Just as we've almost no idea about what the outcome will be of the election result nationally, the constituency result in Broxtowe to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning looks almost as unsure.
It's interesting to read one of the comments on the first post on this blog. Zoomy thinks that despite Anna Soubry, the Conservative candidate, being the most likely person to clinch the most amount of votes, Broxtowe is a 3-horse race.
It probably comes down to a question of the recent surge in support for the Liberal Democrats, and how much that will affect the chances of both Ms Soubry, and Dr. Nick Palmer, the incumbent Labour candidate.
Broxtowe, in its current form, has technically only been a constituency since 1983. The seat was abolished in 1955 and then re-created nearly 30 years later. Since then, its been held by the Conservatives for 14 years, and Labour for 13. Maybe the constituency tires itself of one party after a certain amount of years? We'll find out on Thursday night into Friday morning.
What do you think? Three, two or one horse race?
Remember, I'm on twitter as well - @BroxtoweResults. Would be great to hear from you.
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Hi Simon
ReplyDeleteIt's not just the recent surge in support for the Lib-Dems. At the time of the last general election we were the third party on the council, we now run it. We had only 1 county councillor from here, now half the county councillors in Broxtowe are Lib-Dems. The surge has certainly helped, but we had been making great progress locally even before that. This is a definite three horse race.
Cheers
David
And add to that the survey in tonights Evening Post which says that their polling shows that Broxtowe is neck and neck between the Tories and Lib-Dems, with Labour trailing in third place.
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