Town and Community Council Byelections

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Summary of Results on 20 October 2016

Bodmin (St. Leonard) - Lib Dem 362, Lab 162 - Lib Dem hold
Witham (North) - Con 312, Lab 311, Green Party 247, Lib Dem 34 - Con hold
Sandhurst (Central Sandhurst) - Con 492, Lab 199 - Con hold
Rothwell (Tresham) - Con 317, Lab 270, Lib Dem 65 - Con gain from Lab
Blaengwrach - Plaid Cymru 143, Lab 84, Independent 34, UKIP Wales 33 - PC gain from Lab
Glynneath (West Central) - Plaid Cymru 83, Lab 44, Independent 39, UKIP Wales 10 - PC gain from Lab

[Lord Twaddleford]

Dual vacancies on the Llandudno Town Council, both in Mostyn Ward.

NOTICE

[hedgehog]

I don't think this has been picked up but the BNP have taken control of Heybridge parish council, m.essexlive.news/british-national-party-take-control-of-heybridge-parish-council-after-by-election-win/story-29829328-detail/story.html

[marksenior]

Horwich TC ( Bolton ) Claypool LDem gain from Con

LD 323 Con 152 Lab 108 Ind 80 Green 17

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Houghton Regis TC Houghton Hall

LD 299 Ind 153 Ind 131

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Keynsham East, Keynsham TC

Tory 622, LD 333, L 87, G 72

Tory hold

[peterl]

Incidentially no results yet from Seaford, but Lewes district council's website also has details of a neighbourhood plan referendum in somewhere called Wivelsfield which was also held yesterday. Results also awaited.

[marksenior]

Seaford is counting now . I believe Seaford Central is 1 LD and 1 Con hold with LD top of poll

[maxque]

Oct 28, 2016 9:59:16 GMT peterl said:

Incidentially no results yet from Seaford, but Lewes district council's website also has details of a neighbourhood plan referendum in somewhere called Wivelsfield which was also held yesterday. Results also awaited.

It covers most of the open space between Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath, so, there is development pressures there.

[andrew111]

Kirkburton Parish Council, Lepton Ward (Kirklees)
Lib Dem Hold
LD 438 (48%); Tory 294 (32%); Labour 141 (15.5%) UKIP 39 (4.3%)

Turnout 20% (more than half postal votes...)
Result in 2015 was 2 x LD, 2x Green 1x Tory in a 5 member ward. top % LD 30; G 27; T 26; ind 17

Congratulations to the Lib Dem candidate Alison Munro

[marksenior]

Lib Dem gain Seaford North from Con

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Seaford Central 1 LD hold 1 Con hold

LD 295 Con 293 LD 248 Con 211 Lab 128 UKIP 126 Lab 115 Green 75

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Seaford North LD Gain from Con

LD 321 Con 195 UKIP 133 Lab 89

[marksenior]

Seaford South is Lib Dem gain from Con ( seems they are counting one ward at a time )

[marksenior]

Seaford West looks to be a Con gain from Lib Dem

[andrew111]

Holme Valley Brockholes ward

Labour 163
UKIP 77

cant find any previous results for thsi ward on the Kirklees website...

[marksenior]

Newhaven Meeching LD hold

LD 252 Con 150 Lab 144 UKIP 105

Seaford South LD Gain from Con

LD 294 Con 236 Ind 129 Lab 105 UKIP 83


Seaford West Con gain from LD

Con 347 LD 333 Lab 122 UKIP 107

[marksenior]

Dover results

Castle Con hold

Con 210 Lab 97 Green 61 No Desc 45

Maxton etc Community gain from Con

Comm 383 Con 231 Lab 216 Ind 51

Town and Pier Lab gain from Ind

Lab 188 Ind 93

[J.G.Harston]

We have applicants for co-option at next week's town council. Yes, applicants plural! link

Unfortunately, they've both gone for wards that already have members, still leaving us with one ward with zero members. Roll on our miniture boundary review which will do its best to address this. Proposed to have 3 five-member seats co-terminal with the borough council seats, instead of 6 x 2/3/4-member seats, meaning an individual ward is less likely to have zero candidates.

[cuthbertbede]

Frinton & Walton TC, Walton Ward
Vacancy caused by resignation of Dave Fitz-Hardy (Conservative)
Polling day 03/11/2016

Candidates nominated:
Cossens, Mark Alan (Conservative)
Oxley, Ann Francis (Tendring First)

In May 2015, Walton was contested by 4 Conservative and 2 Tendring First candidates and returned 2 Conservatives and 2 Tendring First councillors.

Mark Cossens is a district councillor for Holland & Kirby ward and lives in Hamford ward. He has previously served as mayor of Frinton & Walton. Until 2007 he was a member of the Conservatives, then defected to Tendring First before rejoining the Conservatives in 2014. At Tendring DC level, he first stood in 1999 in St John's ward (in Clacton) without success, and has now served as councillor for Holland and Kirby since 2003. At Essex CC level he stood unsuccessfully for Harwich in 2001, served for Tendring Rural East 2005-9 and stood again for that ward in 2009 & 2013 without success. Ann Cossens (his wife), who followed the same pattern of defections, is currently a Frinton & Walton town councillor for Kirby Cross ward and unsuccessfully contested Haven ward on Tendring DC in 2015.

Ann Oxley lives in the ward and her husband David is already a town councillor for the ward. She and her family were Conservatives until defecting to Tendring First in 2007. At Tendring DC level she represented Pier ward (in Clacton) 2003-7, and unsuccessfully contested it in 2007 & 2011, and St Paul's ward (also in Clacton) in 2015. Also at Tendring DC level her husband represented St Paul's 2007-15 and her son Pierre represented Southcliff 1999-2003 & St Paul's 2003-15, standing without success in 2015. At Essex CC level he represented Clacton East 2005-9, unsuccessfully defending it 2009 before regaining it in 2013. He was subsequently disqualified as a councillor after being convicted in 2016 of fraud and given a suspended sentence.

Composition of TC after May 2015 election: 7 Con 9 Tendring First
Current composition: 5 Con 9 Tendring First 2 Vacant
The other vacancy is the result of the disqualification of Mark Brown (Conservative, Frinton ward) for non-attendance on 13/10/2016.