English local elections, May 2014

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes. And remember that it is still early days there, counting wise.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hetton is a relief; not the sort of place we should ever lose and after 2012 it was looking alarmingly plausible.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Grauniad's election blog is hilariously sh!t.

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

The Guardian were asking me for help with their election journalism last week.  (I've been off the internet all this week.)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Guardian were asking me for help with their election journalism last week.  (I've been off the internet all this week.)

By the look of it they could have done with you!

But what would they have paid? Probably very little, being that particular paper of news.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Like, they just fell for an obvious bit of trolling: someone suggesting that UKIP had gained a nonexistent ward in a council that is not counting tonight.

[afleitch]

The one good thing about UKIP councillors is that they will drop one a day after the election because Facebook reveals they are nuts.

[YL]

Sunderland all in.  Lab 21 (-1) Con 3 (n/c) Ind 1 (+1)

Lab and Con swapped St Chad's and St. Peter's.  Ind gained Copt Hill from Lab.  Labour do seem to have been hit more than the Tories by UKIP here.

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

The Guardian were asking me for help with their election journalism last week.  (I've been off the internet all this week.)

By the look of it they could have done with you!

But what would they have paid? Probably very little, being that particular paper of news.

Not enough to make me give up the day job, probably.

They were asking me rather strange questions which are rather outside my knowledge; "how many female councillors are running this year" was probably the weirdest.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

They were asking me rather strange questions which are rather outside my knowledge; "how many female councillors are running this year" was probably the weirdest.

lolgrauniad

[YL]

Reports from Hull suggest UKIP doing very well, Lib Dem vote "collapsing".

[Supersonic]

Conservatives gain St. Peters Ward, Sunderland. Apparently by 700 votes.

*oh, that's already been posted.

[YL]

Conservatives gain St. Peters Ward, Sunderland. Apparently by 700 votes.

*oh, that's already been posted.

The majority was actually 89.

There are apparently rumours that Mike Hancock has lost his Portsmouth council seat to UKIP.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yorkshire Post reporter:

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[Supersonic]

Conservatives gain St. Peters Ward, Sunderland. Apparently by 700 votes.

*oh, that's already been posted.

The majority was actually 89.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up.

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(Swindon) Covingham & Dorcan, Con 1449, Lab 1186, UKIP 926, Green 141.

Con gain. Turnout 42%

[Filuwaúrdjan]

UKIP have lost one of the seats they gained via defection in South Tyneside.

[YL]

Helen Pidd of the Guardian says on Twitter that Jahingir Akhtar (Lab), deputy leader of Rotherham Council, has lost his Rotherham West seat to UKIP by 39 votes.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

No Comment

[Supersonic]

Conservatives gain Kingstanding, Birmingham on the back of that by-election win earlier this year.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

And probably also on the back of the garden waste fiasco which is hurting Labour across the 'burbs. Very narrow - again.

UKIP are polling very strongly in many suburban wards as well: but then this was expected as they did in 2009.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Rotherham is a complete fiasco catastrophe disaster horror story and hopefully there will be An Intervention now in a big way.

[YL]

Rotherham all in, and yes it's pretty disastrous.  Labour have 11 and UKIP 10.

UKIP gain from Lab: Dinnington, Keppel, Rother Vale, Rotherham West, Silverwood, Valley, Wingfield

UKIP confirm by-election gain from Lab: Rawmarsh

UKIP gain from Con: Hellaby, Sitwell

Lab hold: Anston & Woodsetts, Boston Castle, Brinsworth & Catcliffe, Holderness, Hoober, Maltby, Rotherham East, Swinton, Wales, Wath, Wickersley

[MaxQue]

Rotherham is a complete fiasco catastrophe disaster horror story and hopefully there will be An Intervention now in a big way.

The results, the authority or the local Labour branches?

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

Results are starting to come through from Greater Manchester.  So far the Tories have gained a council seat in the Leigh constituency (Lowton West).

[YL]

Rotherham wasn't far from being even worse for Labour: most of the wards they won were close and in particular they only held Holderness by three votes.