Comments on: Aberconwy

By: Julian

Julian — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:02:42 +0000

Margaret Lyon ‘defected’ after she was deselected as a candidate by the Conservatives.

By: Lancs Observer

Lancs Observer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:09:38 +0000

Tory Cllr Margaret Lyon has defected to Ind here. She’s been a Cllr for around 30 years.

By: H.Hemmelig

H.Hemmelig — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:49:19 +0000

Fair’s fair…at least Conway Lad has come back to face the music after his ridiculous predictions did not happen….unlike the remarkably similar GetReal in Liverpool.

Tories did very well here. Well done Shaun on your election result.

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:29:52 +0000

“Lovely to see Barnaby proved wrong one more time.”

He’s proved wrong a lot less often than some of those who only come here to talk up Lib Dem chances in all manner of strange seats.

And Barnaby’s predictions are generally much more reasonable than some others we could mention.

Barnaby has no reason to be humbled about getting Labour’s result here wrong.

By: Conwy Lad

Conwy Lad — Sat, 07 May 2011 21:47:44 +0000

It was difficult to be certain who’d win in Aberconwy. Really was too close to call. Ronnie Hughes might have won it for Labour but the new candidate and his last ,leaflet would, most certainly have been legally challenged if he had won – could as in Oldham East have led to his result being overturned – Labour should investigate this.
Gareth Jones’ retirement lost Plaid 12% – also the new candidate fought as plain “Plaid Cymru” without the “and save Llandudno Hospital” added to it.
Mike Priestley polled well in his home patch – added 5% to the 2007 Lib Dem score but was hampered by the dramatic UK wide decline in the Lib Dem vote. But he was one of a tiny number of Lib Dems in Wales who actually increased the vote.
So, the Tory won, and we wish her an effective term in Cardiff bay.

By: A Brown

A Brown — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:06:00 +0000

‘Lovely to see Barnaby proved wrong one more time.’

Labour won V of C by 17%.

I did get the LD vote right however, Priestley’s personal vote tookhim up by 4% on 2007 but no more.

By: Bryn

Bryn — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:01:37 +0000

Lovely to see Barnaby proved wrong one more time.

By: A Brown

A Brown — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:53:25 +0000

Yes, I thought labour would get at least 2nd here but they messed up at the last minute.

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Sat, 07 May 2011 13:34:26 +0000

Excellent result here, I had never really expected the Tories to gain seats and certainly not become the main opposition party in Wales. The added pleasure of this seat actually denying Labour their overall majority makes it even better.

But where was Mike Priestley? I was looking forward and fully expecting him to win given what we were being told.

He held up the Lib Dem vote but did no better than that. Which was of course the best he was ever going to achieve.

As I remember saying a few weeks ago, if it hadn’t been for the voters, he would have won

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:09:03 +0000

‘Bryn and Conwy Lad, are you around to discuss the result?’

Their comments would be welcome but in mitigation (albeit it very slight) they will point to the fact that of all the four main parties, the Lib Dems had the greatest increase in their vote share of 5% – which whilst modest at best was in stark contrast to the rest of the UK where the Lib Dems vote dipped – massively