UK local by-elections, 2017

[Tetro Kornbluth]

As I stated elsewhere, Labour seem to be doing unusually well in coastal and tourist industry places. This has been a pattern observed in the GE (although not consistently) and is continuing in the local by-election results.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Yes, that isn't surprising except in the context where that vote was always dormant for Labour (and hasn't taken off everything, Labour did note their best performance in Torbay since 1979 but were still a very distant third, and failed to take Morecambe and Blackpool North)... and the effect is weak and reversed in mostly heavily Brexit places with little tourism but where the dead go to die, like Clacton.

(Btw I was going to write a longer post but then got distracted but I did have a look at the deprivation stats and I'm now curious as to why the Conservatives seemingly overperform in Northampton).