Friday 13 September 2024

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 12.09.24


Ten council contests this week, including three in London.  Labour held in Tower Hamlets with an increased vote share, but their vote fell in Hackney where they lost a seat to the Greens.

Elsewhere there were Labour holds in Cambridge, Gateshead and Milton Keynes, but the Labour vote was down in all three.  They gained a seat from the Conservatives on the Isle of Arran with a huge swing, due in part to the absence of an SNP candidate and the Scotting voting system.  The Labour vote was down in seven of the ten by-elections.

The Lib Dems held two of the three seats they were defending, but surrendered a seat to an independent candidate in Norfolk.  The Lib Dems chose not to defend the seat after the sitting councillor passed away, instead endorsing the independent candidate who ended up winning the seat.

Romsey, Cambridge City Council

Lab: 596 (42.8%) -2.7%
Grn: 409 (29.4%) +8.7%
LDem: 249 (17.9%) +3.4%
Con: 138 (9.9%) -9.3%

Lab HOLD

Bridges, Gateshead Borough Council

Lab: 320 (30.6%) -27.7%
LDem: 255 (24.4%) +13.0%
Grn: 253 (24.2%) +9.8%
Ref: 166 (15.9%) New
Con: 53 (5.1%) -10.9%

Lab HOLD

London Fields, Hackney London Borough Council

Lab: 746 (54.1%) -6.9%
Ind: 437 (31.7%) New
Con: 72 (5.2%) New
LDem: 71 (5.2%) -8.0%
WPB: 52 (3.8%) New

Lab HOLD

Stoke Newington, Hackney London Borough Council

Grn: 1,253 (53.0%) +19.5%
Lab: 945 (40.0%) -19.2%
LDem: 78 (3.3%) New
Con: 74 (3.1%) -4.1%
Ind: 12 (0.5%) New

Grn GAIN from Lab

Bletchley East, Milton Keynes City Council

Lab: 869 (49.7%) -7.1%
Con: 431 (24.7%) -0.7%
Ind: 147 (8.4%) New
Grn: 143 (8.2%) +2.6%
LDem: 127 (7.3%) +0.5%
Herit: 30 (1.7%) New

Lab HOLD

North Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne City Council

LDem: 740 (64.5%) +2.9%
Lab: 234 (20.4%) -6.0%
Grn: 93 (8.1%) -0.2%
Con: 35 (3.1%) -0.6%
Ref: 26 (2.3%) New
PoW: 19 (1.7%) New

LDem HOLD

Freebridge Lynn, Norfolk County Council

Ind: 723 (53.8%) New
Con: 454 (33.8%) +2.8%
Lab: 167 (12.4%) +5.8%

Ind GAIN from LDem

Arran, North Ayrshire Council

(first preference votes)

Lab: 748 (45.4%) +35.4%
Ind: 402 (24.4%) +2.4%
Grn: 340 (20.6%) +10.7%
Con: 90 (5.5%) -27.0%
Ref: 55 (3.3%) New
LDem: 12 (0.7%) New

Lab GAIN from Con (elected at stage 5)

North Walsham Market Cross, North Norfolk Council

LDem: 283 (46.5%) -3.8%
Con: 239 (39.3%) +1.8%
Grn: 53 (8.7%) New
Lab: 33 (5.4%) -6.7%

LDem HOLD

Bow East, Tower Hamlets London Borough Council

Lab: 1,266 (53.3%) +6.1%
Grn: 722 (30.4%) +14.1%
Con: 239 (10.1%) +4.4%
LDem: 148 (6.2%) -2.3%

Lab HOLD

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour
Grn = Green
LDem = Liberal Democrat
Con = Conservative
Ref = Reform UK
WPB = Workers Party of Britain
Herit = Heritage
PoW = Party of Women
Ind = Independents

1 comment:

  1. One way to defeat Starmer is to make it difficult to govern Britain, This can be achieved by ensuring Labour loses all it's local government seats and with them control of local authorities.

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