UK local elections, May 2012

[Leftbehind]

Just for interest's sake, if you apply a repeat of last year's seat gains/losses in the individual councils in England you get:

Labour gain;
Birmingham (from No Overall Control)
Bradford (from NOC)
Derby (from NOC)
North East Lincolnshire (from NOC)
Plymouth (from Conservatives)
Chorley (from NOC)
Rochdale (from NOC)
Sefton (from NOC)
Walsall (from NOC)
Wirral (from NOC)
Reading (from NOC)
Southampton (from Conservatives)
Thurrock (from NOC)
Exeter (from NOC)
Harlow (from Conservatives)
Newcastle-under-Lyme (from NOC)
Norwich (from NOC)
Rossendale (from NOC)

Conservative gain;
St Albans (from NOC)

[Leftbehind]

Two pieces of good news in a particularly awful month.

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F'ing fantastic.

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^Good work.

[Leftbehind]

I'd be interested to see party contesting rates through the years. It says at least 12 years, which opens the door for it being a much longer record (certainly the '00/'04/'08 figures it quotes all hover around 80%, whereas these are at 70%).   

[Leftbehind]

Rallings & Thrasher had them at their lowest since 1980, IIRC.

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Lose.

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No elections here until 2015.

[Leftbehind]

No elections here until 2015.

me neither, county council next year though, and all the fun of the police and crime commissioner elections in november

Argh, don't remind me!

*nosuchthingaselectedpolicecommissionersnosuchthingaselectedpolicecommissionersnosuchthingasel
ectedpolicecommissioners*

[Leftbehind]

But have you told him there's no such thing as one?

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They're not far-right, but they're right-wing populists/an anti-immigration vote similar to many - not all, mind - of what are being voted in across Europe at the moment.

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Welsh Assembly regional (change since 2011): CON 13% (-10), LAB 33% (-4), LD 9% (+1), PC 22% (+4)

UKIP 10% (+5), GRN 9% (+6), OTH 3% (-4).

[Leftbehind]

Crunching is the term, I believe.

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Early rumours suggest No to mayor in Birmingham; hopefully others will follow.

Excellent news.

Hope you're all staying up 'til 4?

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LOL

Actually found myself glad they've kept it simple earlier just remembering that crap.

Also at the Sunderland result.

The graphics/trend shown a few moments ago on regional gains/losses by parties was great. Shown what many were arguing last year - gains from the Liberals (in the South) hidden Tory losses.

[Leftbehind]

800 to 1000 gains according to Warsi lolz.

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I'd class a ward showing Con 43%, Lab 35%, UKIP 21% last year to be a safe Tory.

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LOL that's amazing.

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BBC early prediction: Con 34% Lab 40% Lib 13%

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Lab gain Great Yarmouth.

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Good to see Greens are gaining alongside Labour so far.

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Sounds like a Lab Gain in Southampton.

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BBC projected national share (with changes from last year): Lab 39% (+3%) Con 31% (-4%) Lib 16% (n/c) Oth 14% (+1%).

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No vote in Manc as well.

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Hope you caught Dimbleby saying (quoting Ken) bastards.