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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 1:21:33 GMT
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Post by YL on Mar 14, 2024 8:31:19 GMT
Almanac profileCandidatesAndrew Cooper (Green) Jan Dobrucki (Lib Dem) Susan Laird (Reform UK) Tony McGrath (Con) Harpreet Uppal (Lab)
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Post by YL on Jun 5, 2024 16:24:16 GMT
Does anyone know what is going on with the Greens here? They originally announced Cllr Andrew Cooper as candidate, and he seems to have been campaigning a bit, but the national candidate website now has "TBC". There's nothing on his Twitter indicating a problem and his profile still calls him a "Huddersfield General Election Candidate".
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Post by hullenedge on Jun 5, 2024 16:28:00 GMT
Does anyone know what is going on with the Greens here? They originally announced Cllr Andrew Cooper as candidate, and he seems to have been campaigning a bit, but the national candidate website now has "TBC". There's nothing on his Twitter indicating a problem and his profile still calls him a "Huddersfield General Election Candidate". Pretty sure the Examiner mentioned him as the Green candidate earlier this week.
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Post by YL on Jun 5, 2024 16:33:17 GMT
Does anyone know what is going on with the Greens here? They originally announced Cllr Andrew Cooper as candidate, and he seems to have been campaigning a bit, but the national candidate website now has "TBC". There's nothing on his Twitter indicating a problem and his profile still calls him a "Huddersfield General Election Candidate". Pretty sure the Examiner mentioned him as the Green candidate earlier this week. ... though if he had been dropped without any publicity for some reason they might not have noticed.
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Post by YL on Jun 6, 2024 20:23:28 GMT
Cooper is shown as the candidate again so perhaps it was just a website glitch.
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2024 15:49:01 GMT
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Post by mrsir on Jul 6, 2024 10:09:48 GMT
Bit of a surprising result here. Labour majority of 4,533 over the Green Party.
No Workers Party or Muslim independent candidate and the new Labour MP is a Sikh woman.
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Post by froome on Jul 6, 2024 13:14:12 GMT
Bit of a surprising result here. Labour majority of 4,533 over the Green Party. No Workers Party or Muslim independent candidate and the new Labour MP is a Sikh woman. The Green candidate, Andrew Cooper, has been a local councillor in this area for many years, and will be well known in the constituency. If he chooses to stand again in 2029, this should be one to keep an eye on.
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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 6, 2024 13:55:01 GMT
Bit of a surprising result here. Labour majority of 4,533 over the Green Party. No Workers Party or Muslim independent candidate and the new Labour MP is a Sikh woman. The Green candidate, Andrew Cooper, has been a local councillor in this area for many years, and will be well known in the constituency. If he chooses to stand again in 2029, this should be one to keep an eye on. An impressive result here for them yes and not enough talk about this and Greens being second in quite a few places (whereas Reform...). Clearly Cllr Cooper must have attracted votes from not only his own ward. They did of course gain Crossland Moor at the LEs this year but that is only two wards - this is no Bristol, Brighton, Suffolk or Herefordshire where they had a clear local government base. An interesting symmetry when it comes to the 4 Green seats - two urban 'metropolitan', graduate heavy areas where they attack Labour and two very rural areas they took form the conservatives - so next time Huddersfield, a more average town, could well be put on the map and nobody could see it coming. Who knows how much of a personal vote Barry Sherman had which disappeared even though safe to say I heard mixed reviews about him.
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Post by markgoodair on Jul 6, 2024 18:29:18 GMT
The Green candidate, Andrew Cooper, has been a local councillor in this area for many years, and will be well known in the constituency. If he chooses to stand again in 2029, this should be one to keep an eye on. An impressive result here for them yes and not enough talk about this and Greens being second in quite a few places (whereas Reform...). Clearly Cllr Cooper must have attracted votes from not only his own ward. They did of course gain Crossland Moor at the LEs this year but that is only two wards - this is no Bristol, Brighton, Suffolk or Herefordshire where they had a clear local government base. An interesting symmetry when it comes to the 4 Green seats - two urban 'metropolitan', graduate heavy areas where they attack Labour and two very rural areas they took form the conservatives - so next time Huddersfield, a more average town, could well be put on the map and nobody could see it coming. Who knows how much of a personal vote Barry Sherman had which disappeared even though safe to say I heard mixed reviews about him. How much of the impressive increase in the Green vote is down to the fact that the well respected Labour incumbent retired this election?
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Post by batman on Jul 6, 2024 20:31:54 GMT
Not respected by me. I'm glad he retired. His shekels remark was awful.
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Post by john07 on Jul 6, 2024 21:53:48 GMT
The Green candidate, Andrew Cooper, has been a local councillor in this area for many years, and will be well known in the constituency. If he chooses to stand again in 2029, this should be one to keep an eye on. An impressive result here for them yes and not enough talk about this and Greens being second in quite a few places (whereas Reform...). Clearly Cllr Cooper must have attracted votes from not only his own ward. They did of course gain Crossland Moor at the LEs this year but that is only two wards - this is no Bristol, Brighton, Suffolk or Herefordshire where they had a clear local government base. An interesting symmetry when it comes to the 4 Green seats - two urban 'metropolitan', graduate heavy areas where they attack Labour and two very rural areas they took form the conservatives - so next time Huddersfield, a more average town, could well be put on the map and nobody could see it coming. Who knows how much of a personal vote Barry Sherman had which disappeared even though safe to say I heard mixed reviews about him. His name was Barry Sheerman. Not one of my favourites I have to say.
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Post by finsobruce on Jul 6, 2024 21:58:43 GMT
An impressive result here for them yes and not enough talk about this and Greens being second in quite a few places (whereas Reform...). Clearly Cllr Cooper must have attracted votes from not only his own ward. They did of course gain Crossland Moor at the LEs this year but that is only two wards - this is no Bristol, Brighton, Suffolk or Herefordshire where they had a clear local government base. An interesting symmetry when it comes to the 4 Green seats - two urban 'metropolitan', graduate heavy areas where they attack Labour and two very rural areas they took form the conservatives - so next time Huddersfield, a more average town, could well be put on the map and nobody could see it coming. Who knows how much of a personal vote Barry Sherman had which disappeared even though safe to say I heard mixed reviews about him. His name was Barry Sheerman. Not one of my favourites I have to say. He did go to school with two of the Yardbirds though.
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Post by mattbewilson on Jul 6, 2024 22:12:26 GMT
I must say, I went to a Huddersfield fundraiser. Andy Burnham, Nick Symonds and Barry Sheerman were a couple of the speakers.
None feature in this government but I must say they were all very impressive and I say this as someone who agrees with the above and thinks Barry probably should have gone sooner.
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Post by elinorhelyn on Aug 6, 2024 14:34:52 GMT
Combination of popular local councillor and no Workers Party/Muslim independent candidate meant the pro-Gaza Muslim vote went to the Greens, I think explains the Green vote.
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Post by evergreenadam on Aug 13, 2024 9:19:59 GMT
On paper at least, Huddersfield, Bristol East and Bristol South where the Greens have established a clear second place to Labour would appear to be their best prospects for future gains.
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Post by batman on Aug 13, 2024 9:25:50 GMT
I tend to think that Huddersfield is a particularly hard nut to crack for them. They have some strong wards but quite a few where Labour will continue to be well ahead of them. The Bristol seats may possibly have more potential.
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Post by evergreenadam on Aug 13, 2024 9:42:36 GMT
I tend to think that Huddersfield is a particularly hard nut to crack for them. They have some strong wards but quite a few where Labour will continue to be well ahead of them. The Bristol seats may possibly have more potential. Yes, I agree that the Bristol seats are probably a better fit for them in the long term. The Huddersfield result could be a one off, influenced by the particular Green candidate, Gaza and the lack of a Workers Party candidate, all of which could change by the time of the next GE. However running the Council in Bristol is potentially a risk factor for the Greens - see also Brighton. I don’t have a handle on how well the Greens do amongst the white working class in Bristol who must form a significant proportion of the electorate in both Bristol East and Bristol South.
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Post by hullenedge on Aug 13, 2024 9:53:57 GMT
I tend to think that Huddersfield is a particularly hard nut to crack for them. They have some strong wards but quite a few where Labour will continue to be well ahead of them. The Bristol seats may possibly have more potential. Possible declining (GB) student numbers and the growth of new housing (especially in the north of the constituency) are unlikely to favour the Greens even if Labour continued to lose votes on their left flank.
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