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Labour's run of success in Exeter is often attributed to the energetic campaigning of its loyal band of local volunteers.

Ben Bradshaw won the city from the Tories in 1997 and has clung onto power ever since, despite two bruising elections for the party in 2010 and 2015.

The cathedral city remains a beacon of red in a sea of Tory blue across Devon with city council control and all its seven county council seats in the city

Now the extraordinary fitness of the doorstep team has been revealed by data from the online app FitBit.

Councillors, campaigners have been putting in the hard miles to keep the red flag flying over the city centre and tracking it all via smart phones and watches.

Ben Bradshaw, a keen cyclist, sparked the craze and regularly outpaces many of his younger supporters, putting in 21 miles on the campaign trail one day this week.

City councillor Emma Morse recorded a respectable 14 miles in one day while fellow councillor Hannah Packham clocked up 16 miles.

Even veteran city council leader Pete Edwards has got in on the act, racking up 14 miles, or around 30,000 steps.

Meg Williams, campaign agent for Ben Bradshaw in the upcoming general election, managed 15 miles despite spending much of her time driving around.

The record among the 100-stron team was set at 44km or 27 miles last year by a Labour campaigner.

She said the idea for recording how far people had walked started during the campaign to re-elect Mr Bradshaw in 2015.

"It has become something of a running joke about who is working the hardest," she told Devon Live.

"A lot of it is down to Ben he started the whole steps thing.

"He creates that sort of atmosphere by his personality and as soon as someone comes out campaigning they just tend to keep coming.

"Ben expects to work hard he knows it's a close election here and we don't take anything fro granted."

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