Love the guy in the comments thread with the totally deluded view of the rules for calling elections
Well worth showing that part of the comments thread in full, to give us all a laugh :-
I voted for them as they stood for Labour - I presume that as they have principles they will resign as Councillors and will stand in a by election then. No thought not. Not that principled then.
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It don't work like that, if they resign from being councillors then the ruling council body as in this case its Labour can leave the seats empty till the term of office would normally run out,Labour can afford to leave those seats empty there majority would still control the council.
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Well done Southy, talking utter Bo%&@cks again.
If a seat becomes vacant through death or resignation then voters in the ward concerned can request an election be held. It is NOT in the gift of one party at all.
Why do you get even the simplest things wrong.
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Southy isn't wrong, he'll be along soon to explain, in the meantime do your own research ;-)
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Your right I not wrong, this is Council not House of lords, There was a case here in Southampton ward a vacant council seat was left empty till the Elections in May, thinking about it there was 2 wards that had more than one councillor elelcted in.
The rules for MEP and MP and Councillors are different,
MEP can select another person to replace a missing MEP, Vacant MP seat then there is a by-election, Vacant Councillor seat can be left empty till an end of the run, because each ward is represented by more than 1 councillor, what councils normally do is wait till the local elections comes around again, then put up the vacant seat but they do not have to they can wait till it is due to come up again, The requirement is that each ward is to have at lest one Councillor representing that ward
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Wrong again halfwit. all Councillors are elected for a four year term. If they resign or die within six months of that term ending then the returning officer may (but does not have to) rule that the public interest, due to the costs involved, is best served by waiting the few months until other elections are being held.
In other circumstances voters in the ward (usually prompted by a political party) may demand an election be held. I can't remember the exact number but it is small, I think under ten. See that Southy I didn't know a small fact so I admitted it rather than making it up. You should try it sometime.
This is all academic anyway becuse neither of them have resigned, and whilst I think one of then has some principal's the other will cling on to his allowances as long as possible.One seat was vacant for over a year the second seat was only vancant a short while before the four weeks before an election, that is what happened on the other side of the Itchen, 2 wards was short off councillors.
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The 10 figure (people signatures) your quoting is the requirements for a person to be able to put theres selfs forward to stand in a council election. It as nothing to do with forcing a by-election, you can not force a by-election unless all 3 councillors seats are vacant in one ward. and the people have no one to represent them.
So what happened here is that the 2 Councillors stayed as Councillors to carry on representing the people of there ward, If they had resigned from the council then the Labour controlled council could hold back up to the day when the 4 year term is up, and hope the people will forget them and they would have less of a chance to get elelcted in. This way they stay and keep the good work up, giving them a greater chance to be relected when the 4 year term of office is up.
And like you tried to point out many councils only have 2 councillors to each ward, but Southampton has 3 left over from the days when we use to have representation in Hampshire Council also ( I beleive Paramjit use to be a Hampshire councillor), the idea behide 2 councillors to each ward was that you had one experence councillor and one learning the ropes for each ward.
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There is so much garbage in this post I don't know where to start.
Some Councils have three Cllrs per ward, some two, some one. Some even have a mix of all three.
The Cllr is elected in their own right. their is no link in electoral terms to each other. The story you have made up about the voters having no power to call a by election if any of the other Cllrs are still in office is your own deluded fantasy.
Try and think it through, say a ward has two Cllrs, one Labour, one Tory. The Labour one dies and it changes the balance of power on the Council. According to you the voters have no right to demand a by election becuse they still have one Cllrs even though he's a Tory and the one that died was Labour (and don't forget that some Councils only have elections once every four years).
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Are you so deluded as to think that could really be true.Hillside Paul, you trying your best to get some common sense into Southy's full of fiction head stands even less than a baboon appreciating somebody playing violin to to bloody stupid thing!!!
I think we should have a chat with Nick Chaffey and convince him that best thing for Socialist Party is to plant Southy in NuLabour, because he can make bigger **** ups than Dear Leader and his Deputy the Controller put together.”
