9 May (Part 2) - Who nearly won in Bexley?
I saw an X post which was bragging that Reform UK got more votes than Labour, Green and LibDem combined, but that is not really
fair. The LibDems and Greens did not field a full set of candidates. Only the
Conservatives, Labour and Reform UK did that.
The results pages posted on Bexley Council’s website are a bit of a mess, so the
only way to analyse the numbers is to extract individual figures and slap them into a spreadsheet.
It showed that over the borough as a whole, Conservatives and Reform
were in the same ball park but the newcomers lagged by about 13%.
Reform soundly beat Labour; very nearly twice as many votes yet Labour will be
the official opposition.
This is about as fair as TTK winning a large majority in 2024 when only 18% of
the electorate voted for him.
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