TOP FIVE HIGHEST LIB DEM VOTE SHARE AREAS IN THE UK
June 11th, 2009 Posted in EU Politics by Julian Harris
As promised below. For clarity, let me state again that these are the five areas where the highest LD vote share was recorded - during the European Parliament election last week.
In first place, put your hands together for …
South Lakeland!
The results in full:
- South Lakeland (36.83 per cent)
- Shetland Islands (33.80 per cent)
- Orkney Islands (31.77 per cent)
- Richmond Upon Thames (30.79 per cent)
- Kingston upon Thames (28.01 per cent)
Strangely, there’s a water theme to all five.
Anyway, psephogeekism over, for now.
Tags: European elections
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June 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Hot on the heels of this comes Newcastle upon Tyne with 26%, an excellent result but richly deserved considering the level of the campaign in Newcastle North.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
At first glance, EU LD share is substantially lower in those electorates than Westminster LD share.
A message in that?
June 11th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Perhaps the electorate genuinely doesn’t like Europe as much as we’d like them to… oh well, vive l’union!
I find it ironic that both the highest and lowest results were found in Scotland. The South Lanarkshire ones aren’t really a surprise, and given that Tavish Scott has 50.1% of the vote for his Holyrood constituency in Shetland, it’s no surprise they voted highly yellow.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Wayne, the LDs have always done worse in Euro elections than in national elections. I think the way we campaign (targetted local efforts) are far less applicable to vast Euro regions and the community politics model of campaigning doesn’t work as well for someone representing “the South East” as for someone representing a ward of a few thousand voters.
It’s hard to know how to calculate a read-across from the Euro results to a General Election, but I’d suggest increasing our vote share by about a third seems about right as a rule of thumb. This would put us on about 40% or so in the south west London seats and a staggering 50% in the Lake District.
June 14th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
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