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Oh dear, Kerry McCarthy in a spot of bother...

I don't understand why the candidates are allowed to know the results of the postal votes.
 
Geri said:
I don't understand why the candidates are allowed to know the results of the postal votes.
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agreed. there isn't a chance that they won't tell their partners, close friends etc.

they should be opened on polling night, with the rest of them...
 
butchersapron said:
The figures were very good for labour though - expected lib-dem postal surge non-existent.
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It's a seat labour are strong in and the lib dems aren't targetting. Since where political parties are active they tend to try to get their supporters signed up for postal votes (so they're more likely to vote), it could just be that most of the people voting this way are labour voters, as Labour will have been active in that area signing supporters up.

The result at the end though will likely be differently proportioned, but should still be a Labour hold anyway.
 
Gerry1time said:
It's a seat labour are strong in and the lib dems aren't targetting. Since where political parties are active they tend to try to get their supporters signed up for postal votes (so they're more likely to vote), it could just be that most of the people voting this way are labour voters, as Labour will have been active in that area signing supporters up.

The result at the end though will likely be differently proportioned, but should still be a Labour hold anyway.
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They certainly have stepped up their local activity since the first debate. They were the ones expecting the postals to show significant lab-->lib movement as this first tranche were those returned during the week after the first debate.
 
butchersapron said:
They certainly have stepped up their local activity since the first debate. They were the ones expecting the postals to show significant lab-->lib movement as this first tranche were those returned during the week after the first debate.
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Interesting, are the Lib Dems doing much over there then? Perhaps they have a hinderance in that their candidate used to be a tory councillor, can't imagine him going down to well on the doorstep there.
 
Different ward, but as mentioned elsewhere, we've had no Labour literature for ages. Loads from the others, though.

If volume of unrequested paper is anything to go by, the Tories will be streets ahead.
 
Easton - according to this map :-

http://www.bristol.gov.uk/WardFinder/pdfs/eastonmap-high.pdf

I was in Bristol East where I voted For Jean Corston in '97 and Kerry McCarthy in 2001 - before the shit really hit the fan. The first and last times I will vote Labour.

I now find myself in Bristol West with a young, libertarian LibDem in post, and the rather tempting Danny Kush-lick as an alternative alongside the Green candidate ...

If there was a weird space-time thingy, presumably I could have voted for Tony Benn - and I quite probably would have ...
 
so if she gets disqualified, i assume it would become a straight race between lib dems and the tories?
 
Bristol East has lost Easton and Lawrence Hill to Bristol West and has gained Frome Vale - which is rather posh in places and has Tory councillors and Hillfields - which is rather rough - do they actually vote there ?

Bristol West has shaken off some posh areas so now looks even more safely LibDem / Labour.
 
I get Bristol south, an ultrasafe labour seat. I've only had libdem and bnp leaflets, the latter featuring the excellent griffin/Churchill montage
 
kropotkin said:
I get Bristol south, an ultrasafe labour seat. I've only had libdem and bnp leaflets, the latter featuring the excellent griffin/Churchill montage
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I'd forgotten that you moved here - we must sort out that drink sometime!
 
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