England local elections, May 2015

[Zanas]

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England moves in mysterious ways.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Staffordshire (post-1974). Split wards treated in the usual way, the three dark wards in Newcastle under Lyme had no election.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Medway Towns UA.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Derbyshire districts. Usual treatment of split wards. Dark wards in Amber Valley had no election this year.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Kent:



Usual comments apply, though there were a lot of split wards here and some very odd nomination strategies by some parties in places. So be careful.

[Torie]

What do the black areas on your map represent?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No election.

[Torie]

Thanks.

[Harry Hayfield]

Kent:



Usual comments apply, though there were a lot of split wards here and some very odd nomination strategies by some parties in places. So be careful.

Indeed, but what puzzles me is that great big Independent ward in Thanet. I'd love to see the result of that one!

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Man, UKIP did well in Sheppey

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Leicestershire. Usual comments about split wards etc.

[Harry Hayfield]

I have just finished tallying the results from the local elections (no thanks to the mass media who seemed to ignore it for some reason) and here are the final results

Conservatives 6,729 councillors (+417) winning 164 councils (+10)
Labour 4,225 councillors (-251) winning 72 councils (-56)
Liberal Democrats 1,153 councillors (-439) winning 4 councils (-4)
Independents 641 councillors (-143) winning 0 councils (unchanged)
United Kingdom Independence Party 336 councillors (+168) winning 1 council (+1)
Green Party 133 councillors (+7) winning 0 councils (unchanged)
Ratepayers 93 councillors (+1) winning 1 council (unchanged)
Other Parties 13 councillors (-13) winning 0 councils (unchanged)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Essex. Usual comments etc.

[Bacon King]

What's up with the random green?

[MaxQue]

Silver End & Cressing. That's decline, they only won one seat, instead of the two like since 2003.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And the many districts of post 74 Lancashire. Usual comments, and in some districts there were odd nomination patterns.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Labour has all 96 seats in Manchester. Has this ever happened in a big city before?

[YL]

I see Royston Vasey Bacup voted Tory.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Bacup is scarier than Royston Vasey.

There are two court cases I'm aware of coming out of these elections:

1. Washwood Heath ward, Birmingham: the Lib Dem candidate is alleging Tower-Hamlets-style undue spiritual influence in favour of the Labour candidate.

2. Kinson South ward, Bournemouth: the Labour runner-up is alleging that some voters were given ballot papers for the wrong ward by mistake.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

North Yorkshire with Teesside (most of which is historically part of the North Riding. The map is fairly clear as to which bit isn't). Again, some weird nomination patterns in places which is less than helpful. Also worth noting that Labour underperformed in York due to a rather unpopular local administration, and that (again this concerns Labour) there were weird goings on in the East Cleveland part of Redcar & Cleveland due to factional infighting and mass deselections.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Lincolnshire. I will note (again) that unusual nominations patterns were a thing in some places. And as is always the way with Lincolnshire, explanation is needed for the Deepings: the poll in Market Deeping was postponed (I will edit the map when the vacancy is filled), three candidates (all from different parties) stood for three seats in Deeping St James: I've coloured it red as Phil Dilks generally tops the poll in contested elections there. There's also a two seat ward in West Lindsey that had one Independent and one Tory and no one else. I've coloured it blue.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Post-1974 Cheshire. Note that Warrington proper and Widnes are both historically in Lancashire.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Split wards treated in the usual manner. On this point, an oddity: Labour took the second seat in split wards in Warwickshire districts (of which there were a lot) an oddly high proportion of the time.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Worcestershire:



Usual treatment of split wards etc. Most of them were in Kiddy (because of course). If you feel a need to map the map less awful, you could note that most of the wards in Worcester City and Redditch that did not vote are usually Labour. But that would only barely help...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Split wards treated in the usual manner (and there are lot of split wards so be really careful in some places). Weirdo nomination patterns in places as well: such fun. There were a couple of unopposed split wards in Eden district: Kirkby Stephen has been coloured blue, the ward in Penrith yellow.