Byelections: February 13

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Liam Byrne @liambyrnemp
Can't wait for result in #Kingstanding! No-one worked harder than the brilliant Lorraine Owen. Brilliant response on doorstep all afternoon

[No Offence Alan]

Feb 13, 2014 22:11:46 GMT @ianrobo said:

Liam Byrne @liambyrnemp
Can't wait for result in #Kingstanding! No-one worked harder than the brilliant Lorraine Owen. Brilliant response on doorstep all afternoon

Well, of course, the doorsteps you visit on polling day are your "definites" and "probables", not your "anti-s".

[Deleted]

all part of the game ...

plenty of stuff from Labour people all day in similar vein, as I said result will tell.

[Ben Walker]

Not once.
Not ever is there a bad response on the doorstep that you tweet about.
It's always good.
Always.

[Deleted]

yeah just going through Tory tweets and they are different, do not mention much on the door but full of their candidate being local.

[oldhamexile]

Feb 13, 2014 22:34:28 GMT Ben Walker said:

Not once.
Not ever is there a bad response on the doorstep that you tweet about.
It's always good.
Always.

This was quite a bad response...

[marksenior]

A minor result Hereford City Council Belmont ward Lib Dem hold LD 186 IOC 141 Ind 102 Con 40

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Incidentally if Reeth is counting tonight I'll eat my hat.

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Neil Elkes @neilelkes
@politicalhackuk there's been a bit of rechecking. Hard to tell which way. Furrowed brows all round

At Kingstanding count but nothing else coming out from the count

[middleenglander]

Trivia about the Richmondshire ward.

Arkengarthdale was the birthplace of John Harker in 1846. He went on to establish a lighterage business which eventually became John Harker Shipbuilders located in Knottingley, Yorkshire. He himself was elected a councillor to the Urban District and eventually became its Chairman. The last of 369 ships built at the shipyard was launched in 1979.

The company named many of the petrol barges after "dales". One such was the Arkendale H which collided with the Wastdale H at the entrance to the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal in October 1960. This resulted in one of the spans of the bridge carrying the railway line over the River Severn being destroyed. The line was never re-opened.

[Deleted]

Looks a Tory win in Kingstanding

[iainbhx]

Feb 13, 2014 23:50:35 GMT @ianrobo said:

Looks a Tory win in Kingstanding

There will be blood on the curtains in the Labour Group room if that's correct.

[Deleted]

so there should be ... especially over the decision to call it early.

[Ben Walker]

Yep, confirmed, Tories gained.

[AdminSTB]

First Tory gain in a Met since January 2013, when Ian Lewis gained a seat in the Wirral.
www.englishelections.org.uk/england/lby/northwest/leasowemoretoneast.php

[carlton43]

Feb 13, 2014 23:50:35 GMT @ianrobo said:

Looks a Tory win in Kingstanding

That was not the tone of your previous posts. Why not wait for the result and post that? All else is irritating white noise.

[thirdchill]

If this is true then it's a very good result for us.

Am guessing turnout of our usual voters might have been a lot higher, rather than mass switching of votes to us.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

I had a feeling it might be, and almost stuck my neck out in the prediction competition (instead of predicting Labour to squeak it).

[Deleted]

Feb 13, 2014 23:55:40 GMT thirdchill said:

If this is true then it's a very good result for us.

Am guessing turnout of our usual voters might have been a lot higher, rather than mass switching of votes to us.

Yep that would be right there because of the Tory candidates appeal as a local candidate and KS is very parochial ...

Still awaiting figures.

[carlton43]

Feb 13, 2014 23:53:28 GMT Ben Walker said:

Yep, confirmed, Tories gained.

Bloody marvellous. That's shafted Ian. Rather a bugger for the Prediction Competition though.