UK local by-elections 2012

[minionofmidas]

Labour gain Newcomen? Didn't really expect that.

[minionofmidas]

How the hell did Labour hold something here, even if it was during the Blairite heyday? Factor in that 25% now, and presumably there is some sort of basis for a Labour vote here that I just haven't noticed any reason for?

[minionofmidas]

How the hell did Labour hold something here, even if it was during the Blairite heyday? Factor in that 25% now, and presumably there is some sort of basis for a Labour vote here that I just haven't noticed any reason for?

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Rutland has no seat on the county council and the Westminster seat (Rutland and Melton and its predecessors) are Conservative since 1867, when the last Liberal lost, according to Wikipedia.

Says in the writeup. This place elected a (ie one, out of three) Labour county councillor during the Blairite heyday. And they also came second yesterday. Somebody in this tiny town / market village / whatevsky is voting Labour... and Rutland is about the last place I'd expect anybody to do so.

[minionofmidas]

There cannot have been a by-election here, as I didn't see an Andrew Teale writeup on it. Or else that by-election's validity should be challenged on the grounds that it was held without Andrew's written approval.

[minionofmidas]

There cannot have been a by-election here, as I didn't see an Andrew Teale writeup on it. Or else that by-election's validity should be challenged on the grounds that it was held without Andrew's written approval.

He wrote a write-up, on another website.

That does not count.

[minionofmidas]

The result is hereby legitimised.

You cannot do that postfact. I do not recognize the existence of this so-called "by-election".

[minionofmidas]

Pretty good UKIP results in Leek. Good news for LDs in Windermere.

[minionofmidas]

Pretty good UKIP results in Leek.

UKIP were actually defending both seats, so no.

I know. I read the Holy Word. I didn't think personal votes were inheritable to such an extent; I would have guessed he'd get 10-15%.

[minionofmidas]

Pretty good UKIP results in Leek.

UKIP were actually defending both seats, so no.

I know. I read the Holy Word. I didn't think personal votes were inheritable to such an extent; I would have guessed he'd get 10-15%.

Well, the personal vote was being literally inherited in a manner that would do deepest Kerry proud.

Yeah... but this ain't Kerry. Though the place name implies a Welsh connection. -_-

[minionofmidas]

There's no by-elections next week. Everyone panic!!!

Oh my god! Where's my pro-anti-no-by-election shelter?

[minionofmidas]

Just 16% for the sole white candidate, standing for a "respectable" party, in a 70% white ward? Must have hoped for a better result than that.

[minionofmidas]

"Perhaps because of this, and Slough’s working-class nature, the town gets a bad press."

The main reason is location. Poor neighborhoods very near very rich people who don't dare go to them always have a wholly exaggerated reputation.

EDIT: Wait; why is Chowdhry standing if he already is a Councillor? What the hell?

[minionofmidas]

"The Independent" is trite. That is its style.

[minionofmidas]

Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields and Banglatown (figures in italics are change since December 2010 by-election)

Ind 44.9 (+41.9) (+43.0)
Lab 43.0 (+8.1) (+5.3)
Con 6.1 (-5.9) (-3.1)
Green 4.3 (-5.8 ) (+0.8 )
Lib Dem 1.7 (-15.9) (-0.5)

How many raw votes is that for Robbani and Aladin?

[minionofmidas]

It was a Respect-supported Independent hold though, not a gain (a hold after defection, but still.)

[minionofmidas]

I sense a story behind that Hertfordshire result. Either a story about this election or about the place it was held in.
EDIT: Ah, I see it's part of Watford. That makes more sense.

[minionofmidas]

Tories actually won the ward in 2008.

(Insert cheap and hackish joke about the ward's name here)

The even worthier fail was in 2008.

[minionofmidas]

Tendring, St Bartholomews (changes since Mar 2012 by-election in italics)

Residents 87.8 (+14.5) (+15.1)
Con 12.2 (-14.5) (-7.1)

Fascinating. One wonders about the national ramifications of this result.

[minionofmidas]

I was being facetious. A Residents vs Conservatives by-election is about as irrelevant (unless control of the council is involved) as things can possibly get, and the result suggests a clear difference in candidate quality visible to all.
I didn't even read the Holy Word on it.
"The problem with irony is that not everybody gets it" [quote Ray Wylie Hubbard, as introduction to his wonderful song "Screw you, we're from Texas"]

[minionofmidas]

Bridgend, Bettws

Lab 79.9 (+3.6)
Ind 15.5 (+15.5)
Green 2.6 (-21.1)
Con 1.9 (+1.9)

(via https://twitter.com/DRC1649/status/241292519747489792)

that's a pretty steep drop but how did the greens manage to get 23.7% in Bridgend, was it just us, Labour and the Tories?

Yes, except without Tories.

[minionofmidas]

a Labour dead zone where the Party struggled to poll much better than 10% in good years before the advent of tactical voting in South Shropshire.

Lol.

"Craven Arms" is a town? Sounds like a pub to me.

[minionofmidas]

The link the council gives to the by-election result...

http://www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk/pdf/Campsie%20and%20Kirkintilloch%20North%20By-Election%20Result.pdf

Yeah, doesn't work for me either.

[minionofmidas]

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That's gains of 301 for the SNP vs 295 for Labour over the course of the count, with 577 ballots exhausted.

[minionofmidas]

I'm sorry but how come there so many by-elections each week ? O_o

In France we only have 2 or 3 cantonales or municipales by-elections per month. Is the UK more willing to cancel election results or do UK elected officials tend to die more ?

You have replacement candidates, no?

Anyways, I heart the surname McEvilly.

[minionofmidas]

This week's Holy Word

Canterbury, Blean Forest

Con 44.2 (-8.8 )
Lab 23.9 (+23.9)
Lib Dem 15.6 (-0.3)
Green 8.3 (-22.8 )
UKIP 4.9 (+4.9)
Ind 3.1 (+3.1)

Nottinghamshire, Rufford

Lab 58.0 (+27.8 )
Con 24.6 (-9.6)
Notts Ind 12.9 (-22.7)
UKIP 4.6 (+4.6)

Herefordshire, St Nicholas

It's Our County 53.3 (+10.1)
Lib Dem 19.6 (+0.5)
Con 18.0 (-3.2)
Lab 9.2 (-7.3)

Cornwall, St Keverne and Meneage

Con 55.3 (+21.0)
Lib Dem 26.4 (+19.8 )
UKIP 13.3 (+13.3)
Lab 4.9 (+3.2)

Scarborough, Esk Valley
Guy Coulson    Conservative    606    67.6%
Mike Ward    Independent    151    16.8%
Simon Bard Parkes    Labour    87    9.7%
Michael John James    UK Independence Party    35    3.9%    
Ed Scott    English Democrats    18    2.0%