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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:10:24 GMT
Walsall and Bloxwich
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Post by carolus on Jun 7, 2024 15:17:29 GMT
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Post by Andrew_S on Aug 16, 2024 0:55:52 GMT
Tories came 4th defending a seat they notionally held. Must have happened before but I can't remember an example atm.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 16, 2024 5:37:26 GMT
Tories came 4th defending a seat they notionally held. Must have happened before but I can't remember an example atm. Lib Dems came fourth in Norwich South in 2015 - not just a seat they notionally held, but one they actually held and with the incumbent MP standing for re-election |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 16, 2024 5:38:30 GMT
Also UUP in Belfast North in 2001
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 5:42:39 GMT
Tories got cock-bloxed here by Reform.
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 16, 2024 10:10:50 GMT
Tories also came fourth in Ashfield which they won in 2019 - though the circumstances surrounding that are too well known to need repeating here.
As at Norwich South in 2015, the UUP 4th place in Belfast North was with the incumbent MP.
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 16, 2024 10:31:29 GMT
This really is an imposingly cursed result and for that reason I'm surprised at the lack of attention.
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Post by heslingtonian on Aug 16, 2024 12:24:43 GMT
Turnout here was 49.8%. That feels extremely low even in the context of this General Election.
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Post by sanders on Aug 16, 2024 12:50:52 GMT
This really is an imposingly cursed result and for that reason I'm surprised at the lack of attention. Cursed result is right. Spot on. |
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Post by iainbhx on Aug 19, 2024 21:14:32 GMT
Turnout here was 49.8%. That feels extremely low even in the context of this General Election. The Black Country boroughs have never been very high turnout, but Walsall and Sandwell have fallen the furthest. The old Walsall North trotted in at 54% last time and Walsall South at 64%, given Muslim abstentionism (as well as voting for Gaza Indos) and the generally poor turnouts in the Walsall North wards over the last few years in local elections, even in fairly highly contested Blakenhall, 49.8% struck me as reasonable. 42.98% in Tipton and Wednesbury is more worrying. Not one Black Country seat managed 60% this time, not even Wolvo SW or Stourbridge. |
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Post by peterski on Aug 24, 2024 4:35:26 GMT
The denizens of the Black Country can look around at the wreckage of their former powerhouse economy , shambolic neighbourhoods and rampant demographic change and quite reasonably deduce ; voting ? What's the fucking point ?
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Post by Sibboleth on Aug 24, 2024 12:12:02 GMT
There is no one alive now who can remember when the Black Country had a 'powerhouse economy'. Even during the 1950s when Birmingham was certainly doing very well, the economy of most of the Black Country was in structural decline. There were prosperous bits, but then there are now as well.
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Post by iainbhx on Aug 31, 2024 11:58:35 GMT
There is no one alive now who can remember when the Black Country had a 'powerhouse economy'. Even during the 1950s when Birmingham was certainly doing very well, the economy of most of the Black Country was in structural decline. There were prosperous bits, but then there are now as well. Some parts never fully recovered from the 1920's and 1930's. Although not particularly areas in this seat. |
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