Comments on: Barrow and Furness

By: A Cairns

A Cairns — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:56:26 +0000

I’m fairly sure this was the biggest as discussed on the Warks N thread.

Labour will gain Ulverston Town and possibly Ulverston C from the tories this year.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:01:21 +0000

which could have been the biggest.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:08:23 +0000

84.4% for the two main parties here.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:09:10 +0000

It seems Labour has done very well here for the type of seat.
Perhaps the Trident thing actually plays in their favour now – although I’d guess that is neutral.

By: Welsh Red

Welsh Red — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:58:15 +0000

The Tory share of the vote here is almost identical 2001 – 2010 as the national figure.

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Mon, 24 May 2010 11:06:26 +0000

I’m not at all surprised Labour held on here. After all, 1980s aside, this is usually a Labour seat. And Labour hadn’t handicapped itself as in the 80s with its unilateralist stance.

Having said that, I was quite surprised the Labour majority remained as high as 5,000.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:47:30 +0000

Barnaby JL Marder – you’re right. I thought Labour would be toast here.

Would Labour have won here if John Hutton had stood again?

By: West Cumbrian Voter

West Cumbrian Voter — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:27:32 +0000

John Woodcock would also have been the beneficiary of Lib Dem voters who had previously voted for Tim Farron but were now in the Barrow constituency due to boundary changes.

Some of those Lib Dem voters would have included:

a) anti-Tory tactical votes returning to their “natural” home.
b) the non-political who can recognise someone who has the potential of being an outstandingly hard-working constituency MP.

By: West Cumbrian Voter

West Cumbrian Voter — Sat, 08 May 2010 20:21:23 +0000

I met some people from Barrow recently who weren’t Labour voters (they said they’d vote Green) and they said that everyone recognised what a stonkingly good candidate John Woodcock was and how he’d been out on the doorstep literally everywhere – even in the remote “Tory” villages. They reported receiving several “while you were out” cards from him.

I also think that Cleggmania will have backfired here – ie. because the Lib Dems looked like a real threat – but nobody knew where they were making advances, the main parties were forced to give reasons not to vote Lib Dem – which in Barrow means making it clear that the Lib Dems are anti-Trident and anti-nuclear new build. Normally the main parties wouldn’t have needed to have even mentioned the Lib Dems meaning that some Barrow voters might previously have voted for them in blissful ignorance of their policies in these areas.

By: Barnaby JL Marder

Barnaby JL Marder — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:48:40 +0000

What a remarkably good result this was for Labour. Can anyone explain it?