{"id":13976,"date":"2015-05-08T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13976"},"modified":"2015-05-08T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:22:16","slug":"parliamentary-and-district-votes-counted-town-council-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=13976","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Winning Here in Abingdon in 2015 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050809.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nThe Oxford West and Abingdon parliamentary constituency was considered very marginal during the election campaign. People got lots of political material through the door. There were also the posters &#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050805.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nNicola Blackwood, the Conservative candidate, had the biggest posters.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050808.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nAnybody looking at garden posters beforehand would have thought that Layla Moran, of the Liberal Democrats, was winning here. There were hundreds.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050807.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nThe Labour Candidate, Sally Copley, asked \u00a0Labour voters, who had previously voted tactically for the Lib-Dems, to vote with their heart and return to Labour. But, anecdotally, some went even further tactically and voted Conservative. They considered Scottish Nationalism an even greater danger to the UK.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050810.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nUKIP had a quiet campaign here in Abingdon, but quite a few people took their UKIP leaflet and stuck it in their window to show support.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050806.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nThere were areas where Green Party supporters went wild.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050918.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the elections it was amazing to see such queues at polling stations. Thanks to Mike for this one at Trinity.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15050811.jpg\" alt=\"Votes Counted So Far\" \/><br \/>\nWhen all those votes were counted, Nicola Blackwood, of the Conservatives, increased her majority from just over 100, to almost 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Conservatives went on to win 8 or the 10 Vale of the White Horse District Council (VWHDC) seats in Abingdon. Conservatives have won 29 of the 38 VWHDC district council seats, and the Lib-Dems 9.<\/p>\n<p>Town Council results are counted tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford West and Abingdon parliamentary constituency was considered very marginal during the election campaign. People got lots of political material through the door. There were also the posters &#8230; Nicola Blackwood, the Conservative candidate, had the biggest posters. Anybody looking at garden posters beforehand would have thought that Layla Moran, of the Liberal Democrats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}