Positives from election results

jim h · 10-05-2007, 07:01 AM

I understand more info is coming out but the total number of votes cast for UKIP was easily our best ever in local elections which is influenced by the fact that we had more candidates than ever before BUT the % share of vote we got in like for like previously contested seats was also significantly up.
We are definitely making progress

harryaldridge · 10-05-2007, 08:54 AM

Yep. We need to look at the total number of votes we received nationally, and the increase in votes in those wards we have stood before.

Does anybody have these figures?

kernow · 10-05-2007, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by jim h

I understand more info is coming out but the total number of votes cast for UKIP was easily our best ever in local elections which is influenced by the fact that we had more candidates than ever before BUT the % share of vote we got in like for like previously contested seats was also significantly up.
We are definitely making progress

I'm very pleased to hear it, but am not surprised!

jp · 11-05-2007, 07:27 PM

An interesting neutral analysis of the local elections with this comment on UKIP:

Quote:

UKIP managed to poll more strongly than its performance in recent by-elections had implied it would, but still suffered an overall loss of one seat.

http://politicalbetting.com/index.ph...t-16/#comments

johnkent · 11-05-2007, 08:36 PM

If the trend in medway has been repeated around the country it has been a successful election.
It would be interesting to see the results from other parts of the country.

SEE POST MEDWAY RESULTS

Karen · 12-06-2007, 04:30 PM

The problem remains that we put up 1,000 or so candidates and had but 5 returned. I am not being critical - I stood myself - but we need to understand why we did not do well. We came last most of the time.

g hall · 12-06-2007, 04:36 PM

In Waveney where candidates had stood before there was an increase in the vote and in wards where candidates where standing for the first time we more often then not did not come last.
Getting the name and the message across is hard but inroads are being made - Rome wasn't built in a day

prober · 14-06-2007, 06:54 PM

Actually results for seats previously contested were mixed. In some areas definetely up but in others lower than 2003 with generally much lower than the peak of 2004 boosted by the MEP elections at the same time.

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jim h Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 361	Positives from election results I understand more info is coming out but the total number of votes cast for UKIP was easily our best ever in local elections which is influenced by the fact that we had more candidates than ever before BUT the % share of vote we got in like for like previously contested seats was also significantly up. We are definitely making progress

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johnkent Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: KENT Posts: 12	positives from election results If the trend in medway has been repeated around the country it has been a successful election. It would be interesting to see the results from other parts of the country. SEE POST MEDWAY RESULTS

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Karen Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Maldon Posts: 302	The problem remains that we put up 1,000 or so candidates and had but 5 returned. I am not being critical - I stood myself - but we need to understand why we did not do well. We came last most of the time. __________________ Lady Di, Hitler and Communism are dead. Forward to Independence!

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g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erewhon Posts: 5,525	In Waveney where candidates had stood before there was an increase in the vote and in wards where candidates where standing for the first time we more often then not did not come last. Getting the name and the message across is hard but inroads are being made - Rome wasn't built in a day __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful." Remember TANSTAAFL and TANJ

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10-05-2007, 08:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
harryaldridge Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: West Sussex Posts: 1,912	Yep. We need to look at the total number of votes we received nationally, and the increase in votes in those wards we have stood before. Does anybody have these figures?

14-06-2007, 06:54 PM	#8 (permalink)
prober Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 852	Actually results for seats previously contested were mixed. In some areas definetely up but in others lower than 2003 with generally much lower than the peak of 2004 boosted by the MEP elections at the same time.