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New Addington Local Election May 2006

 

Anti-Fascist Fortnight, 24 March to 7 April 2007

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The Redwatch website is operated by the extreme right. It publishes photos and addresses of anti-fascist campaigners in an effort to intimidate them and silence them. Alex McFadden, president of Mersyside Trades Council, was almost blinded after being attacked on his doorstep in May. If he had not been able to close the door so quickly after being slashed across the face with a knife, his injuries could have been fatal. Mr McFadden's home address had been posted on Redwatch. Another target was Robbie Quinn, a Mersysire Liberal Democrat councillor, who began receiving threatening phone calls shortly after his details appeared on the site.

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Stop the BNP

 

London ARA campaigns with Searchlight against racist extremists.

Up-to-date information on Searchlight campaigns can be accessed on: http://www.stopthebnp.com/

                                  

 

BNP only managed 3rd place in their target ward of

New Addington (Croydon) after LARA/Searchlight leafleting

 

There are two local election wards on the New Addington estate in Croydon: Fieldway and New Addington.  According to Searchlight’s research:

• both wards on the estate have been worked long and hard by the BNP and the NF before them
• the BNP has an established newspaper round
• Croydon BNP is one of the largest and oldest BNP branches in Greater London with some very experienced activists and officers and is a source of activists for other parts of London and sometimes for national activities by the BNP
• some of the older members were foundation members of the NF and founder members of the BNP
• the New Addington ward was more vulnerable to the BNP than the Fieldway ward. 

On Saturday 29 April, 28 activists from London ARA, Searchlight, Battersea & Wandsworth Trades Council, Croydon Trades Council and local trade unions and political parties distributed the London edition of the Searchlight special election newspaper and a local Searchlight/LARA “Together  -  Hope not Hate” anti-BNP leaflet, “Croydon Matters”, to about two-thirds of the homes (about 2,800) in the New Addington ward.  There was not enough time to leaflet the Fieldway ward on this occasion.

 

Fieldway Ward Results       (2002 local elections, 2005 local by-election and 4 May 2006 local elections)

 

Party	2002 votes	2005 votes	2006 votes
Labour	1007        934	993	969        862
BNP	-	-	692            17.1%
Conservative	529          497	714	667        477
UKIP	-	-	213
Lib Dem	-	136	180

 

• The turn-out was 34.24% (compared with 23.89% in 2002)
• The BNP came 2nd with 17.1% of the vote (up from the 15% they reportedly got in the GLA elections on this estate) and just 171 votes short of winning a seat.  
• The 2 Labour candidates’ votes dropped from 2002 and 2005 in line with the general voting trend in London and the South.
• The 2 Conservative candidates’ votes dropped from 2005 and partly from 2002 at variance with the general voting trend in London and the South.
• The 1 Lib Dem candidate’s vote increased from last year.

 

 

New Addington Ward Results            (2002 local elections and 4 May 2006 local elections)

 

Party	2002 votes		2006 votes
Labour	1040          928		1356      1257
Conservative	815          796		1046      1040
BNP	-		772          13.2%
UKIP	-		256
Lib Dem	136          125		139

 

• The turn-out was 44.85% (compared with 28.49% in 2002)
• The BNP came 3rd with 13.2% of the vote (down from the 15% they reportedly got in the GLA elections on this estate) and 486 votes short of winning a seat.
• The 2 Labour candidates’ votes increased considerably from 2002 at variance with the general voting trend in London and the South.
• The 2 Conservative candidates’ votes increased considerably from 2002 in line with the general voting trend in London and the South.
• The 1 Lib Dem candidate’s vote increased slightly from 2002.

 

Observations

In the half of the New Addington estate that we leafleted (New Addington ward) an extra 10.61% of the electorate voted compared with the half we didn’t leaflet (Fieldway ward) and many more Labour Party and Conservative Party supporters turned out to vote than in Fieldway ward, reducing the % vote of the BNP and leaving them the 3rd placed party.  In the half of the estate that we didn’t leaflet (Fieldway ward) the BNP increased its % vote and became the 2nd placed party.  

 

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