Local By-Election and Westminster By-Election Results : December 3rd 2015
Ash South and Tongham on Guildford (Con defence)
Result: Conservative 540 (43% unchanged), Liberal Democrat 286 (23% +6%), United Kingdom Independence Party 153 (12%, no candidate in 2015), Guildford Greenbelt 145 (12% -7%), Labour 125 (10% -11%)
Conservative HOLD with a majority of 254 (17%) on a swing of 3% from Conservative to Liberal Democrat
Teme Valley on Malvern Hills (Con defence)
Result: Conservative 266 (64% -8%), Labour 96 (23%, no candidate in 2015), United Kingdom Independence Party 56 (13% -15%)
Conservative HOLD with a majority of 170 (41%) on a notional swing of 15.5% from Conservative to Labour
Belvoir on South Kesteven (Con defence)
Result: Conservative 603 (53% -17%), Independent 212 (19%, no candidate in 2015), Labour 175 (15% -15%), United Kingdom Independence Party 159 (14%, no candidate in 2015)
Conservative HOLD with a majority of 391 (34%) on a notional swing of 18% from Conservative to Independent
Boleyn on Newham (Lab defence)
Result: Labour 1,440 (72% +8%), Liberal Democrat 181 (9%, no candidate in 2014), Conservative 171 (9% -12%), Green Party 117 (6%, no candidate in 2014), United Kingdom Independence Party 78 (4%, no candidate in 2014), Independent 10 (1%, no candidate in 2014)
Labour HOLD with a majority of 1,259 (63%) on a notional swing of 0.5% from Labour to Liberal Democrat
Meole on Shropshire (Con defence)
Result: Conservative 490 (43% -12%), Labour 303 (27% -11%), Liberal Democrat 223 (20% +13%), United Kingdom Independence Party 64 (6%, no candidate in 2013), Green Party 56 (5%, no candidate in 2013)
Conservative HOLD with a majority of 187 (16%) on a swing of 0.5% from Conservative to Labour
Oldham West and Royton for Westminster (Lab defence)
Result: Labour 17,209 (62% +7%), United Kingdom Independence Party 6,487 (23% +2%), Conservative 2,596 (9% -10%), Liberal Democrat 1,024 (4% unchanged), Green Party 249 (1% -1%), Monster Raving Loony Party 141 (1%, no candidate in 2015)
Labour HOLD with a majority of 10,722 (39%) on a swing of 2% from United Kingdom Independence Party to Labour
Compiled by Harry Hayfield
* A personal message to Paul Nutall MEP (UKIP, North Western England): Your accusations against the postal voting system in the United Kingdom would bear investigating, if it were not for the fact that in the 2014 European Elections (an election where in the North Western England electoral region you polled 27% of the vote, up from the 16% you polled in 2009) 17.5% of all votes counted on the night were postal votes (second only to the North Eastern England electoral region where you also won an MEP). Either you accept that all postal votes are valid or that no postal votes are valid, you cannot have it both ways!