Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Former MP Ann Keen is saddened by Brown's resignation | |
Posted by: | Robin Taylor | |
Date/Time: | 13/05/10 17:00:00 |
Bernadette, Let's take a look at Ruth's blog: "Well Ann Keen lost - but only by 2000 votes, and c 6000 votes to the libDems. We will get it back!" I must admit, I don't understand that. Ann Keen held her vote (despite unfavourable boundary changes) and Andrew Dakers' vote only went up by 2,000. However, if you look at the tweets in the red column on the right, Ruth clarifies what she means by saying "Ann lost B&I by 2,000 and 6,000 ahead of Dakers. So clearly a Tory/Labour fight but we will get it back." Her blog also says... "It felt good when doing the sampling last night, and the Labour vote in both elections in Brentford was very strong." This sounds to me like she's saying that on the basis of what she saw from individual ballot boxes at the counting of votes, Ann Keen topped the poll in Brentford Ward. If you consider the fact that the three Labour council candidates won Brentford Ward very easily - and that Ann's vote across the constituency mirrored almost exactly the aggregate Labour council vote across the consituency - it seems pretty clear that Ann topped the parliamentary vote in Brentford Ward. When I referred to "Claire's area" I was referring to Brentford Ward as a whole. True, I don't know what happened in Claire's own polling district - which is an owner occupier area where the squatters took over the Keens' house last summer - but I'd be interested to find out. Clearly, given the fact that Ann Keen polled 18,000 votes against Mary Macleod's 20,000, Ann must have won somewhere: Looking at the council results, Labour defeated the Tories easily in five of the ten wards (Hounslow Central, Hounslow Heath, Brentford, Isleworth and Syon) and it seems reasonably clear that these are the wards which Ann won. (True, we don't know how ICG voters in Isleworth & Syon cast their ballots in the general election, but I suspect they broke for Andrew Dakers rather than Mary Macleod). Ann would have been in second place in Osterley & Spring Grove and in Hounslow South, and probably in third place in the three Chiswick Wards. |