UK local by-elections 2015

[joevsimp]

I doubt it, wouldn't have thought they'd be registered in England and Powis and Wrexham aren't exactly their best areas.

the English Democrats sometimes stand in Monmouth though and usually get fewer votes than Plaid do there

[joevsimp]

Cardiff, Pentyrch

Con 40.2 (-14.2)
PC 39.0 (+26.9)
Lab 16.8 (-12.3)
Ind 1.7
Green 1.6 (-1.2)
Lib Dem 0.7 (-0.9)

what's the margin of victory in votes? I can imagine that the turnout was quite low (and the lib dem total)

[joevsimp]

Edinburgh, Leith Walk (two vacancies)

SNP 36.2 (+7.7)
Lab 25.7 (-7.5)
Green 21.8 (+1.5)
Con 7.9 (-0.2)
Lib Dem 4.0 (-1.1)
UKIP 1.6 (+1.6)
SSP 1.5 (+1.5)
Left Unity 0.5 (+0.5)
Ind 0.4
Lbt 0.3 (+0.3)

SNP	2290	2109	2109	2109	2109	2109	2109	2109	2109
Lab	1623	1650.11	1653.11	1659.58	1661.66	1680.37	1697.56	1798.22	1990.25
Green	1381	1464.61	1469.77	1483.4	1495.27	1502.67	1576.1	1653.31	1729.86
Con	501	503.77	505.85	506.93	507.01	540.17	541.25	574.65
Lib Dem	255	261.64	263.04	265.28	265.28	267.44	271.6
UKIP	102	105.64	105.64	106.8	106.8
SSP	97	107.75	107.75	108.22	122.01	125.17
Left U	32	33.58	33.66	33.9
Ind	26	29	30
Lbt	17	17.87

SNP hold Leith Walk
Lab gain Leith Walk from Green

despite the swing against them, Labour now hold 3 out of 4 seats in that ward,

[joevsimp]

Greens taking a bit of a hit everywhere. Interesting.

Greens never allways loose a few points at council byelections unless we're aiming to gain the seat, and even then...

[joevsimp]

South Oxfordshire, Sandford and The Whittenhams

Con 42.8 (-4.3)
Lib Dem 36.7 (+16.3)
Lab 13.1 (-3.7)
Green 7.4 (-8.3)

a colleage of mine was canvassing for the fibdems in that one, not the kind of thing i'd personally admit to at work...

[joevsimp]

Oxford, Northfield Brook (changes in italics since November 2014 by-election)

Lab 77.9 (+6.3) (+7.3)
UKIP 9.2 (+9.2) (+9.2)
Con 7.2 (-4.3) (-4.2)
Green 4.3 (-7.0) (-4.5)
TUSC 1.4 (+1.4) (-4.6)

so the elephant in the room question is how many of those UKIP voters voted for IWCA back in the day...

[joevsimp]

yeah, but we usually do rubbish at council byelections,