Lynne Featherstone

Only the Liberal Democrats or Labour can win elections in Hornsey and Wood Green.

The Conservatives finished third in Hornsey and Wood Green in five of the six recent elections: 2001 (general election), 2002 (council elections), 2004 (GLA elections), 2005 (general election) and 2007 (GLA elections). In the sixth – the 2006 council elections – they did even worse, finishing fourth.

At the last council elections, the Liberal Democrats won twenty-three council seats to Labour’s seven in Hornsey and Wood Green – and no other party has got elected even a single councillor anywhere in the seat or elsewhere in Haringey.

The Conservatives performed very badly in all three council by-elections in Hornsey and Wood Green in 2004: they lost four out of ten of their votes in Fortis Green, finished a distant third in Muswell Hill and an even worse fourth in Stroud Green. In the Highgate by-election of 2007 the Liberal Democrats held the former Conservative seat, with a trebled majority. The Conservatives finished third in the Alexandra ward by-election of 2008. The Liberal Democrats won all of these by-elections.

“All this adds up to a seat which is socially, intellectually and politically well beyond the Conservatives’ reach.” (Almanac of British Politics, 7th edition)

The Conservative candidate from 2005 has admitted that Lynne Featherstone will finish more than 10,000 votes ahead of the Conservatives at the next general election. (Comment on ConservativeHome, 11 December 2006)

You can check the 2005 general election result in Hornsey and Wood Green on the BBC website.