Saturday, June 06, 2009
Looking back on the English local elections
I was going to do a post looking at the Liberal Democrat performance in Thursday's County Council elections in England but Stephen Tall at Liberal Democrat Voice has done it already and far better that I could have. Pop over there and have a look.
Some of the highlights and lowlights that Stephen singles out are:
Some of the highlights and lowlights that Stephen singles out are:
- The Liberal Democrats came second, with a nationally projected vote according to the BBC, of 28%, compared to the Tories 38% and Labour’s 23%. This is the joint highest popular vote ever recorded by the Lib Dems in a set of local elections
- The Lib Dems are the only party to have maintained/improved our projected share of the vote when compared either to last year, or 2005.
- The Lib Dems took control of Bristol, winning 15 of the 23 seats up for election. This means four of the UK’s biggest cities - Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Bristol – now have majority Lib Dem councils. Lib Dems made gains from the Tories in the south, in Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, East and West Sussex Leicestershire and Norfolk. In addition, the party gained from Labour in Bristol and Burnley and across the whole of the North and Midlands.
- The Lib Dems increased our number of councillors in the following areas: Bristol, Warwickshire, Lancashire, Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, East Sussex, West Sussex, Cumbria, Worcestershire, Isle of Wight, Suffolk and Bedford.
- We lost control of two councils where we had majority control: Devon and Cornwall. We also experienced poor results in Somerset, where the Tories gained majority control from a minority Lib Dem administration in a hung council.
- The Lib Dems are showing a net loss of eight seats in these elections: 27 losses were concentrated in Devon and Somerset.
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This is the joint highest popular vote ever recorded by the Lib Dems in a set of local elections
On a point of information, the share is projected rather than recorded.
On a point of information, the share is projected rather than recorded.
Somerset's probably a special case. I refer anyone who doesn't know what I mean to the House of Commons Adjournment Debate for April 21st, 2009 (col. 207 in Hansard).
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