In article , 
dnorth@abbeymanor.fsbusiness.co.uk (David North) wrote:

> "John M Ward"  wrote in message 
> news:507fef405fjohn@acornusers.org...
> > this was a stupendous result with a 16.5% swing to the Conservatives,
> > despite what Gordon Brown tried to claim.
> 
> This is a good example of how misleading the usual measure of swing 
> can be. The Labour share of the vote fell by 26.7%, but the 
> Conservative increase was only 6.29%, so to claim a 16.5% swing to 
> the Conservatives is patent nonsense. Both UKIP (up 9.45%) and the 
> Green Party (up 7.08%) gained more than the Conservatives did. 
> While the fall in the Labour vote was spectacular, the Conservative 
> gain was rather paltry as by-elections go.

The odd thing is that the UKIP and Green performances look rather 
different from that and from each other beside their Euro-election votes 
of 25% and 12% across the whole of Norwich and 9.5% and 22% across 
Broadland.

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