Vote David, get Ed

It is a curious voting system. And it produced a curious result.

David Miliband won the vote among MPs and among party members - particularly in the West.

You can look at the exact figures for every constituency, and the older brother comes out on top across the region.

Notable was the influence of one of his campaign team, the former North East Somerset MP Dan Norris; Labour members there voted 2:1 for David M.

But the union vote swung it - and that was a far from perfect ballot. 36,000 papers were spoilt, most it seems because members had failed to tick a box confirming they supported Labour.

I'm sure some were not supporters of the party. We met a Bristol couple mystified why they'd been sent a ballot paper. She had been in the union but retired 14 years ago - and neither vote Labour!

However for activists that is now water under the bridge. They will unite behind the new leader, and focus on fighting the government and rebuilding the party.

And that's where the detailed voting figures make rather sober reading for the party, as we get to see the number of members in every seat.

Across the West it ranges from more than 600 in Lib Dem held Bristol West to just over 100 in South West Wiltshire, a pretty solid Tory seat.

The scale of the challenge is apparent in places that once were red.

Labour today have around 250 members in constituencies like Kingswood, Gloucester and North and South Swindon. It's similar in the party's two remaining Bristol seats.

That's a long, long way from the glory days of the late 90's.