UK By-elections thread, 2021-

[Mike88]

The Sky News reporter on the count says that the talk on the ground is that Labour is being "slaughter" and that the Conservatives are "walking away" with it.

[Mike88]

Turnout is at 47.6%. From Sky News.

[Mike88]

Any hints of what's happening in Boris former seat?

[Mike88]

This was probably explained here, but I didn't find it, what is ULEZ?

[Mike88]

This was probably explained here, but I didn't find it, what is ULEZ?

Ultra Low Emissions Zone: basically charges for using the more polluting vehicles, especially older cars.  It already exists in inner London, but there are plans to extend it to the whole of Greater London, including this constituency.

Ah right. I understand it. Does it work in inner London? And from what I understood, this is very unpopular in the rest of Greater London.

[Mike88]

In Uxbridge it seems that the Tories were around 400 votes ahead before the recount. Via Sky News.

Labour seems safe in Selby; LibDems seems to have in the bag Somerton and Frome.

[Mike88]

Somerton and Frome by-election:

54.6% LibDems (+28.4)
26.2% Tories (-29.6)
10.2% Greens (+5.1)
  2.6% Labour (-10.3)

[Mike88]

35.9% turnout in Tamworth.

44.0% turnout in Mid Bedfordshire.

[Mike88]

With these kind of polls and by-election results, the Tories will only call an election at latest possible date, maybe just in January 2025.