Cheadle by-election result
The figures below are taken from the Daily Telegraph report, which may be read in full from this link.
Allowing for the lower turnout it appears the Veritas candidate managed to attract only some 30 per cent of the combined votes achieved by UKIP and the BNP in the recent general election, an estimate that assumes they gained no votes from the main parties. The latter seems a sensible assumption given the recent reports which one assumes must have served to sully the prospects of the party.
What hope for Veritas if this is all they can achieve when the field is left clear by the other minor parties?
Allowing for the lower turnout it appears the Veritas candidate managed to attract only some 30 per cent of the combined votes achieved by UKIP and the BNP in the recent general election, an estimate that assumes they gained no votes from the main parties. The latter seems a sensible assumption given the recent reports which one assumes must have served to sully the prospects of the party.
What hope for Veritas if this is all they can achieve when the field is left clear by the other minor parties?
M Hunter (LibDem) - 19,593
Stephen Day (Con) - 15,936
Martin Miller (Lab) - 1,739
Leslie Leggett (Veritas) - 218
John Allman (Alliance for Change) - 81
Majority: 3,657
Turnout: 55.2 per cent
Swing: Con to LibDem: 0.63pc
General Election: P Calton (LibDem) 23,189; S Day (Con) 19,169; M Miller (Lab) 4,169;
Cavanagh (UKIP) 489; Chadfield (BNP) 421
Maj 4,020 Turnout 69.6 per cent
posted by Martin at 7:21 AM
1 Comments:
This was the comment of one 'Sir Percy' when the English Democrats polled over 500 votes and got 2.5% of the vote in South Staffordshire, a seat Veritas did not contest:
"The English Democrats hardly captured the public imagination, did they?"
True. But 'Sir Percy' has not yet ventured his opinion on the Cheadle result, where Veritas gained less than one quarter of the EDs' percentage
Post a Comment
<< Home