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Post by maxque on May 15, 2016 23:01:41 GMT
St Helier - Merton LBC - Maxi Martin (Labour) died. She was the Cabinet member for Children’s Services since 2010 and the Mayor in 2003-2004. She was a councillor since 1998.
2014: Lab 2010/1916/1673, UKIP 663, Con 505/435/421, LD 203
2010: Lab 2385/2206/2185, Con 1373/1189/1161, LD 762, BNP 426/358
2006: Lab 1347/1246/1196, Con 974/931/778, BNP 599, Ind 583, LD 430
2002: Lab 958/947/840, Con 532/519/509, LD 324, BNP 302, Grn 192/178, UKIP 164
The Independent in 2006 was a deselected Labour incumbent, which seems mainly known for having suggested during a Council meeting that all drugs should be legalised.
Asif Ashraf (London Liberal Democrats)
Charles Barraball (Green Party)
Susan Edwards (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Richard Hilton (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Jerome Neil (Labour Party)
London 2016 results:
Mayor: Lab 1222, Con 907, UKIP 188, Grn 112, LD 94, BF 50, Resp 47, WEP 35, CISTA 32, Prince 26, BNP 23, OLP 7
Party-vote: Lab 1335, Con 638, UKIP 286, Grn 134, LD 114, WEP 67, BF 63, Resp 45, CPA 33, BNP 26, AWP 23, House 10
Constituency: Lab 1492, Con 676, UKIP 322, Grn 141, LD 115, Ind 28
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Post by anthony on May 17, 2016 11:50:53 GMT
Richard Hilton was a former Tory councillor in Lower Morden until his 2013 defection, his address on the ballot paper IIRC is in Newbury.
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Post by Robert Waller on May 18, 2016 16:44:08 GMT
I would be really interested to know where one can get ward level figures for the 2016 London mayor election.
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Post by lennon on May 18, 2016 16:48:14 GMT
I would be really interested to know where one can get ward level figures for the 2016 London mayor election. At the bottom of this page: www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-results/results-2016 there is a link to an Excel ('Borough and Ward Level Voting Data') The downside is that Postal votes are listed separately and only at the Borough level... so some 'assumptions' need to be made if you want to include them at a ward level. |
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Post by Robert Waller on May 18, 2016 17:00:17 GMT
Thank you very much - and are the GLA results at ward level in there too, somewhere?
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Post by lennon on May 18, 2016 17:04:12 GMT
Thank you very much - and are the GLA results at ward level in there too, somewhere? Yes - multiple columns - GLA London-wide List, GLA Constituency votes, Mayoral 1st Preference Votes, Mayoral 2nd Preference Votes. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 18, 2016 17:05:59 GMT
Thank you very much - and are the GLA results at ward level in there too, somewhere? The Mayor is part of the GLA. There is no such thing as the 'Greater London Assembly'. Results of the two ballots for the London Assembly are in the same file. |
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Post by maxque on May 19, 2016 22:09:14 GMT
Turnout is 25.2%, according to martinwhelton, tweeting from the count. |
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Post by andrewteale on May 19, 2016 22:14:13 GMT
Kris is clearly as busy as I am this week, so here is my take:
ST HELIER, Merton council, South London; caused by the death of Labour councillor Maxi Martin. A councillor for St Helier ward since 1998, Martin had been Mayor of Merton in 2003-04 and had served since 2010 as Merton's cabinet member for children's services.
With the May elections now safely out of the way for another year, the local by-election calendar resumes this week with a single contest in South London. We're in the St Helier estate here, one of several 1930s "cottage" housing estates built on garden-city principles by the London County Council; in this case 40,000 people were homed by 1936 on what had previously been lavender fields between the village of Morden and the town of Carshalton. The estate straddles what is now the border between Merton and Sutton boroughs, and confusingly both boroughs have a St Helier ward; this is the Merton one. At the centre of this ward lies St Helier railway station, opened in 1930 to serve the estate on what is now the Sutton Loop line, while the northern end of the ward is better served by the London Underground's southernmost station, Morden on the Northern Line. The name of the estate, incidentally, is in honour of the former London County Council alderman Baroness St Helier.
The demographics of St Helier ward bear all the usual London hallmarks of a diverse population, and also show high levels of social renting and long-term unemployment. This is, as you might expect from those statistics, a working-class area and a safe Labour ward. In the 2014 local elections the Labour slate polled 59% of the vote here, with UKIP's 20% best of the rest despite their candidate, Andre Lampitt, having been disowned by the party during the campaign for racist tweets. Two weeks ago London was at the polls for the Mayor and Assembly elections; Sadiq Khan beat Zac Goldsmith in the ward's ballot boxes 45-33, while the list votes split 48% for Labour, 23% for the Tories and 10% for UKIP (the ward breakdowns for the Mayor and Assembly elections don't include postal votes, so these figures aren't directly comparable with 2014).
Defending for Labour is Jerome Neil, a co-founder of a multimedia company and the only candidate to give a Morden address. Continuing the theme of UKIP candidates here with distinctly dubious tweets is Richard Hilton, a former Tory councillor (Lower Morden ward, 2010-14) who fought the local parliamentary seat in last year's general election and got into trouble then for a tweet saying that "Jihadi John" should have killed himself; he gives an address over 70 miles away in Newbury, Berkshire. Also standing are Susan Edwards for the Conservatives, Asif Ashraf for the Lib Dems and John Barraball for the Green Party.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on May 19, 2016 22:28:41 GMT
MERTON St Helier
Jerome Neil (Labour Party) 1,438
Susan Edwards (The Conservative Party Candidate) 282
Richard Hilton (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) 191
Asif Ashraf (London Liberal Democrats) 59
Charles Barraball (Green Party) 55
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Post by timmullen1 on May 19, 2016 22:35:40 GMT
Merton: St Helier
LAB: 71.0% (+11.6)
CON: 13.9% (-1.0)
UKIP: 9.4% (-10.2)
LDEM: 2.9% (-3.1)
GRN: 2.7% (+2.7)
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Post by maxque on May 19, 2016 22:39:06 GMT
Lab 71.0% (+11.6)
Con 13.9% (-1.0)
UKIP 9.4% (-10.2)
LD 2.9% (-3.1)
Grn 2.7%
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Post by middleenglander on May 19, 2016 22:46:08 GMT
Merton, St Helier - Labour hold - amended Labour vote 1,436 not 1,438 | Party | 2016 votes | 2016 share | since 2014 "top" | since 2014 "average" | since 2010 "top" | since 2010 "average" | Labour | 1,436
| 71.0%
| +11.5%
| +12.4%
| +22.8%
| +22.4%
| Conservative | 282
| 13.9%
| -1.0%
| -0.3%
| -13.8%
| -12.7%
| UKIP | 191
| 9.4%
| -10.2%
| -11.4%
| from nowhere
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| Liberal Democrat | 59
| 2.9%
| -3.1%
| -3.5%
| -12.5%
| -13.5%
| Green | 55
| 2.7%
| from nowhere
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| -8.6% | -8.4% | | Total votes | 2,023
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Swing: Conservative to Labour ~6.3% since 2014 and ~18% since 2010. Council now 36 Labour, 20 Conservative, 3 Residents, 1 Liberal Democrat
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Post by timrollpickering on May 20, 2016 9:32:57 GMT
At the centre of this ward lies St Helier railway station, opened in 1930 to serve the estate on what is now the Sutton Loop line, while the northern end of the ward is better served by the London Underground's southernmost station, Morden on the Northern Line. The Sutton Loop or Wimbledon Loop or St Helier line, depending on who you talk to, has some of the least used stations in the whole of London, in part because there are only two trains an hour each way and they're quite slow. As part of the Thameslink (Whatever-Doesn't-Date-Embarrassingly) programme, the loop was going to get an increase in services but at the cost of terminating at Blackfriars to allow overall frequency increases on the Thameslink central core. Cue local political outrage and instead the same number of services will be retained as throughs, also restricting capacity overall. Some great victory and a warning for those who focus purely on one aspect of a service. |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on May 20, 2016 9:56:49 GMT
At the centre of this ward lies St Helier railway station, opened in 1930 to serve the estate on what is now the Sutton Loop line, while the northern end of the ward is better served by the London Underground's southernmost station, Morden on the Northern Line. The Sutton Loop or Wimbledon Loop or St Helier line, depending on who you talk to, has some of the least used stations in the whole of London, in part because there are only two trains an hour each way and they're quite slow. As part of the Thameslink (Whatever-Doesn't-Date-Embarrassingly) programme, the loop was going to get an increase in services but at the cost of terminating at Blackfriars to allow overall frequency increases on the Thameslink central core. Cue local political outrage and instead the same number of services will be retained as throughs, also restricting capacity overall. Some great victory and a warning for those who focus purely on one aspect of a service. Ah yes, Thameslink 3000. |
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Post by anthony on May 20, 2016 20:40:28 GMT
the only candidate to give a Morden address. No, he was the only candidate to give an address that's in the ward; Asif Ashraf lives in an area that is reasonably described as Morden, although outside the ward! |
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Post by anthony on May 20, 2016 20:42:59 GMT
Pretty good result for the Tories here, maintaining their share of the vote and overtaking UKIP, despite a significant polling day operation from Labour.
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