Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Sedgefield - Con Gain

Finally Sedgefield. Another Conservative gain.

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This was a slightly odd seat. Labour loosing huge ground. The Conservatives doing very nicely, and the Brexit Party seemingly helping out.

There's nothing too much to mull over in regard the other information in the table. Though one noticeable thing is that this time we have an independent candidate with (seemingly) very little social media presence (again, I couldn't find a Facebook or Twitter account when I looked). Concurrently they also have quite a low vote share. Gaining just under 400 votes. So we see that the independent candidates that had impressive vote tallies also had an impressive showing on Facebook, and vice versa.

It would be nice to see if this "Facebook niche" pattern was present right across the country. Shame I didn't do more seats really.

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