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Post by listener on Aug 12, 2014 10:20:14 GMT
Here is the result of the Fazeley town council by-election in Lichfield (Staffordshire).
On 5 May 2011, the entire council of 11 members was elected unopposed - Con 8, Lab 2, Independent 1
By-election on 30 May 2013, caused by the resignation of Ian Lewin (Con) Con 389, Lab 373 - Con hold
(The district council by-election on the same day (also including the Coleshill ward of Drayton Bassett parish) resulted in Con 423, Lab 375 - Con hold).
The by-election on 7 August 2014 was caused by the resignation of Jo Atkins, due to ill-health. She was elected as an Independent, but the Fazeley Rose website refers to her as "my Labour Party colleague).
Lab 220, UKIP 155
Lab hold - from Lab, elected as Independent
New Council: Con 8, Lab 3
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 10:30:56 GMT
n my area there was even a great deal of direct switching of working-class Lib Dem voters to UKIP - in an LD area. Where's that? When canvassing I'm seeing the natural protest voters switching from LDs to UKIP. As well as the 'lets give them a chance' brigade ....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 11:28:59 GMT
When canvassing I'm seeing the natural protest voters switching from LDs to UKIP. As well as the 'lets give them a chance' brigade .... Is Rees-Mogg proving relatively popular?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2014 12:05:49 GMT
When canvassing I'm seeing the natural protest voters switching from LDs to UKIP. As well as the 'lets give them a chance' brigade .... Is Rees-Mogg proving relatively popular? That, of course, depends on who you talk to Lets say, there are less 'neutrals' than in an average constituency, when it comes to our MP...... Ladbrokes have him at 1/2, & on the principle that you don't often see a poor bookie ....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 14:45:19 GMT
I managed to check in on the Worthing result while I was away, but didn't have the opportunity to comment, so a few thoughts now Very good result for UKIP, I was thinking it would be won by 50 or less, but they achieved more than that. On that sort of movement they could take 3 or 4 next year. I haven't had a chance yet to find out how much work they did, but I don't think it was terribly intense. The Tories, on the other hand, did a lot of work and expected to win; poor - very poor, even - for them. Goodish for the LibDems, they managed to keep their noses ahead of Labour. I was surprised to find as much good feeling towards the LibDems as I did when canvassing, so they could bounce back in a few years, if they can find the footsoldiers to do the work. Labour might even be slightly disappointed with their showing, they put some work in and got nothing for it. They'll have lost votes to UKIP here. Greens: I was hoping we might pick up a few votes, maybe make three figures, but we obviously got squeezed by those parties that worked. Not bothered, really, based on the minimal work we did. In response to the comments on Castle ward demographics: it's deprived, and not just relatively - it's quite a poor area really. very mixed in population, there are lots of elderly retired in the eastern and northern parts of the ward, with younger people along the southern edge.
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