Cardiff Central
The 2010 General Election was announced 0n April 6th, to be held on May 6th and I will be standing in Cardiff Central.
I spent the afternoon of April 13th in the Roath area of Cardiff Central, speaking to voters and completing my nomination forms. On April 20th I attended the hustings organised by Cardiff Students Union, and despite being criticized for having policies came 2nd in the student poll. On Sunday 25th I did my first radio interview, live on Tequila radio at the Atrium campus of my alma mater.
At the count I had many people from across the political spectrum talking to me and congratulate me for my hustings performance, one person saying they had heard good things about my website and one person who did not think my hustings performance was very funny.
At around 0320 the result was declared despite there being 30 votes missing, the results were:
| Jenny Willott | Liberal Democrats | 14,976 | (41.43%, -8.37%) |
| Jenny Rathbone | Labour | 10,400 | (28.77%, -5.54%) |
| Karen Robson | Conservative | 7,799 | (21.57%, +12.33%) |
| Chris Williams | Plaid Cymru | 1,246 | (3.45%, -0.07%) |
| Susan Davies | UKIP | 765 | (2.12%, +1.06%) |
| Sam Coates | Green Party | 575 | (1.59%) |
| Ross Saunders | Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 162 | (0.45%) |
| Mark Beech | Official Monster Raving Loony Party | 142 | (0.39%) |
| Alun Mathias | Independent | 86 | (0.24%, -0.23%) |
And so I finished my first parliamentary election in the penultimate position, thanks to 142 of Cardiff Central’s most visionary voters.