Local Council by-elections 3rd February 2022

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Talk of Ancoats and Beswick being surprisingly close.

[Fergus U]

Manchester Ancoats will be declaring shortly

[iain]

Was hearing lots of bullish noises from our team in Manchester, but didn’t assume it would amount to much.

[aidypiez]

Lib dem gain

[iain]

Feb 3, 2022 23:52:24 GMT iain said:

Was hearing lots of bullish noises from our team in Manchester, but didn’t assume it would amount to much.

But it’s a Lib Dem gain - excellent, and unexpected!

[Fergus U]

Manchester Ancoats

Con 66
Green 119
Lab 793
LD 1113

LD gain from Lab

[Davıd Boothroyd]

MANCHESTER Ancoats and Beswick

GOOD, Alan Patrick (Liberal Democrat) 1,113
WORTHINGTON, Gareth David (Labour) 793
PERRIAM, Chris (Green) 119
BRAMHAM, Alexander Fredric (Conservative) 66

[liverpoolliberal]

Feb 3, 2022 23:47:37 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Talk of Ancoats and Beswick being surprisingly close.

Not really 

[timmullen1]

Cotswold have Tweeted a picture of the count, said they hope to declare before midnight, and will post the results.

[aidypiez]

Feb 3, 2022 23:55:29 GMT timmullen1 said:

Cotswold have Tweeted a picture of the count, said they hope to declare before midnight, and will post the results.

They've got 3 minutes!

[timmullen1]

Feb 3, 2022 23:57:30 GMT aidypiez said:

Feb 3, 2022 23:55:29 GMT timmullen1 said:

Cotswold have Tweeted a picture of the count, said they hope to declare before midnight, and will post the results.

They've got 3 minutes!

No further Tweet activity in the last hour, not even a turnout figure.

[timmullen1]

They did it!

[yellowperil]

Feb 3, 2022 23:55:11 GMT liverpoolliberal said:

Feb 3, 2022 23:47:37 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Talk of Ancoats and Beswick being surprisingly close.

Not really 

A Good result, one might say.

[yellowperil]

Feb 4, 2022 0:00:36 GMT timmullen1 said:

They did it!

Numbers would be more useful than pics! But the turnout is a bit better than some places..

[Fergus U]

Boxmoor

Lab 171
LD 1319
Con 599
Green 92

Turnout 32%

[Robert Waller]

Boxmoor (Dacorum) council by-election result:

LDEM: 60.5% (+18.3)
CON: 27.5% (-4.3)
LAB: 7.8% (-6.2)
GRN: 4.2% (-7.8)

Votes cast: 2,181

Liberal Democrat HOLD.

[Fergus U]

Lewes Castle

Lab 371
Green 327
LD 232
Con 76

[iain]

Feb 4, 2022 0:14:43 GMT Fergus U said:

Lewes Castle

Lab 371
Green 327
LD 232
Con 76

This is a town council by-election.

[Fergus U]

Feb 4, 2022 0:16:23 GMT iain said:

Feb 4, 2022 0:14:43 GMT Fergus U said:

Lewes Castle

Lab 371
Green 327
LD 232
Con 76

This is a town council by-election.

My mistake, sorry

[london(ex)tory]

Jan 14, 2022 9:00:06 GMT timmullen1 said:

Jan 14, 2022 7:19:17 GMT markgoodair said:

Who or what are For Britain Movement?

A spin-off from UKIP founded by Anne Marie Waters after she lost the 2017 leadership election, on the grounds that the Party was too middle class and had abandoned its anti immigrant stance. They have very close overlap in membership terms with the BNP. AFAIK they have one councillor on Eppping Forest, having lost one on Hartlepool last year, and Richard Brougham, who successfully got himself expelled from UKIP and the City Independents during his four year term on Stoke City Council, in 2019.

Waters contested the Lewisham East and Batley and Spen by-elections (266 and 97 votes respectively) and Hugh Nicklin contested the Newport East by-election (159 votes).

Their councillor in Epping Forest used to be a BNP councillor in Redbridge (2006-2010) - the only cllr in the history of Redbridge to ever be elected as anything other than Con / Lab / LD - and I believe also stood for London mayor at one point.