Blaenau Gwent Double By-election

[minionofmidas]

Election is today. I'll find out about the results tomorrow I suppose.

[minionofmidas]

Radio 5 says that the official Labour candidates have conceded defeat.

Now since its candidates, I can only assume both the parliamentary candidate and Welsh Assembly candidate are reported to have lost

Labour should have ran Peter Law in Blaenau Gwent back in May 2005 instead of insisting on some candidate from an all-woman shortlist . Time that policy was kicked bang into f***ing touch and that's swearing

I'm not happy with my party at the moment, not happy at all! Good job there's nowhere else for me to go

Dave

You could open up a Durham branch of the Blaenau Gwent Independents!

[minionofmidas]

Westminster

David Clifford Davies, BGPV    12543   46.17%
Owen Smith, Lab    10059   37.02%
Steffan Lewis, PC     1755    6.46%
Amy Elizabeth Kitchener, LDm     1477    5.43%
Margrit Anna Williams, Con     1013    3.72%
Alan 'Howling Laud' Hope, Lny      318    1.17%

Assembly

Patricia Law, Ind    13785   50.33%
John Jones Hopkins, Lab     9321   34.03%
Stephen Richard Bard, LDm     2054    7.49%
Norman John Price, PC     1109    4.04%
Jonathan Burns, Con      816    2.97%
John Matthews, Grn      302    1.10%

So Westminster wasn't even all that close - now that much is a wee bit surprising. Interesting differences in the PC and LD imperial and national votes, btw. (Why would Plaid do better at the Westminster level? ... Must be to do with candidate quality I guess...)