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Southend West By-election

Freedom AllianceChristopher Anderson1611.05
English DemocratCatherine Blaiklock3202.08
No descriptionOlga Childs520.34
HeritageBen Downton6324.12
ConservativeAnna Firth1279283.31
IndependentJayda Fransen3992.6
UKIPSteve Laws4002.61
English ConstitutionGraham Moore860.56
Psychedelic MovementJason Pilley5123.33

Everyone who wasn't a tory, 2562 votes
Those Downton and Fransen numbers dont match what is currently reported here:

Anna Firth (C) 12,792 (86.10%)

Jason Pilley (Psych Movement) 512 (3.45%)

Steve Laws (UKIP) 400 (2.69%)

Catherine Blaiklock (Eng Dem) 320 (2.15%)

Jayda Fransen (Ind) 299 (2.01%)

Ben Downton (Heritage) 236 (1.59%)

Christopher Anderson (FA) 161 (1.08%)

Graham Moore (Eng Const) 86 (0.58%)

Olga Childs (ND) 52 (0.35%)

C maj 12,280 (82.65%)

Electorate 66,462; Turnout 14,858 (22.36%, -45.05%)

 
Apart from the Psychedelic Movement and the enigmatic Olga Childs, the other candidates all appear to be different flavours of far right. :(
 
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Those voting in Southend West give Fransen her electoral PB with 299 votes.

Place must be very high on the cunt index.
 
Second place then. Wonder if that's ever happened before.

It surely has, but they only started including spoiled ballots in turnout figures relatively recently.

Otherwise I reckon the 1940 Middleton and Prestwich by-election would have been one example. The only two candidates were Conservative with 32036 votes and British Union of Fascists with 418 votes. The number of spoiled papers was not recorded.
 
Those voting in Southend West give Fransen her electoral PB with 299 votes.

Place must be very high on the cunt index.

Add up all the votes for the many and varied nazi crackpots on the ticket and it's not a great look for the 'City' of Southend.

Small constituency too, over 10,000 fewer voters than mine.
 
It surely has, but they only started including spoiled ballots in turnout figures relatively recently.

Otherwise I reckon the 1940 Middleton and Prestwich by-election would have been one example. The only two candidates were Conservative with 32036 votes and British Union of Fascists with 418 votes. The number of spoiled papers was not recorded.
Getting over 100 spoiled ballots is incredibly rare and even less common forty other fifty years ago, so I’d, sadly, suspect that the fash would have beaten them then.
 
Such a bizarre election / result, with the poll basically looking like an Ashes Test Match score card, with Tory Anne Firth as the Australians, and the Bassett's all sorts of eleven right wing loons as England.

Anne Firth (First Inns.) 37,239

England (First Inns)

Wayne Ladd (BNP) 2

Peter "Twitching" Kurten (English Heritage Party) 7

Anaconda Thrupponanire (Psychedlia Tie-Die/ Nasty Individualist Pleasure Seeker) 27

Sid Hitler (NF) 0

Admiral Theobold Juttlands (British Sea Power / Britannia Rules the Waves Party) 3

The Reverend Hewer O'Wood (Proclaiming Christ's Lordship) 1

Cornell Chemtrail (AGAINST THE SCAMDEMIC / Masks are a Marxist Plot) 1

Prunella Dominance (Performative Saxon Battleaxe) 1

Victor Frightening-Eyes (John Tyndall Tendency) 0

Fortescue ffowkes (Restoring a Roman Catholic Monarchy) 15

Stuart Broad (Independent) 0*

Extras: 1,084

Anne Firth won by an innings and 25,665 runs

Poor Southend West 😢
 
I reckon binface would have cleaned up here, I wonder why they weren’t on the ballot? I suspect the psychedelic party was seen as the monster raving style nutty alternative this time round even though the guy‘s clearly a cunt.
 
Given the 'choice', unsurprisingly this by-election was the third lowest turnout recorded since 1945:

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Consequently, Firth's 'mandate' from just 12,792 voters, (18% of the electorate), corresponds to some of the absolute total votes seen by winning MPs with much lower shares of the vote:

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