Comments on: Norwich North: could Labour finish fourth?

By: Herbert Brown

Herbert Brown — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:07:36 +0000

Labour are certainly not having much luck in Norwich North.

“Labour’s candidate in the Norwich North by-election is being treated in hospital for suspected swine flu.

A scheduled visit by Lord Mandelson was cancelled because party workers had been in contact with Chris Ostrowski.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8161065.stm

By: jim

jim — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:27:00 +0000

“Its very likely Labour could come 4th” Hmm, fourth behind the Greens, I’d like to hear how they’d spin that one!

By: Westminster Worker

Westminster Worker — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:37:03 +0000

I hear that Labour have spoken to a sizable sample of their voters in NN recently and the ‘definitely voting Labour’ response was under 10%.

Its very likely Labour could come 4th

By: Nich Starling

Nich Starling — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:14:22 +0000

To call the EDP analysis intriging is pushing it a bit.

In essence all the County wards fell entirely withing Norwich North excelt for Drayton and Horsford and that means you just half the vote in that seat because Horsford is in Mid Norfolk/Broadland and Drayton is in Norwich North.

By: Terry Gilbert

Terry Gilbert — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:50:07 +0000

The EDP figures are similar, but not identical, to those I posted in the member’s forum last week. I don’t know the EDP’s methodology, but our boffins had us a wee bit further ahead of the Greens, on 17% and the Tories on 41%. It will be interesting to see how this local vote translates after a full on campaign at Parliamentary level….we barely contested all but four wards, since our Parliamentary targets are (mostly) in neighbouring constituencies. No doubt the turnout for a July by election will be similar to that for the Counties, so a good comparison of performance will be available.