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muriel_volestrangler

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2. Swing from Tories to Lib Dems
Fri May 6, 2022, 04:29 PM
May 2022

Eastleigh is a very unusual council - solidly Lib Dem (the local paper even used "one party state&quot . Labour has no councillors, the Tories are now down to one - lost one this time - and there are 4 independents (centred around the area the Lib Dems wanted to develop more). And there are 34 Lib Dems.

But I looked at the 2018 and 2022 votes where the Tory lost - an area you might say is typical Home Counties, and often returned Tories. In 2018, the Tory got about 20% more votes than the Lib Dem; this time, the Lib Dem got about 50% more than the Tory. So that's a notable change.

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Doesn't cut it with me T_i_B May 2022 #1
Swing from Tories to Lib Dems muriel_volestrangler May 2022 #2
At the last 2 local elections... T_i_B May 2022 #3
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