Comments on: Houghton and Sunderland South

By: Votedave

Votedave — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:11:43 +0000

Harry – do buy the book if you can (as mentioned on the Nottingham North thread).
I got mine on Amazon.

By: Votedave

Votedave — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:10:38 +0000

Sunderland North: Castletown, Central, Colliery, Fulwell, Pallion, St. Peter’s, South Hylton, Southwick and Town End Farm

Sunderland South: Grindon, Hendon, Ryhope, St. Chad’s, St. Michael’s, Silksworth, Thorney Close and Thornholme

Gateshead East: Chowdene, Deckham, Felling, High Fell, Leam, Low Fell, Pelaw and Heworth, Saltwell and Wrekendyke

Houghton and Washington: Eppleton, Hetton, Houghton, Shiney Row, Washington East, Washington North, Washington South and Washington West.

By: Harry Porter

Harry Porter — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:04:00 +0000

What were the 1983-97 wards of:

Sunderland North
Sunderland South
Gateshead East
Houghton and Washington

By: outsider

outsider — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:20:40 +0000

Well the first couple of declarations certainly threw the cat am,ongst the pigeons with the studio pundits and swing “experts” – I think it’d be uncharitable to say they were clueless to extrapolate from Washington and Houghton’s results, but it took something of a pro-Conservative leap of faith to declare that the swings here (about 9% and in Washington, 11%) were cut and dried when in fact there were extremely high votes for none of the three main parties which totally skewed the swings, something which was totally ignored, on the BBC at least. The picture in Sunderland Central mirrored the national swing more accurately, which, being a more marginal seat, the pundits ought to have hung on for before they got a tad overexcited.

By: Daddy Cool

Daddy Cool — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:27:38 +0000

I said Colin Wakefield would do well! Maybe not as well as he’d hoped, but to finish fourth behind tthe major parties is a staggering achievement. The Independent councillors in the Copt Hill and Houghton wards also just missed out by around 200 votes each. If it hadn’t been a general election on the same night, they may well have both been elected.

By: Toby

Toby — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:21:48 +0000

OK please note: Others 14.4% – that is staggeringly high. BNP and Colin Wakefield have held their deposits!
I think this is skewing the swing figure slightly. Labour well down – but Tories not much up…

By: Paul D

Paul D — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:04:21 +0000

8.4% would mean the exit polls out a bit and Con overall majority. We shall see

By: WHS

WHS — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:58:03 +0000

First seat declared – 8.4% swing to Tories on the notionals. Lib Dem vote down!

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:33:10 +0000

Considering the fact that it’s highly likely Bridget will be the first Labour MP in the new parliament, does that mean she’ll be the leader of the Labour party until the next Labour MP has won their seat? lol!!!

By: Barnaby JL Marder

Barnaby JL Marder — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:36:33 +0000

LAB HOLD