Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition – Summary of results

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition contested 42 seats in the General Election under a variety of labels. The overall total of votes for the 42 candidates was 15,577 with an average vote proportion of 0.9%. The highest score was 3.67% for Dave Nellist in Coventry North East, standing as ‘Socialist Alternative’, while the lowest…

Liam

May 7, 2010

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The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition contested 42 seats in the General Election under a variety of labels.

The overall total of votes for the 42 candidates was 15,577 with an average vote proportion of 0.9%.

The highest score was 3.67% for Dave Nellist in Coventry North East, standing as ‘Socialist Alternative’, while the lowest was in Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Sathsprey with 0.29%

Results in order of highest proportion of vote were as follows:

Constituency	Candidate	Vote	%
Coventry North East *	Dave Nellist	1,592	3.67%
Glasgow South West	Tommy Sheridan	931	2.93%
Tottenham	Jenny Sutton	1,057	2.60%
Salford & Eccles	David Henry	730	1.76%
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough	Maxine Bowler	656	1.69%
Lewisham Deptford*	Ian Page	645	1.56%
Motherwell & Wishaw	Ray Gunnion	609	1.56%
Coventry South *	Judy Griffiths	695	1.51%
Colne Valley	Dr Jackie Grunsell	741	1.34%
Bootle	Pete Glover	472	1.14%
Glasgow North	Angela McCormick	287	0.97%
Dundee West	Jim McFarlane	357	0.96%
Carlisle	John Metcalfe	376	0.89%
Manchester Gorton	Karen Reissman	337	0.88%
Glasgow South	Brian Smith	351	0.88%
Coventry North West *	Nikki Downes	370	0.79%
Huddersfield	Paul Cooney	319	0.79%
Cambridge	Martin Booth	362	0.72%
Gateshead	Elaine Brunskill	266	0.70%
Edinburgh East	Gary Clark	274	0.69%
Walthamstow	Nancy Taaffe	279	0.68%
Wythenshawe & Sale East	Lynn Worthington	268	0.66%
Greenwich & Woolwich	Onay Kasab	267	0.65%
Glasgow North East	Graham Campbell	187	0.64%
Liverpool Walton	Daren Ireland	195	0.57%
Swansea West	Rob Williams	179	0.50%
Edinburgh North & Leith	Willie Black	233	0.49%
Wellingborough	Paul Crofts	249	0.48%
Hull West & Hessle	Keith Gibson	150	0.48%
Brighton Kemptown	Dave Hill	194	0.45%
Cardiff Central	Ross Saunders	162	0.45%
Leicester West	Steve Score	157	0.44%
Doncaster North	Bill Rawcliffe	181	0.44%
Bristol South	Tom Baldwin	206	0.43%
Midlothian	Willie Duncan	166	0.42%
Stoke-on-Trent Central	Matthew Wright	133	0.41%
Bristol East	Rae Lynch	184	0.41%
Southampton Itchen	Tim Cutter	168	0.38%
Spelthorne	Paul Couchman	176	0.37%
Portsmouth North	Mick Tosh	154	0.35%
Redcar	Hannah Walter	127	0.30%
Inverness Nairn Badenoch & Strathspey	George MacDonald	135	0.29%
	Total votes	15,577	0.91%

7 responses to “Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition – Summary of results”

Mike

May 7, 2010 at 9:22 am

A truely appalling result – as it was always going to be. Even more depressing will be the excuses that will follow from the far left groups. They are likely to include the following:

1. The TUSC was a recent initiative and so was always going to struggle. Not true in the case of Nellist and Sheridan both of whom are very well known in their localities. They deserved strong support – but did not get it. The other problem with this excuse is that much of the far left has been arguing that workers are ‘angry’, eager to support or join a ‘resistance’, and are searching for a radical ‘alternative’. If there is truth to any of this then the failure of such sentiments to find political expression has to be explained.

2. If the right wing union leaders had shown a lead then things would have been different. This is bollocks and does not deserve a reasoned response. The more intelligent wings of the far left will hopefully avoid such assertions.

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Dave Edwards

May 7, 2010 at 9:45 am

There may be some ‘excuses’ floating around. But I don’t see the results as unexpected and flowing from this – not appalling.
A key point of offering an alternative is that it should be part of an overall strategy of building points of alternative support.
I don’t accept the alternate to the ‘appalling’ mantra, that therefore socialists must bury themselves in the Labour Party. In any viable practical sense that is not getting anywhere – talking to empty rooms.
Neither to I accept that ‘votes’ for Labour equates in someway to the qualities of the Labour Party. Using the ‘votes’ arguement could apply to any political party that has a lot of votes.

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skidmarx

May 7, 2010 at 10:24 am

I said a couple of weeks ago over at the Tomb that the results would probably be derisory. Sheridan did suffer from the events with the SSP, and as the main attacks on workers haven’t come yet the search for an alternative hasn’t really started yet.

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Ian

May 7, 2010 at 10:48 am

awful, awful result
whats the point?

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Adamski

May 7, 2010 at 11:38 am

Appalling result I agree. But there is clearly a space for candidates to the left of Labour to get elected as the last 5 years shown. I suspect that smaller parties might have been squeezed in this election much more than usual given that it was much tighter between the two mainstream parties and the brief spell of clegg-omania

In S.Wales, Dai Davies of Blaenau Gwent People’s Voice lost his seat with the constituency returning to Labour.

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Alex Snowdon

May 7, 2010 at 11:57 am

Caroline Lucas – winning Brighton Pavilion for the Greens – got more votes (over 16,000) than all 42 TUSC candidates put together. Just saying.

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bill j

May 7, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Perhaps now people will wake up to the uselessness of stitching together an electoral alliance at the last minute and hoping it gets anywhere.
I know they weren’t in TUSC but Workers Power and the AWL did even worst than the worst TUSC candidate.
What a farce.

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