By-elections - November 3rd

[maxque]

Banff & District - Aberdeenshire - Ian Gray (SNP) died. He was a councillor since 2007 and between 2002 and 2003 (for Durn ward).

2012: SNP 1037/803, Con 768, LD 369, Christian 342 (elected: SNP, SNP, Con on 3rd count; last count: Con 793, LD 405, Christian 375
2007: SNP 1088/500, Ind 691/383/172/94, LD 694, Con 616, Grn 298 (elected: SNP, Ind, LD on 7th count; last count: Ind 1054, LD 915, Con 791 for 2 seats)

Alistair Mason (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Glen Reynolds (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Iain Taylor (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)

Inverurie & District - Aberdeenshire - Martin Kitts-Hayes (Progressive Independent, elected as Liberal Democrat) resigned. The Council co-leader (and Chair of the Policy and Ressources committee, he left LDs to make a deal with SNP), he was send to attend the North Sea Commission meeting at Legoland in Denmark, but, not satisfied with the cabins they were provided with, left early and asked his assistant to tell no one. This caused a scandal, leading to his resignation. He was a councillor since 2003 (for Chapel and Gadie before 2007).

2012: SNP 688/ 612, Con 608, LD 606, Lab 463, Ind 211/196, Grn 113 (elected: SNP, LD, SNP, Con on 5th count; last count: LD 730, SNP 685, Con 684, Lab 562 for 3 seats).
2007: LD 1316/865, SNP 1515, Con 762, Lab 567, Ind 123 (elected: SNP, LD, LD, Con on 5th count; last count: Con 927, Lab 737)

Alison Auld (Scottish Liberal Democrats)
Neil Baillie (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Colin Clark (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Sarah Flavell (Scottish Labour Party)

Grangetown - Cardiff - Chris Lomax (Labour) died. He was a councillor since 2012. He was a baker and a NHS worker during his working life.

2012: Lab 1812/1709/1704, PC 1511/1467/1391, LD 505/501/489, Con 308/266/251, Grn 215/205, Christian 84, Communist 77
2008: LD 1357/1319/1317, Lab 1138/1131/1104, PC 1099/1009/920, Con 546/533/482, Communist 117
2004: LD 1424/1417/1404, Lab 1122/1113/1072, PC 838/764/749, Con 427/420/369

Asghar Ali (Welsh Liberal Democrats / Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru)
Tariq Awan (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales)
Michael Bryan (Welsh Conservative Party Candidate)
Maliika Kaaba (Welsh Labour / Llafur Cymru)
Richard Lewis (UKIP)

The UKIP candidate gives an address in Swindon, Wiltshire.

Fair Oak & Horton Heath - Eastleigh BC - Roger Smith (Liberal Democrat) died. He was a councillor from 1991 to 1995 and since 2002 and a parish councillor since 1987. He was the Mayor in 2007-2008 and the Cabinet lead for Communities.
2015-2019 term.

2016: LD 959, Con 661, UKIP 547, Lab 279
2015: LD 1728, Con 1671, UKIP 1014, Lab 447, Grn 237
2014: LD 1150, UKIP 780, Con 634, Lab 244
2012: LD 1087, Con 504, Lab 291, UKIP 221
2011: LD 1434, Con 878, Lab 398, UKIP 261
2010: LD 2737, Con 1703, Lab 366, UKIP 273
2008: LD 1274, Con 887, UKIP 144, Lab 138
2007: LD 1358, Con 890, Lab 156, UKIP 149
2006: LD 1053, Con 903, Lab 168, UKIP 143
2004: LD 1008, Con 614, UKIP 365, Lab 212
2003: LD 944, Con 330, Lab 191, UKIP 148
2002: LD 1208/1117/1116, Con 611/522/496, Lab 190/183/182

Steven Broomfield (Conservative Party Candidate)
Nicholas Couldrey (Liberal Democrat)
Hugh McGuinness (UK Independence Party)
John Sorley (Labour Party)

Longlevens - Gloucester BC - James Porter (Conservative) died. He was a councillor since 2008 and the Cabinet member for Environment since 2014.

2016: Con 1657/1636/1410, Lab 696, UKIP 541, LD 515, Grn 494 (new boundaries, council has now all-outs every 4 years, but that ward keeps the previous boundaries)
2015: Con 2870, Lab 955, UKIP 815, LD 548, Grn 262
2014: Con 1545, UKIP 683, Lab 463, LD 282, Grn 135
2012: Con 1425, LD 1111, Lab 372, Grn 127
2011: Con 2005, LD 821, Lab 695
2010: Con 2958, LD 1686, Lab 863
2008: Con 1819, LD 1537, Lab 172
2007: Con 1884, LD 822, Lab 272, UKIP 158
2006: Con 1962, LD 1256, Lab 215
2004: LD 1704, Con 1650, Lab 247
2003: Con 1506, LD 1287, Lab 269
2002: Con 1511/1465/1367, LD 1246/1118/1001, Lab 386/329/307

Linda Castle (Liberal Democrat)
Terry Haines (The Labour Party Candidate)
Clive Walford (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Daniel Woolf (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Hoxton West - Hackney LBC - Philip Glanville (Labour) resigned due to his election as Mayor of Hackney. He was a councillor since 2006 (for Hoxton before 2014).

2014: Lab 1693/1687/1634, Grn 602/487/448, Con 362/339/326, LD 190/182/161, TUSC 136

Chantal Encavey (Liberal Democrats)
Morgan James (Green Party)
Yvonne Maxwell (Labour Party)
Christopher Sills (The Conservative Party Candidate)

2016 results:
Mayor: Lab 1616, Con 426, Grn 214, LD 100, WEP 76, UKIP 56, Respect 33, CISTA 24, BF 21, BNP 19, Zylinski 11, OLP 4
List: Lab 1431, Con 345, Grn 328, LD 138, WEP 136, UKIP 94, Respect 41, BF 26, AWP 25, CPA 23, House 17, BNP 17
Constituency: Lab 1554, Grn 341, Con 339, LD 179, UKIP 124, Respect 55, Socialist 14, Communist 10

Burnley Central East - Lancashire CC - Misfar Hassan (Labour) resigned. He was a councillor since 2010.

2013: Lab 2022, UKIP 675, LD 540, Con 181, BNP 60
May 2010 by: Lab 3157, LD 2279, BNP 868, Con 815
2009: LD 1748, Lab 1676, BNP 547, Con 444
2005: Lab 3012, LD 2169, Con 936

Laura Fisk (Green Party)
Mark Girven (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Sobia Malik (Labour Party Candidate)
Emma Payne (Liberal Democrats)

Rainham Central - Medway UA - Mike O'Brien (Conservative) died. He was a councillor since 2007 and was a Cabinet member since 2010 (for Community Safety and Customer Contact until 2013, then Children Services).

2015: Con 4386/3473/3115, UKIP 1854, Lab 1405/1018/946, Grn 665, TUSC 165, Ind 92
2011: Con 2931/2538/2514, Lab 938/917/912, UKIP 412, LD 308/298/251, Grn 286
2007: Con 2353/2216/2204, LD 1081/905/818, Ind 1008/622, Lab 503/408/389, UKIP 310
2003: Con 1415/1357/1307, LD 1121/1109/1061, Lab 470/437/434, UKIP 167

The 2007 top Independent was elected as Conservative in 2003 (and one of the councillors who replaced him is Rehman Chishti, still a councillor for that ward despite becoming an MP in 2010).

Jan Aldous (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Simon Allen (Labour Party)
Paul Chaplin (Liberal Democrat)
George Meegan (Green Party - Say No To Racism)
Mark Mencattelli (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Mike Russell (English Democrats - "Putting England First!")

Kingswood with Burgh Heath - Reigate & Banstead BC - Joan Spiers (Conservative) died. She was a councillor since 1984, the council Leader between 2003 and 2007 and between 2008 and 2014 and was the Mayor in 2015-2016.
2014-2018 term

2016: Con 1174, UKIP 381, Lab 205
2015: Con 2695, UKIP 818, Grn 437
2014: Con 1194, UKIP 669, Grn 228
2012: Con 1115, UKIP 413, Lab 155
2011: Con 1745, UKIP 535
2010: Con 2489, LD 809, UKIP 431
2008: Con 1385, UKIP 291, Lab 137
2007: Con 1221, LD 254, UKIP 248
2006: Con 1299, LD 301, UKIP 160, ED 129
2004: Con 1156, UKIP 431, LD 208, Lab 141
2003: Con 784, UKIP 288, LD 160, Lab 98
2002: Con 1169, Lab 322

Rod Ashford (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Gerard Hever (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Shasha Khan (Green Party)
Tony Robinson (Labour Party)

Gibbonsdown - Vale of Glamorgan - Rob Curtis (Labour) resigned after being suspended for 3 months from both Vale of Glamorgan Council and Barry Town Council by the Adjudication Panel for Wales for touching the leg of a 17 year old girl in a bird-watching hut (he does not deny it happened, but he denies sexual intent). At that moment, he was a Cabinet Member, the Deputy Mayor of Barry and a hospital electrician, roles he all lost when this became public. He was a councillor since 1999.

2012: Lab 787/754, Ind 301/300, Con 105/102, PC 76/73
2008: Lab 757/699, Con 332/321, PC 308/239, Liberal 73
2004: Lab 727/636, PC 371/356, Socialist Labour 69

Julie Aviet (Welsh Labour / Llafur Cymru)
Jennifer Geroni (Welsh Liberal Democrats / Democratiaid Rhyddfrydol Cymru)
Dennis Harkus (Independent)
Shirley Hodges (Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales)
Robin Hunter-Clarke (Ukip Wales)
Leighton Rowlands (Welsh Conservative Party Candidate)

[ideal4radio]

Nov 2, 2016 4:23:42 GMT maxque said:

Burnley Central East - Lancashire CC - Misfar Hassan (Labour) resigned. He was a councillor since 2010.

2013: Lab 2022, UKIP 675, LD 540, Con 181, BNP 60
May 2010 by: Lab 3157, LD 2279, BNP 868, Con 815
2009: LD 1748, Lab 1676, BNP 547, Con 444
2005: Lab 3012, LD 2169, Con 936

Laura Fisk (Green Party)
Mark Girven (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Sobia Malik (Labour Party Candidate)
Emma Payne (Liberal Democrats)

This seemed a funny time to resign, as none of the usual reasons apply, no question of impropriety, non attendance etc...

I'm told that Dr Hassan, who won the seat in a by-election in 2010, holding it in 2012, turned up at a Labour party meeting held to select the candidates for next May's County Council election. He was told that his services would not longer be required, as Miss Malik had been chosen...
A similar fate befell John Fifield, in the 2015 local Borough Elections for the Bank Hall ward, where he lived. He was " pursuaded " to stand down from his safe seat, and fight the Con/LD marginal  of Whittlefield & Ightenhill, where he lost. The new Candidate for Bank Hall was duly elected .... Sobia Malik !

Miss Malik's father is Rafiq Malik, former Burnley Councillor and Mayor, and she is the sister of ex Dewsbury MP, Shahid Malik. When the expenses furore was exposed, he had the highest expenses of any MP, and was the only MP to employ his father on his staff.

It's interesting that the Boundary Review's current proposal is for the Burnley Parliamentary Seat to be significantly changed with 3 wards in the west of the town being set to join the Accrington Constituency. These wards have a minimal number of Asian heritage electors, whereas the proposed addition of Nelson and Brierfield to the Burnley seat, will bring a 40% Asian heritage electorate, mainly Pakistani origin.

Burnley is also one of those Labour seats that select from a women only shortlist, the current MP being Julie Cooper, who won back the seat from the Liberal Democrats in 2015. I wonder how easily she's sleeping.....
 

[Crimson King]

Hmmm.....

[Deleted]

The Tories are hopeful in Inverurie if my sauce is correct.

[Crimson King]

given pasta vents that would be no surprise

[cefin]

So the UKIP candidate for Gibbonsdown in Barry is a sitting councillor in Skegness who has a Skegness address on the Lincolnshire County Council website

And the UKIP candidate for Grangetown in Cardiff lives in Swindon.



Nothing like keeping things local

[iainbhx]

Nov 2, 2016 17:00:13 GMT cefin said:

So the UKIP candidate for Gibbonsdown in Barry is a sitting councillor in Skegness who has a Skegness address on the Lincolnshire County Council website

And the UKIP candidate for Grangetown in Cardiff lives in Swindon.



Nothing like keeping things local

Would they happen to be employed by the UKIP group on the Assembly?

[cefin]

Nov 2, 2016 20:03:51 GMT iainbhx said:

Nov 2, 2016 17:00:13 GMT cefin said:

So the UKIP candidate for Gibbonsdown in Barry is a sitting councillor in Skegness who has a Skegness address on the Lincolnshire County Council website

And the UKIP candidate for Grangetown in Cardiff lives in Swindon.



Nothing like keeping things local

Would they happen to be employed by the UKIP group on the Assembly?

Yes of course, Mr Hamilton appears quite determined that various areas around Cardiff and the Vale are represented by his personal and the groups staff who live nowhere near the wards concerned.

Then again he of course doesn't live in Wales either so probably doesn't see anything wrong in these scenarios.

[finsobruce]

There can't have been many by-elections caused by bird watching huts.

[Adam in Stroud]

Nov 2, 2016 23:17:17 GMT finsobruce said:

There can't have been many by-elections caused by bird watching huts.

Possibly quite a few prompted by the legs of 17 year old girls, though, I suspect.

I feel you are being harsh on the hut, unless it is possessed by an evil spirt which causes otherwise blameless chaps to rub the legs of the nearest teenager, in a sort of M R James Does Dallas sort of way.

Actually the whole thing seems rather sad to me.  I hope all concerned get over it soon.

[Penddu]

For what its worth, my views on the Grangetown election. I had thought that LD were on with a chance here, but it seems that despite winning the seat in 2008 they can not find a local candidate and that has not gone down well locally. (Although not as bad a choice as UKIP). This seat is now a straight fight between Labour and Plaid - i predict both getting around 1200 votes each with LD in third place with around 800, Conservative on 200 and UKIP on around 50. I think Plaid will win it but it will be close.

And a comfortable Labour hold in Gibby.

[finsobruce]

Nov 2, 2016 23:28:38 GMT Adam in Stroud said:

Nov 2, 2016 23:17:17 GMT finsobruce said:

There can't have been many by-elections caused by bird watching huts.

Possibly quite a few prompted by the legs of 17 year old girls, though, I suspect.

I feel you are being harsh on the hut, unless it is possessed by an evil spirt which causes otherwise blameless chaps to rub the legs of the nearest teenager, in a sort of M R James Does Dallas sort of way.

Actually the whole thing seems rather sad to me.  I hope all concerned get over it soon.

Ah, just like the Liberal councillor in "South Riding".

M R James does Dallas. A contender for bizarre crosscultural reference of the day.

[ideal4radio]

I think we're building a case for a new thread, " Bizarre reasons for Local By-Elections "...

This week has two great starters.. " Touching a teenager's leg in a bird watching hut " & " Decrying Lego-Land Denmark's accommodation as unfit for a man of my stature " ...it's an old phrase, but, really " You couldn't make it up !! "

[carlton43]

Nov 2, 2016 14:14:21 GMT @denktaslovechild said:

The Tories are hopeful in Inverurie if my sauce is correct.

You've got a sauce!

[Lord Twaddleford]

Nov 2, 2016 14:14:21 GMT @denktaslovechild said:

The Tories are hopeful in Inverurie if my sauce is correct.

Condiment based divination is a lost art.

[finsobruce]

Nov 3, 2016 0:40:50 GMT carlton43 said:

Nov 2, 2016 14:14:21 GMT @denktaslovechild said:

The Tories are hopeful in Inverurie if my sauce is correct.

You've got a sauce!

But does he cut the mustard?

[Penddu]

Could the Conservative ketchup SNP?

[theolo]

Nov 2, 2016 23:28:38 GMT Adam in Stroud said:

Nov 2, 2016 23:17:17 GMT finsobruce said:

There can't have been many by-elections caused by bird watching huts.

Possibly quite a few prompted by the legs of 17 year old girls, though, I suspect.

I feel you are being harsh on the hut, unless it is possessed by an evil spirt which causes otherwise blameless chaps to rub the legs of the nearest teenager, in a sort of M R James Does Dallas sort of way.

Actually the whole thing seems rather sad to me.  I hope all concerned get over it soon.

Should have been watching the tits.

[Penddu]

He was thinking about the nest...

[finsobruce]

Nov 3, 2016 9:48:20 GMT theolo said:

Nov 2, 2016 23:28:38 GMT Adam in Stroud said:

Possibly quite a few prompted by the legs of 17 year old girls, though, I suspect.

I feel you are being harsh on the hut, unless it is possessed by an evil spirt which causes otherwise blameless chaps to rub the legs of the nearest teenager, in a sort of M R James Does Dallas sort of way.

Actually the whole thing seems rather sad to me.  I hope all concerned get over it soon.

Should have been watching the tits.

steady in the cheap seats...