Sentences with phrase «county council seat»

Clegg's act of defiance might not win many votes directly, but it will give activists a huge spring in their step as they plough through Tory shires, fighting to win county council seats in next week's local elections.

In many cases, larger constituency units have come about as a result of a loss of seats — whether it be the loss of a European Parliament seat by the Republic of Ireland or the loss of County Council seats by some (of the more rural) counties — added to the overall increase in seat numbers for City and County Council elections.

She won the party's second County Council seat in 1993 and served on Oxfordshire County Council until 1997.

The party had two district councillors elected (the first above parish level) in the 2011 local elections and obtained a further county council seat through the defection of a BNP, later «Independent Nationalist», councillor in Hertfordshire.

Over the next three years the party won 55 district council seats, including 12 in Barking and Dagenham, plus its first county council seat in Lancashire and another on the London assembly.

Hughes retained his seats with increased majorities in subsequent elections, and the final humiliation for the Conservatives came when he took the Devon County Council seat from the local party's Chief Whip in the council.

Since that appearance, which he described as a «lynch mob», the party has lost all of it's seats in Barking and Dagenham, it's only seat on the London Assembly in 2012, as well as it's only remaining county council seat in last May's local elections.

The Conservatives easily held Northallerton South ward on Hambleton council and they also held the Northallerton county council seat.

Amid its difficulties elsewhere, with losses of county council seats and plunging opinion poll levels, Little Lever, a Brexit - voting «upper working - class» enclave, counts as safe ground for the kippers.

The Conservatives were the only party to win a county council seat in every district.

The Conservatives won more than two - thirds of the county council seats in the Anglia region and the icing on the cake was winning the first election for the new Metro Mayor in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

In the interim, he earned a place on the Approved List of Candidates, and fought the parliamentary seat of Huddersfield in the 2005 general election — as well as a county council seat back home in Amersham.

Madeline Taylor Quinn was the unsuccessful candidate from this group, but she did succeed in winning a County Council seat in Clare on the same day as the European elections.

The Labour councillor who is chairman of Labour - controlled Lancashire County Council is one Alan Whittaker and he is defending his county council seat - which he held in 2005 with a majority of, er, 7 - at the elections in June.

UKIP was second in the county council seat, Labour in the district council one.

UKIP have performed well in Lincolnshire in all elections since 2013 even taking a county council seat in Lincoln itself in 2013 and Nick Smith will find it easy to hoover up ex - BNP / English Democrat support (2000 votes in 2010).