BROMSGROVE

Bromsgrove hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons, due to the rum accounting skills of Julie Kirkbride and her MP expenses. Having finally decided to quit parliament (she will of course get a healthy pension instead of quitting now as she should have done.)

candidates so far,

BNP Elizabeth Wainwright
Conservative General Sir Francis Richard Dannatt, KCB, CBE, MC
Independent Mark Anthony France [unemployed]
UKIP Steve Morson
Independent STAN FRANCIS


As for the seat itself, it has always returned a tory MP apart from one by election in 1971 when it included the neighbouring area of Redditch.

General Election 2005:

Conservative Julie Kirkbride 24,387 51.0 −0.7
Labour David Jones 14,307 29.9 −4.0
Liberal Democrat Sue Haswell 7,197 15.1 +3.2
UKIP Paul Buckingham 1,919 4.0 +1.6
Majority 10,080 21.1
Turnout 47,810 67.6 +


Now in 2009 the BNP stood 9 candidates in the 9 Bromsgrove seats for the local county council, only the Tories managed this, with Labour, UKIP, and Lib Dems unable to cover more than half the seats 2,400 votes. This is a good solid base for the local BNP team to build on, and explains why the BNP are standing a candidate for the first time in this seat. If the vote splitting UKIP was not standing you would have a credible force which would have given the people of Bromsgrove a good opposition to the shoe in Tory candidate.


**************** THANKS TO RAVEN FOR THE UPDATE *******************


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Parliamentary Election June 2001;
Gregory UKIP 1,112
Kirkbride Conservative 23,640
McDonald Labour 15,502
Rowley Lib Dem 5,430

Total votes cast: 45,684
5% required to save deposit: 2,284

Parliamentary Election May 2005;

Buckingham UKIP 1,919
Haswell Lib Dem 7,197
Jones Labour 14,307
Kirkbride Conservative 24,387

Total votes cast: 47,810
5% required to save deposit: 2,390

Worcester County Council 2009;

Total number of votes cast for BNP across
our 9 county wards: 2,547