Local Council By-elections 29th, 30th and 31st October 2019

[Tony Otim]

3 elections on 3 different days this week:

29th October:
WARWICK DC; Leamington Lillington (Lib Dem resigned)
Candidates:
KEY, Hayley Elizabeth Lockwood (Conservative)
LOWNDES, Luc (Labour)
RUSSELL, Daniel Mark (Liberal Democrat)

2019: LD 1698, 1505, 1464; Lab 773, 760, 700; Con 606, 532, 485; Grn 448, 408, 362

Current Council: Con 19; LD 8; Grn 8; Lab 5; Whitnash Residents Association 3; 1 vacant



30th October:
WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD UA; Riverside (Con resigned)
Candidates:
BUNCE, Sharon Teresa (Labour)
JONES, Gregory Granville (Conservative)
MASON, Deborah Celia (Women’s Equality Party)
McDERMOTT, Craig Colquhoun (Green)
SINGH, Kashmir (Liberal Democrat)
STRETTON, Claire Elizabeth (tBf – the Borough first)

2019: Con 851, 777; tBf 678, 600; LD 476, 450; Grn 215; Lab 182, 168

The tBf, LD, Grn and Labour candidates all stood here in May (the LD was the second LD, the others the top or only candidates for their respective parties).

Current Council: Con 22; LD 9; tBf 3; West Windsor Residents 3; Independent – Old Windsor Residents 2; National Flood Prevention 1; 1 vacancy



31st October:
WORCESTERSHIRE CC; Bromsgrove South (Lab resigned)
Candidates:
DAISLEY, Kyle (Conservative)
HENDERSON, Bren (Labour)
JENKINS, Rachel Elizabeth (Independent)
ROBINSON, Joshua William (Liberal Democrat)

2017: Lab 1263; Con 1013; LD 123; Grn 102
2013: Lab 1088; Con 733; Grn 166; BNP 163; LD 93
2009: Con 934; Ind 557; Lab 519; BNP 385; Grn 353
2005: Lab 1934; Con 1824; LD 925

Rachel Jenkins is independent councillor for Hagley East ward on Bromsgrove council, which is not in this division.

Current Council: Con 40; Lab 9; LD 3; Grn 2; ICHC 1; Ind 1; 1 vacancy

[timmullen1]

Andrew’s Preview for Warwick:

britainelects.com/2019/10/29/preview-29-oct-2019/

[phil156]

It's a bit silent on here spose everyone is watching the parliamentary channel

[yellowperil]

Oct 29, 2019 19:28:04 GMT phil156 said:

It's a bit silent on here spose everyone is watching the parliamentary channel

Surely it will cheer up in a while?

[timrollpickering]

What's the reason for the Tuesday and Wednesday polls?

[yellowperil]

Oct 29, 2019 21:44:14 GMT timrollpickering said:

What's the reason for the Tuesday and Wednesday polls?

Why not? There's nothing sacred about Thursdays

[lancastrian]

Leamington turnout 26%.

[ElectionMapsUK]

They lied

[Davıd Boothroyd]

At least they didn't promise they'd be dead in a ditch if the result wasn't out by midnight.

[lancastrian]

Lib Dems hold

Edit: Town council seat first, oops

[yellowperil]

Oct 30, 2019 0:03:52 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

At least they didn't promise they'd be dead in a ditch if the result wasn't out by midnight.

It could be argued that "midnight" isn't 12.00 precisely but merely "the middle of the night" which is still valid for another couple of hours or so. 

[lancastrian]

It is a Lib Dem hold for the district seat.

[ElectionMapsUK]

Ugh.

[ElectionMapsUK]

[ElectionMapsUK]

Full Figures:

LDM: 1296
CON: 664
LAB: 384

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Figures were tweeted by a Lib Dem councillor:

[markgoodair]

Oct 30, 2019 0:26:37 GMT ElectionMapsUK said:

Full Figures:

LDM: 1296
CON: 664
LAB: 384

Lib Dem 55.3% +7.4%
Con 28.3% +11.6%
Lab 16.4% -6.5%
Green 0% -12.5%

[Pete Whitehead]

Very poor result for Labour given the demographics as described by andrewteale - parts of Lillington are pretty grim. And while the old Crown ward was always Lib Dem at local level, this ward must have played its part in Labour's general election victory in 2017

[pragmaticidealist]

Not inspiring for us at all. Tories will be reasonably satisfied.

[timmullen1]

Oct 30, 2019 11:32:19 GMT pragmaticidealist said:

Not inspiring for us at all. Tories will be reasonably satisfied.

I wonder how much effort was put into that - my mum and I are as close to Warwick as we are to Bromsgrove, but she’s had three emails from Regional Office asking to help campaign in the latter.