Wow!  What a lot of wishful thinking going on here?  And what short memories?  Doesn't anyone remember the 2004 results?  More people voted for the Tories in 2009 than in 2004. The Tory vote share went from 22.8% to 25.6%, a rise of 2.8%. Across London the Tories lost 5% of their voters. In Ealing we held on to our voters and actually added a few (18 to be precise). This sounds unexciting but look at what happened to Labour. Labour’s vote share went from 32.0% in 2004 to 25.7% in 2009, a drop of 6.3%. This means that Labour lost 7,354 votes or 28.3% of their total vote in 2004. Across London Labour lost 20% of their voters but they performed even worse in Ealing. Labour still “beat” the Tories by 107 votes. A somewhat pyrrhic victory I think. In 2004 they beat the Tories by 7,479 votes. Once you take out the UKIP/Euro factor Ealing still looks like a safe Tory borough in spite of the negative effect of the Westminster expenses scandal. As soon as Gordon Brown sorts his head out and resigns we will have three Tory MPs in Ealing.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
European Elections - Ealing Borough	07/06/09 22:09:00	Colin Murphy
Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 07:58:00	Eric Alan Leach
Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 08:06:00	Colin Murphy
Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 08:30:00	Peter Wright
Re:Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 12:20:00	Andy Jones
Re:Re:Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 13:20:00	Phil Taylor
Re:Re:Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 13:20:00	Phil Taylor
Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	08/06/09 12:59:00	Barbara Yerolemou
Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	09/06/09 17:54:00	Dawn Ryder
Re:Re:Re:European Elections - Ealing Borough	09/06/09 18:56:00	Alan Brainsby

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