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Post by yellowperil on Oct 22, 2017 9:40:03 GMT
May I just remind everyone that I am not intending to post the local election details in November?
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Post by AdminSTB on Oct 23, 2017 7:17:15 GMT
No problem, if no one else steps into the breach I will do the first weeks on Sunday morning.
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Post by greenrichard on Oct 23, 2017 13:41:01 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there a cut-off date where no by-elections are fought in places where we have elections next May?
Is there a winter break at all?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 23, 2017 13:54:40 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there a cut-off date where no by-elections are fought in places where we have elections next May? It is the right place to ask. The cut-off date refers only to the date on which the vacancy arises. Under s. 89 (3) of the Local Government Act 1972, byelections are practically impossible when the vacancy occurred within six months of a full council election. For those councillors whose seats come up next May, that is Monday 6 November. So any councillor who resigns or dies after that date can't cause a byelection. Note this does not apply where councillors have resigned or died before the six months deadline, but the byelection has not yet been triggered by two electors writing in to the Returning Officer. In theory those byelections could be called, although in practice it is unlikely. As a legal requirement, no. Weekends and Bank holidays are dies non for elections so no poll could be held on them, but apart from that there is nothing to stop anyone having a byelection poll on (say) 28 December. In practice the timing of byelections is up to the local parties who are the ones who organise electors to write in and call the byelection, and they tend to avoid calling byelections at inconvenient times such as late December or early January. That being said there were two byelections on 22 December 2016, one on 23 December 2015, and one on 7 January 2016. |
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Post by greenrichard on Oct 24, 2017 9:13:28 GMT
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 24, 2017 11:15:31 GMT
David,
Am I correct in thinking that where you have 3 member wards but the resigning councillor is not up next May, there generally will be a by-election before then?
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Post by maxque on Oct 24, 2017 11:24:38 GMT
David, Am I correct in thinking that where you have 3 member wards but the resigning councillor is not up next May, there generally will be a by-election before then? Past November 6th, no. There will be a double election in May instead. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 24, 2017 11:40:18 GMT
maxque is wrong and andrew111 is correct. It's to do with the retirement date of the councillor not the fact of another election happening in the ward.
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 24, 2017 19:15:01 GMT
maxque is wrong and andrew111 is correct. It's to do with the retirement date of the councillor not the fact of another election happening in the ward. Yes, I thought so, although it is not all that logical from the viewpoint of the electorate.. If we lived in a rational world IMO we would not leave people unrepresented for 6 months anyway. But then I have this quaint belief in local democracy! (Of course in a rational world we would not have Donald Trump or FPTP😉) I said "generally" because we had a recent example of a by-election not affected by the 6 month rule being delayed almost 6 months for no obvious reason. I seem to recall quite a few people were a bit cross about that... |
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Post by Ben Walker on Oct 25, 2017 23:18:54 GMT
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Post by Zardoz on Oct 26, 2017 13:05:05 GMT
[ Note this does not apply where councillors have resigned or died before the six months deadline, but the byelection has not yet been triggered by two electors writing in to the Returning Officer. In theory those byelections could be called, although in practice it is unlikely. I recall a by-election in Leeds in the 1980s that took place in February for a seat that was up again in May. The previous Councillor had died before the six month cut-off date. |
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Post by samdwebber on Oct 26, 2017 21:03:04 GMT
Please read and retweet or comment on a new weekly feature a colleague and I are writing for PoliticsHome on the byelections that week. We have credited this site for historic election results in each ward:
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 26, 2017 21:18:56 GMT
Please read and retweet or comment on a new weekly feature a colleague and I are writing for PoliticsHome on the byelections that week. We have credited this site for historic election results in each ward: Well, I only counted one mistake. |
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Post by andrewteale on Oct 26, 2017 21:35:40 GMT
Had a quick look at the former results for Droylsden East. This ward and its predecessors have only failed to vote Labour twice since the formation of Tameside council: in 1987 when it went for the Liberal/SDP Alliance, and in 1976 when the Conservatives won the former Droylsden South East ward by a majority of just 10 votes.
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Post by maxque on Oct 26, 2017 21:47:43 GMT
19.8% turnout in Droylsden.
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Post by middleenglander on Oct 26, 2017 22:03:01 GMT
19.8% turnout in Droylsden. Around 1,750 votes? |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 26, 2017 22:04:03 GMT
19.8% turnout in Droylsden. Around 1,750 votes? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 22:10:23 GMT
Droylesden Lab Hold
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Post by andrew111 on Oct 26, 2017 22:13:32 GMT
Aleks Lukic stood for UKIP in Batley and Spen in 2015, then as an Independent in 2017 He did not take part in the by-election) He is a teacher at Heckmondwike Grammar School (the Alma mater of the late Jo Cox MP) where my sources tell me the mischievous pupils were collecting his election leaflets and leaving them lying around the school... Your sources are very reliable, most of the local young labour cohort have been taught by him, which makes for amusing campaigning! Good to know that young Labour are continuing the age old tradition of benefitting from the grammar school system while wishing to deny it to others! But the 64,000 dollar question is whether they are any good at computer science as a result?? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2017 22:14:14 GMT
Loughbrough Lab Holdx2
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