A Matter of Accuracy

The Telegraph's results list is a little bit off the mark. According to their website, in Manchester Central apparently Labour lost to an independent candidate, but to outweigh that shock it was reported that Labour took Manchester Withington from the Lib Dems.


I can assure you both of these results are wrong. Labour held on in Central with Tony Lloyd scraping in with a majority of 10,439 - and that was to the Lib Dems (the independent candidate got just 120 votes). In Withington, John Leech retained the seat for the Lib Dems with a 1,850 majority.

The Withington result was perhaps a simple error, but the independent taking Central should have rang alarm bells to check that was the correct result.

Telegraph fail!

JR