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  • Which seats would Labour have won if the LD's didn't exist?

    Mine, Chipping Barnet.

    Tory majority of 1,212. 5,932 LibDem votes. Also 1,288 Green votes so one could point at them equally.

  • And chingford. And city and Westminster. Greens in the libdem alliance cost labour Stroud - as everyone said they would. I'm sure there are many more.

  • $ ./ld.pl Green | grep taken.by.Con
    Blyth Valley taken by Con (17440) with majorty of 712 and Green took 1146 votes, next party was Lab with 16728 votes
    Bolton North East taken by Con (19759) with majorty of 378 and Green took 689 votes, next party was Lab with 19381 votes
    Bury North taken by Con (21660) with majorty of 105 and Green took 802 votes, next party was Lab with 21555 votes
    Bury South taken by Con (22034) with majorty of 402 and Green took 848 votes, next party was Lab with 21632 votes
    Carshalton & Wallington taken by Con (20822) with majorty of 629 and Green took 759 votes, next party was Lib Dem with 20193 votes
    Chipping Barnet taken by Con (25745) with majorty of 1212 and Green took 1288 votes, next party was Lab with 24533 votes
    Durham North West taken by Con (19990) with majorty of 1144 and Green took 1173 votes, next party was Lab with 18846 votes
    Gedling taken by Con (22718) with majorty of 679 and Green took 1097 votes, next party was Lab with 22039 votes
    Heywood & Middleton taken by Con (20453) with majorty of 663 and Green took 1220 votes, next party was Lab with 19790 votes
    High Peak taken by Con (24844) with majorty of 590 and Green took 1148 votes, next party was Lab with 24254 votes
    Kensington taken by Con (16768) with majorty of 150 and Green took 535 votes, next party was Lab with 16618 votes
    Stoke-on-Trent Central taken by Con (14557) with majorty of 670 and Green took 819 votes, next party was Lab with 13887 votes
    Stroud taken by Con (31582) with majorty of 3840 and Green took 4954 votes, next party was Lab with 27742 votes
    

    So that's 13 seats that the Green votes could have gone to someone else to stop the Tories.

    Again it's a huge what if.

    (There's also lots of double counting as 12 of those 13 could also have been won with the Lib Dem votes, the only one that is specifically Green was Stroud)

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