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The numbers of Lib Dem lost deposits at GE2015 could be in the hundreds

The numbers of Lib Dem lost deposits at GE2015 could be in the hundreds

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One feature of the recent bout of local by-elections as well as last week’s Welsh Assembly contest in Ynys Mons has been the huge collapse in the Lib Dem vote. At the Merton LBC by-election yesterday at Colliers Wood the party’s vote share slumped by 15.1% to just 2.2%. At Skelton in Redcar and Cleveland the drop was 11.3% to just 2.5%. What we are seeing is the product of the party’s GE2015 defence strategy of only focusing on those…

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Tonight’s local by-elections

Tonight’s local by-elections

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Let the count commence pic.twitter.com/so8zWMeVBm — Wimbledon Guardian (@WimbledonNews) August 8, 2013 Three LAB defences and a CON one Redcar and Cleveland UA, Skelton When fought last in 2011 it was: LAB 1238/921/876, CON 718/657, LD 312/269/248 Lab seat. Resignation Merton LBC, Colliers Wood When fought last in 2010 it was:LAB 2608/2367/2261, CON 1001/960/848, LD 888/804/608, GREEN 622 Labour seat. Death Waveney DC, Oulton When fought last in 2011 it was: LAB 502/420, IND 492, CON 474/372, GREEN 117, LD…

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Harry Hayfield’s local by-election preview : August 1st 2013

Harry Hayfield’s local by-election preview : August 1st 2013

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Codnor and Waingroves on Amber Valley (Lab Defence) Last Local Election (2012): Con 24, Lab 21 (Conservative overall majority of 3) Ward Results (during last electoral cycle) 2010: Lab 1,159 (43%), Con 1,127 (42%), BNP 391 (15%) 2011: No Election 2012: Lab 825 (58%), Con 339 (24%), UKIP 198 (14%), BNP 59 (4%) In the 1970 general election, one sight above all showed what a shock result that election was for Harold Wilson, Belper (a seat that in 1966 had…

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Harry Hayfield previews today’s Ynys Môn Assembly By-Election

Harry Hayfield previews today’s Ynys Môn Assembly By-Election

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It’s been quite a while since we have had an Assembly by-election (in fact well over seven years), but Ynys Môn is a by-election without compare. Firstly, the former member is still with us. Ieuan Wyn Jones may have resigned from the Assembly but as the new chairman of the enterprise zone centred on Menai Bridge, who is to say that once that task has been completed he might decide to come back to the Assembly on the regional list…

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A bad GE2015 omen for the Green party: It loses council by-election to LAB in Caroline Lucas’s Brighton constituency

A bad GE2015 omen for the Green party: It loses council by-election to LAB in Caroline Lucas’s Brighton constituency

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LAB activists celebrate in Brighton Pavilion overnight after taking seat from Greens in council council by-election pic.twitter.com/Fn70KY6FEo — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 12, 2013 This must put in doubt Caroline Lucas’s future Could they end up with zero MPs? One of the most sensational results at GE2010 was the victory by the then Green party leader, Caroline Lucas, in Brighton Pavillion. This was a huge breakthrough for the party and followed years of work on the ground winning council seats…

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Harry Hayfield’s Local By-Elections preview

Harry Hayfield’s Local By-Elections preview

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Hanover and Elm Grove on Brighton and Hove (Green Defence) Last Local Election (2011): Greens 23, Con 18, Lab 13 (No Overall Control, Greens short by 5) Ward Result (Emboldened denotes elected) Name of party First Candidate Second Candidate Third Candidate Green Party 2,861 2,800 2,576 Labour 1,662 1,661 1,606 Conservatives 499 441 434 Liberal Democrats 189 159 140 TUSC 156 When Caroline Lucas was elected as the MP for Brighton, Pavilion at the general election in 2010, it marked…

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Harry Hayfield’s Local By-Election Special

Harry Hayfield’s Local By-Election Special

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Aylsham on Broadland (Con Defence) Last Local Election Result (2011): Con 34, Lib Dem 12, Lab 1 (Con majority of 21) Ward Result (emboldened denotes elected) Name of party First Candidate Second Candidate Third Candidate Conservative 1,336 1,253 1,010 Liberal Democrats 1,182 846 752 Labour 542 471 Greens 446 Broadland covers the area of Norfolk that is just to the north of Norwich City (and by a strange quirk of how these things are organised, are the main authority involved…

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SNP hold on to Aberdeen Donside with reduced majority – Farage’s Scottish venture ends with lost deposit

SNP hold on to Aberdeen Donside with reduced majority – Farage’s Scottish venture ends with lost deposit

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Comfortable victory for SNP In Donside by-election although vote down 15% on 2011 BBC report http://t.co/qrGVOkhua3 pic.twitter.com/wSSaA8FZPL — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 21, 2013 Party shares in Aberdeen Donside by-election SNP 42 Lab 33.3 LD 8.3 Con 7.7 UKIP 4.8 Greens 1.7 National Front 1 Christians 0.9 SDA 0.14 — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 21, 2013 Is UKIP is something you are only south of the border? Although their majority was down sharply on 2011 the SNP will be delighted to have held on to Aberdeen Donside in the Scottish…

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