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Turnout down almost 40 per cent

10:45pm Thursday 12th February 2009 in


The turnout for the Waddon byelection has dropped by almost 40 per cent.

This year's turnout was 3,192, 28.6 per cent of the electorate.

That figure is significantly down from the May elections in 2006 which saw a turnout of 5,077, just over 45 per cent of the electorate.

The poor turnout could be due to the bad weather conditions, with ice and snow falling from late afternoon onwards.

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Comments(8)

Councillor John Oddy says...
12:45am Fri 13 Feb 09

Congratulations to Charlotte Lewis on a fine achievement despite all the smear tactics. She has shown grit and determination throughout. One can only say it is a shame that other parties had to resort to underhand tactics.

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Kes says...
1:18am Fri 13 Feb 09

How anyone would vote Labour, after their record when running the council, defeats me. They gave us a 27% council tax increase one year. There's only one way of keeping Labour out and that's by voting Tory. What we need now is a general election. For our country's sake, let it be soon.

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william of orange says...
7:17am Fri 13 Feb 09


Not yet Kes...there's a lot more pain coming economically speaking...its important this generation experiences that under Liebour or they will be straight back in come the 2015 general election

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Kes says...
1:06pm Fri 13 Feb 09

It's not going to be before May/June 2010, ie the last possible date Brown can opt for. Those with long memories will remember Labour governments since the late 60's. Heath inherited a massive inflationary situation in 1970 after that famous Labour phrase "the pound in your pocket has not be devalued". Then we had the winter of discontent, in the 70's, and being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund. Now the current mess which Labour won't accept any responsibilty for. Massive personal debt, built on the back of obscene house-price increases, under the guise of the "feel-good" factor . We were definately not "well-placed" to face the recession, or is it a depression. Incidently are Labour still calling it a "down-turn"?

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Abdul lim says...
3:01pm Sun 15 Feb 09

This is our country now

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ANNE GILES says...
9:35pm Sun 15 Feb 09

Abdul lim wrote:
This is our country now
And everyone else's who lives here. It's nice to have you.

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Tommy Perkins aged 11 says...
1:40pm Mon 16 Feb 09

Hello. im on half term today and would like to say me mum and dad voted for them but me nan and grandad could not vote bnp as it was bad wether so there was a lot of votes lost bye bye

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Brian Sewer says...
9:26am Tue 17 Feb 09

Nice to see a young sensible lad visiting the forum please keep the swearing down adults

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