Review of Council by elections for the year so far.

There have been 316 principal local council by-elections in the 11 months to the end of November with 91 (29%) changing hands.

Party	Candidates	Defended	Retained	Gained	Lost	Won	Retention Rate
Conservative	311	136	92	15	44	107	68%
Labour	275	108	100	29	8	129	93%
Lib Dems	219	41	23	14	18	37	56%
UKIP	209	3		15	3	15	0%
SNP	12	6			6		0%
Plaid Cymru	7	1	1			1	100%
Green	106	5	2	1	3	3	40%
Kidderminster Health	2			1		1
Liberal	1			1		1
Resident Groups *	20	2	2	3		5	100%
Independent **	104	13	5	12	8	17	38%
BNP	19
English Democrat	10	1			1		0%
National Front	5
Socialist (GB)	4
TUSAC	27
Other	23
Total	1,354	316	225	91	91	316	71%

*   Resident Groups had 20 candidates contesting 19 seats
** There were 104 Independents contesting 86 seats

Conservatives had official candidates in in 98.4% of the by-elections, Labour in 87%, Lib Dems in 69% whilst UKIP contested 66%.

Conservatives gained 3 seats from Labour, 8 from Lib Dems, 3 from Independents and 1 from UKIP
- whilst losing 14 seats to Labour, 10 to Lib Dems, 8 to Independents, 10 to UKIP and 1 each to a Liberal and a Resident Group

Labour gained 14 seats from Conservatives, 5 from Lib Dems, 3 from Independents, 4 from SNP, 2 from Greens and 1 from UKIP
- whilst losing 3 to Conservatives, 2 to Lib Dems, 1 to a Resident Group and 2 to UKIP

Liberal Democrats gained 10 seats from Conservatives, 2 from Labour and 2 from Independents
- whilst losing 8 to Conservatives, 5 to Labour, 2 each to Independents and UKIP and 1 to Green

UKIP gained 10 seats from Conservatives, 2 from both Labour and Lib Dems and 1 from English Democrats
- whilst losing 1 each to Conservative, Labour and Kidderminster Health

To be completed

Thanks to MiddleEnglander for this compilation.