13 Comments

• Ian Patterson 12th Jul '19 - 12:34am

  Labour and Tory votes both imploding? It must be the sea air!

• Chris Bertram 12th Jul '19 - 9:22am

  Labour didn’t just lose in Bridlington, they finished behind the Yorkshire Party, who are newcomers by anyone’s reckoning, and also behind bl**dy UKIP, who are supposed to be on the road to extinction. And I doubt that Brid has much of a Jewish population to be annoyed with them.

• theakes 12th Jul '19 - 10:45am

  Cons have put a leaflet round Brecon telling Con voters vote Brexit let Lib Dems in. Shows a lovely bar chart of the last result. My guess is that it will simply entice more Labour voters to tactically vote Lib Dem. See Ladbrokes have shortened our chances to 1/ 7!!! Perhaps they saw the Bridlington result, believe our candidate there was a local Parish/Town councillor.

• John Chandler 12th Jul '19 - 11:04am

  Congratulations to everyone involved. Good work!

• Paul Barker 12th Jul '19 - 12:55pm

  To go from not standing to getting nearly half the Vote, in a deeply conservative Town is pretty impressive.
  I have started trying to estimate our Nation Equivalent Vote share again, early days with only 13 Results over 4 Weeks. So far I estimate we are around 23%, that about 5% up on May 3rd.
  On the other hand I think we can safely say that our Opinion Poll rating has come down a bit, from a plateau of 20% to 19% now, that is 2 Months after our first boost from The Local Elections. Our Polling has held up much better & for much longer than I expected, particularly after Weeks of blanket coverage for The Tories & Labour & total Media silence about us.

• Bernard Aris 12th Jul '19 - 1:19pm

  And in the first part of Michael Apted’s “7 Up” periodical documentary series (this year called: “63 up”; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series) ) was a working class, East End born and bred black cab driver, Tony Walker, who told the viewers that after voting Leave in the Referendum, he now was tending towards remain because of the massive disruption the presently dominant Brexit options will bring…

• Sue Sutherland 12th Jul '19 - 1:35pm

  Great news! A wonderful win and a very good try.

• Rob Renold 12th Jul '19 - 2:05pm

  Would be good to know what the campaign themes were in this contest. Local outrage over a new housing estate or a new road? How much did we say about Brexit in a strongly Leave town in 2016?

• frankie 12th Jul '19 - 2:24pm

  The Tories vote share fall of 44% is their largest in any by-election since the 2017 General Election.

  Source Election Maps UK

• jayne mansfield 12th Jul '19 - 2:59pm

  Any movement away from the sort of politics that have been a feature of Bridlington politics for some time is to be welcomed.

• david NOLAN 13th Jul '19 - 9:14am

  Brid north byelection. Won from a standing start (the last time we stood was in 2007) .
  Result based on aldc model campaigning running on local issues including health services … erosion of brid hospital, poor access to GP services and public transport cuts in an area with a high elderly population. We targeted postal voters and those who previously voted in local elections. Brexit leaning area voted for us because of the local issue campaigning. A very big thank-you to Regions cllr Dave McCobb who gave us invaluable direction and the tireless agent sarah crooks.
  Cllr david nolan opposition group leader east riding of yorkshire

• Kevin Maher 13th Jul '19 - 7:10pm

  Wasn’t Bridlington one of the last outposts of the continuity SDP. They must have been a very conservative bunch.

• Paul Revell 13th Jul '19 - 8:10pm

  A complete collapse in support for the big two – great work by the local team for successfully capturing the local mood.