Well, thanks to Nigel Morgan and Twitter, I’ve now found out that Newbury constituency has been held by the Conservative candidate Richard Benyon as per Nigel’s tweet below:
Nigel_Morgan Conservatives hold #Newbury. Benyon 33,057 votes. Rendel, Lib Dem, 20,809
That’s a huge swing back to the Tories – so it doesn’t seem the Clegg effect has changed much in Newbury after all!
More comment on this later – will just note though that Twitter got the result out a lot quicker than the traditional media!
Congratulations to Benyon and his team – commiserations to the other candidates.