England local elections, May 2015

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Leicestershire. Usual comments about split wards etc.

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Essex. Usual comments etc.

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And the many districts of post 74 Lancashire. Usual comments, and in some districts there were odd nomination patterns.

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North Yorkshire with Teesside (most of which is historically part of the North Riding. The map is fairly clear as to which bit isn't). Again, some weird nomination patterns in places which is less than helpful. Also worth noting that Labour underperformed in York due to a rather unpopular local administration, and that (again this concerns Labour) there were weird goings on in the East Cleveland part of Redcar & Cleveland due to factional infighting and mass deselections.

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Lincolnshire. I will note (again) that unusual nominations patterns were a thing in some places. And as is always the way with Lincolnshire, explanation is needed for the Deepings: the poll in Market Deeping was postponed (I will edit the map when the vacancy is filled), three candidates (all from different parties) stood for three seats in Deeping St James: I've coloured it red as Phil Dilks generally tops the poll in contested elections there. There's also a two seat ward in West Lindsey that had one Independent and one Tory and no one else. I've coloured it blue.

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Post-1974 Cheshire. Note that Warrington proper and Widnes are both historically in Lancashire.

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Split wards treated in the usual manner. On this point, an oddity: Labour took the second seat in split wards in Warwickshire districts (of which there were a lot) an oddly high proportion of the time.

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Worcestershire:



Usual treatment of split wards etc. Most of them were in Kiddy (because of course). If you feel a need to map the map less awful, you could note that most of the wards in Worcester City and Redditch that did not vote are usually Labour. But that would only barely help...

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Split wards treated in the usual manner (and there are lot of split wards so be really careful in some places). Weirdo nomination patterns in places as well: such fun. There were a couple of unopposed split wards in Eden district: Kirkby Stephen has been coloured blue, the ward in Penrith yellow.

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Tyne & Wear:



Sure the election might have sucked nationally, but Labour won Fulwell ward lmao.

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Nottinghamshire. Usual treatment of split wards etc.

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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.

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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?

Those are the two most notable/extreme examples, yes.

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Dudley council covers much more than just Dudley town. I spent polling day here, in Stourbridge. Anyway:

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And also elections to the Sandwell Volkskammer:

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One of the wackiest boroughs in the country now...




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.

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To an extent almost certainly, but of more importance is the fact that this is Walsall. TUSC there = the latest rebranding of Citizen Dave's weird political cult.