skyep
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Post by skyep on May 4, 2024 11:09:58 GMT
Hackney, Hoxton East and Shoreditch Lab hold Turnout not known Lab 1587 Green 560 Con 318 LD 217 top two parties here both concentrating on the (now) marginal de beauvoir ward of course... |
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Post by evergreenadam on May 4, 2024 11:22:16 GMT
Hackney, De Beauvoir
Lab hold
Turnout unknown
Lab 1316
Green 1197
Con 174
LD 129
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Post by evergreenadam on May 4, 2024 11:25:19 GMT
So with all London by-elections counted there were two Con gains from Labour in marginal wards, so across London Labour are probably down slightly from their peak performance in the 2022 London Borough elections, which is to be expected.
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on May 4, 2024 11:46:17 GMT
One of those two gains - in Wandsworth - was actually mainly down to a local issue (planning)
That leaves the St Helier result, which was so bizarrely bad for Labour that I can't begin to explain it. Did they actually do any campaigning at all?
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Post by londonseal80 on May 4, 2024 12:36:54 GMT
One of those results that comes as a surprise probably due to having an outdated view of a place. When I was in that part of the world, the St Helier wards were Labour's bastion in a sea of yellow. I'm not totally surprised to see it go Conservative in post-Brexit politics but am surprised to see the LDs so close behind in 2nd. It's a bit like visiting a place you knew 20 years ago and finding that it's been gentrified or bulldozed for a new development. a very large dichotomy has developed between the Merton & Sutton parts of the St Helier estate. There is no real sign of Conservative progress at all in the Merton section but in the Sutton part it is clear that there has been. I don't know whether that's partly down to ethnicity - the Merton part being much less White British - or whether it's more local factors. The Morden wards of St Helier and Ravensbury have more similarities to Streatham Vale, Norbury and Mitcham than the Carshalton St Helier wards. The working class parts of Sutton have less in common with Inner London and are much more like St Mary Cray, New Addington, Chessington and Epsom West. Though it has a Surrey postcode Morden has always felt like part of London, maybe because it has the rare prospect of both having a tube station and being in South London. And nowadays most of owner occupied Inner London doesn’t vote Tory so the non council estate parts of the Morden wards now follow that pattern too. Merton as a whole feels like a inner borough wether it’s an affluent or deprived part of the borough, of which only Lower Morden retains any outer London characteristics. |
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Post by olympian95 on May 4, 2024 13:01:34 GMT
One of those two gains - in Wandsworth - was actually mainly down to a local issue (planning) That leaves the St Helier result, which was so bizarrely bad for Labour that I can't begin to explain it. Did they actually do any campaigning at all? One of the worst defensive campaigns I've ever seen. Much fallout from the reason from the resignation. A real shambles |
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Post by robert1 on May 4, 2024 14:16:53 GMT
One of those two gains - in Wandsworth - was actually mainly down to a local issue (planning) That leaves the St Helier result, which was so bizarrely bad for Labour that I can't begin to explain it. Did they actually do any campaigning at all? One of the worst defensive campaigns I've ever seen. Much fallout from the reason from the resignation. A real shambles Wellingborough only a few weeks ago? |
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Post by batman on May 4, 2024 19:50:11 GMT
Blackpool South was possibly even worse
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