Local Elections, September 28th 2017

[yellowperil]

For the second time this month we have a biggish local polling day -twelve elections compared with the fourteen on the 7th September , but still substantial. I tried to provide basic data for  the 7th, but it was a bit of a rush, I had a crisis of my own, and some mistakes crept in, so this time I will try and start early, even before we get to the  elections on the 21st,and give myself time to do the job properly , or at least a bit more properly than would otherwise be the case. I could of course hold back and not post the information I've put together until nearer the time and then post them all together, but I guess once I've done one  ward or maybe a couple, I might as well post them here and give people more time to spot the errors. Embellishments and corrections will be actively sought, please.

[yellowperil]

St Edmundsbury Borough Council- Chedburgh Ward
Conservative died,
3 candidates:
Ian Robert Chapman (LD)
Mike Chester (Con)
Gary Patrick Dillon (Lab)

3 candidates this time but in this  rural ward in deepest Suffolk , south west of Bury St Edmunds and just south of Ickworth House, and comprised of a handful of small villages, which has never had a contested election in the ward since first up  in 2003 - before this time it has been Conservative unopposed. Before 2003 a ward broadly similar was called Chevington, but the name changed to Chedbergh and one extra village was added at the eastern end of the ward.

St Edmundsbury Borough Council- Hundon Ward
Conservative resigned
2 candidates:
Mary Evans (Con)
Alex Rolph (Lib Dem)
Another rural ward a bit further south than Chedburgh, but here they may also find a contested by election a bit of a novelty. I have checked back this ward which is basically unchanged since 1973, and in that time  there have only been 5 contested elections in the ward in those 44 years and I make it 5 times the Conservative has been unopposed. The contests we have had 1973:Con 413, Ind 112  
                                        1976:Con 311, Ind 222/58  
                                        1995:Con 454, Lab 427  
                                        1999 Con 473, Lab 192,
                                        2015: Con 752, UKIP 435

[yellowperil]

Northampton BC Eastfield Ward
Lab resigned
3  Candidates:
Paul Joyce (Lab)
Martin  Thomas Sawyer (Lib Dem)
Pauline Elaine Woodhouse (Con)

2003 election results: Con 684/625, Lab 580/543, LD 472/405, Ind 258, Green 142
2007 election results: LD 1170/1074, Lab 556/513' Con 547/501,Green 189
2011 election results: Lab 531, Con 445, LD 269, Green 81, CPA 47
2015 election results :Lab 794, Con 722, UKIP 457, Green 105, LD 70

Northampton BC Nene Valley Ward
Conservative resigned
4 candidates:
Denise Ann Richardson (Green)
Luke Graystoke (Con)
Brian Hoare (Lib Dem)
Nikesh Jani (Lab)

2003 election results: Con 1397/1394, Lab 495/438, LD 396/383, Green 183
2007 election results: Con 1635/1566, Lab 545, LD 543/503
2011 election results Con 1790/1596, Ind 1056, LD 524/425
2015 election results: Con 2444/2102, UKIP 1129, Lab 846/807, Ind 783, LD 568

[yellowperil]

Barnsley MB, Kingstone Ward
Labour Resigned
6 candidates:
John Stephen Ellis-Mordant (Lib Dem)
Christopher Houston (BNP)
Joanne Murray (Labour)
Lee Ogden (Conservative)
Chris Scarfe (Green)
Trevor Smith (Demos Direct Init.)

2004 election results: Ind 1259/1240/1152, Lab 937/863/797, Con 217
2006 election results: BIG 1154, Lab 721, Ind 148,Con 135
2007 election results: BIG 1060, Lab 841, BNP 361, Con 129
2008 election results: BIG 1016, Lab 565, BNP 407, Con 155, Lnd 80
2010 election results: Lab 1768, BIG 1378, BNP 532, Con 436
2011 election results: Lab 1180, BIG 870, BNP 195, Con 193
2012 election results:Lab 1099, BIG 458,  EDem 120, BNP 116, Con 94
2014 election results:Lab 1011, UKIP 873, Con 164, TUSC 137
2015 election results: Lab  2005. UKIP 1105, Con 425, Green 302, TUSC 166
2016 election results: Lab 1074, Con 220, BNP 198, Green 195, TUSC 107
note: BIG=Barnsley Independent Group.

[yellowperil]

Beckland DC, Thetford Priory Ward
Conservative resigned
3 candidates: 
Mike Brindle (Lab)
Jane Lillian James (Con)
Dean Roberts (UKIP)

2015 election results ( new 2-member ward being contested for the first time): UKIP 981, Con 877, Lab 784/671
Note: although this by-election will only the second time this ward has come up , so no past history, there is recent history of other Thetford Wards exchanging between  Conservative and  Labour.

[yellowperil]

Durham UA , Trindon and Thornley division
Labour died
5 candidates:
Alan Bell (Lib Dem)
Maurice Brown (Ind)
Jonathan Elmer (Green)
Jude Grant (Lab)
Michael Drummond Moverley Smith ( Con)

Note: Durham became a Unitary Authority in 2009, and this 3-member division has only been contested in this form since 2013. However it was formed by combining the two separate two-member county council divisions of Trindon and Thornley, so I have included  the last  results contested on that basis in 2008.

2008 election results: Thornley - Lab 1230/776, Ind 940, LD 340
                                        Trindon -  Lab 1138/968, Ind 659,  Con 380, BNP 223/222
2013 election results: Trindon & Thornley: Lab 1801/1692/1654, UKIP 581/510
2017 election results (May)  Lab 1433/1413/1392, UKIP 582, Con 546, Lib Dem 295/231

[markf]

The Kingstone ward was created by the local council in 2006 from the old Park ward & parts of the Southwest ward.
The park ward was solid Labour but the southwest ward was often won by the opposition .

[markf]

in this By-election the Libdem may come 6th out of 6 but at least the Libdem candidate is making an effort.

[yellowperil]

Harlow DC Toddbrook Ward
Lab resigned
5 candidates:
James Richard Aicken (Green)
Tony Edwards (Lab)
Peter Michael Lamb (Con)
Patsy Long (UKIP)
Lesley Anne Rideout (Lib Dem)

2011 election results: Lab 992, Con 870, LD 154
2012 election results: Lab 902, Con 654, LD 107
2014 election results: Lab 706, UKIP 678, Con 462
2015 election results: Lab 1520, Con 1110, UKIP 689
2016 election results: Lab 835,  Con 412, UKIP  408

[greenchristian]

Sept 21, 2017 21:44:18 GMT markf said:

in this By-election the Libdem may come 6th out of 6 but at least the Libdem candidate is making an effort.

Which of the by-elections on this date are you referring to?

[The Bishop]

The poster in question is a Barnsley resident, so that one.

[markf]

yes sorry in the Kingstone ward by-election

[yellowperil]

East Staffordshire BC ,Stretton Ward
Conservative resigned 
5 candidates: Rhys Arthur David Buchan (Lib Dem)
Graham Herbert Lamb((Independent-Save Our Stretton)
Peter William John Lewis (UKIP)
Cameron McKeirnan (Lab)
Dale Morgan Spedding (Con)

2003 election results: Con 1369/1262/1009, Lab 900/883/793, LD 725/651
2007 election results: Con 1261/1221/1059,Lab 717/536/496, Popular Alliance 621
2011 election results: Con 1489/1364/1337,Lab 1008/759/723, Popular Alliance 495
2015 election results: Con2084/2078/2072, UKIP 1279/778, Lab 910/784/707, Green 354

[yellowperil]

Harrogate BC  Washburn ward
Conservative resigned
4 candidates:
Laura Ann Dinning (Lab)
Victoria Kathryn Oldham (Con)
Jack Malcolm Hopper Render (Yorkshire)
Paul Geoffrey Trewitt (Green)

2004 election results: Con 963, LD 345
2008 election results: Con 957, LD 247
2012 election results: Con 830, LD155, UKIP 123
2016 election results: Con 761, Lab 136, UKIP 118

[andrew111]

Sept 22, 2017 16:53:45 GMT yellowperil said:

Harrogate BC  Washburn ward
Conservative resigned
4 candidates:
Laura Ann Dinning (Lab)
Victoria Kathryn Oldham (Con)
Jack Malcolm Hopper Render (Yorkshire)
Paul Geoffrey Trewitt (Green)

2004 election results: Con 963, LD 345
2008 election results: Con 957, LD 247
2012 election results: Con 830, LD155, UKIP 123
2016 election results: Con 761, Lab 136, UKIP 118

I wonder if Green but no LD is a sign of a continuing pact in this area?

[yellowperil]

Lancaster City Council, Halton with Aughton Ward
Independent resigned
4 candidates:
Kevin Frea (Lab)
Daniel Scott Gibbins (Con)
Jan Maskell  (Green)
Catherine Pilling (Lib Dem)

2003 election results:  Ind  606, Con 95, Green 60
2007 election results: Ind 513, Con 367, Green 54
2011 election results: Ind 795, Green 133
2015 election results: Ind 577, Green 423, Con 384, Lab 142

[yellowperil]

Sept 23, 2017 7:55:14 GMT andrew111 said:

Sept 22, 2017 16:53:45 GMT yellowperil said:

I wonder if Green but no LD is a sign of a continuing pact in this area?

No idea, but maybe there were negotiations between the two camps and the Greens lost
Would be a hard one for either party, I would guess, unlike Lancaster which looks like it ought to be a nailed-on Green gain if there ever is such a thing.

[yellowperil]

The Highland UA,  Tain and Easter Ross
Lib Dem resigned on election as MP
6 candidates: 
Harry Christian (Libertarian)
Gerald Holdsworth ( Ind)
Stan Peace (SNP)
Alasdair Rhind (Ind)
Eva Short ( Con)
William Sinclair (Lib Dem)

2007 election results:
Ind Rhind          1416 ( elected at stage 1)
LD  Durham       627 ( elected at stage 7)
SNP                     465
Ind Torrance      436 (elected at stage 7)
Ind MacLeod     294
Ind Herd             204
Lab                      148
Con                     124
Ind  Boocock     116
SSP                       59

note -before the present electoral system (2003) Rhind had been elected to Tain West and Torrance to Tain East

2012 election results (first preferences)
Ind Rhind        1003 ( elected at stage 1)
Ind Robertson  754 ( elected at stage 2)
LD Stone           508 ( elected at stage 7)
SNP                    420
Ind Durham      250
Lab                        78
Con                       44
TUSC                     23

2017 election result (first preferences):
SNP                   831 (elected at stage 4)
Ind Robertson 708 ( elected at stage 3)
LD                      679  (elected at stage 6) 
Ind Rhind         568
Con                   558
Ind Skinner      139

[linders]

From what (or from whom) does Stretton allegedly need saving?

[maxque]

Sept 23, 2017 17:17:37 GMT linders said:

From what (or from whom) does Stretton allegedly need saving?

From an housing project rejected by the Inspectorate in November 2016.