{"id":23730,"date":"2019-12-13T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2019-12-13T07:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:00:03","slug":"voting-in-abingdon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=23730","title":{"rendered":"Voting in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Abingdon voted in the UK&#8217;s third general election in five years, and the second election in 2019. Key issues were Brexit and the NHS.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121201.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe vast majority of signs round Abingdon were Lib-Dem. The majority of the literature we received was also Lib-Dem.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121202.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThere was surprisingly little literature from the Conservatives, and fewer Conservative signs than usual. There were no high profile visits.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121203.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nLabour brought us a couple of leaflets.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121203a.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThere was one leaflet from the Brexit Party.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121204.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nIt was a wet polling day. The rain got heavier after about 10 am and eased off towards evening.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121207.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nUmbrellas were common at the polling stations where there was little parking, including Trinity, and the Guildhall,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121216.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nand St John&#8217;s Ambulance station.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121211.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThere were fewer umbrellas where parking was easier. The tellers at Preston Road and Long Furlong told me there was a good turnout.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121213.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nThe road was blocked near the Northcourt Centre Polling Station as new gas mains are being put in.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19121217.jpg\" alt=\"MP for Oxford West &#038; Abingdon\" \/><br \/>\nCandidates for Oxford West &amp; Abingdon were Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats), James Frederickson (Conservatives), Rosie Sourbut (Labour), and Allison Wild (Brexit Party).<\/p>\n<p>The result was:<br \/>\nLayla Moran (Liberal Democrats) 31,340 votes (held seat)<br \/>\nJames Frederickson (Conservatives) 22,397 votes<br \/>\nRosie Sourbut (Labour) 4,258 votes<br \/>\nAllison Wild (Brexit Party) 829 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Abingdon voted in the UK&#8217;s third general election in five years, and the second election in 2019. Key issues were Brexit and the NHS. The vast majority of signs round Abingdon were Lib-Dem. The majority of the literature we received was also Lib-Dem. There was surprisingly little literature from the Conservatives, and fewer [&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-23730","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\/23730","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=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}