Dorries has gone…

I think you’re right DiamondLily. In this particular seat she had a huge majority last time, with 59.8% of the vote. Labour came second with almost 6000 seats more than the Lib Dem’s,
so I’m not sure why the Lib Dem’s are going against Labour for it - it would surely make more sense for it to be a two horse race, or the Tories will get in again.

Casdon

I think you’re right DiamondLily. In this particular seat she had a huge majority last time, with 59.8% of the vote. Labour came second with almost 6000 seats more than the Lib Dem’s,
so I’m not sure why the Lib Dem’s are going against Labour for it - it would surely make more sense for it to be a two horse race, or the Tories will get in again.

Well, the last by elections, although Labour and the LDs both put up candidates, their campaigning depended on what party had the best chance of winning the seat.

Johnson's old seat in Uxbridge was disrupted by the huge rows over extended ULEZ, and the Tories scraped in with 500 extra votes.

This won't apply in Dorries constituency.

Although the Labour Party were second to the Tories at the last election, Mid Bedfordshire is a rural constituency, like North Shropshire where Labour had also been second at the previous election and the LibDems third, yet it was Helen Morgan, the LibDem candidate who won decisively with 47.2% of the vote in last year's by-election after the disgraced Tory MP Owen Paterson designed.

DiamondLily

The problem that might happen is that Labour/LD might split the no-Tory vote, and enable the Tory to slide in hat way.

In some of these places, tactical voting works best.🙂

Definitely. Usually its clear who to chose - but this is a difficult one.

I don't know who would have the best chance of beating the Tories - but I would guess campaign HQ's for both parties run some sort of poll.

The two parties really need to go with the one who looks more likely.

In my opinion she was 'gone' well before shex was gone.