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Dave Nellist

Dave Nellist is a Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in St Michael's in the Coventry local by-election.

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Dave Nellist's policies

Statement to voters

Will you be glad to see the back of the Tories – but have no enthusiasm for Starmer’s Labour? Feel like we're paying more for things that don’t work properly, yet the rich are getting richer all the time? Feel let down by all the main parties on Gaza, on the Post Office and infected blood scandals, on housing, on the NHS and local services? We agree.

Full statement

Starmer's Labour will be the next government, but that won't be the change we need! In Coventry East, we have a chance to tell them what we think by sending a socialist working-class fighter who will fight for the issues that Labour has dropped and help build the pressure outside Parliament for a new party that will really represent us.

"When all the establishment parties are the same, insisting ordinary working people pay for the crisis in their system, you need a strong, independent socialist to fight for you and your family. I’ve proven I can do that job on the council and in parliament - help me be your voice again when the next government lets us down like the last.” Dave Nellist, June 2024

This statement was last updated on June 10, 2024.

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About Dave Nellist

Wikipedia

David John Nellist is a British Trotskyist activist who was the MP for the constituency of Coventry South East from 1983 to 1992. Elected as a Labour MP, his support for the Militant tendency led to his eventual expulsion from the party in late 1991. He is the National Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), a member of the Socialist Party, and was a city councillor in Coventry from 1998 to 2012.

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Dave Nellist's elections

Date Election Party Results Position
2024 St Michael's: Coventry local by-election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (Results due after 10 October 2024) Position not available
2024 Coventry East: UK Parliamentary general election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 797 votes (not elected) 7th / 7 candidates
2024 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 346 votes (not elected) 3rd / 6 candidates
2023 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 221 votes (not elected) 3rd / 6 candidates
2022 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 257 votes (not elected) 3rd / 5 candidates
2022 Birmingham, Erdington: UK Parliamentary by-election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 360 votes (not elected) 3rd / 12 candidates
2021 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 274 votes (not elected) 3rd / 6 candidates
2019 St Michael's: Coventry local election Socialist Alternative 396 votes (not elected) 2nd / 4 candidates
2018 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 350 votes (not elected) 2nd / 4 candidates
2016 St Michael's: Coventry local election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 635 votes (not elected) 2nd / 4 candidates
2015 Coventry North West: UK Parliamentary general election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 1,769 votes (not elected) 6th / 6 candidates
2014 West Midlands: European Parliament (UK) elections NO2EU Not elected (vote count not available) Position not available
2010 Coventry North East: UK Parliamentary general election Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 1,592 votes (not elected) 5th / 7 candidates
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