General Election forecast shows just how close it could be in our area
A projection has been made for the Honiton and Sidmouth seat (which includes Seaton), showing Richard Foord, our Lib Dem MP, potentially retaining his seat but with a majority of just 847, not the 6000 he had in last year’s by-election.
While projections like this are full of all sorts of imponderables, this is based on a lot of data and I think it’s a good best guess. Basically they’re assuming that while Labour and the Greens will not be in with a chance of winning (and that seems to be the Labour Party’s own view, as I posted yesterday) they could take enough votes back to make it very close for Richard Foord.
If they’re right, voters in this area will have a choice – do we want to be one of the few places still to have a discredited Tory MP, or do we want to keep our successful Lib Dem MP who is likely to give constructive, but where necessary critical, support to the new Labour government? To me it’s a no-brainer.
Here are the Stonehaven projections:
Lib Dem 16262, Conservative 15415, Labour 10121, Green 6148, Reform 2050. Lib Dem majority 847.
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