By-elections - September 15th

[maxque]

Castle – Carlisle City C – Ged Caid (Labour) died. He was a councillor since 2014 and was, during his working life, a GMB regional officer.
2014-2018 term

2016: Lab 544, Con 258, UKIP 150, LD 89, Grn 50
2015: Lab 940, Con 671, UKIP 343, Grn 193, LD 145, TUSC 43
Sept 2014 by: Lab 364, Con 212, UKIP 208, LD 121, Grn 42
2014: Lab 435, UKIP 267, Con 221, LD 127, Grn 87, TUSC 28
2012: Lab 663, LD 229, Con 165, Grn 110
Mar 2012 county by: Lab 407, LD 369, Con 93, Grn 54, UKIP 22
2011: Lab 539, LD 438, Grn 135, TUSC 90, BNP 84
2010: LD 816, Lab 802, Con 553, Grn 161
2009 county: LD 424, Lab 297, Con 241, Grn 144, BNP 129
Mar 2009 by: LD 465, Lab 304, BNP 255, Con 143, Grn 125
2008: LD 562, Lab 299, Con 206, Ind 202
2007: LD 607, Lab 331, Con 185
2006: LD 632, Lab 321, Con 149, Ind 69
Nov 2005 by: LD 538, Lab 370
2005 county: LD 937, Lab 853, Con 349
2004: LD 917, Lab 541
2003: LD 603, Lab 443
2002: LD 549, Lab 373, Con 195
2001 county: LD 994, Lab 786, Con 448
Apr 2001 by: Lab 329, LD 294, Con 258, Lib 67

Melissa Andrews (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Deborah Brown (The Green Party)
Anne Glendinning (The Labour Party Candidate)
Alison Hobson (Liberal Democrat)
Robbie Reid-Sinclair (UK Independence Party)

Puckeridge – East Hertfordshire DC – James Cartwright (Independent, elected as Conservative) resigned. He breachied the code of conduct when one of his tweets implied than non-religious people were thick, illiterate and pathetic in tweets aimed at former councillor McNeece (who proposed removing the council prayer and resigned when Council voted it down). He was censored and asked to attend social media training, but refused to do so and left the party (and removed from all committees for not attending training). He was also the Chair of the Stanton Parish Council and a councillor since 2015. He resigned all those positions as is now living in Kenya.

2015: Con 940, Lab 277, Grn 175
2011: Con 601, Lab 256
2007: Con 471, Lab 148
2003: Con 394, Lab 178

David Bell (Labour and Cooperative Party)
Peter Boylan (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Tabitha Evans (Green Party)
Sara Mihajlovic (Liberal Democrats)
Geoffrey Miles (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Blakelaw – Newcastle upon Tyne MBC – David Stockdale (Labour) resigned, due to “work commitments”, but it might also be the result of other councillors being concerned by his finances and debt (he borrowed £20,000 to 4 councillors to pay his debts) and about an audit of the finances of the Blakelaw Partnership, which he chaired (there is now an investigation by the Northumbria Police on that subject). He was a councillor since 2012, the Cabinet member for Communities and Facilities and was the organiser of the NE Corbyn campaign in 2015.
2016-2020 term

2016: Lab 1846, UKIP 470, LD 267, Con 221, Grn 117
2015: Lab 2549, UKIP 846, Con 532, LD 428, Grn 244
2014: Lab 1897, LD 485, Con 308
2012: Lab 1948, LD 615, Con 199
2011: Lab 1940, LD 1088, Con 246
2010: Lab 1814, LD 1588, Con 456, BNP 430
2008: LD 1396, Lab 855, Con 295, BNP 270
2007: LD 1511, Lab 1000, BNP 230, Con 230
2006: LD 1608, Lab 1219, Con 239
2004: LD 1504/1402/1358, Lab 1278/1074/1040, BNP 359, Ind 318, Con 298/297/290

Nora Casey (Labour Party)
Brendan Derham (Green Party)
Ritchie Lane (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
James Langley (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ciaran Morrissey (Liberal Democrats)

Tupton – North East Derbyshire DC – Wayne Lilleyman (Labour) resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital. He was a councillor since 2011 and a Tupton parish councillor.

2015: Lab 1158/1025, Con 567/461
2011: Lab 754/699, Ind 286/281/236/234/206
2007: Ind 600/587, Lab 448/438, Con 215/193
2003: Lab x 2 unopposed

One of the 2007 independents was elected as Labour in 2003. None of the 2007 independent councillors ran in 2011.

Alan Garfitt (UKIP)
Cathy Goodyer (Labour Party)
David Hancock (Liberal Democrats)
Andrew Lowell (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ben Marshall (British People's Party – Unity, Equality, Freedom)

Bishop's Castle – Shropshire UA – Charlotte Barnes (Liberal Democrat) resigned, due to personal reasons and the needs of her young family. The last message on her personal website, one month before her resignation, announced her separation from her husband.

2013: LD 907, Con 449, Grn 107
Sept 2011 by: LD 801, Con 544, Lab 80, Grn 74
2009: LD 754, Con 641, Grn 186

Georgie Ellis (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Steve Hale (The Green Party)
Jonny Keeley (Liberal Democrats)
Judith Payne (The Labour Party Candidate)

[johnloony]

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

... resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital....

Perhaps we need an "Amazing Reasons for Resignations and Vacancies" thread.

[andrewteale]

Sept 13, 2016 4:14:38 GMT johnloony said:

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

... resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital....

Perhaps we need an "Amazing Reasons for Resignations and Vacancies" thread.

There's a few nominations for that this week.

I understand that the investigation against David Stockdale has concluded with no wrongdoing found.

[edinburghtory]

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

Wayne Lilleyman (Labour) resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital. He was a councillor since 2011 and a Tupton parish councillor.

I guess if your going to have to resign you may as well do it in style.

[David Ashforth]

	Ward maps	Census maps
CARLISLE CITY - Castle	link	link
EAST HERTFORDSHIRE - Puckeridge	link	link
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE - Blakelaw	link	link
NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE - Tupton	link	link
SHROPSHIRE - Bishop's Castle	link	link

[Sibboleth]

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

Castle – Carlisle City C – Ged Caid (Labour) died. He was a councillor since 2014 and was, during his working life, a
Georgie Ellis (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Steve Hale (The Green Party)
Jonny Keeley (Liberal Democrats)
Judith Payne (The Labour Party Candidate)

Ellis was a councillor on the old South Shropshire DC and has contested this division a few times, coming quite close in 2009. Lives near Lydbury North and is a parish councillor there. Member of various local organisations etc.

Hale runs an estate management firm in the town.

Keeley is a musician and 'community campaigner' who also lives in the town.

Payne is a longtime resident of the town and is active in various community groups etc.

[Deleted]

Sept 13, 2016 10:48:35 GMT andrewteale said:

Sept 13, 2016 4:14:38 GMT johnloony said:

Perhaps we need an "Amazing Reasons for Resignations and Vacancies" thread.

I understand that the investigation against David Stockdale has concluded with no wrongdoing found.

well, no wrongdoing except that he is the victim of a right wing plot - allegedly ....

[mrhell]

Newcastle upon Tyne not Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

[The Bishop]

Its the other Newcastle that has the hyphens innit?

[carlton43]

Hyphens are correct for both or not correct for both. I like having hyphens and have always used them for both places when addressing post or recording constituencies. They connect to make a compound name rather than just being a narrative description in an item of prose.

[Dan]

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

Tupton – North East Derbyshire DC – Wayne Lilleyman (Labour) resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital. He was a councillor since 2011 and a Tupton parish councillor.

Alan Garfitt (UKIP)
Cathy Goodyer (Labour Party)
David Hancock (Liberal Democrats)
Andrew Lowell (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ben Marshall (British People's Party – Unity, Equality, Freedom)

Stott's latest 'vehicle', if my memory serves me right?

[maxque]

Sept 14, 2016 14:48:37 GMT Dan said:

Sept 13, 2016 3:41:10 GMT maxque said:

Tupton – North East Derbyshire DC – Wayne Lilleyman (Labour) resigned, after biting a teenager on the nose in a bar, requiring the victim to go to hospital. He was a councillor since 2011 and a Tupton parish councillor.

Alan Garfitt (UKIP)
Cathy Goodyer (Labour Party)
David Hancock (Liberal Democrats)
Andrew Lowell (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ben Marshall (British People's Party – Unity, Equality, Freedom)

Stott's latest 'vehicle', if my memory serves me right?

Yes.

[thirdchill]

Sept 14, 2016 17:17:35 GMT maxque said:

Sept 14, 2016 14:48:37 GMT Dan said:

Stott's latest 'vehicle', if my memory serves me right?

Yes.

Question is, will the good people of Tupton reject unity, equality and freedom?

[Adam in Stroud]

Sept 15, 2016 10:57:03 GMT thirdchill said:

Sept 14, 2016 17:17:35 GMT maxque said:

Yes.

Question is, will the good people of Tupton reject unity, equality and freedom?

Depends.  Where does the BPP stand on biting teenagers on the nose?

Speaking as a LibDem, I feel that the freedom of the citizen's nose from being bitten is very important, but you can't rule it out in every case.

[Robert Waller]

Andrew Teale's previews
election-data.co.uk/by-election-previews-15-9-16

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Sept 15, 2016 17:55:24 GMT Robert Waller said:

Andrew Teale's previews
election-data.co.uk/by-election-previews-15-9-16

In the Hackney section andrewteale has gone a bit wrong on the history - Labour held Hackney in 1990, for instance. The loss of control in 1996 was not down to byelections but to the catastrophic split over the Mark Trotter affair / Bernard Crofton / general state of things, which was what led to the brief existence of the 'Hackney New Labour' group. This group wasn't in control because no-one was in control; committee chairs were determined at each meeting.

The Jules Pipe/Eric Ollerenshaw unlikely double act ended in June 2001 when Labour made a byelection gain and got an overall majority.

[andrewteale]

Sept 15, 2016 19:57:36 GMT Davıd Boothroyd said:

Sept 15, 2016 17:55:24 GMT Robert Waller said:

Andrew Teale's previews
election-data.co.uk/by-election-previews-15-9-16

In the Hackney section andrewteale has gone a bit wrong on the history - Labour held Hackney in 1990, for instance. The loss of control in 1996 was not down to byelections but to the catastrophic split over the Mark Trotter affair / Bernard Crofton / general state of things, which was what led to the brief existence of the 'Hackney New Labour' group. This group wasn't in control because no-one was in control; committee chairs were determined at each meeting.

The Jules Pipe/Eric Ollerenshaw unlikely double act ended in June 2001 when Labour made a byelection gain and got an overall majority.

Thanks David, I wasn't sure whether that bit was right. In my defence I'm too young to have taken notice at the time of what was going on.

[mrhell]

I'm not at the count for Blakelaw. We've done well in the campaign but perhaps not well enough to win. The reception has been very good on the day.

[marksenior]

Con hold Puckeridge

Con 42.9%
UKIP 18.9%
LDem 18.0%
Lab 11.0%
Green 9.1%

[maxque]

Sept 15, 2016 21:47:29 GMT marksenior said:

Con hold Puckeridge

Con 42.9%
UKIP 18.9%
LDem 18.0%
Lab 11.0%
Green 9.1%

Con -24.6
Lab -8.9
Grn -3.5