Byelections 16th March 2017

[Deleted]

16 March

Blackpool
Warbreck
Conservative died (“Hard working and respected member of the community who worked for Blackpool his whole life”)



2015: Con 1,237 (dec)/1,197, Lab 962/876, UKIP 633, Green 250, LD 237
2011: Con 938/911 (dec), Lab 621/582, LD 185/124, UKIP 185, Green 112
2007: Con 1,084/1,057 (dec), Lab 453/417, LD 359/347, BNP 313
2003: Con 1,210/1,166, Lab 848/813, LD 477/450

Kevan BENFOLD (Liberal Democrats)
Walter CAIRNS (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Michele SCOTT (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Ian TREASURE (Labour Party)

Breckland
Saham Toney
Conservative resigned



2015: Con 1,194/920, UKIP 743/535, Green 411

Theresa HEWETT (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Joe SISTO (Labour Party)
Andrew THORPE (Liberal Democrats)
Pat WARWICK (Independent)
Dave WILLIAMS (UK Independence Party (UKIP))

Newcastle upon Tyne
South Heaton
Labour resigned


2016: Lab 1,327, Green 575, UKIP 156, Con 106, LD 99
2015: Lab 1,987, Green 1,163, Con 350, LD 274, UKIP 267, TUSC 59
2014: Lab 1,095, Green 519, UKIP 209, LD 131, Con 99, TUSC 45
2012: Lab 1,188, Green 210, LD 158, Con 81, TUSC 74
2011: Lab 1,908, LD 311, Green 293, Con 150
2010: Lab 1,735, LD 1,394, Con 289, Green 245, BNP 104
2008: Lab 948, LD 813, Green 190, Con 107
2007: Lab 904/879, LD 824/796, Green 240/194, Con 114/98

Christopher BOYLE (Liberal Democrats)
Andrew GRAY (Green Party Candidate)
Chris MURRAY (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Clare PENNY-EVANS (Labour Party)
Tony SANDERSON (UK Independence Party)

South Ribble
Walton-le-Dale East
Conservative (sitting as independent) resigned


2015: Con 1,123/950, Lab 937/906
2014 (Walton-le-Dale ward) Con 601/540, Lab 491/363

Carol Ann CHISHOLM (The Conservative Party Candidate)
Alison HESKETH-HOLT (Liberal Democrats)
Alex WATSON (Labour Party Candidate)

[Crimson King]

I think they could be categorised as 'the only way is up' for us

[mrhell]

Newcastle upon Tyne doesn't have hyphens. Anyway, South Heaton was a ward we won two councillors in 2004 but then we didn't gain the third seat in 2006.

[Deleted]

Mar 3, 2017 13:34:42 GMT mrhell said:

Newcastle upon Tyne doesn't have hyphens. Anyway, South Heaton was a ward we won two councillors in 2004 but then we didn't gain the third seat in 2006.

Hyphens duly removed.

[froome]

Mar 3, 2017 13:34:42 GMT mrhell said:

Newcastle upon Tyne doesn't have hyphens. Anyway, South Heaton was a ward we won two councillors in 2004 but then we didn't gain the third seat in 2006.

Your vote slid away remarkably quickly from 2010 to 2011 and then 2012. That presumably indicates a loss of activists there rather than just a reaction to the national situation.

[mrhell]

Mar 3, 2017 17:14:50 GMT froome said:

Mar 3, 2017 13:34:42 GMT mrhell said:

Newcastle upon Tyne doesn't have hyphens. Anyway, South Heaton was a ward we won two councillors in 2004 but then we didn't gain the third seat in 2006.

Your vote slid away remarkably quickly from 2010 to 2011 and then 2012. That presumably indicates a loss of activists there rather than just a reaction to the national situation.

Any hope had gone which meant we were busy elsewhere.

[No Offence Alan]

More one for the useless travel facts, but anyhow - I was briefly in Warbreck ward yesterday, at the Co-op on Dickson Road, behind the Hilton.

[tonygreaves]

I am confident we will move up one place in Blackpool.

[yellowperil]

I am equally confident we will improve on last time's performance in Breckland and South Ribble. So that's progress in 3 out of 4.

[tonygreaves]

You missed my irony...

[La Fontaine]

Mar 13, 2017 16:20:06 GMT No Offence Alan said:

More one for the useless travel facts, but anyhow - I was briefly in Warbreck ward yesterday, at the Co-op on Dickson Road, behind the Hilton.

Been there, done that. Few years ago, mind.

[yellowperil]

Mar 14, 2017 20:47:01 GMT tonygreaves said:

You missed my irony...

...irony missing all round

[Robert Waller]

A lot of interesting and useful information here:

election-data.co.uk/andrews-previews-16-03-17

[carlton43]

Mar 16, 2017 12:39:16 GMT Robert Waller said:

A lot of interesting and useful information here:

election-data.co.uk/andrews-previews-16-03-17

Too bloody late Robert, now that we have made our lesser-informed forecasts!  Oh dear!

[iainbhx]

Andrew is quite right about the horrid Blackpool Hilton. It isn't much cop inside as well.

[Pete Whitehead]

Mar 16, 2017 13:03:23 GMT carlton43 said:

Mar 16, 2017 12:39:16 GMT Robert Waller said:

A lot of interesting and useful information here:

election-data.co.uk/andrews-previews-16-03-17

Too bloody late Robert, now that we have made our lesser-informed forecasts!  Oh dear!

Actually I did mine so last minute that these were available when I did them but I was in such a rush I ended up pulling random figures out of my arse for two of them

[carlton43]

Haggard de Toni is just too brilliant to be true.

I think I may have spent two weeks of my young life there with the school cadet force, rushing about on what was then an army battle training school. If so it was interesting and very beautiful.

[Deleted]

Mar 16, 2017 13:45:37 GMT iainbhx said:

Andrew is quite right about the horrid Blackpool Hilton. It isn't much cop inside as well.

Looks lovely to me.

*hold for effect*

[Davıd Boothroyd]

Not a patch on Preston bus station.

[greatkingrat]

Mar 16, 2017 13:59:03 GMT carlton43 said:

Haggard de Toni is just too brilliant to be true.

I think I may have spent two weeks of my young life there with the school cadet force, rushing about on what was then an army battle training school. If so it was interesting and very beautiful.

Brings back memories of the best ward name poll ran here a few years ago, where Haggard de Toni won the East of England region.