Ed In Melbourne
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Ed In Melbourne
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Original founder of @electionmapsuk, and #BirdTheFeckAtHome - easily distracted. I will bring Lib Dem Barcharts to Bluesky soon. Quit twitter for good - it’s a festering hole. Latest obsession is chillies. 🌶️🔥
15 by-elections in Nov so far. Not one Lab or Con win. Labour hasn’t done better than third even in wards where they were the incumbent.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
First successful Localist defence in a by-election since May. All the others were wiped out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A rare Reform-free by-election these days.
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
LD gain - 2 ward seat and while LD topped seat in locals, this was the Lab seat being defended…
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Localists are being wiped out by Reform as they hoover up the NOTA votes.

Green and Reform defences are flakier than I would have expected. Likely the NOTA block is less enthused when you are already the incumbent?

Lib Dems unusually strong.

Tories for an opposition party look terminal. Woeful.
October 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
And the Rural/Local government Green vote is basically the same voting bloc the Lib Dem vote too - but in seats where either the Libs are not trying or the Greens had the best candidate/ground campaign.
October 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yes - honours even so far between them. 1 gain each from the other so far…

But both are hoovering up NOTA voter block.
October 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
7 out of 7 changing hands so far! Epic!
October 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Another storming performance by Labour and Conservative so far…!
October 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
North East Hampshire was once as blue as it got. The Oranges have taken up a lot of True Blue territory recently.
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Can they Squash Farage?
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Depends how you look at it. Assuming 10m phones in London daily that would mean the average person would have one stolen once every 125 years… 🤷‍♂️
October 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
More like 220 a day.
October 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM