Town and Community Council Byelections

[carolus]

Durham, Great Aycliffe, Woodham. LD 486, [] 71

[casualobserver]

Sept 6, 2022 16:22:26 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Sept 6, 2022 13:37:23 GMT listener said:

Three more uncontested elections on 29 September

East Hampshire, Farringdon. No Description
Cannock Chase, Hednesford (Anglesey). Unaffiliated. True Independent for Hednesford Residents
Cannock Chase, Rugeley (Etchinghill). Resident of Etching Hill

This caught my eye because there is also an Anglesey ward in Burton and I wondered what the connection might be.
This would be the answer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Anglesey

Marquess of Anglesey .. is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1815 for Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, a hero of the Battle of Waterloo, second in command to the Duke of Wellington. The Marquess holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex.. The former family seat was Beaudesert, near Cannock Chase, Staffordshire.

He had already been created Baron Burton, of Burton-on-Trent in the County of Stafford, in 1711, prior to succeeding to the barony of Paget in 1713. In 1714 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Uxbridge, in the County of Middlesex.

There also used to be an Uxbridge ward in Burton

In 1826 the Marquess of Anglesey established a small community in (then) rural Hampshire, hence the Anglesey Ward we see in Gosport Borough Council.

[carolus]

20 Sep:
Windsor & Maidenhead, Wraysbury. Ind*

21 Sep:
Eden, Penrith, East. LD*

22 Sep:
Cornwall, Newquay, Porth & Tretherras. Green, []
North Devon, Barnstaple, Pilton & Yeo Valley. Green, LD

Caerphilly, "Draethen, Waterloo & Rudry", Rudry Rhydygwern. 2x Ind
North Devon, Combe Martin (2). Ind, 2x []
North Somerset, Nailsea, Golden Valley. 2x []
Selby, Cridling Stubbs. 2x []

Cornwall, Bude Stratton, Stratton. []*
North Warwickshire, Water Orton. Ind*

29 Sep:
Telford & Wrekin, Newport, South. Con, Lab, LD, 2x Ind, []
Warrington, Grappenhall & Thelwall, Grappenhall (2). 2x Con, 2x LD

Cannock Chase, Hednesford, Anglesey. "Unaffiliated, True Independent for Hednesford Residents"*
Cannock Chase, Rugeley, Etchinghill. Resident of Etching Hill*
Charnwood, Birstall Stonehill. Ind*
East Hampshire, Farringdon. []*
North Devon, Bishop's Tawton. []*
Wychavon, Tibberton. []*

6 Oct:
Denbighshire, Prestatyn, North West. Con, Lab, Ind

Cotswold, Moreton-in-Marsh. Ind*

South Somerset, Martock. []*

13 Oct:

Basildon, Noak Bridge. British Democrat, Ind

West Lindsey, Saxilby-with-Ingleby. []*

West Oxfordshire, Wootton. []*

Babergh, Hadleigh, South (2). ? Probably no nominations.

There is also:

Cornwall, Looe Harbour Comissioners (10) - Businessman, Ex Fisherman Sailing Charter Skipper, Fisherman, Full Time Fisherman, Marine Engineering Lecturer Coastguard Lifeboat Volunteers, Retired Harbour Master, Semi-Retired Fishmerchant, Ind, 3x []

[November_Rain]

British Democrat - new far-right party or just a description?

[Tony Otim]

Sept 20, 2022 8:31:58 GMT November_Rain said:

British Democrat - new far-right party or just a description?

New party, coming from the now defunct For Britain. They have at least 1 councillor (in Epping Forest, elected as For Britain).

[East Anglian Lefty]

Sept 16, 2022 10:30:27 GMT carolus said:

Sept 16, 2022 10:14:46 GMT sonofkrautrock said:

Has anywhere had as many as Carterton’s 5 by-elections in a recent cycle?

At a guess, Morecambe may have had more (but is a bigger council), and We've seen quite a few in Ely recently. Haven't counted for either of them, though.

There are some "technical" ones that probably don't count for your purposes - e.g. to try and fill entire councils after a lack od nominations, or where the same vacancy has been called over and over.

9bviously on a district level there are plenty - lancaster's on 11

I make it 5 (out of 15) of Ely's councillors who weren't elected in 2019. I think there were by-elections in each case.

[November_Rain]

Sept 20, 2022 10:38:44 GMT Tony Otim said:

Sept 20, 2022 8:31:58 GMT November_Rain said:

British Democrat - new far-right party or just a description?

New party, coming from the now defunct For Britain. They have at least 1 councillor (in Epping Forest, elected as For Britain).

Thank you. Just reading their Wiki - lovely people....not!

[Pete Whitehead]

Aren't they Andrew Brons's lot? Been around for quite a while

[Merseymike]

Sept 21, 2022 19:28:44 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Aren't they Andrew Brons's lot? Been around for quite a while

Yes. They seem to have picked up some of the For Britain membership when that party was wound up...

[cibwr]

Sept 21, 2022 19:32:04 GMT Merseymike said:

Sept 21, 2022 19:28:44 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Aren't they Andrew Brons's lot? Been around for quite a while

Yes. They seem to have picked up some of the For Britain membership when that party was wound up...

A really lovely bunch of racist nutters... seem have a number of ex UKIPers - I thought UKIP proscribed people who were from the BNP?

[Pete Whitehead]

Sept 22, 2022 14:13:53 GMT cibwr said:

Sept 21, 2022 19:32:04 GMT Merseymike said:

Yes. They seem to have picked up some of the For Britain membership when that party was wound up...

A really lovely bunch of racist nutters... seem have a number of ex UKIPers - I thought UKIP proscribed people who were from the BNP?

How in practical terms could UKIP's ban on admitting former members of the BNP be extended to a ban on former members of UKIP joining another party which also happens to have some former members of the BNP in it?

[lackeroftalent]

Cornwall, Newquay TC, Porth & Tretherras. Green 346, No Description 329

North Devon, Barnstaple TC, Pilton & Yeo Valley. Green 244, LD 493

[carolus]

29 Sep:
Telford & Wrekin, Newport, South. Con, Lab, LD, 2x Ind, []
Warrington, Grappenhall & Thelwall, Grappenhall (2). 2x Con, 2x LD

Cannock Chase, Hednesford, Anglesey. "Unaffiliated, True Independent for Hednesford Residents"*
Cannock Chase, Rugeley, Etchinghill. Resident of Etching Hill*
Charnwood, Birstall Stonehill. Ind*
East Hampshire, Farringdon. []*
North Devon, Bishop's Tawton. []*
Wychavon, Tibberton. []*

6 Oct:
Denbighshire, Prestatyn, North West. Con, Lab, Ind

Cotswold, Moreton-in-Marsh. Ind*
South Somerset, Martock. []*

13 Oct:
Basildon, Noak Bridge. British Democrat, Ind

West Lindsey, Saxilby-with-Ingleby. []*
West Oxfordshire, Wootton. []*

Babergh, Hadleigh, South (2). ? Probably no nominations.

There is also:

Cornwall, Looe Harbour Comissioners (10) - Businessman, Ex Fisherman Sailing Charter Skipper, Fisherman, Full Time Fisherman, Marine Engineering Lecturer Coastguard Lifeboat Volunteers, Retired Harbour Master, Semi-Retired Fishmerchant, Ind, 3x []

20 Oct:

Buckinghamshire, Beaconsfield, Central. Con, LD.

Buckinghamshire, Beaconsfield, West. Con, LD.

Carmarthenshire, Ammanford, Iscennen. Lab, PC.

Swansea, Mumbles, Mayals. Con, LD.

Wiltshire, Royal Wootton Bassett, North. LD*

Folkestone & Hythe, Lydd. []*

Folkestone & Hythe, New Romney, Coast. Ind*

Neath Port Talbot, Blaenhonddan, Brynoch South. []*

Wiltshire, Hullavington. []*

[carolus]

29 Sep: Wakefield, Hemsworth, South. Ind, 2x []

[cibwr]

Sept 22, 2022 14:41:51 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Sept 22, 2022 14:13:53 GMT cibwr said:

A really lovely bunch of racist nutters... seem have a number of ex UKIPers - I thought UKIP proscribed people who were from the BNP?

How in practical terms could UKIP's ban on admitting former members of the BNP be extended to a ban on former members of UKIP joining another party which also happens to have some former members of the BNP in it?

I am fairly sure looking at the membership of that party that they were members of assorted racist parties before joining UKIP and then joining a new racist party after.... I know many UKIP members were as anti racist as the rest of us but it does seem to have had several with dubious pasts. I would agree that its impossible to track all the parties that all members had been part of in their time... some do seem to be serial party hoppers.

[carolus]

Warrington, Grappenhall & Thelwall, Grappenhall (2). LD 722, 718, Con 319, 277

[Chris from Brum]

ALDC are trumpeting an LD gain in South ward, Newport town council, but not saying which Newport it is (Shropshire, IoW, somewhere else?). Anyone know?

[carolus]

Sept 30, 2022 7:59:19 GMT Chris from Brum said:

ALDC are trumpeting an LD gain in South ward, Newport town council, but not saying which Newport it is (Shropshire, IoW, somewhere else?). Anyone know?

Telford & Wrekin

[carolus]

Telford & Wrekin, Newport, South. LD 235, Con 192, Ind 115, 3, Lab 83, [] 14

[Chris from Brum]

Sept 30, 2022 12:42:34 GMT carolus said:

Telford & Wrekin, Newport, South. LD 235, Con 192, Ind 115, 3, Lab 83, [] 14

That's the one, but I was wrong, it's a hold rather than a gain.