Ben Spencer · Conservative and Unionist Party
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Runnymede and Weybridge
- E14001456
- South East
- 6 candidates
- 6 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 6 sites responding (67%) · 1 unreachable · 1 redirected
What happened here
What was recorded
The April 2025 scrape recorded 6 candidate websites for Runnymede and Weybridge.
- Ben Spencer — Conservative and Unionist Party — https://www.drbenspencer.org.uk/about-dr-ben-spencer
- Ellen Nicholson — Liberal Democrats — https://www.libdems.org.uk/candidates/runnymede-and-weybridge
- Michael Kenneth Cressey — Independent — https://michaelcressey.co.uk
- Robert King — Labour Party — https://www.runnymedeweybridgelabour.co.uk
- Steve Ringham — Green Party — https://northsurrey.greenparty.org.uk
- Stewart Mark Mackay — Reform UK — https://www.reformparty.uk/runnymede-and-weybridge-constituency
What the audit found
On 7 September 2026 those URLs were requested again — 1 no longer resolved, 1 redirected, 3 answered, 1 with another HTTP result. An HTTP success means the server answered. It does not establish that the campaign page survived.
- Ben Spencer — https://www.drbenspencer.org.uk/about-dr-ben-spencer — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Michael Kenneth Cressey — https://michaelcressey.co.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Steve Ringham — https://northsurrey.greenparty.org.uk — Answered (HTTP 200).
- Robert King — https://www.runnymedeweybridgelabour.co.uk — No longer resolved (DNS failure). An outage and a removal look the same in this check.
- Stewart Mark Mackay — https://www.reformparty.uk/runnymede-and-weybridge-constituency — Audit result: HTTP error (HTTP 403).
- Ellen Nicholson — https://www.libdems.org.uk/candidates/runnymede-and-weybridge — Redirected to https://www.libdems.org.uk/in-your-community. The surname was not in the response body.
What happened to the words
A homepage fetch was compared with the April site text for 1 of the 6 candidates here. A sentence missing from that fetch is not matched to a replacement.
- Ben Spencer — 170 sentences from the April text were not found on the homepage fetch of https://www.drbenspencer.org.uk/about-dr-ben-spencer. Example from the April text: “MP Tables Bill to Reduce Traffic Delay and Disruption Tuesday, 1 April, 2025 Runnymede and Weybridge MP, Dr Ben Spencer, today introduced the Transport (Duty…”
Text overlap, where it was scored
A separate Wayback comparison scored text overlap for some candidates. It kept the score and an archive URL.
- Robert King — Substantial text difference from the compared archived page against the 18 May 2025 archive. 30% of April tokens were still found. Sentence text for this comparison is absent from the snapshot. · Open the archive
No replacement sentence is matched. A line that only appears on the later homepage is listed on its own. 5 candidates on this seat have no sentence comparison in the snapshot.
Halftone: more / larger paper dots = lower response rate.
Candidates in this seat
Ellen Nicholson · Liberal Democrats
- HTTP 200
- ↳ Redirect destination at audit: https://www.libdems.org.uk/in-your-community
- Candidate-name signal: surname not found in the response body (heuristic only)
Michael Kenneth Cressey · Independent
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Robert King · Labour Party
Steve Ringham · Green Party
- HTTP 200
- Candidate-name signal: surname matched in the response body (heuristic only)
Stewart Mark Mackay · Reform UK
- HTTP 403
This link encodes the seat view · Press ⌘K to jump anywhere. This seat's hex is equal-weight (Automatic Knowledge v5, OGL) · How we checked →