Election news in brief
May. 7th, 2010 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack* There was a big swing to Con from Lab, and also somewhat from Lib, which disappointed people who'd hoped for more Lib. But the swing was nowhere near as large as it might have been considering how many unpopular things Lab have done in govt.
* [Edit] Julian Huppert, who many people I know in Cambridge know from school or university, replaces the most excellent David Howarth as incumbent LibDem MP. One person I know was virulently against, but most people thought he would be very good.
* The excellent LibDem Evan Harris lost his seat in Oxford by a hairsbreadth :(
* The BNP and UKIP continue to have no seats. The BNP's big push was here in Stoke, but they had no more share of the vote than last time, still comfortably behind the major parties. (Presumably because of greater turn-out: if apathy returns, they will probably grow proportionally again.) I still need to see how many city council seats they acquired.
* Green have acquired their first MP! They may never do better than that, but I'm pleased to see one green MP in parliament: hopefully it will be a good platform to raise their many good policies, and yet not enough that the number of questionable/anti-science policies will matter.
* [Edit] Julian Huppert, who many people I know in Cambridge know from school or university, replaces the most excellent David Howarth as incumbent LibDem MP. One person I know was virulently against, but most people thought he would be very good.
* The excellent LibDem Evan Harris lost his seat in Oxford by a hairsbreadth :(
* The BNP and UKIP continue to have no seats. The BNP's big push was here in Stoke, but they had no more share of the vote than last time, still comfortably behind the major parties. (Presumably because of greater turn-out: if apathy returns, they will probably grow proportionally again.) I still need to see how many city council seats they acquired.
* Green have acquired their first MP! They may never do better than that, but I'm pleased to see one green MP in parliament: hopefully it will be a good platform to raise their many good policies, and yet not enough that the number of questionable/anti-science policies will matter.
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Date: 2010-05-07 05:45 pm (UTC)