Local Council By-elections on 2nd May 2013

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Marylebone High Street is, and I'm a counting agent.

[paulypaul]

Dont hold your breath for Northamptonshire. They're starting at 2pm on Friday.

[Sibboleth]

Labour hold Houghton

[David Ashforth]

Liberal Democrats hold Fulwood, Sheffield.

[andrea]

Sunderland MB, Houghton

Lab 1418 Ind 1124 UKIP 302 Con 111 LD 55

turnout 33.3%

We can always rely on Sunderland being fast

[andrea]

Middlesbrough - Pallister Ward
Lab 608 UKIP 262 Cons 29 LD 27

Labour held Risca East in Caerphilly
EDWARDS Cliff (Ind) 209 FARRELL Matthew (PC) 119 LEONARD Philippa (Lab) 529 MUIR-JONES Cameron (Con) 36 OWEN Bob (Ind) 299

St Helens- Windle
Lab 1329 Tory 612 Green 345 Lab hold

Bridgend
Labour 281 Lib Dem 143 Independent 66 Con 44 PC 34

[Deleted]

Pretty shocking seeing UKIP outpoll Cons nearly 10 to 1 in Middlesbrough (and 3 to 1 in Sunderland)

[Sibboleth]

Risca result v. interesting, given certain goings on.

[LDCaerdydd]

Bridgend CBC:
Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd by election result, Bridgend UA:
Labour 281
Tony Berrow Lib Dem 143
Independent 66
Con. 44
PC. 34
Labour hold

[paulypaul]

Marylebone High Street Byelection C 921 Lab 203 Ind 184 L Dem 104 UKIP 96 GP 50 Iain Bott (C) elected

[David Ashforth]

Fulwood, Sheffield

Lib Dem 2,563
Labour 1,035
Conservative 826
UKIP 501
Green 379

Lib Dem HOLD

Turnout 37.5%

Ballot papers rejected

Voting for more than one candidate - 1
Being unmarked or wholly void for uncertainty - 9

[Davıd Boothroyd]

I give you the result of the Marylebone High Street byelection.

[andrea]

Weston South - North Somerset: Lab 1044 UKIP 449 Lib Dem 214 Con 192

Blakenhall (Wolverhampton) by-election Labour 1934 votes UKIP 263 votes Conservative 242 votes Lib Dem 89 votes Turnout 29%

[kvasir]

Labour have won Crossgates and Whinmoor in Leeds.

[kvasir]

Crossgates and Whinmoor in Leeds:

Lab 2481
UKIP 1582
Con 587
Green 229
LD 145

Labour majority 899

[Deleted]

May 2, 2013 23:01:59 GMT kvasir said:

Crossgates and Whinmoor in Leeds:

Lab 2481
UKIP 1582
Con 587
Green 229
LD 145

Labour majority 899

Would you have expected such a strong UKIP vote (and poor LD)

[kvasir]

May 2, 2013 23:14:20 GMT joe said:

May 2, 2013 23:01:59 GMT kvasir said:

Crossgates and Whinmoor in Leeds:

Lab 2481
UKIP 1582
Con 587
Green 229
LD 145

Labour majority 899

Would you have expected such a strong UKIP vote (and poor LD)

I expected UKIP to place a good second. Granted 1,582 was on the upper end of the range of likely votes for me but they've put time in the ward, and have been building support for a couple of years. It was unclear to me that they'd break the thousand barrier, but they smashed it in the end.

The Liberal Democrats only lost to the English Democrats in 2012 who were not standing today, so I also expected them to come last with less votes than before.

[marksenior]

May 2, 2013 23:14:20 GMT joe said:

May 2, 2013 23:01:59 GMT kvasir said:

Crossgates and Whinmoor in Leeds:

Lab 2481
UKIP 1582
Con 587
Green 229
LD 145

Labour majority 899

Would you have expected such a strong UKIP vote (and poor LD)

The LD vote was only 195 in 2012 . The Labour vote last year was 3,597

[Deleted]

Edit - beat me to it

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Labour gained Wilnecote ward in Tamworth.