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Jul 2022
Lib Dems on course to take Harrogate and Knaresborough, says YouGov
The Liberal Democrats would win Harrogate and Knaresborough if a general election was held tomorrow, according to polling firm YouGov.
The company has published modelling based on 64 'blue wall' Conservative-Liberal Democrat battleground seats.
The seats were chosen because they were won by the Conservatives at the 2019 general election but the Liberal Democrats received above 20% of the vote.
YouGov predicts the Conservatives would retain 38 seats, the Liberal Democrats would win 24 and Labour would win two.
Among those forecast to fall is Andrew Jones' seat, which he won with a majority of 9,675 in 2019, relegating the Liberal Democrats to second.
YouGov predicts the Liberal Democrats would get 43% of the vote in Harrogate and Knaresborough, compared with 39% for the Conservatives and 9% for Labour.
It comes days after Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey pledged to make Harrogate and Knaresborough a target seat during a visit to Harrogate.
The polling says the Conservatives would also lose seats belonging to deputy prime minister Dominic Raab and former leadership contender Jeremy Hunt to the Liberal Democrats.
The company said in a statement:
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The only Con-Lib Dem battlegrounds region where Labour have increased their vote share on 2019 is in London, where they are up by three points.
In all other regions their vote share in these battleground seats is down – despite Labour’s vote intention being around six to nine points higher than the 32% they managed at the last election.
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