Council by-election results
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Residents Association?
PTK
Paul Kegan
There is a history in council elections in England of "Ratepayers Association" candidates, which were really Conservatives in diguise.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Suggesting that the old assumptions about "residents/ratepayers" being tories without affiliation is not without basis?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Bar the IWCA
Leafster
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I think for my area at least, NIMBYism holds sway at a local level but the local Tories returned to the fold when it came to voting at a national level.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Deregistered 4 years ago.
Yata
Well-Known Member
Lib Dems somehow managed to get a council seat in Woodhouse in Sheffield, beating reform by 10 votes Woodhouse by-election Result 2024
i know its low turnout local etc etc (24%) but imo the SE Sheffield is one of the most vulnerable areas to the reform/ukip type stuff. theres also a similar shift from labour to the liberals/greens allover sheffield that might be a bit stronger. not saying labour aren't still the big party here but dont see them getting back full control of the council any time soon
i know its low turnout local etc etc (24%) but imo the SE Sheffield is one of the most vulnerable areas to the reform/ukip type stuff. theres also a similar shift from labour to the liberals/greens allover sheffield that might be a bit stronger. not saying labour aren't still the big party here but dont see them getting back full control of the council any time soon
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
BusLanes
Pedestrian
That really is quite something - a huge swing against Labour, two massive swings to LDs and Reform, with Labour ending up a poor third.
I'd assume the local Sheffield LDs through the kitchen sink (Lab/LD and Greens seem to have a 3 way fight across the city) but that Reform vote apparently came out of a high profile local candidate/posters in pubs/social media and his work van. No actual canvassing or loads of leaflets.
I'd assume the local Sheffield LDs through the kitchen sink (Lab/LD and Greens seem to have a 3 way fight across the city) but that Reform vote apparently came out of a high profile local candidate/posters in pubs/social media and his work van. No actual canvassing or loads of leaflets.
BusLanes
Pedestrian
Lab won one easily in Glasgow off SNP, lost one in Stirling - although that was close ish.
LDs defended one in S Oxfordshire, with 60%+ of vote. Fortress Oxfordshire eh?
Cons won one off Labour in Wokingham. Although this bit I think is usually a bit Conservative.
Lab defended one in Cardiff but their vote was down 30%. That seems sub optimal?
Cons won one off an Indo in Fylde (?)
LDs defended one in S Oxfordshire, with 60%+ of vote. Fortress Oxfordshire eh?
Cons won one off Labour in Wokingham. Although this bit I think is usually a bit Conservative.
Lab defended one in Cardiff but their vote was down 30%. That seems sub optimal?
Cons won one off an Indo in Fylde (?)
Puddy_Tat
happy mew year
yes (I wasn't aware it was happening) - results here. the council ward (shinfield) elected two labour and one tory in the may council elections (this year round it was all councillors were up for re-election following boundary changes.
Shinfield is changing - heck of a lot of new development over the last decade or so - it's effectively an outer suburb of Reading now.
Think it's also had a tory or two who became an independent after falling out with the local party.
Labour have increased from 1 to (until yesterday) 8 councillors on wokingham council in the last 20 years, lib dems have had minority administration (with labour support) to run the council the last few years.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
so will there be a Lab-Con pact ion Wokingham?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The Splott by-election in Cardiff had a number of variables that may have produced slightly odd results. The by-election was caused by the death of the incumbent LP councillor & Lord Mayor, Jane Henshaw who, apparently had a large, loyal local support.
Her daughter, Any Anderson, retained the seat with a massively reduced majority & vote share, but there was also the changed separate candidates for PLC & the Greens.
Puddy_Tat
happy mew year
yes. the borough and constituency boundaries haven't matched for a long time.
geographically, what look like the southern and eastern suburbs of Reading are in wokingham borough (as in the earley + woodley constituency) and chunks of windsor / maidenhead and bracknell forest boroughs are in the wokingham constituency. they keep buggering about with it.
i'm still not entirely convinced that there really is a place called 'splott'
i also had to go and look up who the heck PRO are - must admit i don't take a huge amount of notice of welsh politics...
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
`slight thread derail, but I thought, as a transport enthusiast, you'd like the idea of Splott as a 'railway island'. Lying just to the South of the mainline, approaching the Dairylea triangle of the Splottlands from any direction involved crossing some sort of railway bridge:yes. the borough and constituency boundaries haven't matched for a long time.
geographically, what look like the southern and eastern suburbs of Reading are in wokingham borough (as in the earley + woodley constituency) and chunks of windsor / maidenhead and bracknell forest boroughs are in the wokingham constituency. they keep buggering about with it.
i'm still not entirely convinced that there really is a place called 'splott'
i also had to go and look up who the heck PRO are - must admit i don't take a huge amount of notice of welsh politics...
Mrs B loved her time living on Splott road and whenever I sent her a letter/card I always addressed it to -- Splott Road, Splott, Splottlands, Cardiff!
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Reform has won a Labour ward on St Helens Council
Reform GAIN from Labour
Blackbrook (St Helens) council by-election result:
REF: 41.1% (+41.1)
LAB: 34.7% (-18.4)
GRN: 12.6% (-16.4)
CON: 7.7% (-10.2)
IND: 3.9% (+3.9)
+/- 2022
Estimated turnout: ~16% (-14)
buff.ly/4gcn75t
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
7% of the electorate!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Slight thread de-rail (didn't know where else to put this & thought thread regulars might appreciate a bit of levity?)....not a by-election result, but my fam's district council was in the news yesterday regarding a massive new housing development; not often I see Swale councillors in the media. Gotta love Sittingbourne 
ska invita
back on the other side
Sorry to change the tone but I think North Kent is firmly in line for London mass building sprawl...from Erith to Margate. It's my impression anyway. Why there and not elsewhere is an interesting question to which I think the answer is class
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I'm not quite seeing the complete ribbon development down the N.Kent coast that you suggest, but it's certainly true that the big development corporations have their eyes set on some of the lowest hanging fruit of weak councils. My fam mostly live in Swale which is being carved up by the developers. They sniff out the particularly useless, hollowed out local authorities with weak, underfunded development offices. And if they do come across any competent development officials they buy them up with salary offers far in excess of their pathetic council salaries. add into the mix the rapacious farmland owners and we're seeing huge tracts of some of the best arable farmland in the South East being built on. I know full well that millions more housing units are needed but, like you suggest, the spatial allocation of these units will bear little relation to need and, of course, very little of any of this sprawl will be social housing.
ska invita
back on the other side
TBF most of the Whistable to Margate corridor has been built on already, much that remains empty is Thanet flood plain but west Birchington looks likely to get a big development and I can imagine some building back from the coast from existing towns there.
THe Bexley to Swanscombe corridor already has some much building going on, but I doubt thats the end of it
Leafster
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This just popped up via my Bluesky feed.
www.kentlive.news
The 'need' appears to arise from a lack of any policy to revitalise the economies of anywhere other than the south east especially London. Developers will make more money building in the south east as their profit margins will be higher. I seem to remember reading about the planning strategy for my area (Tandridge) and part of the reason for the 'need' for more housing was down to people being priced out of south London and therefore migrating to East Surrey.
Raging Kent villagers fuming as 8000 new homes plan will 'spoil' the area
"I would like for them to build it anywhere else but here"
The 'need' appears to arise from a lack of any policy to revitalise the economies of anywhere other than the south east especially London. Developers will make more money building in the south east as their profit margins will be higher. I seem to remember reading about the planning strategy for my area (Tandridge) and part of the reason for the 'need' for more housing was down to people being priced out of south London and therefore migrating to East Surrey.
