Could this dullest of elections suddenly become interesting? What a strange election this has been – at the national level it’s been decidedly dull, but locally, anything but. I’ve now covered four elections in Sussex and sometimes it’s been a bit of a struggle to find anything interesting to say, other than, ‘I wonder if the Tories are going to lose any seats in the county (Brighton and Hove apart - as usual). This time round, judging from the constituency-level polls I’ve been looking at, up to ten seats could change hands (emphasis on the word ‘could’).
Starting in the East of the county, both Hastings and Bexhill are predicted to go to Labour, whilst Lewes and Eastbourne could well be in the Lib Dem ‘gain’ column, perhaps joined by Chichester and (perhaps surprisingly) Mid-Sussex. Along the coast it could be a clean sweep for Labour, with the party predicted to win Bognor and Littlehampton and the two Worthing seats. Crawley will probably also be in the Labour gain column.
READ MORE: Andy Burnham backs Brighton Labour candidates for election What a night that would be for we Sussex political nerds who. election after election, have had to try to get excited about one or two seats changing hands. Uncharacteristically, Brighton and Hove will probably be an island of electoral stability, with Peter Kyle in Hove easily winning for Labour, as will Chris Ward in Kemptown (despite the disappointment among local members at having their sitting MP, Lloyd Russel.
