Friday 29 August 2014

A 3 month review of council elections

A big thank you to MiddleEnglander

There were 49 by-elections during June, July and August 2014 with 20 (41%) changing hand or 18 (37%) excluding 2 Lincolnshire Independent (classed as a Resident Group) gains from Independent.   The results can be summarised by:

Party  Candidates      Defended       Retained        Gained           Lost             Won       retention rate
Conservatives            49         14          9         4         5        13       64%
Labour          44         13        12         5         1        17       92%
Liberal Democrats             29           8          4         3         4          7       50%
SNP            2           2

         2
         0%
Plaid Cymru               1





UKIP          41           3
         2         3           2         0%
Green          22           2          1         1         1           2         0%
Resident Groups *             3

         3
           3
Independents **          21           7          3         2         4           5       43%
No Description            2





Blue            1





BNP            1





British Democrats               1





English Democrats               1





Liberal            1





Mebyon Kernow            2





Patriotic Socialist               1





TUSAC            3

         


Total        225         49        29       20       20        49       59%

*   Lincolnshire Independents and Its Our County in Herefordshire
** 21 Independents contested 16 seats

The Conservatives contested all the by-elections, Labour 90% and the Liberal Democrats 59% with UKIP contesting 84% and Greens 45%.

Although 20 seats changed hands during the three months, just 5 were between Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats
- Conservatives gain Broadland, Wroxham from Liberal Democrats
- Labour gain Charnwood, Thurmaston from the Conservatives and Craven, Skipton West from the Liberal Democrats
- Liberal Democrats gain Cornwall, Illogan and Maidstone, Staplehurst from the Conservatives

Conservatives gain seats from Liberal Democrat in Broadland, Independent in East Cambridgeshire, Green in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk and UKIP in Cornwall
- whilst losing 2 seats to the Liberal Democrats in Cornwall & Maidstone and 1 to Labour in Charnwood and 1 each to Green & Its Our County in Herefordshire

Labour gain seats from Conservatives in Charnwood, Liberal Democrats in Craven, SNP in South Lanarkshire and 2 from UKIP in Merthyr Tydfil & Redditch
- whilst losing a seat to UKIP in Doncaster

Liberal Democrats gain 2 seats from Conservatives in Cornwall & Maidstone and 1 from Independent in Northumberland
- whilst losing a seat to Conservative in Broadland, Labour in Craven, UKIP in Worthing and another to Independent in North Yorkshire

Independents gain a seat from the Liberal Democrats in North Yorkshire and one from SNP in Argyll & Bute
- whilst losing 2 seats to Lincolnshire Independents in North Kesteven, 1 to Conservatives in East Cambridgeshire and 1 to Liberal Democrats in Northumberland

UKIP lose 2 seats to Labour in Merthyr Tydfil and Redditich and 1 to the Conservatives in Cornwall
- whilst gaining a seat from Labour in Doncaster and another from Liberal Democrats in Worthing
Greens gain a seat from the Conservatives in Herefordshire but lost another to the Conservatives in Kings Lynn & West Norfolk
SNP lose a seat to Labour in South Lanarkshire and another to Independent in Argyll & Bute
Its Our County gain a seat in Herefordshire from Conservatives along with Lincolnshire Independents 2 seat gain from Independents in North Kesteven

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