I’m going to make another post about the overall vote shares across the City - they are truly astonishing. Remember this is Salford City Council - a supposedly rock-solid Labour Council that only 10 years ago was electing 57 Labour Councillors out of a total of 60 and no Conservatives at all.
Conservative 17472 (34.00%)
Labour 17899 (34.83%)
Liberal Democrat 10949 (21.31%)
We hear a lot of guff from Labour and the Liberal Democrats about Conservative performance in inner-city authorities. Well, here is a genuine northern City authority and the Conservative and Labour vote shares are separated by 0.83%. I wonder what Hazel has to say about that…
For some reason, this post (and this post alone) seems to be attracting a huge number of spam comments, so I’m going to close this post to comments to prevent this. Odd.