey (Green) 320 (7.5%)
Polenceus (Eng Dem) 93 (2.2%)

Both Healey and Polenceus are candidates for the European Parliament too.
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It means that under the Lib Dems one of the local housing offices became more concerned about ensuring that corrupt officials and councillors made money than about dealing with housing. It's an area they fucked up in a big way, so there's a lot of anti Lib Dem feeling there. It's also where I lived until two years ago.
 
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