Brandon Gorman · Conservative and Unionist Party
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Caerphilly
- W07000088
- Wales
- 3 candidates
- 3 sites
Mostly responding — The rounded HTTP response rate at the audit was at least 66%. This does not establish that campaign content survived. 3 of 3 sites responding (100%) · 0 unreachable · 0 redirected
What happened here
What was recorded
The April 2025 scrape recorded 3 candidate websites for Caerphilly.
- Brandon Gorman — Conservative and Unionist Party — https://www.brandongorman.co.uk
- Lindsay Whittle — Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales — https://www.partyof.wales/manifesto
- Steve Aicheler — Liberal Democrats — https://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto
What the audit found
On 7 September 2026 those URLs were requested again — 2 answered with the surname absent, 1 answered. An HTTP success means the server answered. It does not establish that the campaign page survived.
- Brandon Gorman — https://www.brandongorman.co.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Lindsay Whittle — https://www.partyof.wales/manifesto — Answered (HTTP 200). The surname was not in the response body. That asks for review; it does not prove the site was repurposed.
- Steve Aicheler — https://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto — Answered (HTTP 200). The surname was not in the response body. That asks for review; it does not prove the site was repurposed.
What happened to the words
A homepage fetch was compared with the April site text for 1 of the 3 candidates here. A sentence missing from that fetch is not matched to a replacement.
- Brandon Gorman — 17 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.brandongorman.co.uk. Example from the April text: “ABOUT ME 2022 LOCAL ELECTIONS It was an honour and a privilege and stand as a Welsh Conservative candidate for my local ward Penyrheol.”
No replacement sentence is matched. A line that only appears on the later homepage is listed on its own. 2 candidates on this seat have no sentence comparison in the snapshot.
Halftone: more / larger paper dots = lower response rate.
Candidates in this seat
Lindsay Whittle · Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname not found in the response body (heuristic only)
Steve Aicheler · Liberal Democrats
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname not found in the response body (heuristic only)
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