England local elections, May 2015

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Yes, I know it's all overshadowed by the General election, but the vast majority of England (sans London) have some form of local elections up this year.

Namely:

all but 6 of the unitaries; of which 30 are having the full council elected and 19 have one third up.

All the metropolitan boroughs, of which all have one third up for election except redistricted Doncaster, which is fully up.

All bar 7 of the districts, of which 128 are up fully for election and 66 have one third up.

There are also 6 direct Mayoral elections.

The vast majority of these seats were last up during 2011.

[Phony Moderate]

The Lib Dems should perform 'well' in the same way and for the same reasons that Labour did in the 2010 locals.

[Harry Hayfield]

I will be tallying North Warwickshire, Sedgemoor and St. Edmundsbury (because of friends and relatives). Would members like me to do a historical summary of these councils and the nominations for them?

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Ah the maternal side of my family is in Sedgemoor (Bridgewater to be specific). What's your connection?

[Harry Hayfield]

Ah the maternal side of my family is in Sedgemoor (Bridgewater to be specific). What's your connection?

A friend of mine is standing for the Liberal Democrats for the district council (plus my grandmother always holidayed in Burnham on Sea)

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UKIP surge in Boston to tie with Tories With 13 apiece. labour and indies on two each as well.

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Three Rivers and Watford, which have been narrowly kept by LD's in previous disasters are both swept into NOC. more woes for Watford LD's after the dismal result from their popular Mayor in the general.

[Clyde1998]

West Berkshire Council:
Con - 48 seats - 58%
Lib - 4 seats - 25%
Lab - 0 seats - 12%
Grn - 0 seats - 3%
UKIP - 0 seats - 2%
Others - 0 seats - 1%

Turnout - 71%

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Labour have a rather better night in Rotherham than last year, winning seventeen wards out of twenty.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Labour up two in Birmingham (finally taking Weoley off the Tories while knocking off a LibDem in Stechford & Yardley North).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Somewhat surprisingly Labour are still the largest party on Telford & Wrekin council (27 seats out of 54).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The unpopular Labour administration in Stoke has lost its majority but has not suffered the heavy defeat some were expecting: Labour 21, City Independents 14, Con 7, UKIP 2.

[Bacon King]

Greens double representation on Bristol Council:

Labour    30 (-1)
Tory        16
Green     13 (+7)
Lib Dem  10 (-6)
UKIP        1

[YL]

Greens double representation on Bristol Council:

Labour    30 (-1)
Tory        16
Green     13 (+7)
Lib Dem  10 (-6)
UKIP        1

Greens won both Clifton wards, fairly narrowly over the Tories in both cases.  Terrible result for the Lib Dems; they only won one of the seats up for election this year.

The Sheffield results were (for the wards up) Lab 21, LD 5 (-1), Green 1, UKIP 1 (+1).  Labour and the Greens swapped Broomhill and Central, UKIP won Stocksbridge from Labour and Labour won Beauchief & Greenhill [1] off the Lib Dems, but the Lib Dems held four of the five Hallam wards fairly comfortably.  Next year we'll have all up elections on new boundaries, so there'll be three vacancies in each ward.

As already mentioned, UKIP had an underwhelming result in Rotherham.  They took Sitwell off the Tories, and Hellaby (once a Tory ward) and Keppel off Labour, but Labour won everything else.  There is now only one Tory on the council.

In Barnsley, the Tories won the two Penistone wards and Labour won everything else, so there was nothing for the Barnsley Independent Group for the first time in some years.

Doncaster had all up elections on new boundaries, with 55 seats.  Hatfield ward is waiting on a recount, but results for the other 52 seats are Lab 39, Con 8, Mexborough First 3, UKIP 1, Ind 1.  Two wards have split results: Bessacarr with 2 Lab and 1 Con and Rossington & Bawtry with 1 Lab, 1 UKIP and 1 Independent.

[1] If you don't already know how to pronounce "Beauchief & Greenhill", it almost certainly isn't pronounced the way you think it is.

[joevsimp]

Beechuff and Grinell?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

but Labour won everything else.

Including the ward vacated by the now quite thoroughly hated former council leader, lol.

[Goodwin]

UKIP take control of Thanet Council with 33 seats. Their first majority.

[Bacon King]

UKIP take control of Thanet Council with 33 seats. Their first majority.

UKIP 33 (+33)
Tory 18    (-9)
Lab  4     (-22)
indy 1      (-2)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Thanet council is a notorious basket case, so that's not really a surprise.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Talking of basket cases, Greens get trashed in Brighton & Hove but not wiped out: Labour 23, Con 20, Greens 11.

[Lief 🗽]

Talking of basket cases, Greens get trashed in Brighton & Hove but not wiped out: Labour 23, Con 20, Greens 11.

If British voters acted like Canadian voters, Lucas would have probably lost.

Also if these elections took place on Thursday why are we just now getting results?! The UK is so slow at counting...

[joevsimp]

Talking of basket cases, Greens get trashed in Brighton & Hove but not wiped out: Labour 23, Con 20, Greens 11.

But Labour will still have to come crying for votes when they want their budget passed, unless they'd prefer to carry on working with the tories

[Bacon King]

Talking of basket cases, Greens get trashed in Brighton & Hove but not wiped out: Labour 23, Con 20, Greens 11.

But Labour will still have to come crying for votes when they want their budget passed, unless they'd prefer to carry on working with the tories

How often do Labour and the Tories cooperate like that on local councils?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Co-operation is extremely rare.

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They do it north of the Border a fair amount.