Council by-election results

[brogdale]

A thread in which we can post and discuss Council by-election results.
AFAICS, pogofish permitting, we've not had a thread dedicated to the generality of local by-election results and they've tended to be discussed in the Political polling thread.
So here goes!

Most local/ward by-elections are held on Thursdays and results tend to emerge on Thursday nights/Friday mornings and are most easily accessed on the usual twitter/SM output from places like @BritainElects etc. Some of the best by-election discussions occur when folks can bring their own local knowledge to bear and offer up nuances that are not always obvious from the basic % numbers.

Amongst the by-elections held yesterday the one lost by Lab to the Greens in central Whitstable (Gorrell ward) has created some chatter in polling:



but other by-election results are available.
Enjoy...and play nicely.

 

[brogdale]

Yesterday also threw up this rarity for political anoraks to collect; the rump Liberal Party that has only 8 councillors nationally managed to hold one of those seats:

 

[platinumsage]

Doesn’t discussion of these require in-depth knowledge of the local situation such that if you don’t actually live in the ward concerned or follow all the local campaigners on twitter etc, you won’t be able to conclude anything useful?

 

[William of Walworth]

Big increase in the Green vote may (at least partly) relate to recent prominence of COP25 discussions, all over the media.

 

[killer b]

Doesn’t discussion of these require in-depth of the local situation such that if you don’t actually live in the ward concerned or follow all the local campaigners on twitter etc, you won’t be able to conclude anything useful?

Reckon if you followed all the local campaigners on twitter you'd be even less able to conclude anything useful

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Big increase in the Green vote may (at least partly) relate to recent prominence of COP25 discussions, all over the media.

Maybe to a degree. I suspect it's more there's quite a lot of Corbyn voting types floating around looking for somewhere to go to be honest. There's more than enough of them to represent a significant uptick in Green votes.

 

[Sue]

Doesn’t discussion of these require in-depth knowledge of the local situation such that if you don’t actually live in the ward concerned or follow all the local campaigners on twitter etc, you won’t be able to conclude anything useful?

Are you new here? Not concluding anything useful is our raison d'etre . (See also wild and inaccurate speculation, talking bollocks etc.)

 

[brogdale]

Doesn’t discussion of these require in-depth knowledge of the local situation such that if you don’t actually live in the ward concerned or follow all the local campaigners on twitter etc, you won’t be able to conclude anything useful?

er...

Some of the best by-election discussions occur when folks can bring their own local knowledge to bear and offer up nuances that are not always obvious from the basic % numbers.

 

[brogdale]

Perhaps in the most unsurprising news of the day...Lab hold the 3 Liverpool seats up in yesterday's City Council by-elections.
Was drawn to the tory vote tally in Clubmoor ward:

 

[Pickman's model]

Perhaps in the most unsurprising news of the day...Lab hold the 3 Liverpool seats up in yesterday's City Council by-elections.
Was drawn to the tory vote tally in Clubmoor ward:

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i am astonished wendy rose hine polled as well as she did

 

[brogdale]

Big increase in the Green vote may (at least partly) relate to recent prominence of COP25 discussions, all over the media.

I'm sure there's something to that, but in the case of Gorrell (Whitstable) the Southern Water protests/rates boycott are also giving local environmentalists etc. a big local news platform/exposure right now, especially so since (near local) Saint Bob has got on the bandwagon.

 

[killer b]

Great to see TUSC back, and as strong a showing as ever.

 

[brogdale]

Great to see TUSC back, and as strong a showing as ever.

If you can't garner 2X the tories in Liverpool...

 

[a_chap]

Big increase in the Green vote may (at least partly) relate to recent prominence of COP25 discussions, all over the media.

Quite possibly.

Might also relate to discussions of the slightly more recent COP26 too.

 

[brogdale]

A thread in which we can post and discuss Council by-election results.
AFAICS, pogofish permitting, we've not had a thread dedicated to the generality of local by-election results and they've tended to be discussed in the Political polling thread.
So here goes!

Most local/ward by-elections are held on Thursdays and results tend to emerge on Thursday nights/Friday mornings and are most easily accessed on the usual twitter/SM output from places like @BritainElects etc. Some of the best by-election discussions occur when folks can bring their own local knowledge to bear and offer up nuances that are not always obvious from the basic % numbers.

Amongst the by-elections held yesterday the one lost by Lab to the Greens in central Whitstable (Gorrell ward) has created some chatter in polling:



but other by-election results are available.
Enjoy...and play nicely.

The Greens in North, East Kent must be feeling pretty chipper with this gain coming after last week's hold in Thanet:



I don't know if Lab deliberately held back or not, but folks down there look as though they're starting to vote tactically as the "progressive alliance" want.

 

[brogdale]

13 this Thursday

 

[Dogsauce]

Perhaps in the most unsurprising news of the day...Lab hold the 3 Liverpool seats up in yesterday's City Council by-elections.
Was drawn to the tory vote tally in Clubmoor ward:

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Red wall is made of several metres of granite in those parts.

 

[brogdale]

Just a reminder that there's 13 today/tonight!

 

[brogdale]

Quite an opener!

 

[Serge Forward]

Wow. I know Knutton. That's a surprise.

 

[brogdale]

2nd:

 

[killer b]

Quite an opener!

Turnout for this was apparently 19% - 371 people voted. The winner by a massive margin was who gives a fuck.

 

[brogdale]

3rd:

 

[brogdale]

Turnout for this was apparently 19% - 371 people voted. The winner by a massive margin was who gives a fuck.

If only that were the case; unfortunately the winner was the tory.

 

[brogdale]

4th up...

 

[killer b]

If only that were the case; unfortunately the winner was the tory.

Sure, but the numbers are important - a win on a tiny turnout tells a very different story to a win on a large turnout, even if the electoral outcome is the same.

one of the reasons I dislike that Britain Elects account is because it doesn't give actual numbers - probably they don't give actual numbers because they'd get shared less, which is a fundamentally dishonest way of going about doing what they do

 

[brogdale]

Sure, but the numbers are important - a win on a tiny turnout tells a very different story to a win on a large turnout, even if the electoral outcome is the same.

one of the reasons I dislike that Britain Elects account is because it doesn't give actual numbers - probably they don't give actual numbers because they'd get shared less, which is a fundamentally dishonest way of going about doing what they do

agreed; I appreciated your turnout data.

 

[Carvaged]

Turnout for this was apparently 19% - 371 people voted. The winner by a massive margin was who gives a fuck.

Not unusual for a council seat though, especially inner city and Labour. Labour has always struggled to get its (potential) vote out.

 

[brogdale]

No. 5

 

[brogdale]

6th