Friday 3 October 2014

Council by election round up June to Sept

Thanks to MiddleEnglander for these great round ups which they do.

There were 64 by-elections during the 4 months June to September 2014 with 25 (39%) changing hand or 23 (36%) excluding 2 Lincolnshire Independent (classed as a Resident Group) gains from Independent.   The results can be summarised by:

Party  Candidates      Defended       Retained        Gained           Lost             Won       retention rate
Conservatives            64         18        10         5         8        15       56%
Labour          58         21        20         6         1        26       95%
Liberal Democrats             40         10          5         5         5        10       50%
SNP            2           2

         2
         0%
Plaid Cymru               1





UKIP          54           3
         3         3           3         0%
Green          30           2          1         1         1           2       50%
Resident Groups *             3

         3
           3
Independents **          27           8          3         2         5           5       38%
No Description            3





Blue            1





BNP            1





Christian People's Alliance              1





English Democrats               2





Liberal            1





Mebyon Kernow            2





TUSAC            5





Others ***            2

         


Total        297         64        39       25       25        64       61%

*   Lincolnshire Independents and Its Our County in Herefordshire
** 27 Independents contested 20 seats
*** 1 each for British Democrats and Patriotic Socialist

The Conservatives contested all the by-elections, Labour 91% and the Liberal Democrats 63% with UKIP contesting 84% and Greens 47%.

Although 25 seats changed hands during the four months, just 8 were between Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats
- Conservatives gain Broadland: Wroxham and Somerset: North Frome from Liberal Democrats
- Labour gain Charnwood: Thurmaston from the Conservatives and Craven: Skipton West from the Liberal Democrats
- Liberal Democrats gain Cornwall: Illogan, Epping Forest: Hemnall, GuildforD: Lovelace and Maidstone: Staplehurst from the Conservatives

Conservatives gain seats from Liberal Democrats in Broadland and Somerset, an Independent in East Cambridgeshire, Green in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk and UKIP in Cornwall
- whilst losing 4 seats to the Liberal Democrats in Cornwall, Epping Forest, Guildford & Maidstone and 1 to Labour in Charnwood and 1 each to Green & Its Our County in Herefordshire together with 1 to UKIP in Shepway

Labour gain seats from Conservatives in Charnwood, Liberal Democrats in Craven, SNP in South Lanarkshire, 2 from UKIP in Merthyr Tydfil & Redditch and 1 from an Independent in Durham
- whilst losing a seat to UKIP in Doncaster

Liberal Democrats gain 4 seats from Conservatives in Cornwall, Epping Forest, Guildford and Maidstone and 1 from Independent in Northumberland
- whilst losing a seat to Conservative in Broadland and Somerset, Labour in Craven, UKIP in Worthing and another to Independent in North Yorkshire

Independents gain a seat from the Liberal Democrats in North Yorkshire and one from SNP in Argyll & Bute
- whilst losing 2 seats to Lincolnshire Independents in North Kesteven, 1 to Conservatives in East Cambridgeshire, 1 to Labour in Durham and 1 to Liberal Democrats in Northumberland

UKIP lose 2 seats to Labour in Merthyr Tydfil and Redditich and 1 to the Conservatives in Cornwall
- whilst gaining a seat from Labour in Doncaster, one in Shepway from Conservative  and another from Liberal Democrats in Worthing
Greens gain a seat from the Conservatives in Herefordshire but lost another to the Conservatives in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk
SNP lose a seat to Labour in South Lanarkshire and another to Independent in Argyll & Bute
Its Our County gain a seat in Herefordshire from Conservatives along with Lincolnshire Independents 2 seat gain from Independents in North Kesteven

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