England local elections, May 2015

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Greens double representation on Bristol Council:

Labour    30 (-1)
Tory        16
Green     13 (+7)
Lib Dem  10 (-6)
UKIP        1

Greens won both Clifton wards, fairly narrowly over the Tories in both cases.  Terrible result for the Lib Dems; they only won one of the seats up for election this year.

The Sheffield results were (for the wards up) Lab 21, LD 5 (-1), Green 1, UKIP 1 (+1).  Labour and the Greens swapped Broomhill and Central, UKIP won Stocksbridge from Labour and Labour won Beauchief & Greenhill [1] off the Lib Dems, but the Lib Dems held four of the five Hallam wards fairly comfortably.  Next year we'll have all up elections on new boundaries, so there'll be three vacancies in each ward.

As already mentioned, UKIP had an underwhelming result in Rotherham.  They took Sitwell off the Tories, and Hellaby (once a Tory ward) and Keppel off Labour, but Labour won everything else.  There is now only one Tory on the council.

In Barnsley, the Tories won the two Penistone wards and Labour won everything else, so there was nothing for the Barnsley Independent Group for the first time in some years.

Doncaster had all up elections on new boundaries, with 55 seats.  Hatfield ward is waiting on a recount, but results for the other 52 seats are Lab 39, Con 8, Mexborough First 3, UKIP 1, Ind 1.  Two wards have split results: Bessacarr with 2 Lab and 1 Con and Rossington & Bawtry with 1 Lab, 1 UKIP and 1 Independent.

[1] If you don't already know how to pronounce "Beauchief & Greenhill", it almost certainly isn't pronounced the way you think it is.

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I see Royston Vasey Bacup voted Tory.

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Though be warned: there are a lot of patterns in Birmingham local elections that don't show up in General Elections and vice versa. Even when they are held on the same day.

Bartley Green?  Perry Barr?

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As well as the eponymous Black Country town (and some other smaller Black Country towns), Walsall borough includes much humdrum white Birmingham suburbia. See if you can spot from the maps which is which!

Note also that some of the wards where UKIP did not run a candidate they would likely have polled decently. I don't understand either. It would appear (lmao) that the Greens benefited mildly from this.

Fits with both parties picking up a certain amount of generic protest vote.

I will of course attempt to explain any Sheffield patterns to those who are curious.  NB UKIP didn't stand in Graves Park (the third ward from the west along the southern boundary) for some reason (not that it would have been one of their better wards, but still it would have been better for them than Broomhill) which explains one initially odd-looking feature.  Elsewhere, there's a tendency for UKIP and the Greens to be strong where the other is weak (though e.g. neither do that well in Dore & Totley).