Labour Fall Below 2% of the vote in Shepway

Detailed research by the Liberal Democrats into the May election results across Shepway has shown that Labour got less that 2% of the valid votes across the district. Labour came SIXTH in terms of their vote across the area, trailing the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Shepway Independents, People First and Independents!

Of the 62,432 valid votes cast in total (*), the totals for each Party were as follows:

Tory 31,435 (50.35%)

Lib Dem 15,870 (25.43%)

Shepway Independents 5,321 (8.52%)

Independents 3,838 (6.15%)

People First 3,770 (6.04%)

Labour 1,245 (1.99%)

UKIP 688 (1.10%)

BNP 265 (0.42%)

• As a number of wards across Shepway had more than 1 councillor to be elected, in multi-member wards each elector had more than one vote to cast. The totals shown are the total valid votes for each Party in the May 2007 elections.

Shepway Liberal Democrat Party Chair Tim Prater commented:

"Although we already knew that Shepway had remained a Labour free zone, the detailed figures go to show just how far out of the race Labour are in Shepway.

"It would be interesting to know if there is any other district in the UK that had such low Labour support in May: it could be that here in Shepway Labour have hit a UK wide record low percentage vote!"