Five whole days after the polls closed, the final results from this year’s local elections are in. Recounts at Broxtowe and Middlesbrough are the reason it has taken so long….

Thursday’s council by-election in Cumbria was almost certainly the last of its kind we’ll see before polling day. No more by-elections are scheduled between now and 7 May. The steady drip of…

Just a couple of council by-elections this week. One of them, which took place on Wednesday instead of the traditional Thursday, saw the Liberal Democrats gain a seat from the…

All of this week’s council by-elections took place outside England. There were five in total, four in Scotland and one in Wales. The SNP won three seats: two gains and…

One solitary council by-election this week. It took place in the Rhyl South West ward of Denbighshire county council, and saw Labour easily hold the seat: The turnout was 20%,…

From time to time, council by-elections are settled not by a ballot but by nobody else bothering to contest the seat. So it proved this week in the Western Isles,…

Three of Thursday’s four council by-elections were in London, and all saw swings from Conservative to Labour. The smallest was in Camden, for a seat that Labour held comfortably and…

There were no local by-elections this week. Contests are starting to dry up as we get nearer to 7 May, which besides being the date of the general election is…

Another week with just one local by-election. A seat on Carmarthenshire county council was up for grabs on Thursday, and it was held by Labour:

Only one seat was up for grabs in this week’s local by-elections. It was on Harlow council, and it was won by Labour from Ukip: The result represents a 10%…