A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left. Just for the record: all the views expressed here are entirely personal and do not necessarily represent the positions of any organisations I am a member of.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Council by-elections

As well as the Glasgow NE parliamentary by-election there were two council by-elections yesterday:

New Romney Coast Ward, Shepway DC. Con gain from LD. Con 452 (51.4%, +2.2), LD 333 (37.9%, -12.9), UKIP 94 (10.7%, +10.7). Swing of 7.6% from LD to Con since 2007.

Totnes Bridgetown Ward, South Hams DC. LD hold. LD 522 (52.4%, +27.5), Green 265 (26.6%, +26.6), Con 162 (16.2%, +5.4), Lab 48 (4.8%, -4.1). Swing of 0.5% from Green to LD since 2007.

4 Comments:

Blogger Jim Jepps said...

I notice in Totnes there was also a town council by election - which the Greens won http://tinyurl.com/ylkqovh

1:41 pm, November 13, 2009

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Greens won something?

Rupert Read - Colgate Boy gets bitchslapped:

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2009/11/today-give-carte-blanche-to-scientist-who-denies-link-between-co2-and-temperature/comment-page-2/#comment-1693

12:43 pm, November 14, 2009

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

“Tories 14 points ahead in two polls”
November 14th, 2009
Tory pressman Henry Macrory has just Twittered to say “Two polls tonight will give Conservatives a 14pt lead”.

YouGov has Tory lead still at 14%
Anthony Wells reports that YouGov have a poll in tomorrow's Sunday Times with the following numbers:

Conservatives - 41% (-)
Labour - 27% (-)
Lib Dems - 18% (+1)

Those figures compute into a Conservative Commons majority of 82.

12:40 am, November 15, 2009

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Could you explain how we get a swing from Green to LD when there was no Green candidate in 2007 (the Independent got 70% of the possible vote in a two seat ward in 2007 and the two LDs got 56% between them)

12:01 am, November 16, 2009

 

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