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Originally Posted by Adrian Davies
Stretton ward, East Staffordshire Borough Council result (percentages in brackets): Con 661 (36.89), Lab 366 (20.42)
BNP 327 (18.25), PA 233 (13.00), LibEUdim 205 (11.44). Total 1792 (28% turnout).
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The BNP candidate was the only candidate who does not live in the Stretton ward. He came third in an overwhelmingly middle class ward consisting of mostly modern housing with few working class areas.
The Popular Alliance Party votes has almost halved compared to the May 2007 result and they have fallen from third to fourth place.
Good to see the europhile Liberal 'Democrats' stuck at the bottom
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In May 2007 (the last time voters in the Stretton ward of Burton-on-Trent/East Staffordshire (ESDC) went to the polls before this week's Stretton ward By-Election took place) the result was (top performing candidate from the Labour and Conservative parties only):
Conservative 1261 (48.5%)
Labour 717 (27.5%)
Popular Alliance 621 (23.8%)
So the changes in voting patterns in yesterday's Stretton ward By-Election (compared to the May 2007 result in the same ward) were:
Conservatives - 11.6%
Labour - 7.3%
Popular Alliance - 10.8%
BNP + 18.25% (did not contest ward in May 2007)
Liberal 'Democrats' +11.4% (did not contest ward in May 2007)
So a very general analysis of the above result is that all the parties who contested the Stretton ward in May 2007 (Conservatives, Labour and Popular Alliance) lost votes to the BNP and to the Liberal 'Democrats' in yesterday's Stretton ward By-Election (with more votes going to the BNP than to the europhile Liberal 'Democrats').
The Cameron-Conservatives experienced a big drop - about a fifth of its vote. Despite spending the last two years calling himself a "liberal Conservative" David Cameron (on the basis of many local ward By-Election results including the poll yesterday at Stretton) is not stopping some of his own supporters from switching to the Liberal 'Democrats' (Lib. 'Dems'). His tactic was to engineer the very reverse (i.e. to get people who vote for the Liberal 'Democrats' to switch to the Cameron-Conservatives).