The results in full
Here are the full results for Cardiff Central, pulled shamelessly from the BBC.
Jenny Willott - 17,991 - 49.8% (+13.1%)There we go. Does anyone know the number of spoilt papers?
Jon Owen Jones - 12,398 - 34.3% (-4.3%)
Gotz Mohindra - 3,339 - 9.2% (-6.7%)
Richard Grigg - 1,271 - 3.5% (-1.3%)
Raja Gul Raiz - 386 - 1.1% (+1.1%)
Frank Hughes - 383 - 1.1% (+0.5%)
Anne Savoury - 168 - 0.5% (+0.5%)
Captain Beany - 159 - 0.4% (+0.4%)
Catherine Taylor Dawson - 37 - 0.1% (+0.1%)
Majority 5,593 - 15.5%
Turnout 36,132 - 59.2% (+0.9%)
So, congratulations to Jenny Willott, Lib Dem MP for Cardiff Central. How are people feeling the afternoon after the night before? (The fact that it is the afternoon and not the morning shows how late I stayed up)
posted by Frances @ 12:33
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8 Comments:
Well, I'm pretty damn elated.
I felt a little drowsy upon waking up, I think that was the whiskey from the night before kicking in, but it was definitely worth staying up to see Jenny win.
Too bad we couldn't kick out that scumbag Alun Michael.
Well chuffed but knackered.
Was in Jury's til well gone 5am and then back out delivering at 8 (only joking!).
Been working since 1987 for this and it's been worth waiting for.
Well done Jenny.
Slightly depressed. Ceredigion is a serious blow for Plaid, though I'm not proclaiming the end of the world - there's the Assembly elections and it's good seeing Blair getting a kick in the chops.
Definitely feeling the effects of the 6am bedtime. Pleased about Lab's reduced majority. A bit unhappy not with the campaign but actually voting. I ended up holding my nose and voting in sheer desperation to make sure ole Tony didn't get back in with a majoity big enough to rule us like a king. That's my favourite phrase of the campaign, see Bloggerheads.
I saw it through til about 6am before getting a coupla three hours sleep and making it into work only half an hour late. Spent most of the morning alternating between hot shivers and cold sweats and positioning my body so that I could sleep, head propped on hand without being seen by the boss. It was worth it to see Geroge Galloway's astonishing performances at his count and with Paxman - BBC website has full video and final wisdom.
Well, Jenny Willott won. I don't think anyone could really be surprised by that. I heard from a good source weeks ago that Labour had given up any hope of holding this seat, and that was reflected in the total absence of any literature from JOJ, save a small embossed flyer on which the word Labour featured once, in small type, on the bottom hand corner (though others I spoke to were flooded by stuff, including a letter from Gordon Brown). And that was before Tone went to the Palace. As I said before, I voted Lib Dem through habit, but with no real enthusiasm for Willott - she strikes me as a party hack, zero personality and judging by her performance in the televised debate, something of a robot - if she was ten years older she would be in the Labour party, I have no doubt. We shall see how she does at Welsh Questions - I rather think that Touhig will make mincemeat of her.
Speaking of robots, did anyone see 'power couple' Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper side by side on the BBC? It was a truly strange sight - a pair of more anodyne, constricted, asexual androids one could not imagine: Cooper especially, she makes Ruth Kelly seem like Davina McCall.
As for Plaid - I certainly did not expect them to fail quite as seriously as they did. My suspicion (though I have not looked closely at the figures) is that fighting on roughly similar turf to the Lib Dems cost them, with the latter's higher national profile and terrier-like pavement campaigning seeing off what seemed to me to be a rather windy effort from Plaid. Owen increasing his majority in Ynys Mon must have been a particularly bitter pill.
I apologise for waffling on so much - any comments welcome.
Yvette Cooper has got zero charisma and televisual appeal. Lots of the female MPs with power-hair (like Ruth Kelly) are the same. I thought Paxman-Galloway was amazing.
I voted and I'm not proud of myself, but there we go. Welcome to the big grown up cynical world of politics!
There were 103 rejected ballot papers
37 - voting for more than one candidate
66 - being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty
Thanks Adamsdown, that's interesting. Why do the BBC not calculate the spoilt papers I wonder?
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