UK local elections, May 2012

[MaxQue]

From researches on the wonderful website of the poster, pink is Llais Gwynedd, Independants @ Swansea, Merthyr Independants, People's Voice and Llantwit First Independants.

Gray is a postponed election (a candidate died, I suppose.).

Again, I wish to state than all that precious information was found on the marvelous website of Andrew Teale.

[MaxQue]

I think British people call them countermandered by-elections, no?

And, yes, I know the rule is that. We have the same here, in Canada.

It was applied in Quebec general elections of 1998 (a PQ incumbent running for reelection died. In 1998, eight days before the election in Masson).

We also had a postponed election in Quebec general elections of 1994 and 2003, due to a tie (in St. Jean in 1994 and in Champlain in 2003), which isn't the rule in UK and in most canadian provinces. It is a "drawing of lots" in UK, no?

[MaxQue]

Oh. Apparently, in the british contermandered elections, only the parties who ran in first can run and only with their first candidate? Or Wikipedia is totally confused?

In Quebec, there is no rule like that. The Champlain by-election was having a couple of minor candidates (like the Christian Democracy Party) not running in the general election, but running in the by-election.

[MaxQue]

thanks for the map.
I loved MPs and local parties congratulating on twitter, without any sign of irony, Cllrs re-elected unopposed last week.

what happens to the ward with no nominations? and I take it Ynys Mon still have the administrators in

A by-election in June, no?

[MaxQue]

2012 and 2013 locals will be very good for Labour, given how 2008 and 2009 were bad.

[MaxQue]

Some Scottish local authorities have released ballot box data from the elections. This allows you to match up first preference votes etc to each polling district. As Edinburgh have been kind enough to release the data, that's my first port of call.

Can't wait for this

My first stab. Some polling districts had 4 parties seperated by a dozen votes, so I'll be doing party maps soon.

What's Orange?

[MaxQue]

In the second round, Ferguson went from 31,321 to 37,353, and Rees went from 25,896 to 31,259.

So this guy is Mayor of Bristol.

Elsewhere, Hartlepool voted to abolish the mayoral system, so it's farewell to the Monkey.

For once, that independant doesn't seems to be a nut, nor an extremist. He actually seems decent.