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Local By-Election Preview: September 19th 2013

Local By-Election Preview: September 19th 2013

North Ward on Oxford (Lib Dem Defence) Last Local Election (2012): Lab 29, Lib Dem 13, Green 5, Ind 1 (Lab overall majority of 10) Last election in ward: 2010: Lib Dem 1,303 (45%), Con 715 (24%), Lab 489 (17%), Green 413 (14%) Candidates duly nominated: Time Bearder (Lib Dem), Sushila Dhall (Green), Louise Upton (Lab), John Walsh (Con) Oxford has been a bit of a disappointment for the Liberal Democrats over recent years, but this wasn’t always the case….

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Local By-Election Preview : September 17th 2013

Local By-Election Preview : September 17th 2013

Maybury and Sheerwater on Woking (Lib Dem Defence) Last Local Election (2012): Con 21, Lib Dem 15 (Con overall majority of 6) Results of previous electoral cycle: 2010: Con 2,034 (43%), Lib Dem 1,871 (39%), Lab 525 (11%), UKIP 305 (6%) 2011: Con 1,061 (31%), Lab 1,016 (30%), Lib Dem 899 (26%), UKIP 434 (13%) 2012: Lib Dem 1,088 (34%), Lab 1,072 (34%), Con 685 (21%), UKIP 345 (11%) Candidates duly nominated: Norman Johns (Lib Dem), Rashid Mohammed (Con), Stephen…

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Local By-Election Preview : September 12th 2013

Local By-Election Preview : September 12th 2013

Dunstable, Northfields on Central Befordshire (Con Defence) Last Local Election (2011): Con 48, Lib Dem 5, Ind 4, Lab 1 (Con overall majority of 38) Result at last election (2011): (Emboldened denotes elected) Party Candidate Votes Vote % Independent Julian Murray 877 32.9% Conservative Denise Green 757 28.4% Conservative Jeannette Freeman 753 Labour Michael Rogers 618 23.2% Labour Duncan Ross 594 Independent Laurie Mansfield 198 7.4% Lib Dems Roderick Keyes 168 6.3% Lib Dems Anthony Swain 117 Independent Mary Norman…

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Local By-Election Preview: September 5th 2013

Local By-Election Preview: September 5th 2013

  Fenside on Boston (Eng Dem Defence) Last Local Election (2011): Con 19, Others 10, Lab 3 (Con overall majority of 6) Last Election in ward (Emboldened denotes elected) English Democrats 231, 195 Boston Independents 182, 176 Labour 162, 159 Liberal Democrats 68, 51 Boston in Lincolnshire (part of the Boston and Skegness constituency) seems on the surface to be a perfectly normal Conservative heartland and back at the 2003 local elections it was (Con 12, Lab 11, Lib Dem…

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Winderemere, Bowness North By-Election Preview: August 29th 2013

Winderemere, Bowness North By-Election Preview: August 29th 2013

  Windermere, Bowness North on South Lakeland (Lib Dem Defence) Last Local Election (2012): Lib Dem 34, Con 13, Lab 4 (Liberal Democrat majority of 17) Result of last election in ward (2011): Lib Dem 608 (65%), Con 280 (30%), Lab 47 (5%) It is very rare to have just a single by-election on one day and this ward in South Lakeland (which covers the Lake District) is one of only three councils in Cumbria that hold elections every year…

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Local By-Election Preview: August 22nd 2013

Local By-Election Preview: August 22nd 2013

  Askern Spa on Doncaster (Lab Defence) Last Local Election (2012): Lab 50, Con 9, Lib Dem 3, Ind 1 (Labour overall majority of 37) Ward results in last electoral cycle 2010: Con 1,502 (27%), Lab 2,756 (49%), Eng Dems 1,415 (25%) 2011: Con 831 (21%), Lab 2,205 (55%), Ind 416 (10%), Eng Dems 574 (14%) 2012: Con 954 (30%), Lab 2,269 (70%) At the start of modern electoral history, Doncaster was a fascinating place. A true Con / Lab…

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This just possibly could be the moment for Yvette: A Labour insider gives his view of EdM’s prospects and what might happen

This just possibly could be the moment for Yvette: A Labour insider gives his view of EdM’s prospects and what might happen

If Ed survives till the end of October he should be okay If (and it’s still a big if) Ed M leaves before election then Yvette will almost certainly take over. She’s been conspicuous by her silence this summer. Shocking really. If however Ed M disappoints at general election then Andy Burnham will also go for it and have a pretty decent chance as will Chuka Umunna. The trouble for Ed is that his team around him is so weak…

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Harry Hayfield: How retiring MPs could add to Lib Dem woes

Harry Hayfield: How retiring MPs could add to Lib Dem woes

With recent polls putting the Liberal Democrats at 10% of the national vote (in a virtual tie with UKIP and half their general election vote in 2010), it is safe to say that most Liberal Democrat activists are starting to get just a little on the edgy side about the next election (now less than 21 months away, assuming there isn’t a vote of no confidence as in Germany a few years ago). The most recent polls suggest that Labour…

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