LabourList is number 1 – thank you

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

On behalf of Alex, myself and all of the LabourList contributors, I’d like to say thank you to everyone who voted for us in the Total Politics Blog Poll. The results came in this afternoon and we’re delighted to have been voted the top Labour blog in the country.

LabourList didn’t have the easiest of starts, but over the past eighteen months we’ve shown that we’re the place for Labour news, views and campaigning updates, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that we are an important part of the party and movement’s discussion.

This leadership election has consolidated our position as the number one blog, and we’ve helped to define the debate with our coverage of the race from day one: calling for a long contest and for a wide field of candidates, tracking MPs’ and then CLPs’ nominations as they happened; providing space for the candidates and their supporters to debate openly and frankly; and interviewing each of the five candidates. We’ll continue to bring you all the latest from the leadership race right up until the finishing line – and we’ll be a critical friend of whoever is elected leader.

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with Alex, and deputise for him while he is away on sabbatical. Alex must take the majority of the credit for what LabourList has become, and I look forward to his return after conference when we’ll be improving and expanding our content together – and continuing to break new ground and drive debate in the party forwards. With our continued success, we hope we’re here to stay.

So whether you’re one of the 7,000 people who get our updates on Twitter, the 3,300 who support us through our Facebook group or one of the 4,500 people who receive our email every weekday, thank you for the support – and stick with us, because we’re nowhere near finished yet.

Congratulations as well to all of our contributors who have made the top 100 in their own right, and those who didn’t.

The top ten Labour blogs are listed below, and you can see the full list here:

1 (3) Labour List
2 (1) Tom Harris MP
3 (2) Hopi Sen
4 (6) Next Left
5 (4) Alastair Campbell
6 Political Scrapbook
7 (5) Luke Akehurst
8 Labour Uncut
9 (14) Penny Red
10 Hadleigh Roberts

(Numbers in brackets denote ranking from last year)