Labour: 14,718 (42.1%)
Lib Dems: 11,160 (31.9%)
Conservatives: 4,481 (12.8%)
UKIP: 2,029 (5.8%)
BNP: 1,560 (4.5%)
Green Party: 530 (1.5%)
Monster Raving Loony Party: 145 (0.4%)
English Democrats: 144 (0.4%)
Pirate Party: 96 (0.2%)
Bus Pass Elvis Party: 67 (0.1%)
Pretty clear Lib Dems would have won with AV!
Modest Green Party vote but then we don't tend to do well at parliamentary by-elections.
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Is it quite that obvious? I'd have been inclined to say the majority might just about be big enough not to matter. Probably safest not to predict...
Remember that quite a few voters (especially the UKIP/BNP voters) wouldn't give a preference to either, especially in the early days of AV when people are still used to voting with an "X"!
Maybe: but remember that under the Alternative Vote minority parties won't see their vote squeezed as much.
But if they did win, it would be a far better win than Debbie Adams': she won with 58% of voters not supporting her.
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