The Stray Ferret’s live election blog on Friday attracted the highest daily traffic ever to the site.
A total of 23,000 unique users logged on to the site on Friday, generating 65,000 page views.
Of these, 26,000 were for our live election blog, which provided regular updates from the count on a dramatic day of local politics.
The Stray Ferret provided the most comprehensive coverage of the historic election for the new North Yorkshire Council, profiling all candidates in the 21 Harrogate district divisions, as well as staging a local hustings event that put readers’ questions to candidates.
Tamsin O’Brien, director of the Stray Ferret, said:
“One of the reasons the site was founded was to increase interest in local democracy and the large blog following shows just how many people are engaged in political issues.
“We look forward to providing detailed political coverage of the new North Yorkshire Council as it comes into existence in 10 months time, replacing Harrogate Borough Council and North Yorkshire County Council.”
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- ELECTION: Full coverage of today’s Harrogate district vote
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- Lib Dems victorious in Harrogate district
