Chris

Can someone check on Russ, he may have seen this and blown a blood vessel

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As I indicated yesterday I have closed a couple of other threads and all election related discussion should take place here. If there is some major political/current affairs development that really does need its own thread we will start one off, however from the experience of the 5 general elections that have happened since the creation of the parliamentary constituency of Cable Forum, this is unlikely to be necessary.

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And for the closet Stattos amongst you, here are the results for this seat going back to 2005, taking our exit poll thread in each case as a vote for a fictional candidate in the Cable Forum constituency:

2005
Lab 23
Con 35
LD 34

2010
Lab 24
Con 32
LD 25
UKIP 4
BNP 3 (5 votes!)

2015
Lab 25
Con 36
LD 6
UKIP 21
SNP/Plaid 3

2017
Lab 40
Con 48
SNP 5
Ind 3

2019
Lab 21
Con 55
LD 9
Green 4

Can’t believe we had 5 actual BNP voters here in 2010!

So you can see from the above this has been a pretty safe Tory seat since its creation at the 2005 election. I’m going to stick my neck out and suggest it might not be safe any more.

(Edited to add 2017 results)