By-Elections - 29th March 2012

[greatkingrat]

HIGH PEAK - Buxton Central (Labour resigned)

2011 - Lab 566/466, Con 455/452, Grn 190, LD 150
2007 - Con 470/462, LD 384/363, Lab 356/304
2003 - Lab 398/362, Con 334/314, LD 289/246

Louise GLASSCOE (Independent)
Bob MORRIS (Conservative Party Candidate)
Jean TODD (The Labour Party Candidate)
Derek WEBB (Liberal Democrat)

NORTH KESTEVEN - Heckington Rural (Conservative resigned)

2011 - Con 1369/1098, LincInd 647, Lab 440
2007 - Con 948/876, UKIP 556
2003 - Con 757/620, LD 504, Lab 326

Liz PETO (Lincolnshire Independent)
Sally TARRY (Conservative Party Candidate)

SEVENOAKS - Cowden & Hever (Conservative resigned)

2011 - Con unopposed
2007 - Con unopposed
2003 - Con unopposed

Lorraine MILLGATE (UK Independence Party)
Christopher NEAL (The Conservative Party Candidate)

SEVENOAKS - Crokenhill & Well Hill (Independent died)

2011 - Ind unopposed
2007 - LD 527, Con 104
2003 - LD 417, Con 77, UKIP 30

Adrian CROSSLEY (The Conservative Party)
Jenny DIBSDALL (The Labour Party Candidate)
Christopher HEATH (UK Independence Party)

WANDSWORTH - Southfields (Conservative resigned)

2010 - Con 4101/3952/3842, Lab 1922/1877/1748, LD 1607/1557/1290, Grn 610, Ind 135
2006 - Con 2285/2232/2207, LD 867/761/690, Lab 680/654/617, Grn 460, Ind 73
2002 - Con 1913/1899/1898, Lab 946/918/771, LD 470/404/347, Ind 426

Choudry ABID (Independent)
Kim CADDY (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Josh KAILE (The Labour Party Candidate)
Bruce MACKENZIE (Green Party)
Strachan MCDONALD (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
John MUNRO (Liberal Democrat)

Lots of form to go on in Sevenoaks ;D

That begs the question - what is the record for most consecutive unopposed elections in a ward?

[Pimpernal]

Mar 16, 2012 19:58:44 GMT greatkingrat said:

Lots of form to go on in Sevenoaks ;D

Weeelll... given the candidates, on past form we can confidently say that 9 years ago the Tories were out-polling UKIP by over 2:1...

[Deleted]

[johnloony]

All of those pointless photographs are giving my computer screen stretch-marks

[BossMan]

What are the Streetview pics for?

[johnloony]

Mar 20, 2012 14:38:58 GMT BossMan said:

What are the Streetview pics for?

I don't know. You're the boss. Ban them!

[Deleted]

I'm not having a very good return to the forum, am I?

[Pete Whitehead]

I think its quite useful or at the very least interesting to see pictures of the areas in question. I'm not entirely sure that a picture of a deserted country lane tells us much though

[BossMan]

Mar 20, 2012 15:10:41 GMT johnloony said:

Mar 20, 2012 14:38:58 GMT BossMan said:

What are the Streetview pics for?

I don't know. You're the boss. Ban them!

What kind of socialist do you think I am?

[The Bishop]

What happened in the Lib Dem turned Indy ward in Sevenoaks? Were they both the same person??

[marksenior]

Mar 23, 2012 0:22:39 GMT The Bishop said:

What happened in the Lib Dem turned Indy ward in Sevenoaks? Were they both the same person??

Yes same person .

[Pete Whitehead]

Yes the same. Clearly a very popular individual as I doubt the LD support was quiteb as strong as that. Appears to have been the councillor at le4ast since 1987 (my records don;t go back any further than that)

[anthony]

Mar 23, 2012 16:21:42 GMT @trident said:

I looked on electionleaflets.org earlier and Labour seem to be running a very slick campaign - like the last by-election in Wandsworth.

IMO they're not as good this time (although the quasi-indpendent don't-mention-the-Labour-party branding is being used).

[richardclemerson]

Mar 23, 2012 16:21:42 GMT @trident said:

I looked on electionleaflets.org earlier and Labour seem to be running a very slick campaign - like the last by-election in Wandsworth.

I rather like the line about the Tory candidate being parachuted in from Tooting...

[Deleted]

More importantly - Truro CC Boscawen Ward. Tory/LD/Labour.

The seconder for the Tory c andidate is Loic Rich, ex MK (I think...)

And the result for an uncontested seat on Bude Stratton TC (Poughill and Stratton Ward) goes to the Avid Bude Ambassador.... ;D

[Deleted]

@britainvotes Southfields Tory majority down to somewhere around 12%. Tory vote has held up; Lib Dem vote has collapsed to Lab; down to 5%.

[Deleted]

#Labour HOLD Buxton Central, High Peak DC (/via @anthonymckeown). Waiting on full figures...

[Deleted]

Result - #Tories HOLD Southfields, Wandsworth LBC: Con 1841, Lab 1511, LD 220, Grn 100, UKIP 40, Ind 38. Swing C>#Labour since '10: 8.6%

very good result for Labour in the south

[Deleted]

In the fun regarding Bradford, this seems to have been forgotten. Has anybody any updates at all for those of us who have no access to twitter/blogs/ etc. etc...

[A Brown]

#Labour HOLD Buxton Central. High Peak DC: Lab 416, Con 396, LD 70, Ind 42. Swing L>#Tories since '11: 3%