jluk234
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Post by jluk234 on Oct 22, 2016 22:51:39 GMT
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jluk234
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Post by jluk234 on Oct 23, 2016 18:20:06 GMT
Conservative candidate for the 2016 Annandale North by election out campaigning earlier
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2016 11:17:36 GMT
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Nov 6, 2016 7:38:57 GMT
I have a vague idea that this situation might already have been mentioned somewhere on this forum.. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 1:53:32 GMT
Levenmouth By-Election Colin Davidson - Headmaster - Labour. Colin Davidson and a young Lady, Kezia Dugdale beaten in selection process by Lindsay Roy for Glenrothes By-Election 2008. Colin Davidson is headmaster at @boogieeck alma mater Belle-Baxter Graham Ritchie - Retired- Torytinyurl.com/zmkk8u5Alistair Suttie chair Levenmouth Council (Nobody actually elected,self appointed) lost a couple of elections but who has not (SNP)
Iain Morrice retired IT Architect GreensDevils advocate. Graham Rithcie is the only one who has put anything into the community without seeking glory. Predction Labour. sad realy (sad that people will put Party over candidate in a wee cooncil election) |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 20:30:03 GMT
Mildly disappointed to not see the names of Jimboo fae Fife or William Wallace II Past it myself and William Wallace seems to be working a 7 day week as he is always out rain hail or snow dismantling cars at Aberhill |
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timmullen1
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Post by timmullen1 on Nov 20, 2016 13:07:45 GMT
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The Bishop
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 6, 2017 10:43:25 GMT
LibDem paper candidate almost caught by the Labour paper candidate, no less.
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Post by middleenglander on Dec 3, 2017 20:27:03 GMT
There was also a by-election on 26 January 2017 in East Renfrewshire, Kilmarnock East & Hurlford - SNP hold - making 8 in total during 2017.
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Post by Tony Otim on Dec 7, 2017 12:43:50 GMT
Summary of Scottish council by-elections held in 2017
7 local council by-elections were held across Scotland this year. 3 of them took place in Conservative-SNP marginals (Elgin City North; Inverurie & District; and Perth City South), which generally saw the Conservatives increase their vote share to a greater extent than the SNP. These results appear to contradict opinion polling by suggesting that the Conservatives are approximately where they were or in a slightly better position to where they were in Scotland at the 2017 UK general election, with Perth & North Perthshire likely remaining a significant marginal constituency for the time being. Some excellent number crunching, but I might slightly disagree with this conclusion. I think the results could be taken as an indication that the polls aren't too far out. In net terms the conservative vote maybe hasn't changed that much, but its being distributed more efficiently - they're falling back in the Central Belt, but gaining in other areas. This is of course better for them in terms of FPTP seats (but possibly not so much so for some of the list MSPs). One word of caution - by-elections for 1 seat rather than all outs for 3 or 4 probably do have the effect of encouraging more tactical voting and focussing the votes on the leading candidates (as would the absence of personal votes for some incumbents). All that said, there is a very long way to go before the next Scotland wide elections and who knows what the situation will look like by then. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 16:23:36 GMT
The final local council by-election took place in Tain & Easter Ross, situated in one of the SNP's safest constituencies in the UK Parliament (Ross, Skye & Lochaber). Traditionally, Independent candidates have been successful in this area, and they easily managed to beat the SNP and win the seat at the by-election Tain & Easter Ross is in Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross (which was a LibDem gain from us in June) not Ross, Skye & Lochaber. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 17:10:07 GMT
Tain & Easter Ross is in Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross (which was a LibDem gain from us in June) not Ross, Skye & Lochaber. My mistake, though it is much much closer to Ross, Skye and Lochaber in its character, being an area that had an extremely close result in the 2014 independence referendum. I'm not sure a guesstimate at how an area might have voted in the 2014 referendum gives much of an indication of an area's character, particularly in the Highlands. Outwith politics, Tain & Easter Ross is more like East Sutherland than Wester Ross or Skye, being a small town surrounded by a handful of poorer villages. Electorally, it is Jamie Stone's home turf and is probably more conservative in its voting habits than the rest of Ross-shire. Alistair Rhind winning the by-election was a shock to nobody. His family has represented wards in Easter Ross for decades and he only lost his seat in May because folk were annoyed over a local school project. |
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jun 6, 2018 15:15:51 GMT
Lesley Laird MP has today resigned as a Fife councillor – effective from Friday, June 8.
Inverkeithing, Aberdour, Dalgety Bay and North Queensferry
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Post by peters on Jun 19, 2018 20:48:34 GMT
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jun 19, 2018 21:32:54 GMT
Interesting thing is the SNP Labour alliance should make it awkward |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2018 22:11:20 GMT
Any chance of a Conservative gain? They won the most votes in the ward last year.
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jun 20, 2018 11:29:51 GMT
Any chance of a Conservative gain? They won the most votes in the ward last year. Well Dalgety Bay is really an Edinburgh Suburb hiding in Fife. high percentage of kids go to private schools with a bus going to Dollar Academy for example. So with a neutral hat on I could see the Tories win this with a good candidate and well organised campaign. |
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Post by Tony Otim on Jun 20, 2018 11:46:10 GMT
Any chance of a Conservative gain? They won the most votes in the ward last year. On paper, I'd say they'd look to be favourites. It'll be an Con-SNP battle at the end with a lot of votes not transferring or not overwhelmingly favouring one or the other. So if they're ahead on 1st prefs like last year they should win. The main question mark would be how much of their vote last year was personal for the incumbent and that I have no idea about. |
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Post by jimboo2017 on Jul 19, 2018 18:46:27 GMT
 Inverkeithing, Aberdour, Dalgety Bay and North Queensferry Labour Candidate Billy Pollock |
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Tony Otim
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Post by Tony Otim on Aug 18, 2018 19:28:03 GMT
A Conservative win here would actually tell us very little. Based on last year's result they should start as strong favourites and anything other than a win would be a poor result for them. I also don't think a tory defeat would have much to di with this as I'm not sure stories like this ever have all that much impact on actual election results. It's all noise in a political bubble that impacts very few in the polling booth. So rather than being a sign of changing public attitudes it would more be a sign that things were much as they ever were. |
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