Scottish Council by elections

[jluk234]

Conservative candidate for the 2016 Annandale North by election out campaigning earlier

[Deleted]

Monday by election in Angus
Polling will take place between 7am and 10pm on Monday November 28.
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/angus-mearns/305455/six-candidates-look-win-angus-council-seat-arbroath-election/

[boogieeck]

online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/apps/news/release.aspx?newsid=4560++

Two gains for the Conservatives in Aberdeenshire. One from SNP, one from LD on paper, but in reality form an ex LD who went Indy and supported the SNP led administration. So, two losses for the SNP led administration, who no longer have overall control.

[Pete Whitehead]

Nov 6, 2016 7:32:50 GMT boogieeck said:

online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/apps/news/release.aspx?newsid=4560++

Two gains for the Conservatives in Aberdeenshire. One from SNP, one from LD on paper, but in reality form an ex LD who went Indy and supported the SNP led administration. So, two losses for the SNP led administration, who no longer have overall control.

I have a vague idea that this situation might already have been mentioned somewhere on this forum..

[Deleted]

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- Tory
tinyurl.com/zmkk8u5

Alistair Suttie chair Levenmouth Council (Nobody actually elected,self appointed)
lost a couple of elections but who has not (SNP)

Iain Morrice retired IT Architect Greens

Devils 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)

[boogieeck]

Mildly disappointed to not see the names of Jimboo fae Fife or William Wallace II

[Deleted]

Nov 19, 2016 10:40:58 GMT boogieeck said:

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

[boogieeck]

Chip off the old block, William Wallace I and indeed the latters older brother Alexander I and his son II

What we lack in intellect we make up for in work ethic.

[boogieeck]

Nov 19, 2016 11:22:03 GMT @ntyuk1707 said:

If the Conservatives can win in Banff doesn't that mean they can win in Carnoustie too?

Not really It means they could win in Arbroath and should win in Carnoustie

Although the presence of an idiot Indy in Arbroath is a burden.

[boogieeck]

We won inverurie on differential vote. We won Banff on Transfers. We won Annandale on swing.

[timmullen1]

I presume this will be covered by the six month rule, but thought it might be worth noting: www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/316379/fighter-end-tributes-kirkcaldy-councillor-loses-cancer-fight/

[boogieeck]

Colin Clark MP (Gordon) has resigned his Aberdeenshire (Inverurie) Council seat and the by election will be held in early October .

[boogieeck]

Already recorded elsewhere, but held by Conservatives (Lesley Berry) with a thumping 48% of the vote in a seat where we used to miss out on one from four. Lib Dem paper candidacy gets single digits in a seat they used to get two from four.

[The Bishop]

LibDem paper candidate almost caught by the Labour paper candidate, no less.

[middleenglander]

There was also a by-election on 26 January 2017 in East Renfrewshire, Kilmarnock East & Hurlford - SNP hold - making 8 in total during 2017.

[Tony Otim]

Dec 3, 2017 14:50:02 GMT @ntyuk1707 said:

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.

[RDL]

Dec 3, 2017 14:50:02 GMT @ntyuk1707 said:

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.

[RDL]

Dec 8, 2017 16:55:58 GMT @ntyuk1707 said:

Dec 8, 2017 16:23:36 GMT RDL said:

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.

[jimboo2017]

Lesley Laird MP has today resigned as a Fife councillor – effective from Friday, June 8.


Inverkeithing, Aberdour, Dalgety Bay and North Queensferry

[peters]

The by-election in Fife Ward 6 (Inverkeithing & Dalgety Bay) will be held on Thursday 6th September 2018.

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