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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 20, 2012 11:47:11 GMT
The Independents are well organised in St Ives: www.i4si.org/The successful candidate is a former school headteacher and presumably quite well known. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 20, 2012 11:51:01 GMT
Was that an Indy gain or hold??
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 20, 2012 11:53:59 GMT
Was that an Indy gain or hold?? Hold. |
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Post by listener on Jul 20, 2012 14:20:02 GMT
Here is the background to the two Town Council by-elections in Kettering.
Desborough Town Council comprises 2 wards, Loatland and St. Giles, each returning 6 members.
The council strengths were:
Elections on 3 May 2007: Con 11, Lab 1
Elections on 5 May 2011: Con 8, Lab 4
The result in Loatland ward on 3 May 2007 was:
Con 808/771/770/759/723/707, Lab 442/387/384/379/369/334
Elected: Con 6
The result in Loatland ward on 5 May 2011 was:
Con 830/825/752/703, Lab 619/586/517/501/496/486, BNP 156
Elected: Con 4, Lab 2
The by-election was caused by the resignation of Stuart Clayton (Con)
The result in Loatland ward on 19 July 2012 was
Lab 433, Con 382, English Democrats 152, BNP 64, Lib Dem 38
Lab gain from Con - so the council is now Con 7, Lab 5
Rothwell Town Council comprises 2 wards, Tresham and Trinity, each returning 6 members.
The council strengths were:
Elections on 3 May 2007: Con 9, Lab 3
Elections on 5 May 2011: Con 8, Lab 4
The result in Trinity ward on 3 May 2007 was:
Con 678/639/617/617/615, Lab 532/515/453/445/440/415
Elected: Con 5, Lab 1
The result in Trinity ward on 5 May 2011 was:
Con 653/635/621/617/578, Lab 560/516/512/459/457/366
Elected: Con 5, Lab 1
The by-election was caused by the resignation of David Jones (Lab)
The result in Trinity ward on 19 July 2012 was
Lab 454, Con 374, Lib Dem 26
Lab hold
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Post by listener on Jul 20, 2012 14:49:57 GMT
Here is the background to the St Ives town council by-election.
St. Ives Town Council comprises three wards, East (7 members), South (7 members) and West (3 members).
The council strengths were:
Elections on 1 May 2008: Independents for St. Ives 11, Con 3, Lib Dem 2 (only 16 seats available under previous electoral arrangements)
Elections on 3 May 2012: Independents for St. Ives 14, Con 2, Lib Dem 1
The result in East ward on 1 May 2008 was:
Independents for St. Ives 754/740/732/728, Con 854/694/680/673/670/657
Elected: Independents for St. Ives 4, Con 2
The result in East ward on 3 May 2012 was:
Independents for St. Ives 641/634/619/608/586/579,
Con 642/511/454/431/430/423/414, UKIP 367/361
Elected: Independents for St. Ives 6, Con 1
The by-election was caused by the resignation of a newly-elected member, Jennifer Colville (Independents for St. Ives), after only 3 weeks in office.
The result is East ward on 19 July 2012 was:
Independent for St. Ives 336, Con 308, UKIP 96, Lab 42, The Official Monster Raving Loony Party 40, Lib Dem 26
Independent for St. Ives hold
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 20, 2012 15:46:46 GMT
It really is very poor for the LibDems to manage only 26 votes in a by-election in a LibDem-held parliamentary constituency. ? St Ives Huntingdonshire is 350 miles by road from St Ives Cornwall. |
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Post by john07 on Jul 20, 2012 16:13:32 GMT
? St Ives Huntingdonshire is 350 miles by road from St Ives Cornwall. Oh dear, schoolboy error! And I have actually been to St Ives in Huntingdonshire!  Well Huntingdon was once represented in Parliament by Oliver Cromwell. I don't know if there is anything we can draw from that? |
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Post by leicester on Jul 20, 2012 20:57:54 GMT
Some shocking Lib Dem votes this Week is it just poor areas or can more be read into it. Even if poor areas for the 3rd party of the UK these votes would worry me if i was a Lib Dem. Are we becoming a total 2 party nation?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 20, 2012 21:21:07 GMT
What are you talking about? Of the three main by-elections they only contested one and in that contest fairly comfortably held a seat in a ward which Labour won this May.
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 20, 2012 21:51:00 GMT
A bit strange they couldn't find a candidate for the New Forest seat, though. Surely wouldn't have happened a few years ago......
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Post by Khunanup on Jul 20, 2012 23:56:51 GMT
A bit strange they couldn't find a candidate for the New Forest seat, though. Surely wouldn't have happened a few years ago...... Outside of Lymington itself we've always found it harder in the south and west of the New Forest (as opposed to the north and east) and even in Lymington in recent years it's been pretty tough going (with us only winning 1 seat in the town in 2007 and losing that last year). With 2011 being so dire in out heartland in the authority, fighting complete lost causes I suppose doesn't appeal (you are quite right it wouldn't have happened a few years ago) especially as it's a place where we're not exactly conceding ground to you by not standing (because you've got even less chance there than we have!). Still, even given all that it would have been nice to see a candidate there. |
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Post by Rural Radical on Jul 21, 2012 16:39:54 GMT
Rothwell Result Lab 454 Con374 Lib Dem 26 Desborough Lab 433 Con 382 EDP 152 BNP 64 Lib Dem 38 Are those Labour gains?? These bode well for us next May in the CC elections. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jul 24, 2012 19:50:22 GMT
Some shocking Lib Dem votes this Week is it just poor areas or can more be read into it. Even if poor areas for the 3rd party of the UK these votes would worry me if i was a Lib Dem. Are we becoming a total 2 party nation? No. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 29, 2012 11:54:39 GMT
The local authority byelections site (Edkins) has the Breckland result as a Labour GAIN (Lab 554 Con 489) WTF??
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jul 29, 2012 12:03:59 GMT
The local authority byelections site (Edkins) has the Breckland result as a Labour GAIN (Lab 554 Con 489) WTF?? A clear mistake. The official results sheet. |
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 29, 2012 12:18:44 GMT
Ah yes, substituting 554 for 454. Maybe an email to the site might be in order??
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