The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Sept 19, 2024 11:09:04 GMT
So the LibDems carried every ward in St Ives/North Cornwall, but nowhere else in the county?
That's pretty remarkable.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 19, 2024 11:27:21 GMT
So the LibDems carried every ward in St Ives/North Cornwall, but nowhere else in the county? That's pretty remarkable. Actually I have the Conservatives carrying St Columb Major, St Mawgan & St Wenn, albeit by a whisker so they didn't unless you're referring to the old North Cornwall district (that ward was previously part of Restormel) although your reference to St Ives suggest you mean the constituency. It isn't that surprising really when you consider the extent of tactical voting. You can see from the breakdown that the Conservative vote is pretty steady througout the country and overwhelmingly the non-Conservative vote has coalesced behind whichever of Labour or the Lib Dems were best placed to defeat them. The only seat where that was less than wholly clear cut was SE Cornwall and here there are indeed one or two wards (eg in Saltash) where the Lib Dems were relatively competitive. Otherwise you see a severe underperformance by the Lib Dems in areas where they 'should' be strong (eg Truro city, St Austell) just as you see Labour squeezed out in somewhere like Penzance (which absent tactical voting would be one of their better areas)
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