MAYORAL RESULTS

There were six regional and metropolitan mayoral elections held on Thursday, including two new posts - Greater Lincolnshire and Hull & East Yorkshire.  Labour were defending the four existing posts and successfully fought off strong Reform challenges in three of them.  Labour narrowly beat Reform by just a few hundred votes in both Doncaster and North Tyneside.  The Conservatives scored a gain from Labour in Cambridgeshire, which at the time of writing is the only piece of good news for the Tories on a torrid day.

Having wreaked devastating damage on the Tories on county councils across England, Reform UK took both of the new mayoral posts.  Ex-Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns triumphed for Reform in Greater Lincolnshire, while former Team GB boxer Luke Campbell became the first mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.

Here are the results in full.

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough

Paul Bristow (Con) 60,243 (28.4%)

Ryan Coogan (Ref) 49,647 (23.4%)

Anna Smith (Lab) 42,671 (20.1%)

Lorna Dupré (LDm) 41,611 (19.6%)

Bob Ensch (Grn) 18,255 (8.6%)

Con GAIN from Lab

Doncaster

Ros Jones (Lab) 23,805 (32.6%) 

Alexander Jones (Ref) 23,107 (31.6%)

Nick Fletcher (Con) 18,982 (26.0%)

Julie Buckley (Grn) 2,449 (3.4%)

Andrew Walmsley (Yrks) 1,164 (1.6%)

David Bettney (SDP) 929 (1.3%)

Mihai Melenciuc (LDm) 895 (1.2%)

Frank Calladine (BDm) 448 (0.6%)

Ahsan Jamil (WPB) 434 (0.6%)

Andy Hiles (TUS) 393 (0.5%)

Richie Vallance (Ind) 245 (0.3%)

Doug Wright (Ind) 157 (0.2%)

Lab HOLD

Greater Lincolnshire

Andrea Jenkyns (Ref) 104,133 (42.0%)

Rob Waltham (Con) 64,585 (26.1%)

Jason Stockwood (Lab) 30,384 (12.3%)

Marianne Overton (Ind) 19,911 (8.0%)

Sally Horscroft (Grn) 15,040 (6.1%)

Trevor Young (LDm) 13,728 (5.5%)

Ref WIN (new post)

Hull & East Yorkshire

Luke Campbell (Ref) 48,491 (35.8%)

Mike Ross (LDm) 37,510 (27.7%)

Anne Handley (Con) 21,393 (15.8%)

Margaret Pinder (Lab) 18,568 (13.7%)

Kerry Harrison (Grn) 5,049 (3.7%)

Rowan Halstead (Yrks) 4,372 (3.2%)

Ref WIN (new post)

North Tyneside

Karen Clark (Lab) 16,230 (30.2%)

John Falkenstein (Ref) 15,786 (29.4%)

Liam Bones (Con) 11,017 (20.5%)

Chloe-Louise Reilly (Grn) 3,980 (7.4%)

John Appleby (LDm) 3,453 (6.4%)

Cath Davis (Ind) 1,780 (3.3%)

Martin Uren (Ind) 1,460 (2.7%)

Lab HOLD

West of England

Helen Godwin (Lab) 51,197 (25.0%)

Arron Banks (Ref) 45,252 (22.1%)

Mary Page (Grn) 41,094 (20.0%)

Steve Smith (Con) 34,092 (16.6%)

Oli Henman (LDm) 28,711 (14.0%)

Ian Scott (Ind) 4,682 (2.3%)

Lab HOLD

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COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 14.07.22

Eight council seats up for grabs this week - five Labour defences, two Conservative and one Lib Dem.  Labour held all five of their seats and also took one from the Tories in Breckland, Norfolk.  They gained the seat with a small swing and the narrow margin of just 15 votes.

The Conservative vote share was down in all but two of the contests, but they managed to hold a safe seat in Warwickshire despite a Lib Dem surge there.  There was only one absence on Thursday - the Green Party did not contest Binley and Willenhall, Coventry.

Labour's victorious candidate in Coventry, Cllr Seyi Agboola, with MP Zarah
Sultana standing on his right

Thetford Boudica, Breckland Council

Lab: 398 (51.0%) +4.7%

Con: 383 (49.0%) -4.7%

Lab GAIN from Con

Binley & Willenhall, Coventry City Council

Lab: 934 (36.2%) -5.1%

Con: 765 (29.6%) +0.7%

CCP: 746 (28.9%) +9.6%

ADF: 91 (3.5%) +0.1%

TUSC: 46 (1.8%) New

Lab HOLD

Overton, Hyndburn Borough Council

Lab: 773 (52.2%) +5.9%

Con: 600 (40.5%) -0.5%

Ind: 71 (4.8%) New

RefUK: 36 (2.4%) -10.2%

Lab HOLD

Camperdown, North Tyneside Council

Lab: 873 (59.0%) -8.8%

Con: 388 (26.2%) -5.9%

LDem: 124 (8.4%) New

Grn: 58 (3.9%) New

UKIP: 36 (2.4%) New

Lab HOLD

Brympton, South Somerset District Council

LDem: 582 (58.6%) +4.5%

Con: 251 (25.3%) -11.3%

Grn: 71 (7.1%) New

Lab: 61 (6.1%) -3.2%

Ind: 29 (2.9%) New

LDem HOLD

Tooting Broadway, Wandsworth London Borough Council

Lab: 1,429 (62.2%) +1.6%

Con: 491 (21.4%) +2.8%

Grn: 285 (12.4%) -2.5%

LDem: 94 (4.1%) -2.0%

Lab HOLD

Arden, Warwickshire County Council

Con: 1,609 (59.3%) -14.7%

LDem: 854 (31.5%) +24.3%

Lab: 251 (9.2%) -0.8%

Con HOLD

Liscard, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Lab: 1,304 (64.8%) +7.9%

Con: 370 (18.4%) -7.8%

Grn: 172 (8.5%) +0.4%

LDem: 167 (8.3%) +1.7%

Lab HOLD

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

Con = Conservative

CCP = Coventry Citizens Party

ADF = Alliance for Democracy and Freedom

TUSC = Trade Union and Socialist Coalition

RefUK = Reform UK

LDem = Liberal Democrat

Grn = Green

UKIP = UK Independence Party

Ind = Independents

COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 29.07.21

There were five by-elections on Thursday with all five seats changing hands.  Labour lost two to the Tories and gained one from an independent.  The Tories gained two from Labour and lost two to the Lib Dems.

Pitsea North West, Basildon Borough Council

Con: 794 (56.5%) +14.8%

Lab: 430 (30.6%) -16.0%

BCRP: 82 (5.8%) -3.2%

LDem: 57 (4.1%) +1.4%

RefUK: 23 (1.6%) New

ForBrit: 19 (1.4%) New

Con GAIN from Lab

East Retford South, Bassetlaw District Council

Con: 493 (40.1%) +25.2%

Ind: 488 (39.7%) New

Lab: 247 (20.1%) -47.7%

Con GAIN from Lab

Knaresborough Scriven Park, Harrogate Borough Council

LDem: 635 (56.6%) +19.6%

Con: 384 (34.3%) -4.2%

Lab: 91 (8.1%) -16.4%

UKIP: 11 (1.0%) New

LDem GAIN from Con

Gaywood South, Norfolk County Council

LDem: 648 (39.3%) +28.0%

Lab: 561 (34.0%) -1.6%

Con: 378 (22.9%) -25.3%

Ind: 35 (2.1%) New

UKIP: 28 (1.7%) -3.2%

LDem GAIN from Con

Fellgate & Hedworth, South Tyneside Council

Lab: 850 (49.1%) +9.6%

Ind: 555 (32.0%) -15.8%

Con: 158 (9.1%) +4.7%

LDem: 125 (7.2%) -1.0%

Grn: 44 (2.5%) New

Lab GAIN from Ind

Abbreviations

Con = Conservative

Lab = Labour

LDem = Liberal Democrat

BCRP = Basildon Community Residents Party

RefUK = Reform UK

ForBrit = For Britain

UKIP = UK Independence Party

Grn = Green

Ind = Independents

NORTH TYNESIDE MAYORAL RESULT

Labour have held the post of North Tyneside mayor with little change in voting behaviour.  Norma Redfearn was defending a 13,491 majority.  She now has a slightly larger 13,753 majority.

North Tyneside Mayor (Lab HOLD)

Norma Redfearn (Lab) 33,119 (53.3%) -3.1%

Steven Robinson (Con) 19,366 (31.2%)​​ +0.5%

Penny Remfry (Green) 4,278 (6.9%) New

John Appleby (LDem) 3,549 (5.7%) -1.0%

Jack Thomson (UKIP) 1,753 (2.8%) -3.4%