Friday, May 06, 2005
In shock.
Well no great shock, Hilary is back off to London....66 majority eh that will keep you on your toes!
Turn out was down 0.5% to 58% which is a suprise in such a safe seat.
The great shock for myself is that Alan Ord the missinglink man finished second with almost zero campaigning.
Also a shock is that Watts didn't lose his deposit. He polled almost 10% of the vote!
It seems that Watts took a great deal of votes from the Tories with their share dropping to 16.4% down from 20.9%.
Hilarys majority has dropped from 41.6% to 34% with a 6.8% swing of Labour voters to the Libdems. This has to be down to traditional Labour voters not being able to vote Tory as a protest vote.
I think that if Alan Ord had been given the money to campaign I think Hilary could have been in trouble, not beaten but her majority cut like next door in Durham City.
Well this has been fun, I will update this site with any further news as I find it today.
Oh here are the figures:
Hilary Armstrong Labour 21,312 53.9 -8.6
Alan Ord Liberal Democrat 7,869 19.9 +5.0
Jamie Devlin Conservative 6,463 16.4 -4.5
Watts Stelling Independent 3,865 9.8 +9.8
Majority 13,443 34.0
Turnout 39,509 58.0
2001:
Hilary Armstrong Labour 24,526 62.5%
William Clouston Conservative 8,193 20.9%
Alan Ord LibDem 5,846 14.9%
Joan Hartnell Socialist Labour 661 1.7%
Electorate 67,062; Turnout 58.5%; Majority 16,333 (41.6%)
Swing: 5.9% to Con from Lab
Turn out was down 0.5% to 58% which is a suprise in such a safe seat.
The great shock for myself is that Alan Ord the missing
Also a shock is that Watts didn't lose his deposit. He polled almost 10% of the vote!
It seems that Watts took a great deal of votes from the Tories with their share dropping to 16.4% down from 20.9%.
Hilarys majority has dropped from 41.6% to 34% with a 6.8% swing of Labour voters to the Libdems. This has to be down to traditional Labour voters not being able to vote Tory as a protest vote.
I think that if Alan Ord had been given the money to campaign I think Hilary could have been in trouble, not beaten but her majority cut like next door in Durham City.
Well this has been fun, I will update this site with any further news as I find it today.
Oh here are the figures:
Hilary Armstrong Labour 21,312 53.9 -8.6
Alan Ord Liberal Democrat 7,869 19.9 +5.0
Jamie Devlin Conservative 6,463 16.4 -4.5
Watts Stelling Independent 3,865 9.8 +9.8
Majority 13,443 34.0
Turnout 39,509 58.0
2001:
Hilary Armstrong Labour 24,526 62.5%
William Clouston Conservative 8,193 20.9%
Alan Ord LibDem 5,846 14.9%
Joan Hartnell Socialist Labour 661 1.7%
Electorate 67,062; Turnout 58.5%; Majority 16,333 (41.6%)
Swing: 5.9% to Con from Lab
