Continuing this light hearted series, this round I look at which of the 4 local candidates for Westmorland and Lonsdale are making the most with their banner, poster etc... activity in the surrounding area by blitzing the area with their party colours.
Criteria for this is based on my daily commuter route through Kendal and out southwards to the motorway and is based on volume
3 - In joint third place is UKIP John Mander and Labour Jonathan Todd who I've yet to see a banner for them on my commuter journey
2 - Second place goes to Conservative Gareth McKeever, his banner count in town is low but he does win the biggest banner sub award for his record sized banner on the scaffolding up against the local old conservative HQ. As you go out of town his volume count begins to increase but some of the banners get canceled out by using shared sites with the Lib Dems which indicates there are some canny or undecided farmers out there possibly renting out the prime sites to the main parties
1 - Number one spot goes to Liberal Democrat Tim Farron, purely on the volume on banners he has in town plus new large banner boards popping up daily outside of town. One point of note though, last election my end of town was a wash with Lib Dem banners but this time round I've only spotted one, could this be a sign that there are changed or undecided voters?
Update - Westmorland Gazette cartoonist Colin Shelbourn has also undertaken has own banner survey between Windermere and Kendal which match the above results of the southern picture - details on his blog
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Election - Top Local Candidate for online presence
A light hearted look at which of our 4 local candidates for Westmorland and Lonsdale is making the most in the online media world. The 4 candidates have been rated on their use in the following areas based on intended use, frequency and interactivaty with the local public
Personal Website
Blog
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
4 - In fourth place is UKIP John Mander for simply not having an online presense (or a least one I can find)
3 - Third place goes to Conservative Gareth McKeever, he had the potental to get up to number 1 with his new look website which links to his blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages but it all came crashing down for failing on content. Losing points for having no updates to his site for a last month, having an empty blog and youtube page, gaps in updating twitter (last update 4 days ago), having a naff twitter name. He gained some points for having a Facebook page and a couple hundred followers but again he doesn't post to the page, so has lost points for lack of public interactivity through these sites. Also points are lost as all his sites relate to his campaign giving rise that they will be abandoned once the election is over.
Website
Blog
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
2 - Second place goes to Labour Jonathan Todd, he has a website with regular blog updates, links in to some his YouTube broadcasts. He uses Twitter although he loses some points for using it retweet stories and not so much on what he's upto on his local campaign other than to
link to his blog post, he gets brownies points for replying to other Twitters questions. He has two facebook pages (personal / campaign) that he posts to with a thousand followers across the two pages.
Website
Blog
Twitter
Facebook - (personal)
YouTube linked in his blog posts
1 - Number one spot goes to Liberal Democrat Tim Farron, he's lost points on the blogging and youtube side which he doesn't have but is well ahead of the competition in his personal use of Facebook and Twitter which he's been using on a regular basis with what he's upto since the backend of last year and also regularly replies to questions from locals. On Facebook he's hit the limit of five thousand followers on his personal page and has had to setup a fan page to allow other locals to be in contact with him through this avenue which is a good indication that he'll continue using Facebook / Twitter once the election is over - if he's re-elected ;)
Website
Twitter
Facebook - (fan page)
Personal Website
Blog
YouTube
4 - In fourth place is UKIP John Mander for simply not having an online presense (or a least one I can find)
3 - Third place goes to Conservative Gareth McKeever, he had the potental to get up to number 1 with his new look website which links to his blog, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages but it all came crashing down for failing on content. Losing points for having no updates to his site for a last month, having an empty blog and youtube page, gaps in updating twitter (last update 4 days ago), having a naff twitter name. He gained some points for having a Facebook page and a couple hundred followers but again he doesn't post to the page, so has lost points for lack of public interactivity through these sites. Also points are lost as all his sites relate to his campaign giving rise that they will be abandoned once the election is over.
Website
Blog
YouTube
2 - Second place goes to Labour Jonathan Todd, he has a website with regular blog updates, links in to some his YouTube broadcasts. He uses Twitter although he loses some points for using it retweet stories and not so much on what he's upto on his local campaign other than to
link to his blog post, he gets brownies points for replying to other Twitters questions. He has two facebook pages (personal / campaign) that he posts to with a thousand followers across the two pages.
Website
Blog
Facebook - (personal)
YouTube linked in his blog posts
1 - Number one spot goes to Liberal Democrat Tim Farron, he's lost points on the blogging and youtube side which he doesn't have but is well ahead of the competition in his personal use of Facebook and Twitter which he's been using on a regular basis with what he's upto since the backend of last year and also regularly replies to questions from locals. On Facebook he's hit the limit of five thousand followers on his personal page and has had to setup a fan page to allow other locals to be in contact with him through this avenue which is a good indication that he'll continue using Facebook / Twitter once the election is over - if he's re-elected ;)
Website
Facebook - (fan page)
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