And the winners are……

A brief escape from the balloons, streamers, laughter and merriment to tell you the winners of our awards:

Tweeter/Facebooker of the year: Liberal Youth

Favourite Labour MP: Alan Johnson

Best online campaign run by a Liberal Democrat: No Government above the Law: Liberal Democrats against secret courts

Political commentator of the Year: Andrew Rawnsley

Political Broadcaster of the Year: Eddie Mair

The Tim Garden Award: Tim Farron

Liberal Democrat Councillor of the Year: Cllr Abi Bell

Liberal Democrat MP of the Year: Julian Huppert

Liberal Democrat Minister of the Year: Vince Cable

Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian of the Year: Willie Rennie

Best online campaign, non Lib Dem: Everyday Sexism

Best photo of a Liberal Democrat Parliamentarian: Doctor Huppert

Liberal Democrats’ favourite Tory MP: Ken Clarke

Blog post of the year: Jennie Rigg

Blog of the Year: David Boyle: The Real Blog

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to all of you who have been nominating and voting.

Thanks also to our esteemed judging panel, who are George Eaton, Editor of The Staggers blog at the New Statesman, Christine Jardine, political commentator, journalist and former Special Adviser, Mark Thompson, last year’s winner, Baroness Liz Barker, Readers’ Editor Mark Valladares and I.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

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  • Caron Lindsay Caron Lindsay 19th Sep '13 - 12:06pm

    Matthew – very quickly did that from my iPad and didn’t have time to add in the links. However, you could , by clicking on the tag, see all the shortlists which will take you to the winners.

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