Comments on: Burton

By: H.Hemmelig

H.Hemmelig — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:54:41 +0000

It was indeed a superb result for the Conservatives.

It is not unusual for Labour to poll 70% in Burton town, as Joe says.

Burton was built on the brewing industry, whose owners may have traditionally been Tory donors, but the workforce was staunchly Labour.

Burton town also has a reasonably significant Asian population.

If Labour are only 10% ahead of the Tories in this part of Burton constituency they have no hope of winning it back in a general election.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:57:42 +0000

I think it probably is though.
I’d have thought this CC seat covers district wards which have traditionally voted Labour by over 70%

By: Paul D

Paul D — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:25:53 +0000

Not sure I’d call it “excellent” but it’s certainly a good performance to increase the vote share appreciably and move into a clear 2nd.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:08:00 +0000

Excellent result for the Tories.
Burton town has, I understand it been rock solid Labour (despite large swings to the Tories at times in the seat overall – such as recently).

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:02:52 +0000

Result:

Lab: 43.7%
Con: 31.3%
LD: 18.6%
UKIP: 6.4%

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:59:39 +0000

There’s a by-election on Thursday for Staffs CC, Burton Town division.

2009 result:

Lab: 1,321 (34.4%)
LD: 1,065 (27.7%)
Con: 877 (22.8%)
BNP: 581 (15.1%)

By: Louisdf

Louisdf — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:30:33 +0000

However, after boundary changes it was cut to 7% (this used to be on the BBC 1997 election website, which has now been removed.)

By: Andy JS

Andy JS — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:02:49 +0000

Needwood ward only has an electorate of about 5,000 and Burton’s electorate was previously about 75,000, so I don’t think removing that ward was ever going to have a huge effect on the result.

The Tory majority in 1992 was about 10% so this seat is a bit safer now than it was then.

By: evergreenadam

evergreenadam — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:37:15 +0000

Interesting point about removal of Needwood ward, this does not seem to have been reflected in the difference between the actual and notional result in 2005. Perhaps the notional result has underestimated the impact and partly accounts for the higher than average swing.

By: Votedave

Votedave — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:51:57 +0000

We could have done with that kind of swing everywhere.