England local election results thread

[JTG]

Council results so far:

Dorset
Conservative hold
C 27 (-2); LD 12 (-2); Lab 5 (+4); UKIP 1 (+1); Ind 0 (-1)

Essex
Conservative hold
C 42 (-18); Lab 9 (+7); LD 9 (-2); UKIP 9 (+9) Ind 3 (+2); Green 2 (+2); RA 1 (nc)

Hampshire
Conservative hold
C 45 (-6); LD 17 (-7); UKIP 10 (+10); Lab 4 (+3); Ind 2 (+1); G 0 (-1)

Gloucestershire
Conservatives lose to no overall control
C 23 (-11); LD 14 (+2) Lab 9 (+5); Ind 3 (+1); UKIP 3 (+3); Green 1 (nc)

Somerset
Conservative hold
C 28 (-5); LD 18 (-4); Lab 3 (+1); UKIP 3 (+3); Ind 2 (+2); Vacant 1 (Coker, candidate died, postponed to May 16th)

Lincolnshire
Conservatives lose to no overall control
C 36 (-26); UKIP 16 (+16); Lab 12 (+7); Ind 10 (+4); LD 3 (-1)

Hertfordshire still counting but def Conservative hold

Labour reckon they're on course to regain Derbyshire and will be close in Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire

Gloucestershire UKIP gains were all in the Forest - Drybrook & Lydbrook, Blakeney & Bream and Lydney

 

[JTG]

All three UKIP councillors elected in Boston are related. Insert punchline here. UKIP also won a by-election to Boston Borough Council

UKIP vote share in Hampshire 24.61%

 

[JimW]

Think Stroud played a big part in swapping Tories for Labour to bring NOC in Glos, besides those UKIP wins in the Forest.

 

[JTG]

Think Stroud played a big part in swapping Tories for Labour to bring NOC in Glos, besides those UKIP wins in the Forest.

Yep, Stroud all Labour other than Central which stayed Green as ever. People Against Bureaucracy won a seat in Cheltenham and the Lib Dems nabbed a couple off the Tories in the Cotswolds - Bourton-on-the-Water and Cirencester Beeches, UKIP vote exceeded the Lib Dem margin of victory in both cases

 

[brogdale]

8.23am BST
John Curtice, the elections expert, has just told the BBC that Ukip seems to have achieved "an astounding performance of a historic scale". It was getting 26% of the vote in local elections and that was likely to continue when as the full results come in today. This would be its best performance in an election and the biggest incursion by a minor party in a local election, he said. Ukip had a chance to "reshape the structure of English party politics", he said.

 

[The39thStep]

How is TUSC doing, still elephant graveyard territory?

 

[Ponyutd]

Tories splitting the UKIP vote.
Twitter

 

[JimW]

How is TUSC doing, still elephant graveyard territory?

Among my several misreadings of that local election results forum butchers linked was getting excited thinking they'd won a seat then realised that it was just the candidates listed in ballot paper order and actual votes was usual low hundreds.

 

[chilango]

Unconfirmed reports from Oxfordshire claim that skips full of thousands of ballot papers with "Proletarian Democracy" written on them have been found near the count.

 

[JimW]

Unconfirmed reports from Oxfordshire claim that skips full of thousands of ballot papers with "Proletarian Democracy" written on them have been found near the count.

I still can't believe the bourgeois have fallen for our UKIP front in such large numbers.

 

[chilango]

Btw there proper rolling election coverage on BBC News Channel now. Maps, graphs the lot.

 

[William of Walworth]

Unconfirmed reports from Oxfordshire claim that skips full of thousands of ballot papers with "Proletarian Democracy" written on them have been found near the count.

 

[William of Walworth]

Empower those people, disenfranchise UKIP supporting idiots

 

[Dogsauce]

How is TUSC doing, still elephant graveyard territory?

Didn't they beat the lib dems in South Shields? Or was that a different socialist grouping?


As someone on that Twitter pointed out, you wouldn't realise from the BBC coverage that the Greens actually have more councillors than UKIP. Not sure if they're being given the 'oxygen of publicity' or 'enough rope'. Or is it just that it makes a 'good story' for the news, pushing the far-right just because it's interesting/entertaining in the dull sphere of the main three-party political system?

Maybe it's strategic - more UKIP councillors gives more opportunity for a few of the hatstands to spout bigoted shite which can be held against them come the grown-ups election in 2015.

 

[frogwoman]

disenfranchise UKIP supporting idiots

why?

 

[JTG]

Didn't they beat the lib dems in South Shields? Or was that a different socialist grouping?


As someone on that Twitter pointed out, you wouldn't realise from the BBC coverage that the Greens actually have more councillors than UKIP. Not sure if they're being given the 'oxygen of publicity' or 'enough rope'. Or is it just that it makes a 'good story' for the news, pushing the far-right just because it's interesting/entertaining in the dull sphere of the main three-party political system?

Maybe it's strategic - more UKIP councillors gives more opportunity for a few of the hatstands to spout bigoted shite which can be held against them come the grown-ups election in 2015.

South Shields was an indy socialist

Negative resentful shit makes better news and faster gains than patient, positive stuff. Not everyone sees the Greens as positive obv but - in general - they don't get involved in the same level of fear mongering shite as the rest. Doesn't make for great news

 

[butchersapron]

Didn't they beat the lib dems in South Shields? Or was that a different socialist grouping?

As someone on that Twitter pointed out, you wouldn't realise from the BBC coverage that the Greens actually have more councillors than UKIP. Not sure if they're being given the 'oxygen of publicity' or 'enough rope'. Or is it just that it makes a 'good story' for the news, pushing the far-right just because it's interesting/entertaining in the dull sphere of the main three-party political system?

Maybe it's strategic - more UKIP councillors gives more opportunity for a few of the hatstands to spout bigoted shite which can be held against them come the grown-ups election in 2015.

Maybe the greens aren't looking like getting 25%?

 

[ChrisD]

Devon CC don't start the count until 10am ! results will be here:
http://www.devonnewscentre.info/follow-the-election-action-live-online/

 

[butchersapron]

Empower those people, disenfranchise UKIP supporting idiots

Maybe a short prison term would encourage them to be grown ups and vote for one of the big three?

 

[JTG]

Seen a tweet saying that in Westminster terms, the Lib Dems held Eastbourne, Colchester, Eastleigh, Yeovil & Cheltenham but lost Wells, Taunton, Somerton & Frome

 

[frogwoman]

Maybe a short prison term would encourage them to be grown ups and vote for one of the big three?

I'm sure putting my grandma in jail for voting UKIP would be a sensible and proportionate response.

 

[JTG]

Michael Crick tweeting that not one Lib Dem MP had been to South Shields to campaign

 

[Pickman's model]

Seen a tweet saying that in Westminster terms, the Lib Dems held Eastbourne, Colchester, Eastleigh, Yeovil & Cheltenham but lost Wells, Taunton, Somerton & Frome

Yeh there's all manner of stuff tweeted for no apparent reason

 

[Pickman's model]

Maybe a short prison term would encourage them to be grown ups and vote for one of the big three?

Community payback ftw

 

[chilango]

Empower those people, disenfranchise UKIP supporting idiots

I think you missed a "d" somewhere in that post.

 

[brogdale]

Michael Crick tweeting that not one Lib Dem MP had been to South Shields to campaign

Wonder just how low the figure could have been if they had?

 

[JTG]

Yeh there's all manner of stuff tweeted for no apparent reason

Morning

 

[brogdale]

Seen a tweet saying that in Westminster terms, the Lib Dems held Eastbourne, Colchester, Eastleigh, Yeovil & Cheltenham but lost Wells, Taunton, Somerton & Frome

V difficult to infer GE stuff from locals.

 

[butchersapron]

Wonder just how low the figure could have been if they had?

We could have been through the looking glass

 

[frogwoman]

Where's moon23?