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Post by BossMan on Aug 9, 2023 18:27:23 GMT
Southend
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Post by carolus on Dec 17, 2023 11:28:44 GMT
Current council: 22 Con, 16 Lab, 4 LD, 1 Green, 3 Ind, 3 Residents First, 2 Non-aligned Up in 2024: 11 Con, 3 Lab, 2 Ind, 1 LD
The Non-aligned in St Lukes (2026), and the RF in Kursaal (2024) were elected as Lab. All other Ind/RF/Non-aligned were elected as Ind.
Split wards (2023 result given): Belfairs - 2 Con, 1 Ind. Con defence. Ind gain by 11.7% from Con. Blenheim Park - 2 Lab, 1 Con. Con defence. Lab gain from Ind by 6.3% over Con, 6.7% over Ind. Eastwood Park - 2 LD, 1 Con. Con defence. LD hold by 44% over Con. Leigh - 2 LD, 1 Green. LD defence. Green gain by 7.7% from LD. Shoeburyness - 2 Ind, 1 Con. Con defence. Ind hold by 3.6% over Con. St Laurence - 2 Lab, 1 Con. Con defence. Lab hold by 18% over Con. St Luke's - 1 Lab, 1 Ind (ex-Lab), 1 Con. Con defence. Lab gain from Ind by 26.8% over Con.
Close wards (2023 result given): Prittlewell - Con hold by 6.1% over Lab. Thorpe - Ind hold by 7.9% over Con.
2023 Candidate totals: 17 Con, 17 Confelicity, 17 Green, 17 Lab, 17 LD, 2 Heritage, 1 British Democratic, 1 Psychedelic Future, 7 Ind 2021 Candidate totals (+2): 19 Con, 19 Green, 19 Lab, 19 LD, 3 For Britain, 1 Psychedelic Future, 1 WEP, 14 Ind
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Post by batman on Dec 17, 2023 13:46:04 GMT
Am I right in saying that the 2023 result in Prittlewell (though that would not be unusual for 2023) was unusually good for Labour? We aren't normally noted for doing well in that part of Southend are we
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Post by Tony Otim on Dec 17, 2023 22:37:52 GMT
Am I right in saying that the 2023 result in Prittlewell (though that would not be unusual for 2023) was unusually good for Labour? We aren't normally noted for doing well in that part of Southend are we Looking back on past results, the Labour vote share this year was certainly higher than any recent result, but you actually came closer to taking a seat in 2016 (3.1% off - with a a strong UKIP vote in 3rd, and 9.8% behind in 2018 before falling further back again prior to this year....
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Post by John Chanin on Dec 18, 2023 7:44:42 GMT
The Labour advance in Southend has been less noticed than Worthing, but they could easily be the largest party after next May. A bit of a turnround from when I worked there, and they had been reduced to just 4 councillors - little more than a decade ago.
What is it in the seaside air at Kursaal? 3 Labour councillors have defected (separately) in recent years.
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 18, 2023 10:39:52 GMT
I think they were reduced to just two or three circa 1987 - at that time the West constituency was a total electoral desert for Labour at local as well as national level.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Dec 18, 2023 11:08:27 GMT
But they've always had a presence, always had one or two more or less safe wards and have at times come close to winning the Southend East parliamentary seat. Labour won a plurality across Southend in 1995 when Worthing was still a complete desert for the party. The point about Worthing as that they have literally come from nowhere in a very short time.
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Post by batman on Dec 18, 2023 13:50:21 GMT
For at least a short time Victoria was the only Labour ward in Southend, though usually they have won Kursaal too. Westborough was a more sporadic win. At one point Labour sometimes won Shoebury though it's been a while since that ward elected a Labour councillor I think. As Pete says I don't think Labour has been wiped out in the town in modern times, by which I guess I mean post-1968. Whereas Worthing didn't elect a single Labour councillor for well over 40 years. I remember in the 1990s when Labour achieved second place in Central ward (or was it Heene? or even both?) in Worthing it was actually quite big news! - first place wasn't even in the radar in any wards even at the height of the electorate's love-in with Tony Blair
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 18, 2023 15:00:03 GMT
Jim Deen wasn't far off winning Selden ward for Labour in 1990 and 1991, but that was when the big LibDem wave in Worthing started.
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Post by iain on Apr 5, 2024 19:10:09 GMT
SOPN: www.southend.gov.uk/downloads/file/8256/local-elections-statement-of-persons-nominated-may-2024Conservative - 17 Labour - 17 Lib Dem - 17 Green - 17 Confelicity - 17 Heritage Party - 7 (Blenheim Park, Kursaal, Milton, Southchurch, St Luke's, Thorpe, Victoria) Independent - 8 (Belfairs, Blenheim Park, Kursaal, Prittlewell, Shoeburyness, St Luke's, Thorpe, West Shoebury)
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Post by John Chanin on May 3, 2024 7:42:47 GMT
Bit of a tidy up here. Labour win the remaining Conservative seats in St Laurence, St Lukes, and Blenheim Park. The Liberal Democrats win the remaining Conservative seat in Eastwood. The Greens show their victory in Leigh last year was no fluke by taking a second seat from the Liberal Democrats comfortably. The Conservatives hold their single seat in Shoeburyness by 8 votes over Labour, with the Labour defector from Kursaal finishing third for the normally dominant independents.
The council should now be Labour 21, Conservative 18, Independent 6, Liberal Democrat 4, Green 2 but there is a defector from Labour to independent.
The Labour led council should now be restored after a year's break, in coalition with the Liberal Democrats. Not sure whether the Greens will join. The Independents are no longer a cohesive group. One from Thorpe and the two from Shoeburyness, who switched sides to give the Conservatives control last year will presumably continue to work together. But the other two Thorpe councillors are now in a separate Residents First group. Aylen is non-aligned but basically a Conservative, and I've no idea what the defector in St Lukes is doing.
Incidentally Labour failed to get back on Rochford Council in Roche South by just 2 votes, and polled respectably in Roche North and the Wakerings. Summing the votes for the new constituency of Southend East & Rochford shows a small Labour advantage (2.3%). The Conservatives continue to hold an even smaller advantage in Southend West(1.6%).
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Post by batman on May 5, 2024 7:19:47 GMT
WTF is this Confelicity party which stood everywhere & got very few votes? Never previously heard of it
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Post by matureleft on May 5, 2024 7:24:07 GMT
WTF is this Confelicity party which stood everywhere & got very few votes? Never previously heard of it www.southendconfelicityparty.co.ukBut that may leave you unsatisfied…
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Post by batman on May 5, 2024 7:41:01 GMT
we are a local party, for local people. There's nothing for you here.
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Post by froome on May 5, 2024 7:43:10 GMT
WTF is this Confelicity party which stood everywhere & got very few votes? Never previously heard of it www.southendconfelicityparty.co.ukBut that may leave you unsatisfied… It appears to be another version of the Independents For (name of town) that grew up in many towns especially down here in the West Country. It is a very slick website though.
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Post by John Chanin on May 5, 2024 8:03:30 GMT
Confelicity is run by the people who own the amusement park. They have a beef with the council, and want them to be more 'business friendly', ie provide them with more subsidy, and spend more money promoting tourism. I don't know about this year, but last year most candidates were employees of Adventure Island. Nor do I know why they have decided to stand throughout the borough, rather than focusing on Milton and Kursaal where their business interests lie.
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Post by johnloony on May 5, 2024 8:07:34 GMT
we are a local party, for local people. There's nothing for you here. And we are unanimous in that.
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Post by johnloony on May 5, 2024 8:15:16 GMT
WTF is this Confelicity party which stood everywhere & got very few votes? Never previously heard of it www.southendconfelicityparty.co.ukBut that may leave you unsatisfied… I notice they did manage to beat the Lib Dem and Green candidates in a handful of wards.
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Post by maxque on May 13, 2024 18:04:17 GMT
Third: Labour gain from Conservative in: Blenheim Park (by 412 votes) St Laurence (by 374 votes) St Luke's (by 377 votes)
Liberal Democrat from Conservative in: Eastwood Park (by 657 votes)
Green gain over Liberal Democrat in: Leigh (by 1088 votes)
Close holds: Chalkwell (Con hold by 107 votes over Lab) Prittlewell (Con hold by 61 votes over Lab) Shoeburyness (Con hold by 8 votes over Lab, by 114 votes over Ind) Thorpe (Ind hold by 131 votes over Con) W Leigh (Con hold by 191 votes over LD)
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Post by batman on May 13, 2024 20:32:23 GMT
Has Labour ever won Prittlewell in the post-1973 era? I remember it as a very, if not exactly monumentally, safe Conservative ward. Not that I can pretend to know the area.
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