English local elections, May 2014

[minionofmidas]

lol

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Weird local election soap opera drama:

http://www.accringtonobserver.co.uk/news/local-news/ukip-cause-big-upset-hyndburn-7167102

Last year, Malcolm Pritchard a long-standing Lancashire Lab-turned-indie, was defeated by his own daughter (Labour) in his ward. You can find angry comments of him quoting the 10 commandments.

This year, however he came roaring back; reporting his daughter for electoral fraud and won back the seat under a UKIP banner. (Amusingly the fraud was for the sake of four votes, which is a bit pathetic on her part) Then the local Labour MP decided to further set the cat amongst the pigeons, by claiming that Malcolm was defecting from UKIP less then two hours after he had been elected. Pritchard retaliated by saying he'd been taken out of context.

Family dinners are probably a chilly affair now.

[doktorb]

East Lancashire is a bit.... *banjo music* at times

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

only at times?

[You kip if you want to...]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zg4Ab0JTTAWau40EtyeZtvE-oSX-r5CZfvQqfxoHx-Q/edit?pli=1#gid=0

[joevsimp]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zg4Ab0JTTAWau40EtyeZtvE-oSX-r5CZfvQqfxoHx-Q/edit?pli=1#gid=0

wow, that looks like every constituency were all wards were up this year!

one slight note, Hornchurch and Upminster is down as ukip gain, but there are 16,000 "other" votes that probably go tory next year, very uncomfortable reading for all other parties though

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At first glance, it's not terrible for the Liberals. Lib Dems always do better on local elections than national - especially electing the unpopular parliamentary party - but the wins in a few Tory-held property like Oxford West and Watford show that the LibDem machine hasn't atrophied entirely.

Norwich has hilarious results, with the parties of both incumbent MP's sinking to fourth in their respective constituencies.

Labour has a handful of "gains", including both Enfield ones.

[Chancellor of the Duchy of Little Lever and Darcy Lever]

Norwich has hilarious results, with the parties of both incumbent MP's sinking to fourth in their respective constituencies.

Most of the Norwich North constituency is actually in Broadland district, which wasn't up this year and where the Tories do better.  I can certainly believe the Conservatives would be running fourth in the parts of Norwich which are actually in the seat.  As for the Lib Dems in Norwich South, well, the writing has been on the wall there for some time.