Comments on: Crewe and Nantwich

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:27:07 +0000

Thanks for adding up the figures.

Like Norwich North, this seat needs to be tested somewhat further away from the by-election.

The Tories may retain the edge in both seats, but both could be gained by Labour in different national circumstances.

By: A Cairns

A Cairns — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:37:49 +0000

Yes perhaps, just looked like that in a couple of wards or so. It definitely helped them in the delayed double header. I notice the tories did win leighton ward by 135 which I missed out.

By: Pete Whitehead

Pete Whitehead — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:43:03 +0000

“It looks as though the tories suffered a bit from a sub 25% turnout in 2/3 of the Crewe wards but generally held up OK elsewhere .”

Surely the Conservatives would have benefited from a low turnout in Crewe

By: A Cairns

A Cairns — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:36:20 +0000

‘it looks like Labour has recovered quite a bit in Crewe in the Cheshire East unitary elections.

Not added it up yet – but a cause for concern.’

It looks as though the tories suffered a bit from a sub 25% turnout in 2/3 of the Crewe wards but generally held up OK elsewhere .

I’ve added the numbers up here inc the delayed double header (only 5 LDs stood).

Con 12115 42.4
Lab 11787 41.2
Ind 2712 9.5
LD 1373 4.8
SF 608 2.1

If this constituency is unchanged, the tories should most likely hold on to it by around 4/5% at the next election I would think.

By: Joseph Brayson

Joseph Brayson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:52:22 +0000

Interesting as I’d suppose that there is opposition to this from the other parties, and as Labour are a minority government at the Assembly such a move would be defeated by the opposition parties.

By: Shaun Bennett

Shaun Bennett — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:25:49 +0000

There is a story on the BBC news website today that the Welsh Assembly are planning to introduce new ‘regional councils’ to take over the organisation of services such as social services and leave the existing 22 Welsh authorities with less power and less to do.

This reminded me of a story I saw in the local press here the other day saying that in Cheshire, people have not been satisifed with the localness of the new (imposed by Labour) two unitary authorities. It seems that here, parish councils are going to be given MORE responsibility and more power over things such as public toilets and council owned buildings.

It looks like as a reaction to the trend towards larger and less democratic, less local unitary authorities we are now seeing the effective reintroduction of different tiers of local government. So in Wales, the unitaries are becomming the lower tier (like the old district councils) and the new regional authorities are effectively the new counties. Similarly, in Cheshire the Parish councils look to be becomming the new lower tier ‘districts’ with the two unitaries effectively becomming the new counties.

I suspect that this is a trend that will coninue in other areas where unitaries were imposed such as Shropshire, Cornwall and Wiltshire. Which makes me wonder, what is the point of abolishing districts and counties when they are being reintroduced by the back door anyway?

By: Barnaby Marder

Barnaby Marder — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:13:50 +0000

There was what I think was a postponed election in Crewe S last night, won convincingly by Labour, but I don’t think the Tories did badly either. The LD vote collapsed spectacularly. Here’s the result :
Lab 970 / 899 (59.7; +25.7)
Con 507 / 489 (31.2; +13.8)
LD 147 / 146 (9.1; -33.7)
Majorities 463 / 392
Turnout 22.08%
Lab gains from LD
Percentage change is since May 2008.
Labour might like to be even further ahead of the Tories than this in such a polarised constituency, but I don’t think it’s Labour’s strongest area in Crewe. Perhaps someone with better local knowledge could comment.

By: Joe James B

Joe James B — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:21:32 +0000

Although I’m pleased with the results nationwide, for the Conservatives,

it looks like Labour has recovered quite a bit in Crewe in the Cheshire East unitary elections.

Not added it up yet – but a cause for concern.

By: UK Polling Report

UK Polling Report — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:02:56 +0000

[...] Crewe and Nantwich there was a by-election on the 22nd May 2008, with the Conservatives winning by about 19%. It was [...]

By: Harry Porter

Harry Porter — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:26:55 +0000

Edward Timpson is the first Conservative MP for Crewe since Sir Donald Somervell, who was the Home Secretary in Churchill’s Tory caretaker Government just after the end of WWII in Europe and who lost the seat to Labour in 1945