A quieter night this week, with only 2 by-elections held across the country, but still room for a successful night with another gain from the Tories, making it 8 gains in 6 weeks since the start of November.
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Good to see the continued revival in the South West. On the doorstep in June it was striking how many voters were saying they’d come back to us ‘when all this Brexit business is over’, at a local level maybe they’re doing it sooner. (That doesn’t mean I don’t think we should change our stance!) As for the Greens, as in the General Election here, there is no doubt that the Labour swing to the left has indeed picked up many of their voters.
I agree with Mark that Labour’s leftward swing has indeed picked up many Green “watermelon” (red on the inside) votes. I also deduce that many UKIP votes, which I dub “red UKIP”, are going back home. If they’re assuming that Brexit is a done deal, then Jeremy Corbyn’s highly ambiguous stance on it is clearly not putting them off. The Lib Dem challenge is to come through all of this churn in voting patterns, nobody said that would be easy but we seem to be holding steady, and that is encouraging. The shine will wear off Jezza sooner or later (maybe this has already started), and the Tories’ utter uselessness can’t continue to go unnoticed for ever.
The West Country Liberal Democrat vote tends to go Green when the party does something to upset the electors but usually returns in due course – see 1989 and 1992 for example. The Labour vote looks a bit low even for Devon as they did well in the West in June 2017.
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In the case of the Euros in 1989, it was their superb broadcast based on stick men having pollutants tipped all over them which won the votes, when they surpassed us SaLaDs in every seat except, yes, Cornwall, where Paul Tyler scored a memorable second place, based, as usual, on hard campaigning. This was in the wake of the treacherous Owen going off on his own, and splitting the vote of the newly merged party for most of that year. I don’t remember any particularly high votes for the Greens in the west in 1992 – perhaps you can tell us what you are referring to in that year, nvelope? We have seen, over the years, wards or County Divisions eg Totnes that have scored well for the Greens at times.
Tim13: I meant that the Green vote fell substantially in 1992 and the Liberal Democrat vote rose – they won North Devon !