Andrew Bridgen · Independent
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
North West Leicestershire
- E14001404
- East Midlands
- 4 candidates
- 4 sites
Mostly responding — The rounded HTTP response rate at the audit was at least 66%. This does not establish that campaign content survived. 4 of 4 sites responding (100%) · 0 unreachable · 1 redirected
What happened here
What was recorded
The April 2025 scrape recorded 4 candidate websites for North West Leicestershire.
- Andrew Bridgen — Independent — https://abridgen.uk
- Carl Cheswick Benfield — Green Party — https://loughborough.greenparty.org.uk
- Craig Smith — Conservative and Unionist Party — https://www.craig-smith.uk
- Siobhan Dillon — Independent — http://siobhandillon.net
What the audit found
On 7 September 2026 those URLs were requested again — 1 redirected, 1 answered with the surname absent, 2 answered. An HTTP success means the server answered. It does not establish that the campaign page survived.
- Andrew Bridgen — https://abridgen.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Craig Smith — https://www.craig-smith.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Siobhan Dillon — http://siobhandillon.net — Redirected to https://siobhandillon.net/.
- Carl Cheswick Benfield — https://loughborough.greenparty.org.uk — 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 4 candidates here. A sentence missing from that fetch is not matched to a replacement.
- Craig Smith — 122 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.craig-smith.uk. Example from the April text: “As your County Councillor, I have worked hard to get the worst roads in Coalville resurfaced and potholes filled quicker.I got Forest Road resurfaced which…”
No replacement sentence is matched. A line that only appears on the later homepage is listed on its own. 3 candidates on this seat have no sentence comparison in the snapshot.
Halftone: more / larger paper dots = lower response rate.
Candidates in this seat
Carl Cheswick Benfield · Green Party
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname not found in the response body (heuristic only)
Craig Smith · Conservative and Unionist Party
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Siobhan Dillon · Independent
- HTTP 200
- ↳ Redirect destination at audit: https://siobhandillon.net/
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
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