UK Local Elections 2022

[MaxQue]

What happend in Tower Hamlet ? the borough seems to be only around 30 percent Bengali but Aspire seems to have won a majority.

Aspire only needed 37% of the vote to get a majority of seats. The Bengali population may only be about 1/3 of the borough, but it has very high turnout in the right circumstances (Tower Hamlets had the highlight turnout in the 2014 mayoral election concurrent EU elections in London, when on paper it should have had one of the lowest). Rahman may also have some sympathy in other Muslim communities (but I certainly can’t see him getting any of the white vote, especially in Canary Wharf).

Getting 0% in Canary Wharf certainly helps with the percentage needed to win a majority of seats!

Anyway, has Croydon really still not reported council results? The BBC website still has it as undetermined.

I regret to inform everyone that this is now the line.

I look forward to Tory MPs who live in London and will do forever, telling everyone over the next few days that it doesn’t actually matter and it’s not the ‘real country.’

The line is already forming that winning in London is irrelevant and that Labour aren’t doing well enough outside or at least should be better.

This is made especially funny by the fact that literally the only two objectively good Conservative performances in the country* were both in London!

_{*At least that I can find: Harrow and Croydon. I suppose, being generous, you could make a case for Oldham as a half, which would take us to two and a half.}

The Tories gained one seat in Oldham (while LDs also gained 1, and independents gained 3)! If that's even half of a "good" result, yikes.

Croydon wierdly planned for counting Mayor Friday afternoon and evening and the council after that and on Saturday. Mayor took way longer that planned and the council count was spilt between Saturday and Sunday, with a change to a smaller venue that can count less wards at the same time for today as the venue they used the other days was already booked.