September 05, 2014
Latest by-election results: more headlines for Ukip
Ukip has been cultivating the county of Kent for many years, and on Thursday they reaped a small dividend: a seat on Shepway council, which they took from the Conservatives:…
Ukip has been cultivating the county of Kent for many years, and on Thursday they reaped a small dividend: a seat on Shepway council, which they took from the Conservatives:…
There was an unexpected outcome in this week’s sole council by-election. Not only did the Liberal Democrats hold a seat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, they also achieved a swing from Labour of…
Just one local by-election this week. The Tories took a seat from the Liberal Democrats on Broadland council in Norfolk. Fran Whymark won by a gap of 14 votes. There…
Just two council by-elections this week, both easily held by Labour. One was for a seat on Lambeth council in London:
After a run of losses and near misses, there was a sliver of cheer for Ukip in this week’s council by-elections. In Worthing, the party gained a seat from the…
Labour turned in a good performance in this week’s council by-elections. A total of four contests were held on Thursday, in which the party enjoyed two gains, one from the…
Ukip hasn’t being doing that well in local by-elections of late, so Thursday’s win in Doncaster will have brought the party some cheer. They took a seat from Labour in…
Nine by-election contests to report this week, and some intriguing results. Ukip were defending two seats – and lost both of them. One was on Cornwall council. Last week the…
Cornwall is going to be one of the counties to watch at the general election. All of its six constituencies are marginals – none more so than Camborne & Redruth,…
Time to run through the rest of this week’s council by-elections. Along with the three contests in Tower Hamlets that I reviewed yesterday, a further nine took place across England….