Seaton & Colyton MATTERS

Discredited Tory police commissioner hangs on because big anti-Tory majority splits its votes

Posted on May 3, 2024

It’s a big disappointment that Alison Hernández, the Conservative Devon & Cornwall police commissioner, has been re-elected with 131,000 votes to 107,000 for Labour and 64,000 for the Lib Dems.

This is a clear lesson here for the General Election – there is a clear anti-Tory majority in our region (171,000 to 131,000 in this case) and we can remove most of their MPs. But if we split our votes between two or three opposition candidates in a constituency, the Tories will survive.

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