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Local Elections 2018
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Starry Wisdom
i don't understand why the bit about the jews was in there
elbows
Well-Known Member
Since I'm in Nuneaton I suppose I will study the ward-by-ward results in detail and make some comments on that later. In the meantime just a couple of bits of info:
Turnout for Nuneaton & Bedworth was just 32.49%
Major local issues:
Decline of town centre/retail and the failure over many years to bring about the promised regeneration of a couple of totally dead areas of the town centre. Tories made a lot of noise about sorting this out.
Lots and lots of new houses in several expensive areas of Nuneaton - been going on for some years, lead to green councillors in the affected seats (that are normally safe tory) but since many of these houses are now built and planning already granted for others, this battle is already lost and the greens lost one of these seats back to the tories yesterday. Lots of anger remains about the 'local plan' that allows for these new housing estates and the way the council dragged their heels for many years rather than be open about it. Housing issues further fuelled by the idea that most of the new builds are snapped up by non-locals using it as a commuter base, though I have no numbers on that myself.
A special degree of aloofness, arrogance and secrecy by the ruling Labour council. Also the end of an era in this regard since the long-term labour leader of the council has retired this time around. Later I will find a quote from this leader the last time they regained control of the council from NOC that illustrates the arrogance.
A couple of blokes seem to have started a local party. Not sure how they performed overall but they managed to get about 10 times as many votes as the TUSC in my ward (which is safe Labour) - more figures to follow.
Turnout for Nuneaton & Bedworth was just 32.49%
Major local issues:
Decline of town centre/retail and the failure over many years to bring about the promised regeneration of a couple of totally dead areas of the town centre. Tories made a lot of noise about sorting this out.
Lots and lots of new houses in several expensive areas of Nuneaton - been going on for some years, lead to green councillors in the affected seats (that are normally safe tory) but since many of these houses are now built and planning already granted for others, this battle is already lost and the greens lost one of these seats back to the tories yesterday. Lots of anger remains about the 'local plan' that allows for these new housing estates and the way the council dragged their heels for many years rather than be open about it. Housing issues further fuelled by the idea that most of the new builds are snapped up by non-locals using it as a commuter base, though I have no numbers on that myself.
A special degree of aloofness, arrogance and secrecy by the ruling Labour council. Also the end of an era in this regard since the long-term labour leader of the council has retired this time around. Later I will find a quote from this leader the last time they regained control of the council from NOC that illustrates the arrogance.
A couple of blokes seem to have started a local party. Not sure how they performed overall but they managed to get about 10 times as many votes as the TUSC in my ward (which is safe Labour) - more figures to follow.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
giving the labour campaign the last
It never stopped you before.Indeed. Posting with limited information is not good.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
he thought it was the reich thing to do
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's heil over bar the crying
They got under 5% so presumably lost their deposit. That’s not exactly great guns.
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Starry Wisdom
we all post with limited information, we're not omniscient you knowIndeed. Posting with limited information is not good.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Aye, but I was looking at the wrong page on the website.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
that's just daft
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
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i don't understand why the bit about the jews was in there
Labour antisemitism.
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Starry Wisdom
it doesn't have any relevance to the next sentence
It's a mayoral election though so a bit different to the council elections
elbows
Well-Known Member
Seems 2 of the wards that went tory here have never been tory before, but they are in Bedworth and I dont know them well enough to add local knowledge to the result analysis.
Looks like the local party I mention only stood in a couple of wards so I likely wont bother with further analysis of them this time around.
UKIP only seem to have been present in a few wards, one of which could have gone tory if they hadnt stood there.
Looks like the local party I mention only stood in a couple of wards so I likely wont bother with further analysis of them this time around.
UKIP only seem to have been present in a few wards, one of which could have gone tory if they hadnt stood there.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
From a non Labour candidate. Interesting.
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Starry Wisdom
Lurdan
old wave
Here in fun loving Tower Hamlets Mayor Biggs has significantly increased his majority on a larger turn out than the election three years ago after Rahman was booted out. Not especially surprising given that the coalition built around Rahman has split into two quite separate and fairly hostile parties.
2015 results 2014 results
Council seats count begins this afternoon.
2015 results 2014 results
Council seats count begins this afternoon.
andysays
Love and solidarity
But some more limited than others, obvs...
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
12.9% in the city centre seat here - and that’s a bloody marginal!
lots of places still counting.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yeah, sure, but sometimes there's a running total.
Ideally it's the end of UKIP full stop.
I can only find a running total of seats.
I expect it's too much of a faff to do a votes total live. Lots of seat, imperfectly reported by local councils...
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