By-election - 5th June 2014

[middleenglander]

South Lanarkshire, Clydesdale South - Labour gain from SNP

Party	2014 votes	2014 share	since 2012	since 2007
Labour	1,492	40.8%	-2.8%	-7.1%
SNP	1,170	32.0%	-9.7%	-5.3%
Conservative	659	18.0%	+7.5%	+6.1%
UKIP	233	6.4%	+2.1%	from nowhere
Green	104	2.8%	from nowhere	-0.1%
Total votes	3,658		79%	59%

Swing SNP to Labour ~3½% since 2012 but Labour to SNP ~1% since 2007
- Conservative had biggest share increase since last election

[greatkingrat]

For some strange reason, South Lanarkshire council managed to do five counts in a five candidate election. Gordon Muir being successfully elected by 2366 votes to 0 in the final round

[piperdave]

Under the electronic counting rules, the programme has to run until a candidate reaches the quota. Under the manual counting rules, once you get down to two candidates, you can just declare the top one elected. So it's not strange, it's the law.