By-elections - September 17th

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Noel Park - Haringey LB - Denise Marshall OBE (Labour) resigned due to ill health. She died a few weeks later. She was the head of a foundation helping women victims of sexual violence.

2014: Lab 1897/1807/1782, Grn 503/332/309, LD 492/491/437, UKIP 220, Con 213/210/163, Ind 128
2010: Lab 2149/2026/1864, LD 1743/1616/1407, Con 718/616/610, Grn 429/355/264, Ind 145
2006: Lab 1124/1024/1007, LD 1114/1031/920, Grn 257/183, Con 249/240/229
2002: Lab 982/975/934, LD 342/293/222, Con 307/270/255, Grn 265, Socialist Alliance 105, Ind 66

Derin Adebiyi (Liberal Democrats)
Mike Burgess (Conservative Party Candidate)
Paul Burnham (Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts)
Stephen Mann (Labour Party)
Mike McGowan (Green Party)
Neville Watson (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Woodside - Haringey LB - George Meehan (Labour) died. He was councillor 1971-1986 and since 1990. He was the council Leader in 1983-1985, 1999-2004 and 2006-2008.

Oct 2014 by: Lab 1331, LD 482, Grn 191, UKIP 161, Con 140, TUSC 35, Ind 23
2014: Lab 2018/1947/1865, LD 418/393/361, Grn 406/342/254, Con 271/244/207, UKIP 259, TUSC 100, Ind 61
2010: Lab 2300/2217/2031, LD 1733/1633/1487, Con 598/551/531, Grn 320/290/288
2006: Lab 1354/1353/1318, LD 1224/1126/1087, Grn 297/220, Con 293/271/221
2002: Lab 1227/1222/1112, LD 448/429/352, Con 395/342/335, Socialist Alliance 139

The 2014 Noel Park Ind and the 2014 by-elec Woodside Ind is Pauline Gibson, a deselected Noel Park Labour councillor.

Annette Baker (Green Party)
Robert Broadhurst (Conservative Party)
Jenni Hollis (Liberal Democrats)
Peter Mitchell (Labour Party)
Andrew Price (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Richmond East - Richmondshire DC - Karen Kirby (Conservative) resigned for health reasons.

2015: Ind 541, Con 513/467, Richmondshire Independents 448, LD 293, Grn 224
2011: Ind 531/295, Con 315/312, LD 268/245
2007: Ind 649/487, LD 560
2003: LD 486/342, Richmondshire Independent Group 409, Con 408

Louise Dickens (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Lorraine Hodgson (Richmondshire Independents)
Philip Knowles (Liberal Democrats)
Tina McKay (Labour Party)

Ayr East - South Ayrshire - Resignation of Corri Wilson (SNP), the new MP for Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock.

2012: SNP 1238/371, Lab 1199, Con 1135/554, Ind 331/291 (winners: SNP, Lab, Con, SNP on 6th count; final count SNP 789, Con 759; 2nd Independent was elected as Labour in 2008)
2008: SNP 1933, Con 1516/1220, Lab 1286/861, Solidarity 183 (winners: SNP, Con, Con, Lab on 3th count; final count Con 1416, Lab 1356, Lab 940, Solidarity 270 for 2 seats)

Andrew Bryden (Independent)
Dan McCroskrie (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Boyd Murdoch (Scottish Green Party)
John Wallace (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Susan Wilson (Scottish Labour Party)

Bourn - South Cambridgeshire DC - David Morgan (Conservative) resigned, who now works in the Middle East.
2014-2018 term

2015: Con 3002, Lab 1559, Grn 766
2014: Con 677, Ind 527/327, Lab 427, UKIP 383, Grn 186, LD 148
2012: Con 779, Lab 666, LD 232
2011: Con 1106, Ind 582, Lab 503, LD 433
Feb 2011 by: Con 874, LD 345, Lab 337
2010: Con 1935, LD 1670, Lab 489, UKIP 180
2008: Con 922, LD 778, Lab 168
2007: Con 676, Ind 642, Lab 215
2006: Con 737, LD 417, Ind 300, Lab 145
2004: Con 872/710/697, LD 544/493/391, Lab 287, Ind 176 (rewarding, boundaries of the wards didn’t change but ward went from 1 seat to 3 seats, due to continuing huge growth of the new town of Cambourne)
2002: Con 615, Grn 205

Gavin Clayton (The Labour Party Candidate)
Simon Crocker (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Helene Green (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Marcus Pitcaithly (The Green Party)
Jeni Sawford (Liberal Democrat)

[David Ashforth]

	Ward maps	Census maps
HARINGEY - Noel Park	link	link
HARINGEY - Woodside	link	link
RICHMONDSHIRE - Richmond East	link	link
SOUTH ARYSHIRE - Ayr East	link
SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE - Bourn	link	link

[Merseymike]

I know the TUSC candidate in Noel Park who was involved in the anti-cuts movement back in High Wycombe in the early 80s

[Tony Otim]

Just a minor correction - the first result from Ayr east should be 2007, not 2008.

[Pete Whitehead]

Its nice to only have one Scottish by-election for a change

[maxque]

Sept 16, 2015 15:19:15 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Its nice to only have one Scottish by-election for a change

We have 7 in two weeks, though.

[Pete Whitehead]

Precisely !

[maxque]

Louise Dickens, the Conservative candidate in Richmond East, is the granddaughter of conspiracy nut and bigot Geoffrey Dickens. She seems to have the same obsessions than her grandfather had, too and to like Simon Danczuk...

[finsobruce]

I am not at the count, so you'll probably know the Noel Park and Woodside results before I do... All I would say is don't expect record turnouts in either contest.

 

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Richmond East

Con 307 (39.7%; +14.3)
Rich Ind 289 (37.4%; +15.2)
LD 136 (17.6%; +3.1)
Lab 41 (5.3%; +5.3)

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Turnout in Bourn is 15.29%.
In Ayr East, it's 34.4%, was 43.7% in 2012, so, surprisingly high for a by-election.

[Davıd Boothroyd]

SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE Bourn

Simon Crocker (The Conservative Party Candidate) 579
Jeni Sawford (Liberal Democrat) 247
Gavin Clayton (The Labour Party Candidate) 235
Helene Green (UK Independence Party (UKIP)) 121
Marcus Pitcaithly (The Green Party) 64

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Bourn, South Cambs

Con 579 (46.5%; -9.9)
LD 247 (19.8%; +19.8)
Lab 235 (18.9%; -10.4)
UKIP 121 (9.7%; +9.7)
Grn 64 (5.1%; -9.3)

[David Ashforth]

EDIT: Confirmation of that result voting.haringey.gov.uk/
Turnout: 18%

[East Anglian Lefty]

That's an impressively terrible turnout. I had been considering offering to help out today, but the car is playing silly buggers so I couldn't get there. Looks like it would have been even more of a waste of time than I expected.

[David Ashforth]

EDIT: Confirmation of that result. The Labour figure is 1279 voting.haringey.gov.uk/
Turnout: 23%

[finsobruce]

Apart from several European elections, I think my stint telling in the "rush" evening period was as quiet a one as I can remember. Interesting that the Tories beat the Greens in both.....otherwise pretty much as expected...

[dizz]

Sept 17, 2015 22:23:26 GMT David Ashforth said:

Clear evidence of Corbyn bounce i.e Green down & Lab up.

[greenhert]

Thankfully not as much as I feared, even with TUSC standing this time. As for the percentages in Woodside, they are: Labour 61.7% (+4.6%), Lib Dem 21.0% (+9.2%), Conservative 6.8% (-0.9%), Green 5.9% (-5.6%), UKIP 4.6% (-2.7%).

[Pete Whitehead]

Well it is almost home turf. There has tended to be this kind of movement in by-elections anyway - the Greens seem to be pretty bad at them generally and if you look at most London by-elections since 2014 you'd see a similar patterm