By-elections - December 10th

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Kinson South - Bournemouth UA - Roger Marley and Norman Decent (Conservatives) were disqualified by the High Court. For the first hour of the vote, the polling station had ballots for the Kinson North ward, and so, 115 electors casted invalid votes unknowingly. The majority of those 2 candidates over the 4th place were smaller than the number of affected votes.

2015: UKIP 1224, Con 1188/1147/919, Lab 1083/951/875, Bournemouth Independent Alliance 489, Grn 471, LD 378
2011: Lab 1043/992/892, Con 922/787/782, LD 308/256
2007: Lab 861/736/711, LD 536/534/523, Con 493/486/476, UKIP 233/211, Ind 118
2003: Lab 940/876/862, Con 457/448/437, LD 321/268/251

Beryl Baxter (Labour Party)
Geoffrey Darnton (Green Party)
Philip Davenport (Bournemouth Independent Alliance)
Norman Decent (Conservative Party Candidate)
Kevin Dixon (Patria)
Phil Dunn (Liberal Democrats)
Duane Farr (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Carla Gregory-May (Green Party)
Roger Marley (Conservative Party Candidate)
Gill Pardy (Liberal Democrats)
Mel Semple (Labour Party)
Roger West (Bournemouth Independent Alliance)

Clifton - Fylde BC - Len Davies (Conservative) resigned due to ill health.

2015: Con 1385/1136/1087, Ind 1081, Lab 554
2011: Con 828/699, Ind 813/804
Nov 09 by: Con 386, Fylde Ratepayers Association 372, LD 241, Lab 80, Grn 13
2007: Con 837/739/710, Ind 735, Lab 239
2003: Con 874/722/651, Fylde Ratepayers Association 609/559, Lab 232

Peter Anthony (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Luke Gibbon (Liberal Democrats)
Noreen Griffiths (Independent)
Jed Sullivan (Labour Party)
Tim Wood (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Market Harborough Logan - Harborough DC - Peter Callis (Liberal Democrat) died. He was a councillor between 1979 and 1983 and since 1991 and was chairman of the council.

2015: LD 996/660, Con 975/645, Lab 416, Grn 368
2011: LD 734/609, Con 729/508, Lab 230/220, Ind 98
2007: Con 718/584, LD 663/528
Aug 2004 by: LD 615, Con 570
2003: LD 876/808, Con 592/460

Paul Bremner (Conservative Party)
Robert Davison (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Barbara Johnson (Liberal Democrat)
Anne Pridmore (Labour Party)
Darren Woodiwiss (The Green Party)

Huntingdon East - Huntingdonshire DC - Andrew Hardy (UKIP) resigned as he was about to be expelled for non-attendance.

2015: Con 1595, LD 1264, UKIP 1065, Lab 566, TUSC 52
2014: UKIP 882, LD 848, Con 702, Lab 282
2012: LD 823, Con 789, UKIP 336, Lab 282
2011: Con 1424, LD 989, Lab 492
2010: LD 2075, Con 1766, Lab 453, Grn 202
2008: LD 1239, Con 1016, Lab 154, UKIP 145, Grn 64
2007: Con 1173, LD 901, Lab 188, Grn 125
2006: LD 1326, Con 1073, Lab 247
2004: Con 1236/1146/1114, LD 1040/988/960, UKIP 442, Lab 297/289/272

Martin Cohen (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Tom Fletcher (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ste Greenall (Liberal Democrats)
Duncan Williams (Labour Party)

Coal Aston - North East Derbyshire DC - Gary Griffin-Chappel (Conservative) resigned.

2015: Con 1034/941, Lab 691/608, UKIP 283
2011: Con 730/680, Lab 546/543, LD 198
2007: Con 569/514, Lab 378/341, LD 221/220
2003: Con 484, Lab 439/418

David Cheetham (Labour Party)
Gareth Hopkinson (The Conservative Party Candidate)

Holmewood and Heath - North East Derbyshire DC - Patricia Williams (Labour) died. She was a councillor since 1999.

2015: Lab 948/841, Con 376/325
2011: Lab 607/582, Con 248
Feb 2010 by: Lab 373, Con 209
Apr 2008 by: LD 382, Lab 356, Con 165
2007: 2 x Lab unopposed
2003: 2 x Lab unopposed

Suzy Cornwell (Labour Party)
Caroline Ellis (The Conservative Party Candidate)

Blantyre - South Lanarkshire - Jim Handibode (Labour) died. He was a councillor since 1992, representing Coatshill/Low Blantyre in the FPTP era.

2012: Lab 1141/756/579, SNP 929/470, Ind 234/40, CPA 209, Con 176, LD 32 (elected: Lab, SNP, Lab, Lab on 9th count; final count: Lab 751, SNP 580)
2007: Lab 1586/1121, Ind 1365/748/52, SNP 1253, Con 327 (elected: Lab, Ind, SNP, Lab on 3rd count; final count: Lab 1270, Ind 783, Con 332, Ind 66, with a 48 SNP surplus)

The 2012 CPA candidate is the 2nd Ind candidate in 2008 and a former Labour councillor in the time of the FPTP wards.

Sean Baillie (Scottish Socialist Party - Save our services)
Gerry Chambers (Scottish National Party (SNP))
Emma Docherty (UKIP)
Taylor Muir (Scottish Conservative and Unionist)
Mo Razzaq (Scottish Labour Party)
Stephen Reid (Scottish Liberal Democrats)

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	Ward maps	Census maps
BOURNEMOUTH - Kinson South	link	link
FYLDE - Clifton	link	link
HARBOROUGH - Market Harborough-Logan	link	link
HUNTINGDONSHIRE - Huntingdon East	link	link
NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE - Coal Aston	link	link
NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE - Holmewood and Heath	link	link
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE - Blantyre	link

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Previews by Mr Teale:
blog.englishelections.org.uk/2015/12/by-election-previews-10-december-2015.html
blog.scottishelections.org.uk/2015/12/by-election-preview-10-december-2015.html

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I read Andrew Teale's blog avidly every week. What a pleasure it is!

I have been following local elections since 1973 and I think I know something about them, but I learn a lot every time from Andrew's blog.

I know what hard work it is to produce the information. Keep going, Andrew, it makes a real difference to my understanding every week.

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Liberal Democrat HOLD Market Harborough Logan (Harborough).

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Market Logan (Harborough) vote result:
LDEM: 402
CON: 303
LAB: 82
GRN: 56
UKIP: 47

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LDEM: 45.2% (+9.0)
CON: 34.0% (-1.3)
LAB: 9.2% (-5.9)
GRN: 6.3% (-7.1)
UKIP: 5.3% (+5.3)

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Market Harborough Logan

LD 402 (45.2%; +9.0)
Con 303 (34.0%; -1.4)
Lab 82 (9.2%; -5.9)
Grn 56 (6.3%; -7.1)
UKIP 47 (5.3%; +5.3)

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Conservative HOLD Clifton (Fylde).

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Coal Aston

Con 606 (66.6; +15.1)
Lab 304 (33.4; -1.0)

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LD gain in Huntingdon.

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(full result in Clifton, Fylde DC)

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Huntingdon East full result to be found here:

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Fylde

Con 59.8% (+13.9)
UKIP 13.3% (+13.3)
Ind 12.7% (+12.7)
Lab 8.7% (-9.6)
LD 5.5% (+5.5)

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