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Result of the Leytonstone (Waltham Forest Council) by-election (July 14th)

Neil Williams | 15.07.2005 11:30 | London

RESPECT gain 14.55% in third place at first try.

RESPECT gain 14.55% in third place
Result of the Leytonstone by-election is as follows:
Marie Pye - Lab --- 937 = 38.3%
Meher Khan - LibDem --- 765 = 31.3%
Caroline Coleman - Respect --- 354 = 14.5%
Julian Foster - Con --- 225 = 9.2%
Mark Dawes - Green --- 165 = 6.7%
Total Vote: 2446 (31.9% turnout)
Comments from the electon agent Lina Nicolli
We feel this is a very credible result for us in the first council election we have fought as Respect in Leytonstone. Although, it is clear that we suffered from a squeeze between Labour (defending the seat) and the Lib Dems (who have posed as an opposition despite being in coalition with New Labour on Waltham Forest council). To come a clear third, easily beating both the Conservatives, and the very well established local Green Party, is a very good achievement that we can, and will, build on in the coming months.
This election has firmly established Respect as a leading player in Waltham Forest - we now need to strengthen and develop our local campaigning profile in order to make the substantial political gains that are now beckoning.
Editors Comment: Well done Caroline and all the RESPECT team in Waltham Forest
Full Story - Election agents full statement

at: RESPECT (Rank and File) Blog

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Neil Williams

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Good result

15.07.2005 12:58

Looks like the Greens are more or less finished in the UK. For the time being at least.

Memory-Hole-Catchers-Mitt

Disappointing

15.07.2005 14:09

Disappointing though for Respect, I would have a thought after the Galloway success they would have done much better, but then again I suppose if they haven't got the teams of young Muslim men to "persuade" people to vote as they had at the General Election is was always going to be harder !

Els

Respect

15.07.2005 14:40

Respect was only ever about getting George a seat in Parliment. He cynicaly used the poor, the scared Muslim and many others to alow him to maintain a lifestyle he saw dissapearing.

How often has he been back to the area since he was elected ?

worker

Ummm...

15.07.2005 14:47

(a) Not really whether the newswire is the best place to have a party political discussion, but:

(b) Can't really let the above comment go without rebuttal. The Greens have 73 Principal Authority Councillors, and many more Parish Councillors - 2 GLA members, 2 MEPs, 5 MSPs. RESPECT came third in a local election with less than 15% of the vote. I think you might, just possibly, be jumping the gun....

Matt

P.S. If you want to compare local by-election results in the last few months, you could always look at the Norwich County Council seat the Greens just *won*....in an area where, as in so many places, RESPECT don't even exist.

Matt S

Show RESPECT

15.07.2005 15:05

To the last commentator: You have obviously never tried to find out. George has spent most days speaking to people in Bethnal Green and Bow 9and helped in he by-election in Leytonstone) for which he is the MP. He runs an MP's surgery every Friday and has spoken to many, many community groups over the last few weeks.

George Galloway was the only MP in parliament who was willing to speak up on the day of the London bombing and link the rerrorist attacks with what we are doing in Iraq.

George has also spoken to groups all over the country over the last few months to try to build a socialist alternative to "New Labour" so that we do not get any more wars like Iraq - we will all pay a high price in the failure of our democratic system if this does not hapen.

I have never seen a harder working MP and honest man than George Galloway. If only all MP's were like him!

P.S. Its a shame the Green party wont tak to RESPECT and come to some sort of election agreement as requested by RESPECT but rejected by the Greens.

P.P.S. 14.5% is a good result considering RESPECT is only just over a year old (no other party in the history of British plitics has achieved so much in so little time) and Labour and Lib Dems threw their whole London machine into the campaign.

Neil Williams

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Result was not good for RESPECt

15.07.2005 15:21

In the the Euro election 2004 RESPECT gained 19% or 469 Labour 657 or 26%

The Greens are the real losers they recieved 388.

Therefore the RESPECT vote declined- there are explainations for this, Labour threw in alot of resources into the campaign but we need to face up that RESPECT did lose votes.

Personally I feel disapointed with the results.

respectable

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