Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Apr 1, 2023 16:14:35 GMT
I wanted to answer my own question about which current local authority has gone the longest period of time without a by election. Using a couple of sources including andrewteale ‘s website, I think there are 6 local councils where it is more than a decade since the last by election ( 4 of which are Scottish) East Renfrewshire- last by election June 2001 Portsmouth- Feb 2008 Inverclyde- Jun 2009 West Dunbartonshire- Mar 2011 East Dunbartonshire- Aug 2012 Rochdale- Apr 2013 And in that time we have only had one double election in Portsmouth (due to non-attendance). We've had a few councillors resign under the six month rule though since 2008 but no deaths of sitting councillors at all (fortunately). |
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Post by andrewteale on Apr 1, 2023 18:17:10 GMT
I wanted to answer my own question about which current local authority has gone the longest period of time without a by election. Using a couple of sources including andrewteale ‘s website, I think there are 6 local councils where it is more than a decade since the last by election ( 4 of which are Scottish) East Renfrewshire- last by election June 2001 Portsmouth- Feb 2008 Inverclyde- Jun 2009 West Dunbartonshire- Mar 2011 East Dunbartonshire- Aug 2012 Rochdale- Apr 2013 The Previews have been going in some form or another since September 2010. However, there are other councils not on this list which haven't had the full treatment because the only polls since September 2010 were scheduled for the ordinary May local election day. One in that category is Bedford: the only Bedford by-election in that period was on 22nd May 2014. |
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Post by carolus on Apr 1, 2023 20:58:20 GMT
I suppose it isn't much of a surprise that the list heavily features Scottish councils, since eleven of the twelve smallest councils are Scottish, with all four of the ones in that list being in the eleven.
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Post by andrewp on Apr 1, 2023 21:34:43 GMT
Councillor since 1986 (I think continuously) - what's the story there mattb ? Martin has been extremely unwell and has not recovered in the way expected/hoped when he stood again last year. Very sadly he struggles now to get to meetings. He is the last of the 1986 intake when we first took overall control of the Council. There are still two first elected in 1990 but they both have a break, think I'm now Three Rivers longest continuously-serving cllr (1994), which is a bit sobering. Actually our ward has all three of us continuously serving since the last century (first elected in 94, 96 & 99), there can't be that many 3-member wards where that is the case. I doubt there is, I came across one in Swansea- Cwmbria where your three fellow Lib Dem’s Peter Black, Chris Holley and Graham Thomas have served since 1984, 1985 and 1999. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 2, 2023 10:26:28 GMT
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Post by batman on Apr 2, 2023 19:16:32 GMT
oh that is really sad.
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Post by carolus on Apr 3, 2023 12:27:50 GMT
Woking, Canalside (2023). Mohammad Ali (Labour) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 3, 2023 13:15:22 GMT
Woking, Canalside (2023). Mohammad Ali (Labour) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection. He was the Ali of Ali v Bashir - the defeated candidate in Maybury and Sheerwater ward in 2012 where the victory of Mohammed Bashir (Liberal Democrat) was found to have been the result of a registration fraud. Served as a councillor from 2016. |
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Harry Hayfield
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Apr 3, 2023 16:55:40 GMT
I wanted to answer my own question about which current local authority has gone the longest period of time without a by election. Using a couple of sources including andrewteale ‘s website, I think there are 6 local councils where it is more than a decade since the last by election ( 4 of which are Scottish) East Renfrewshire- last by election June 2001 Portsmouth- Feb 2008 Inverclyde- Jun 2009 West Dunbartonshire- Mar 2011 East Dunbartonshire- Aug 2012 Rochdale- Apr 2013 In a similar vein, does the fact that Ceredigion has only had four by-elections since the 2004 boundary changes make it the council least likely to have a by-election in the whole of Wales? |
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Post by carolus on Apr 4, 2023 14:54:56 GMT
Brighton & Hove, Rottingdean Coastal (2023). Mary Mears (Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection.
Burnley, Hapton with Park (2023). Peter Gill (Independent, elected as Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection.
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Post by carolus on Apr 6, 2023 21:56:20 GMT
Waverley, Godalming Central & Ockford. Anne-Marie Rosoman (Liberal Democrat) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection, not standing in May.
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Post by carolus on Apr 7, 2023 20:37:44 GMT
Braintree, Witham Central. Angela Kilmartin (Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection, not standing in May.
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Post by greenhert on Apr 7, 2023 20:42:07 GMT
Braintree, Witham Central. Angela Kilmartin (Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection, not standing in May. Every councillor on that council, and councils up for election this year with full council elections, have ceased to be councillors for now. Perhaps Ms Kilmartin has died. |
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Post by carolus on Apr 7, 2023 20:43:51 GMT
Braintree, Witham Central. Angela Kilmartin (Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection, not standing in May. Perhaps Ms Kilmartin has died. I don't think that's true. |
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Khunanup
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Post by Khunanup on Apr 7, 2023 21:17:37 GMT
Braintree, Witham Central. Angela Kilmartin (Conservative) has ceased to be a councillor. No byelection, not standing in May. Every councillor on that council, and councils up for election this year with full council elections, have ceased to be councillors for now. Perhaps Ms Kilmartin has died. Absolutely not true. You remain a councillor until the Monday after the election, win, lose or retire. |
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Post by andrewp on Apr 7, 2023 21:20:50 GMT
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Post by J.G.Harston on Apr 7, 2023 21:35:12 GMT
Every councillor on that council, and councils up for election this year with full council elections, have ceased to be councillors for now. Perhaps Ms Kilmartin has died. I don't think that's true. Councillors remain councillors until the Monday after the election at which their term ends. |
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 7, 2023 21:56:23 GMT
Heterosexual flags. hmmm.
Although 'emotional intelligence training' sounds a wee bit like scientology to me.
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Post by timmullen1 on Apr 7, 2023 22:42:29 GMT
I think she said at the time of the original furore she wasn’t standing again. |
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Post by carlton43 on Apr 7, 2023 22:58:35 GMT
Extreme alt.woke bollocks. I agree with her. She should have stood her ground as there may well be a majority who agree with her. The sheer bloody brass neck of these arseholes with their poxy policies and mimsy stupid political correctness 'courses'. More if us should stand up for the freedom to express what we believe and tell these nerks to sod off and mind their own bloody business. |
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