Election results

[Pete]

Labour - Toby Perkins - 21,829
Conservative - Mark Vivis - 8,231
UKIP - Stuart Yeowart - 7,523
Lib Dem - Julia Cambridge - 6,301

Impressive win by Perkins, UKIP did better than I thought they would and Julia Cambridge appears to be a victim of in-house fighting in the Chesterfield Lib Dems.

[Old Cruser]

We've been wondering, how the local's went Pete.

[Pete]

I see Ed Miliband is stepping down from the leadership of the Labour Party.

[therealjr]

After those results he had no choice. Neither did Clegg. Here's a bold prediction for you. As and when the dust settles on a labour leadership election look for Mr Perkins to be in or very close to the shadow cabinet.

[Old Cruser]

Have I heard Farage has gone as well?

[Pete]

Wont keep me awake at night.

[therealjr]

He hasn't so much gone as didn't get in. He didn't win the seat he was standing for and had already said that he would resign the leadership if he didn't. So he's resigned, named some woman as interim leader and UKIP will hold an election in the autumn. There is apparently nothing to stop him standing in those elections should he wish

[Old Cruser]

He hasn't so much gone as didn't get in. He didn't win the seat he was standing for and had already said that he would resign the leadership if he didn't. So he's resigned, named some woman as interim leader and UKIP will hold an election in the autumn. There is apparently nothing to stop him standing in those elections should he wish

Strange individual !

[Pete]

I too don't think he's gone from the political landscape - anyone as posh and right wing as he is, that can appeal to the working class is going to exploit that as much as he can. After all, he smokes and likes a pint doesn't he? A true working class hero... not.

[Fly]

I wonder how much the tory party paid Farage to try and persuade the 'working class' to vote other than what they may have in the past, and what did they offer the scots to vote SNP ?

Just asking what I've seen said elsewhere 

[Slacker]

Having bucked the trend twice now regarding results, Toby is seen by the party as being one of the hardest working campaigners, perhaps that's why Murdoch's Scum "newspaper" tried a hatchet job. Fortunately voters of Chesterfield didn't fall for it. I predict that in the very near future we will be wishing we still had the Coalition government because things will get worse nationally. it put a dampener on local celebrations.

Locally (going by hpw parties finished the council term)
Labour +4
LibDem -2
Ind -2
UKIP No Change (though different councillor)

[therealjr]

John Reid (former labour minister) was interviewed yesterday and said that the public felt that Labour was on the wrong side of most of the big arguments. As far as I'm concerned they were led by the wrong person and spent too long telling us who not to vote for. The Tories beat the lib Dems in various seats as a punishment for holding them back for 5 years and labour got hammered in Scotland partly because they weren't left wing enough and partly imho because the SNP thought they were going to be in coalition and calling the shots in Westminster.