UK local by-elections 2012

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

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

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

In "another place" I'm told there is a parish council by-election.

So there will be ballot boxes used in anger next week after all.

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I feel completely lost. Is there a by-election or two happening tomorrow?

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Very happy to see the Burnley result.  Bye bye BNP and *sn* NF

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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 ?

Deaths are the most common. There are resignations and what not but it's the whole growing old (or indeed not so old) which does it

It averages out - I think we get about 5 by-elections a week, every week, but sometimes it's a Hell more and sometimes much less. Rarely, if ever, is there a blank week.

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By way of a guide  - forthcoming local government by-elections

27 September - 8
* Blaby DC: Pastures (C resigned)
* Camden LB: Hampstead Town (C resigned)
* Dartford BC: Castle (C deceased)
* King's Lynn and West Norfolk BC: Spellowfields (C deceased)
* Middlesbrough UA: North Ormesby and Brambles Farm (Lab resigned)
* Norfolk CC: Clenchwarton and King's Lynn South (C deceased)
* Runnymede BC: Chertsey Meads (C deceased)
* Runnymede BC: New Haw (C deceased)

11 October - 2
* East Lindsey DC: Sutton on Sea North (Sutton on Sea First resigned)
* Lewisham LB: Whitefoot (L Dem resigned)

18 October - 1
* Brighton and Hove UA: East Brighton (Lab resigned)

25 October - 4
* Caerphilly CBC: New Tredegar (Lab deceased)
* Fenland DC: St Marys (C deceased)
* Hartlepool UA: Seaton (Ind resigned)
* RB Windsor and Maidenhead: Pinkneys Green (C deceased)

Pending not yet called - 23 (some are provisionally scheduled for 15 November)

* Boston BC: Frampton and Holme (Ind resigned 31 August)
* Central Bedfordshire UA: Biggleswade South (C deceased 22 August)
* Comhairle nan Eilean Siar SUA: Sgir' Uige agus Ceann a Tuath Nan Loch (SNP deceased 15 September)
* Conwy CBC: Deganwy (Ind to resign 30 September)
* Cornwall UA: Gwinear-Gwithian and St Erth (C deceased 8 September)
* Daventry DC: Brixworth (C deceased 30 August)
* Dumfries and Galloway SUA: Annandale North (Lab deceased 4 September)
* Forest of Dean DC: Berry Hill (Lab deceased 10 September)
* Havant BC: Battins (L Dem resigned c. 27 July)
* Kent CC: Maidstone Central (L Dem deceased 10 August) reported to be 18 October
* Liverpool City MB: Knotty Ash (Lab impending resignation)
* Maidstone BC: Allington (L Dem deceased 10 August) reported to be 18 October
* Merthyr Tydfil CBC: Cyfarthfa (Ind resigned 10 July)
* Neath Port Talbot CBC: Neath South (Lab deceased 13 August)
* North Hertfordshire DC: Hitchwood, Offa and Hoo (C deceased 9 September)
* North Hertfordshire DC: Letchworth South East (C resigned 6 September)
* Oldham MB: Failsworth West (Lab deceased 16 August)
* Poole UA: Branksome East (C resigned 5 September)
* Ryedale DC: Norton West (C deceased 23 August)
* Scottish Borders SUA: Leaderdale and Melrose (Borders Party impending resignation)
* Stockton-on-Tees UA: Village (Ind deceased 10 August)
* Wealden DC: Heathfield North and Central (C deceased 20 August)
* Wolverhampton MB: Park (Lab deceased c. 30 June)

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The Holy Word now has a new home.

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Ooh, feel the UKIP surge.