England local elections, May 2015

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Tyne & Wear:



Sure the election might have sucked nationally, but Labour won Fulwell ward lmao.

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Nottinghamshire. Usual treatment of split wards etc.

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Though be warned: there are a lot of patterns in Birmingham local elections that don't show up in General Elections and vice versa. Even when they are held on the same day.

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Though be warned: there are a lot of patterns in Birmingham local elections that don't show up in General Elections and vice versa. Even when they are held on the same day.

Bartley Green?  Perry Barr?

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Though be warned: there are a lot of patterns in Birmingham local elections that don't show up in General Elections and vice versa. Even when they are held on the same day.

Bartley Green?  Perry Barr?

Those are the two most notable/extreme examples, yes.

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Dudley council covers much more than just Dudley town. I spent polling day here, in Stourbridge. Anyway:

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And also elections to the Sandwell Volkskammer:

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One of the wackiest boroughs in the country now...




As well as the eponymous Black Country town (and some other smaller Black Country towns), Walsall borough includes much humdrum white Birmingham suburbia. See if you can spot from the maps which is which!

Note also that some of the wards where UKIP did not run a candidate they would likely have polled decently. I don't understand either. It would appear (lmao) that the Greens benefited mildly from this.

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[YL]

As well as the eponymous Black Country town (and some other smaller Black Country towns), Walsall borough includes much humdrum white Birmingham suburbia. See if you can spot from the maps which is which!

Note also that some of the wards where UKIP did not run a candidate they would likely have polled decently. I don't understand either. It would appear (lmao) that the Greens benefited mildly from this.

Fits with both parties picking up a certain amount of generic protest vote.

I will of course attempt to explain any Sheffield patterns to those who are curious.  NB UKIP didn't stand in Graves Park (the third ward from the west along the southern boundary) for some reason (not that it would have been one of their better wards, but still it would have been better for them than Broomhill) which explains one initially odd-looking feature.  Elsewhere, there's a tendency for UKIP and the Greens to be strong where the other is weak (though e.g. neither do that well in Dore & Totley).

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One of the wackiest boroughs in the country now...




As well as the eponymous Black Country town (and some other smaller Black Country towns), Walsall borough includes much humdrum white Birmingham suburbia. See if you can spot from the maps which is which!

Note also that some of the wards where UKIP did not run a candidate they would likely have polled decently. I don't understand either. It would appear (lmao) that the Greens benefited mildly from this.

What's with the TUSC pushing 10% in a ward? Friends and family?

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One of the wackiest boroughs in the country now...




As well as the eponymous Black Country town (and some other smaller Black Country towns), Walsall borough includes much humdrum white Birmingham suburbia. See if you can spot from the maps which is which!

Note also that some of the wards where UKIP did not run a candidate they would likely have polled decently. I don't understand either. It would appear (lmao) that the Greens benefited mildly from this.

What's with the TUSC pushing 10% in a ward? Friends and family?

There were only three candidates - Lab, Con, TUSC. Might have done so well as they picked up the protest voters.

Lab - 59%
Con - 31%
TUSC - 11%

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To an extent almost certainly, but of more importance is the fact that this is Walsall. TUSC there = the latest rebranding of Citizen Dave's weird political cult.