Re: Local elections
Posted: Fri May 05, 2023 1:30 pm
There seems to be a few Residents/Nimby seats reverting to Conservative.
Same sum after 101 councils declared gives 608 losses. I won’t keep updating this, don’t worry. But we’re nearly halfway now so I think the sample should be large enough, includes quite a few Tory councils as well.
We now have the results of this Facebook blitz.lpm wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 9:35 amThanks, I did the maths, and the candidate could spend £811.bagpuss wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 8:11 amIt looks like it's not a simple number as it depends on things like the number of electors and also whether you are a joint candidate with someone else, but it's going to be more in the high hundreds, possibly over 1k.lpm wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 7:49 amAre local candidates allowed to pay for Facebook posts?
The Tory here has packed the feed with several posts a day. They say "Sponsored - paid for by X". I assume I see them because the only thing I follow on Facebook is the local group.
I thought there was a spending limit of a few hundred quid for a couple of leaflets. No idea how much Facebook costs though.
The cost of Facebook ads is even harder to work out but apparently 2023 average is around $12 per 1000 impressions. So you can probably get a pretty hefty number of impressions and still have plenty left for other stuff.
Which makes me wonder why more candidates don't use Facebook in this way. She definitely made you feel like she was a neighbour, getting across her personality with a photo of her daughter posting leaflets and a video of her dog staring at a local pothole. And she linked to longer blogs where she gave her views on litter and Nimbys and parking.
Unfortunately she might have got across her personality too well, because her personality is obnoxious Tory.
Must be, surely, that's so against the trend.
According to the Beeb site, "Labour has lost its first council, after Slough in Berkshire switched to no overall control.
That's very funny, losing control of a council where they had 80% of the seats until yesterday. The largest party is now the Greens. You have to wonder whether that was a protest vote, because I don't really see Bishops Stortford as likely to be one of the most tolerant locations for greenery in general. Though maybe having Stansted Airport on your doorstep makes a difference to local perceptions of these things.
I'm quite interested in where my dad lived, in Tonbridge and Malling, as this time I only saw Green Party posters. Previous times it was mostly Conservatives.IvanV wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:41 pmThat's very funny, losing control of a council where they had 80% of the seats until yesterday. The largest party is now the Greens. You have to wonder whether that was a protest vote, because I don't really see Bishops Stortford as likely to be one of the most tolerant locations for greenery in general. Though maybe having Stansted Airport on your doorstep makes a difference to local perceptions of these things.
I saw a report that the tactical voting website set up for these local elections was promoting 'vote Labour' in a number of areas, even where the Greens were the more obvious party to ensure the Conservatives lost. It might even have been in BrightonBrightonian wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 4:34 pmGreens had been the largest party in Brighton and Hove, but it looks like they're losing to Labour. Not obvious why.
Down 807 per BBC, with another -100 or so to go.FlammableFlower wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 4:28 pmWell, as of now, they're down 674 seats. But, as has been noted, they deliberately went low and claimed a loss of 1,000 as a bad result...
I'm a little concerned that in the South most of the shift in votes is going to Labour, where there aren't many parliamentary constituencies that Labour can win.monkey wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 4:58 pmThis has obviously been a good day for Labour and the other notTories. But is it because Labour have done well, or just because the Tories have done badly?
I could be wrong because of the various bubbles I'm in, but I'm not seeing much evidence of enthusiasm for Labour, just anti-Conservative sentiment. I'm not sure that's enough for Labour to get a decent Majority next year.
It was good enough for Biden. Also a lot of the Tory vote last time was anti-Jeremy Corbyn so it cuts both ways.monkey wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 4:58 pmThis has obviously been a good day for Labour and the other notTories. But is it because Labour have done well, or just because the Tories have done badly?
I could be wrong because of the various bubbles I'm in, but I'm not seeing much evidence of enthusiasm for Labour, just anti-Conservative sentiment. I'm not sure that's enough for Labour to get a decent Majority next year.
Tonbridge and Malling - Con to NOC.jimbob wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:55 pmI'm quite interested in where my dad lived, in Tonbridge and Malling, as this time I only saw Green Party posters. Previous times it was mostly Conservatives.IvanV wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:41 pmThat's very funny, losing control of a council where they had 80% of the seats until yesterday. The largest party is now the Greens. You have to wonder whether that was a protest vote, because I don't really see Bishops Stortford as likely to be one of the most tolerant locations for greenery in general. Though maybe having Stansted Airport on your doorstep makes a difference to local perceptions of these things.
My constituency, High Peak has gone back to Labour - it seems a pretty good bellwether constituency, having turned Labour in 1997, Tory in 2010, Labour in 2017, Tory in 2019.
Is that a prediction or are they looking at declared councillors where the whole council isn’t done yet?Formerly AvP wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 6:22 pmJust gone over 1000 tory losses on BBC news site. In my voting area, the Tory was a Pratt, but perhaps that should be in nominative determinism
It's an actual result, but there's still some results not counted and that number might increase or decrease still.Grumble wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 6:27 pmIs that a prediction or are they looking at declared councillors where the whole council isn’t done yet?Formerly AvP wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 6:22 pmJust gone over 1000 tory losses on BBC news site. In my voting area, the Tory was a Pratt, but perhaps that should be in nominative determinism
Wasn't as bad as I feared, the Cons took from the "Residents" group, but lost to LibDems elsewhere. I can't stand these Nimby residents groups, their whole purpose is to stop new housing but they disguise it with a pretence they'll support brownfield development "where appropriate". They are basically Conservative voters at heart and will vote Tory in the General Election.lpm wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 2:46 pmRound our way (blue wall where LibDems are optimistic to win an MP) the Conservatives are gaining.
We mustn't forget that 2019 was a terrible result for the Conservatives. Particularly in Remainy blue wall lands down south. Doing worse than 2019 nationally is a spectacular failure for Sunak & Co, but in some places it's hard to do worse.