Canvassing Update

In Earlsdon, we've been canvassing Winifred Road, Spencer Avenue, Tile Hill Lane, Hendre Close, Mayfield Road, Mickleton Ave, and Stanway Road over the last few days.

The primary goal is to talk to people on the doorstep and find out what issues matter to them.

The secondary goal is to get an idea of who are lifelong voters for one party or another, and who are the folks who decide based on the leaflets, who are undecided, who are wavering, etc. This will lead to "remember to vote Green" leaflets for all the houses we've visited.

Posters are being printed for use in Cheylesmore, and on the University of Warwick campus.

For our other wards, our candidate in Binley and Willenhall, Cathy Wattebot, is working on an A5 "paper candidate manifesto" to drop off to the 10 people per ward who signed our nomination papers.

It's always unclear how the vote will shake out. The dream scenario is for us to win Earlsdon and Cheylesmore.

With poor local election turnout (35%), even if a party last year received nigh on 50% of the vote, like the Tories did in Earlsdon, that's only 170 people out of every 1000 voters. Our goal in Earlsdon is for our message to reach the other 800 voters.

In Cheylesmore, it'll be more of a 5-candidate split, and if our candidate, Bryn Tittle, can secure 32% of the vote (112 voters out of 1000, based on 35% turnout), then four candidates will have to split 68% of the rest.