2021 Local elections

[JTG]

Tory leader of Isle of Wight council has been unseated by the Greens

 

[JimW]

Ah, yeah, Cheltenham then. Odd place

I always have it down as Cheltenham but see it's listed under Tewkesbury, looks like a big swing:

2021


2017

 

[JimW]

Greens didn't even stand in Tewkesbury last time!

 

[JTG]

Greens didn't even stand in Tewkesbury last time!

I wonder how much coverage the obvious trend of Labour losing metro votes to the Greens will have compared to the Tory surge narrative

(Not Tewkesbury obvs No idea what happened there, though I guess some of those would have been Labour previously)

 

[JimW]

I wonder how much coverage the obvious trend of Labour losing metro votes to the Greens will have compared to the Tory surge narrative

(Not Tewkesbury obvs No idea what happened there, though I guess some of those would have been Labour previously)

Yeah, looking at the previous looks like she hoovered up all the "not a Tory" votes for about six candidates. She was the losing green candidate back then in Bishop's Cleeve by looks of it too.

 

[Sprocket.]

Doncaster borough election results are now in.
The make-up of the council following the elections.
40 Labour
11 Conservative
3 Mexborough First
1 Edlington and Warmsworth First.
Labour Hold.

 

[MrSki]

 

[chilango]

Looks like Mebyon Kernow and Labour are neck and neck on Cornwall Council...

 

[killer b]

Labour have held on to all their seats in Preston, with the Tories taking a couple from the Lib Dems, who seem to have had a terrible time of it

 

[The39thStep]

Turn out for Manchester Mayor at 35% which is 6 point higher and during covid than the last mayoral election

 

[JTG]

 

[killer b]

Ha, I bumped into Marcus on Wednesday night outside my grans - he'd brought the Tribune editorial staff on a campaigning holiday in Preston and Salford, who're both bucking the national trend...

 

[planetgeli]

Looks like Leanne Wood has lost. After 18 years. Rare Labour gain though their vote is holding up in Wales.

 

[Plumdaff]

Welsh Labour holding up well - seems that even insipid opposition to the Tories at Westminster has paid dividends. Interestingly the Brexit vote seems to have returned to Labour in Wales while it quite spectacularly hasn't in England, especially in non Welsh speaking but Welsh identifying areas like the Valleys. There's probably a thread to be hadon the divergent national identities of the UK constituent nations and the increasingly divergent politics that are forming.

Eta. Gutted for Leanne Wood. Plaid have lost their best asset.

 

[JTG]

Ha, I bumped into Marcus on Wednesday night outside my grans - he'd brought the Tribune editorial staff on a campaigning holiday in Preston and Salford, who're both bucking the national trend...

Just for you then

 

[killer b]

the tory candidate from blackburn who made that incredible video on the kids playground that went viral yesterday won btw. Fair enough.

 

[JTG]

Labour making gains in Trafford

 

[The39thStep]

Labour making gains in Trafford

Save our Grammar Schools

 

[not a trot]

GRATTAN Clive Patrick Labour Party806
THAPA Nem Bahadur The Conservative Party Candidate898 (ELECTED)
My local ward has turned blue.

 

[belboid]

Workers Party of Britain got 43 votes in Normanton (Wakefield). Not that far behind the libscum who got 92.

 

[Cwmflame]

Welsh Labour holding up well - seems that even insipid opposition to the Tories at Westminster has paid dividends. Interestingly the Brexit vote seems to have returned to Labour in Wales while it quite spectacularly hasn't in England, especially in non Welsh speaking but Welsh identifying areas like the Valleys. There's probably a thread to be hadon the divergent national identities of the UK constituent nations and the increasingly divergent politics that are forming.

Eta. Gutted for Leanne Wood. Plaid have lost their best asset.

It’s now the joint best ever performance by Labour in the Senedd (or Assembly), and an effective majority with the Llywydd taken into account. Probably through a combination of the extra exposure Drakeford has had, coupled with forthright, honest and succesful delivery of pandemic policies - even when the policies were unpopular. Also not being afraid to champion ‘traditional’ labour values (excuse the vagueness of that!). There’s also the pleasing sight of previoud UKIP votes not falling Tory - theBritish (English) Nationalist posturing of the tories is like poison here. Hopefully they can hold their own whilst English Labour gets its act together.....if only a welshman led the UK party

It is sad to see Leanne leave the scene, but Buffy is very credible and a great community activist.

 

[The39thStep]

Labour making gains in Trafford

Labour 40 (+4); Tory 17 (-3); Lib Dem 3 (-1); Green 3 (-). Tory majority three years ago -

 

[Sue]

It is sad to see Leanne leave the scene, but Buffy is very credible and a great community activist.

 

[JTG]

Brings a whole new meaning to "community stakeholders"

 

[William of Walworth]

Could only think of 'Vampire Slayer' when I saw 'Buffy' above

Which seems innappropriately unfair on Leanne Wood!

Overall, I'm quite astonished at how well Labour seem to have done in Wales, I was expecting a bigger boost for Plaid and for Labour to lose seats

 

[William of Walworth]

Overall, I'm quite astonished at how well Labour seem to have done in Wales, I was expecting a bigger boost for Plaid and for Labour to lose seats

Including in my Senedd constituency, Swansea East -- Mike Hedges re-elected with a bigger majority

 

[butchersapron]

Well done William. Great effort.

 

[campanula]

Ah, (apols for stating the obvious but) we have had a Welshman in this position, Cwmflame. First time I left the LP in disgust in the appalling Kinnock period. Don't really feel nationalism appropriate anywhere tbh.

 

[Plumdaff]

It was an excellent night for the "Three Wales Model". I had hoped for a coalition to drag Welsh Labour left a bit (the hot takes from England about Welsh Labour being Corbynism are depressingly fucking laughable) but I'll take heart that there are no UKIP/Abolish/Reform wankers in the Senedd. And Neil McEvoy got fewer votes than the Plaid candidate round here and is out the Senedd which is

 

[William of Walworth]

Labour won easily in (or on? ) Gower as well -- this was a much more marginal seat previously :

Labour increased their majority from the last Welsh Assembly elections - from a 1,829 vote victory in 2016, to victory by 4,795 this time round.

Rebecca Evans said : "It is always close on Gower, we've seen that before.

"But the reception we got on the doorstep was really warm.

"I think there is a lot of respect out there for Mark Drakeford, and how he's handled the pandemic, and I think the result shows that ...

That last line from Rebecca Evans** -- discuss!

(**My good festival and beer-drinking pal Eddie was helping her campaign. He's an old school Labour activist and ward organiser in the city fringe of the Gower constituency, he said last Saturday that things were looking bad for the Tories and positive for Labour in Gower. Some people on the ground can often predict things well, I've found).