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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 20:20:19 GMT
I've found a "Radical Liberal" in Braintree,Castle Hedingham (1976)
"Socialist Unity" candidate in Basingstoke, Norden (1978)
ILP candidate in Cambridge, Cherry Hinton (1973)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 20:41:13 GMT
Who were "SLAGs" who used to stand in Kensington and Chelsea and usually came bottom of the poll?
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 20:55:47 GMT
Who were "SLAGs" who used to stand in Kensington and Chelsea and usually came bottom of the poll? Save London Alliance/Action Group... Also stood in Westminster and Hounslow - and I've just found one in Lewisham too. Not to be confused with the SWAGS. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 28, 2015 21:16:24 GMT
Brighton 1973-95 also seems somehow absent.
EDIT: And Mid Sussex.
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Post by iainbhx on Nov 28, 2015 21:25:24 GMT
Brighton 1973-95 also seems somehow absent. I can't find the Met Counties, but that's probably me being stupid. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2015 21:28:34 GMT
We can always e-mail electionscentre@gmail.com to report any omissions or errors.
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 21:38:35 GMT
A Tory councillor in Mole Valley (1976/8) called Ms Tortise. (almost)
Roger Protz standing for Labour in St Albans (1980/82)
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 28, 2015 22:01:39 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Nov 28, 2015 22:05:00 GMT
I am so glad I found this website-the fact that Brighton's 1973-95 results (before it was merged with Hove to become Brighton & Hove) are absent is really annoying, since it would be nice to trace Green Party results in Brighton pre-Brighton & Hove. I also saw that we once elected three councillors in the district of Glanford, Lincolnshire, in 1991-unfortunately that district was later abolished by local government legislation some time later  |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 22:17:43 GMT
Anthony Minghella's mum Gloria was listed as being an Independent Isle of Wight councillor in her obituary, but I've found E Minghella (presumably his father Edward) elected in 1973.
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Post by maxque on Nov 28, 2015 22:18:43 GMT
I am so glad I found this website-the fact that Brighton's 1973-95 results (before it was merged with Hove to become Brighton & Hove) are absent is really annoying, since it would be nice to trace Green Party results in Brighton pre-Brighton & Hove. I also saw that we once elected three councillors in the district of Glanford, Lincolnshire, in 1991-unfortunately that district was later abolished by local government legislation some time later I suspect than it was due to some local issues. Greens weren't running there in 1990, nor in 1995 (but one, getting a bad result) and the three wards seems to be contiguous (around the town of Barton). |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 28, 2015 22:24:14 GMT
Brighton 1973-95 also seems somehow absent. I can't find the Met Counties, but that's probably me being stupid. Then we share that stupidity. The county council election results in Hereford and Worcester, and Worcestershire, also can't be found. |
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 22:35:43 GMT
I know we've tracked proto Social Democrats before but I don't think I knew about the one in the Monkmoor ward of Shropshire CC (1981). Someone called C Smith.
(He stood as the Lib/SDP candidate in 1985)
And another edit. I've just realised that far from his candidacy costing Labour the seat in 1981, Labour actually regained it as the previous Labour councillor Mr Bevan had stood as an Ind Lab candidate in1977 and let the Tories in.....
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 28, 2015 22:37:00 GMT
A Tory councillor in Mole Valley (1976/8) called Ms Tortise. (almost) Roger Protz standing for Labour in St Albans (1980/82) There used to be a councillor in Sheffield called G. S. Goodenough. He was a councillor from 1945 until 1967 so the voters of Attercliffe ward must have thought he was good enough to keep re-electing him. Although as a Labour candidate in Attercliffe he was pretty much guaranteed re-election. There was a Labour candidate in Broomhill ward in 1967 called Mrs F M Gathercole. Although Gather coal would've been better. But sadly not, and sadly for her Broomhill was at that time a safe Conservative ward. |
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Post by David Ashforth on Nov 28, 2015 22:50:20 GMT
Interesting to see a ward electing a Communist and a Ratepayer. Interesting turnout as well...
Islwyn 1976
Risca North (3200)
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Gardner G. Ind Soc 957 29.7
Jones W. Comm 852 26.4
Withey G. Rate 754 23.4
Whatley G. Lab 659 20.5
Llewellyn L. Lab 640 -
Jones S. Lab 451 -
Turnout 100.7 3.3
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 22:53:38 GMT
Interesting to see a ward electing a Communist and a Ratepayer. Interesting turnout as well...Islwyn 1976Risca North (3200) vote shareGardner G. Ind Soc 957 29.7Jones W. Comm 852 26.4Withey G. Rate 754 23.4Whatley G. Lab 659 20.5Llewellyn L. Lab 640 -Jones S. Lab 451 -Turnout 100.7 3.3 The mid seventies are definitely the time for wacky results in Labour areas. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 28, 2015 23:09:26 GMT
Glusburn is a sleepy but beautiful and relatively prosperous village in Airedale, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, between Keighley and Skipton and in Craven district. Topping the poll at each election he stood at from 1973 until 1983 was Harold Gresswell who stood as a Socialist candidate. There were plenty of Labour candidates standing in the other wards so this can't have been down to renaming by a Conservative-supporting newspaper.
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Post by finsobruce on Nov 28, 2015 23:25:40 GMT
Glusburn is a sleepy but beautiful and relatively prosperous village in Airedale, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, between Keighley and Skipton and in Craven district. Topping the poll at each election he stood at from 1973 until 1983 was Harold Gresswell who stood as a Socialist candidate. There were plenty of Labour candidates standing in the other wards so this can't have been down to renaming by a Conservative-supporting newspaper. He was present at the meeting in 1949 when Ivor Thomas, MP for Keighley announced that he had been formally admitted to the Conservative party. news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19490104&id=gv8uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MtwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5198,512157&hl=en |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 29, 2015 0:05:20 GMT
One of our forum members may get a surprise when he checks out his results in Delamere ward, Crewe and Nantwich borough.
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Post by cuthbertbede on Nov 29, 2015 0:26:33 GMT
I've been going through the Tendring results:
I hadn't realised that Peter Balbirnie (sometime council chairman) had actually started out being elected for the Liberal-SDP Alliance in St Osyth & Point Clear in 1983, before being elected as an Independent Conservative in Little Clacton in 1987 and 1991. He was then elected as a Conservative in 1999 for the same ward, then as a Conservative in Little Clacton & Weeley in 2003 (following boundary changes), for Tendring First in that ward in 2007 & 2011, finally being defeated by 1 UKIP and 1 Conservative in 2015. Interesting to note that he never managed more than two successful elections with any one party.
Another interesting series of results seem to be the movement of a "Turner, G." (no idea if all are the same person but the evidence would appear to support this interpretation):
1973: unsuccessful Labour candidate for Great & Little Oakley (Ind victory)
1976: no appearance
1979: elected Independent Labour candidate for Great & Little Oakley
1983: unsuccessful Lib/SDP candidate for Ramsey & Parkeston (Lab victory)
1987: unsuccessful Lib/SDP candidate for Great & Little Oakley (Con victory)
1991, 1995, 1999: no appearance
2003: unsuccessful Labour candidate for Great & Little Oakley (Con victory; cross-checking this gives Graham as the forename)
2007, 2011, 2015: no appearance
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