Friday 24 July 2009

Norwich North By-Election: Unavoidable Facts

Norwich North by-election: Labour crushed by Tories - Telegraph

Chloe Smith (C) 13,591 (39.54%, +6.29%)
Chris Ostrowski (Lab) 6,243 (18.16%, -26.70%)
April Pond (LD) 4,803 (13.97%, -2.22%)
Glenn Tingle (UKIP) 4,068 (11.83%, +9.45%)
Rupert Read (Green) 3,350 (9.74%, +7.08%)
Craig Murray (Honest) 953 (2.77%)
Robert West (BNP) 941 (2.74%)
Bill Holden (Ind) 166 (0.48%, -0.17%)
Howling Laud (Loony) 144 (0.42%)
Anne Fryatt (NOTA) 59 (0.17%
Thomas Burridge (Libertarian) 36 (0.10%)
Peter Baggs (Ind) 23 (0.07%)

Unavoidable Facts (that the BBC will manage to avoid or spin as best they can):
* Labour lost convincingly
* the Tories won convincingly
* UKIP are on the up, coming only just behind the LibDems
* the nasty Nazis the BNP came nowhere, which leaves the poor media nothing to scaremonger about.

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