Tactical Voting in Bury St Edmunds

12.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Sat 24th Apr 2010

The recent voting figures for Labour are calculated from national and local election results. some County wards cross the constituency boundary and some wards are 2 member wards and these have been adjusted for, but they are as

follows:

May 2001: 19,347

May 2005: 14,402

May 2007: 4,781

May 2009: 3,814

With the Tories there vote was:

May 05: 25,405

May 09: 16,854. (while they made 22 gains on Suffolk County Council they

lost 4 in Bury St Edmunds, 2 to Lib Dems, 1 to green, and 1 to independent.

By comparison the Lib Dem vote was:

May 01: 6,998

May 03: 8,222

May 05: 10,423

May 07: 12, 720

Last year our vote fell back to around 10,000 but it was a low turnout and our share of the vote rose 3% to 26%

We just need to harness that collapsed Labour vote that is still 'anti-Tory' at heart to vote for us and we can win the seat knocking the Tory out here and helping frustrate any possible chance of the Tories have a majority.

So that is the basis of the tactical vote opportunity.

Think about your vote, and use it for real change