Original sentence: Blackwood distanced herself from the anti-Harris campaigners saying that she had a 'positive message',.Blackwood won Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2010 general election by 176 votes on a 6.9% Liberal Democrat-Conservative swing, which was 1.9% more than the national average.In the final days of the election campaigbn, third party intervention from Animal rights and Christian activists lowered the tenor of the debate, but these tactics were repudiated by both Blackwood and her opponent Harris.Since her election, has declared traffic in Abingdon to be her top local priority and has been working with City Council to improve the situation.The consituency was subjected to boundarty changes, however according to the BBC, these changes had little impact, and the change between actual 2005 result and notional result with the new boundary lines was just 0.2%
Edited sentence: Blackwood distanced herself from the anti-Harris campaigners saying that she had a 'positive message', while Harris himself said that they played a part in his defeat.Blackwood won Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2010 general election by 176 votes on a 6.9% Liberal Democrat-Conservative swing, following a 'bitter'  campaign from Keith Mann, an animal rights activist who objected to Harris' support for animal rights testing, and Reverend Lynda Rose, who produced a leaflet  describing Harris as 'Dr.Boundary changes reduced the notional majority, with 8,000 students moved to the Oxford East constituency and more rural voters added.Death' for his positions on abortion, embryo research, assisted suicide, as well as criticising him for his secularism