Town and Community Council Byelections

[Harry Hayfield]

Jul 28, 2023 6:08:22 GMT yellowperil said:

Jul 27, 2023 22:04:23 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

It appears they have forgotten the word "elected"- or did they decide both candidates were rubbish and nobody was elected? ;)

At the bottom it does say "And I do hereby declare that Paul Martin Victor Gorringe is duly elected" so I think that covers that little oversight

[Rutlander]

Jul 27, 2023 22:11:24 GMT carolus said:

Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks, Northern. LD 351, Lab 131. LD gain from Con, council now 16 LD.

A TWEET from Sevenoaks LDs notes that the town now has a full set of LD councillors:
* The county councillor 🔶
* All nine district councillors 🔶
* All 16 town councillors 🔶

(The town has a Tory MP, Laura Trott.)

[Pete Whitehead]

'Fair votes'

[yellowperil]

Jul 28, 2023 7:55:10 GMT Harry Hayfield said:

Jul 28, 2023 6:08:22 GMT yellowperil said:

It appears they have forgotten the word "elected"- or did they decide both candidates were rubbish and nobody was elected?

At the bottom it does say "And I do hereby declare that Paul Martin Victor Gorringe is duly elected" so I think that covers that little oversight

Not on my version? Or do you need to go on twitter or whatever its called this week (kiss?)in order to get those vital extra words?

[yellowperil]

Jul 28, 2023 8:13:31 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

'Fair votes'

Absolutely. I don't think 16 out of 16 for one party is particularly healthy and I would willingly trade that for a system of proportional representation. Was a time many years ago( last century!) when I used to attend regular meetings at the Sevenoaks TC offices and even then the Lib Dems were strongly represented, but never 16 /16. Interesting place - a wooden hut in a car park, but equipped with all the bits and pieces salvaged from, I presume, the old town hall.

[carolus]

South Oxfordshire, Didcot, Park. Green 192, LD 188, Con 182, Lab 140. Green gain from Con.

Vale of Glamorgan, Barry, Buttrills. PC 536, Lab 355, Con 125. PC hold.

[Pete Whitehead]

Jul 28, 2023 10:42:33 GMT carolus said:

South Oxfordshire, Didcot, Park. Green 192, LD 188, Con 182, Lab 140. Green gain from Con.
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These sort of results are always good fun, whoever wins, but it would have been more fun if Labour could have taken another 30 votes (taking them equally from the Lib Dems and Greens)

[johnloony]

Jul 28, 2023 11:00:26 GMT Pete Whitehead said:

Jul 28, 2023 10:42:33 GMT carolus said:

South Oxfordshire, Didcot, Park. Green 192, LD 188, Con 182, Lab 140. Green gain from Con.
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These sort of results are always good fun, whoever wins, but it would have been more fun if Labour could have taken another 30 votes (taking them equally from the Lib Dems and Greens)

Whenever there is a close 3-way election result like that, it is always tempting for political activists to be frustrated and to think "if only X number of voters could have been persuaded to vote for Party Y instead of Party Z, then we would have defeated Party W" (and so on), all the while losing sight of the bigger picture which is that the total number of non-voters is probably 2 or 3 times as many as the total of X+Y+Z+Z+etc.

[samdwebber]

Jul 28, 2023 8:10:19 GMT Rutlander said:

Jul 27, 2023 22:11:24 GMT carolus said:

Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks, Northern. LD 351, Lab 131. LD gain from Con, council now 16 LD.

A TWEET from Sevenoaks LDs notes that the town now has a full set of LD councillors:
* The county councillor 🔶
* All nine district councillors 🔶
* All 16 town councillors 🔶

(The town has a Tory MP, Laura Trott.)

More info on this by-election: 

[carolus]

Somerset, Chard, Combe. Ind 249, LD 205. Ind gain from Green.

Somerset, Yeovil, Summerlands. LD 329, Ind 128/33, Green 71. LD hold.

Wealden, Hailsham, North West. Ind 226, LD 198. Ind gain from Con.

Bridgend, Cornelly appears to have been a Labour hold, but I'm not sure of the votes.

[carolus]

3 August:
Caerphilly, Draethen, Waterloo & Rudry, Rudry (4). 3x Lab*, Ind*
Carephilly, Draethen, Waterloo & Rudry, Llanfedw (2). Lab*

Central Bedfordshire, Henlow. [], Local Independent Parish Candidate

Caerphilly, Draethen, Waterloo & Rudry, Rhydygwern. Ind*
Central Bedfordshire, Studham (4). Ind*, 3x []*
Malvern Hills, Bayton (5). []*
Malvern Hills, Newland (6). []*
Milton Keynes, Olney. []*
North East Lincolnshire, Irby (5). 4x []*
Northumberland, Horncliffe, Horncliffe. []*

9 August:
Guildford, Pirbright. 3x []

10 August:
Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman, Pistllwyd. Gwlad, Ind

North Northamptonshire, Finedon. LD*

Carmarthenshire, Newcastle Emlyn. 2x []
East Lindsey, East Keal. 2x []
King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Docking (2). 3x []
King's Lynn & West Norfolk, West Walton. 2x Ind, 2x []
North Northamptonshire, Irchester (2). 2x [], Ind

17 August:
Hinckley & Bosworth, Barwell, Charnwood. Lab, LD, 2x Ind
Huntingdonshire, St Neots, Eaton Ford. Green, Lab, [], Putting Eaton Ford First Independent

Bradford, Keighley, Bracken Bank & Ingrow. Ind, Working hard for the local area
Bradford, Keighley, Fell Lane & Westburn. Ind, Community Activist
West Berkshire, Inkpen. 2x []

East Riding of Yorkshire, Preston, North (6). 2x []*

24 August:

Bridgend, Porthcawl, East Central. Lab, Ind

Denbighshire, Rhyl, Cefndy. Con, Lab

East Lindsey, Mablethorpe & Sutton, Sutton on Sea South. Con, Ind, []

North East Derbyshire, Wingerworth, Hardwick Wood. Con, Green, LD, Lives in Hardwick Wood

Wokingham, Wokingham, Westcott East. Con, Lab, LD

Rother, Camber. 2x []

Shropshire, Wheathill (2). 4x []

[listener]

3 August. There is a second contested by-election today in Cutcombe parish of Somerset, following the contested by-election on 20 July.
Cutcombe [], [Farmer, West Country Roots, Team Player]

10 August. Pilton (Somerset). [], Ind

14 August. Costessey Town Council (South Norfolk) - Queen's Hills ward. []*

17 August. Brading Town Council (Isle of Wight) - Ind*

[listener]

N.B. The Wokingham Town Council by-election on 24 August is in Wescott East ward, without a T.

[carolus]

9 August:
Guildford, Pirbright. 3x []

10 August:
Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman, Pistllwyd. Gwlad, Ind

North Northamptonshire, Finedon. LD*

Carmarthenshire, Newcastle Emlyn. 2x []
East Lindsey, East Keal. 2x []
King's Lynn & West Norfolk, Docking (2). 3x []
King's Lynn & West Norfolk, West Walton. 2x Ind, 2x []

North Northamptonshire, Irchester (2). 2x [], Ind

Somerset, Pilton. [], Ind

14 August:

South Norfolk, Costessey, Queen's Hills. []*

17 August:
Hinckley & Bosworth, Barwell, Charnwood. Lab, LD, 2x Ind
Huntingdonshire, St Neots, Eaton Ford. Green, Lab, [], Putting Eaton Ford First Independent

Bradford, Keighley, Bracken Bank & Ingrow. Ind, Working hard for the local area
Bradford, Keighley, Fell Lane & Westburn. Ind, Community Activist
West Berkshire, Inkpen. 2x []

East Riding of Yorkshire, Preston, North (6). 2x []*

Isle of Wight, Brading. Ind*

24 August:
Bridgend, Porthcawl, East Central. Lab, Ind
Denbighshire, Rhyl, Cefndy. Con, Lab
East Lindsey, Mablethorpe & Sutton, Sutton on Sea South. Con, Ind, []
North East Derbyshire, Wingerworth, Hardwick Wood. Con, Green, LD, Lives in Hardwick Wood
Wokingham, Wokingham, Wescott East. Con, Lab, LD

Rother, Camber. 2x []

Shropshire, Wheathill (2). 4x []

31 August:

Swansea, Penllergaer, East. Gwlad, Ind

Wiltshire, Wilton. LD,Ind

Swansea, Grovesend & Waungron. Gwlad*

Cannock Chase, Rugeley, Hagley (2). []*, Resident of Rugeley*

[carolus]

There appears to have been an issue with the postal votes for the Carmarthenshire byelections on Thursday:

It has come to our attention that postal voters in Newcastle Emlyn and Cwmamman have not received their postal vote for the forthcoming by election that is taking place this Thursday on 10 August 2023. This issue is currently being investigated with Royal Mail.

In the meantime, we have re-printed your postal vote. You may be concerned that it is now too late to return your completed postal vote by mail. Your original postal vote may also be delivered to you. You will only need to complete one postal vote. If you return both postal votes, then only one will be returned as valid via our scanning software received.

In Newcastle Emlyn, as an alternative we will open the following venue for your area on Wednesday 9 August between the hours of 9am-6pm for you to drop off your postal vote. This venue will only be open for those postal voters to drop off.

[carolus]

Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman, Pistllwyd. Ind 47, Gwlad 20. Previous result elected 4 Lab and 1 PC, not sure which one caused this vacancy.

[November_Rain]

Aug 11, 2023 11:48:43 GMT carolus said:

Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman, Pistllwyd. Ind 47, Gwlad 20. Previous result elected 4 Lab and 1 PC, not sure which one caused this vacancy.

That's low! Is it a small ward?

[batman]

We had to wait until dawn for Pistllwyd

[carolus]

Aug 11, 2023 14:46:12 GMT November_Rain said:

Aug 11, 2023 11:48:43 GMT carolus said:

Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman, Pistllwyd. Ind 47, Gwlad 20. Previous result elected 4 Lab and 1 PC, not sure which one caused this vacancy.

That's low! Is it a small ward?

6.5% turnout...

40% turnout at the full election in 2022.

EDIT: funnily enough I actually saw the gwlad candidate's tweet last night claiming he'd secured 30% of the vote. Gwlad I waited to see the actual numbers.

[November_Rain]

Aug 11, 2023 15:38:16 GMT carolus said:

Aug 11, 2023 14:46:12 GMT November_Rain said:

That's low! Is it a small ward?

6.5% turnout...

40% turnout at the full election in 2022.

EDIT: funnily enough I actually saw the gwlad candidate's tweet last night claiming he'd secured 30% of the vote. Gwlad I waited to see the actual numbers.

Bloody hell! Probably what didn't help there was no mainstream party candidate, the nice weather and lack of interest.