Canvassing in Newark
June 5th is polling day in Newark. This is my fifth election since 1999. My second in a fortnight. And my first Westminster election. I’m the UKIP candidate.
Opinion polls are still putting the Conservatives in the lead. I just can’t relate those numbers to our experience. We’ve done a huge amount of canvassing, and on that basis we’re at least level pegging! Maybe better. In fifteen years I’ve never seen the kind of enthusiasm we’re getting here — on the doorstep, in the street, in the shops and the pubs. It’s heartwarming.
Yesterday a colleague was walking in from the station (we’ve had hundreds of activists in town). He was confronted with an Agence France video reporter. “Can you help me?” said the journo. “I need to interview someone who’s not voting UKIP, but I can’t find anyone”. “Sorry” said my colleague, “but I’m afraid I’m…
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Candidates at a bye election are usually good for a giggle
List from paper as referenced below.
There are 11 candidates in the by-election:
Robert Jenrick (C);
Michael Payne (Lab);
David Watts (Lib Dem);
David Kirwan (Green);
Paul Baggaley (Ind);
David Bishop (Bus Pass Elvis); BBC older item
Nick The Flying Brick (Monster Raving Loony);
Andy Hayes (Ind);
Roger Helmer (Ukip);
Dick Rodgers (Stop Commercial Banks Owning Britain’s Money);
Lee Woods (Patriotic Socialist).
Report by a local paper morning of count “By Press Association, 5 June 2014 1.00am. Updated: 1.31am.”
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/politics/newark-voters-to-choose-new-mp-1.406158
Have a chuckle, web site of Bus Pass Elvis Party aka. Church of the Militant Elvis
http://grumpyoldelvis.co.uk/
Nick ‘The Flying Brick’ Loony Party Candidate and gravitational theorist.
Yep, science guru. “I am standing for the Newark By-election which is being held on the 5th of June. I am a single issue politician,and have had a long-standing campaign for the abolition of gravity.”
http://www.nickdelves.co.uk/loony_flying_brick.htm
Tim: Candidate list order is interesting. Green party exempt from alphabetical listing (on surname) but UKIP not. What criteria?
I wish Roger & UKIP the best of luck.
Rog, from the newspaper, who mention a newsagency.
signed Aaron Aardvaark 😉
No mention at all on the UK news today. De Nada, Rien, nicht nothing.
A lot gets blacked out or spun, been so for years if not always.
Oddly muted on this one.
Newark by-election: Voters out in force as election attracts national attention
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Newark-election-Voters-force-election-attracts/story-21194351-detail/story.html
Spectator magazine live blog
That looks sensible but still upsets the status quo. Result is marked at the official government site as expected between 02:00 and 03:00 hrs, recounts permitting.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/06/live-newark-by-election/?
Newark By-Election official result
http://www.newark-sherwooddc.gov.uk/newarkbyelection/newarkby-electionresults/
Results in vote-size order with percentages:
Tory Majority more than halved; UKIP voteshare up by a multiple of about 6 since General Election.
Newark by-election: result in full
Robert Jenrick (Con) 17,431 (45.03%, -8.82%)
Roger Helmer (UKIP) 10,028 (25.91%, +22.09%)
Michael Payne (Lab) 6,842 (17.68%, -4.65%)
Paul Baggaley (Ind) 1,891 (4.89%)
David Kirwan (Green) 1,057 (2.73%)
David Watts (LD) 1,004 (2.59%, -17.41%)
Nick The Flying Brick (Loony) 168 (0.43%)
Andy Hayes (Ind) 117 (0.30%)
David Bishop (BP Elvis) 87 (0.22%)
Dick Rodgers (Stop Banks) 64 (0.17%)
Lee Woods (Pat Soc) 18 (0.05%)
Con majority 7,403 (19.13%)
15.46% swing Con to UKIP
Electorate 73,486; Turnout 38,707 (52.67%, -18.69%)
The Biased Broadcasting Company chose a very unflattering still of Nigel Farage from its video interview in the counting hall (fab architechture at Kelham Hall) following the result. Who’s that tall bloke showing two fingers in the background? 🙂
Great post result speech from UKIP candidate Roger Helmer
I wonder whom doth, hold the banner in place, caught you kipping.