The Daily Echo's 2010 General Election Coverage

Live election coverage for Hampshire

Election 2010 with the Daily Echo

7:10am Friday 7th May 2010

THE Daily Echo is providing the most comprehensive coverage possible for the General Election in Hampshire.

Gidley goes as Tories win Romsey

Caroline Nokes dances after her election victory

4:10am Friday 7th May 2010

Sandra Gidley has lost her seat in Romsey and Southampton North.

Election poster thefts investigated by police

7:00am Wednesday 5th May 2010

PARTY bosses have called in the cops after a spate of thefts of and attacks on their election posters.

Farm land law pledge by Lib Dem

6:00am Wednesday 5th May 2010

A NEW law to protect high grade agricultural land such from new developments topped a poll run by Liberal Democrat candidate for Romsey and Southampton North Sandra Gidley.

New law poll

12:40pm Friday 30th April 2010

ONE candidate is pledging to introduce a law of voters’ choice if she gets re-elected.

Clegg backs nurses on a visit to Southampton hospital

Nick Clegg chats with 11-year-old Paul Harrison on a visit to the children's cancer ward

3:29pm Tuesday 27th April 2010

LIBERAL Democrat leader Nick Clegg today pledged to give nurses a bigger say over the NHS as his battlebus rolled into Southampton.

Education boss doubts Tory plans would be right for Hampshire

4:39pm Tuesday 27th April 2010

HAMPSHIRE'S education chief has backed Conservative plans to allow parents to set up their own schools but said he doubted whether they would be right for the county.

Clegg due to visit Hampshire

Nick Clegg said the election campaign in Scotland is a 'bare knuckle fight' between Lib Dem and Labour

10:12am Tuesday 27th April 2010

LIB Dem leader Nick Clegg, pictured, and shadow chancellor Vince Cable were today due to hit the campaign trail in Hampshire.

Cameron heckled on visit to key marginal

Conservative leader David Cameron speaks  in Romsey Market Square, Hampshire

10:19am Tuesday 27th April 2010

DAVID Cameron sought to deliver a boost to the campaign in the key marginal of Romsey and Southampton North where Tory candidate Caroline Nokes is seeking to overturn a majority of about 200 votes.

Maloney adds punch to UKIP

Maloney adds punch to UKIP

3:23pm Saturday 24th April 2010

FORMER boxing promoter Frank Maloney will be adding punch to the UK Independence Party’s campaign in Romsey and Southampton North.

Lib Dems attack care budget cuts

Sandra Gidley at Cedar Lawn Nursing Home

1:54pm Thursday 22nd April 2010

LIBERAL Democrats have attacked cuts to local care budgets warning it heralds what a Tory Government would do.

Focus on tightest battle of the election

PICTURESQUE: Romsey Abbey

4:10pm Wednesday 21st April 2010

ROMSEY and Southampton North is set to be the tightest General Election race in Hampshire – and the only female head to head.

Party candidates join Question Time-style debate

Sandra Gidley, Michael Mates, Professor Joy Carter, Alan Whitehead, along with Daily Echo editor Ian Murray at the event.

LEADING candidates from the three main parties took part in a Question Time-style event in Winchester last night.

Nokes backs Cam's call for more bobbies

Nokes backs Cam's call for more bobbies

5:45pm Thursday 15th April 2010

ROMSEY and Southampton North's Conservative parliamentary candidate is backing her leader's call for more bobbies on the beat.

Police issue a warning to vandals over elections signs

5:19pm Thursday 15th April 2010

POLITICAL groups in Romsey have condemned vandals who ripped down hundreds of election signs across the constituency.

Ditch MPs who back fluoride

Health chiefs welcome Southampton's fluoride decision

11:02am Thursday 15th April 2010

FRIENDS of the Earth has called on voters to reject candidates who support water fluoridation in Hampshire.

Lib Dem out to make a splash

Sandra Gidley

11:00am Tuesday 13th April 2010

AN election candidate was hoping to make a splash when she dropped in at a Romsey business.

MPs set for question time

Alan Whitehead

10:00am Monday 12th April 2010

MPs from the three main parties will go head to head at a pre-election Question Time-style event in Winchester.

Tory backing for family law change

PARTY BACKING: Tory candidate Caroline Nokes with Fathers 4 Justice founders Nadine and Matt O’Connor.

12:33pm Saturday 10th April 2010

THE reformed Hampshire-based Fathers 4 Justice campaign group has won Conservative backing for a change to family law.

Gidley launches fight for survival

LET BATTLE COMMENCE: Sandra Gidley MP launching her re-election campaign at her new Campaign HQ joined by former Liberal Democrat election chief Chris Rennard and supporters.

8:45am Thursday 8th April 2010

SANDRA Gidley has kicked off her campaign for re-election in what promises to be one of the tightest contests in the general election.

May sent to woo Hampshire voters

May sent to woo Hampshire voters

12:48pm Wednesday 7th April 2010

CONSERVATIVES launch their general election campaign in Hampshire with a tour by shadow cabinet minister Theresa May.

PM calls general election

Gordon Brown was criticised by the national statistics watchdog for mis-using immigration figures

10:40am Tuesday 6th April 2010

THE date has been set for the UK to go to the polls after the Prime Minister called a general election.

Question Time for the Romsey candidates

PICTURESQUE: Romsey Abbey

10:35am Monday 15th March 2010

Romsey is to host its own version of the BBC’s Question Time. All the candidates for the Romsey and Southampton North seat at the general election will be on the panel.



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