Stockport

[stb12]

Stockport

[birkinabe]

SOPN - Con, Lab, LD, Green, Reform UK, WPB, Stockport Fights Austerity - No To Cuts

[markgoodair]

Sky News have a. report on the potentially embarrassing social media input of the Conservative candidate.

[Rutlander]

Jun 9, 2024 8:10:47 GMT markgoodair said:

Sky News have a. report on the potentially embarrassing social media input of the Conservative candidate.

Tory candidate [Oliver Johnstone] apologises for Rohypnol social post
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7223p914d8o

[where2travel]

Reading another thread referencing this seat prompted me to check the results here. It looked quite poor for Labour for an MP on their first re-election. Any obvious reason why?

Labour won with a lower vote tally and vote share than 2019, and less than 50% of the vote share this time (with 60% plus in recent times). The Conservatives collapsed hugely and the Con+Ref vote share this time was also less than the Con+Brex vote share in 2019. The Greens seemed to see a healthy increase but were still 4th on 11% so were the main beneficiaries of the above, but nothing material.

Is it just this seat is behaving more like some inner city seats where Labour saw some larger falls in their vote, although I'm not sure the demographics immediately suggest that would be the case?

[jamie]

Aug 20, 2024 20:42:53 GMT where2travel said:

Reading another thread referencing this seat prompted me to check the results here. It looked quite poor for Labour for an MP on their first re-election. Any obvious reason why?

Labour won with a lower vote tally and vote share than 2019, and less than 50% of the vote share this time (with 60% plus in recent times). The Conservatives collapsed hugely and the Con+Ref vote share this time was also less than the Con+Brex vote share in 2019. The Greens seemed to see a healthy increase but were still 4th on 11% so were the main beneficiaries of the above, but nothing material.

Is it just this seat is behaving more like some inner city seats where Labour saw some larger falls in their vote, although I'm not sure the demographics immediately suggest that would be the case?

I’m not sure it’s too out of place. Urban seat where Labour got more than 50% of the vote last time is the sort of place with at best anaemic results for Labour last month, and the Worker’s Party got 4% which suggests this is the sort of seat with a bit of a backlash against Starmer’s Labour Party. 

[The Bishop]

Yes, the Labour result here was "meh" but not much worse than that.

Look at Preston if you want a genuinely poor showing for them in this region and this sort of seat.

[Merseymike]

Aug 21, 2024 10:35:51 GMT The Bishop said:

Yes, the Labour result here was "meh" but not much worse than that.

Look at Preston if you want a genuinely poor showing for them in this region and this sort of seat.

But Preston did well - because Lavalette was very pro-Palestinian. Muslim voters went for an left-wing Independent.

[aargauer]

Aug 21, 2024 10:35:51 GMT The Bishop said:

Yes, the Labour result here was "meh" but not much worse than that.

Look at Preston if you want a genuinely poor showing for them in this region and this sort of seat.

Fishwick is part of Preston.

[john07]

The Stockport result looks ok for Labour to me.

Labour has lost ground in recent years to the Greens in South Reddish and the Community Association in Edgeley. There was certainly an upsurge in the Green vote in the General, especially as there was no threat to losing the seat to anyone.