Sentences with phrase «labour council seats»

It would seem that there are a lot very safe Labour council seats in Wales and the system is extremely biased to Labour.

I gave up a safe Labour council seat in Mitcham and resolved to win election in the vital Abbey ward.

Not exact matches

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Over the weekend, Alexander, the beleaguered Lib Dem MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, openly urged Tory and Labour voters in his Highland's seat to support his bid to hold it against an insurgent Scottish National party challenger, Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.

The election also saw Labour's Laura Pidcock, who is standing for the seat of Durham North West in the general election, lose her council seat to the Tories.

As the London Labour party's email to members this week points out, the Conservatives have already won seats on the council.

The Conservatives won 33 seats on the council, but the combination of Labour's 24 seats, the Lib Dems» three and seven independent candidates meant they were denied a majority.

Hoping for a 1.6 % swing and one additional seat to win Barnet from no overall control, Labour instead saw the council move into the Conservative column.

Indeed in Copeland, in the Lake District, the site of an embarrassing by - election loss in February, Labour's candidate Gillian Troughton lost her council seat.

The Liberal Democrats are not traditionally big players in the Midlands, though they drew close to Labour in Birmingham in 2008, holding 32 seats on the council to Labour's 36.

Ahead of the local elections, the Labour leader sought to manage expectations by suggesting the party would not lose seats on English councils.

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.

In general Labour traditionally does better than average in urban areas, and the Conservatives better in rural England, and at this particular point of the local election cycle, most council seats up for re-election were urban.

Fairwater has elected three councillors to Cardiff Council since 1995, being represented by the Labour Party until May 2008 when all three seats were taken by Plaid Cymru.

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

According to the BBC, across all the council seats elected on 3 May, last fought in 2014, Labour increased its number of councillors by 77 (to 2,350), the Tories were reduced by 33 (to 1,332) and the Lib Dems increased by 75 (to 536).

But in truth it did not bode well for Labour that they were the first opposition party in over thirty years to lose seats in standalone council elections.

People wanting to assist in getting out the Labour vote in Labour's target council wards can find marginal seats using Momentum's online tool called «My Nearest Marginal»

Justine Greening, the Transport Secretary, pointed out that people voting UKIP can let Labour win council seats.

In Bolton Labour won control of the council, taking five seats from both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats to win an outright majority.

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

They eventually lost nine of their 15 councillors, allowing Labour to gain control of the council by taking all their seats.

The previous election ended 28 years of Labour control, giving the Conservatives an overall majority of two seats and control of the council.

Predictions by polling experts that Labour could lose up to 150 council seats proved well wide of the mark, with Labour currently down just 23.

It gained six seats on the Essex council, trouncing Labour who lost four.

Although 3 of the 7 Ukip council seats in a havering were took from former Labour councillors, and 5 of those seats would be described as working class areas, the other two were above middle class areas where the average price of a house is 650,000 ′, If anything in havering Ukips vote destroyed he 4,000 majorities of some Tory councillors resulting in them winning with 350 votes

Labour can face little more humiliation in Glasgow, where its last fortress - the city council - fell last month and all six Westminster seats are already held by the SNP.

It was a better night for Labour in England, where the party held on with few losses despite claims 100 council seats would go.

The BNP made a shock gain in the latest council by - elections, taking a Labour seat at Sevenoaks District, Kent.

After 21 councils were declared in England Labour was holding up, making net losses of just 1 council seat out of 222.

But if they're wise enough to vote Liberal Democrat at the next local elections in Hull, or for the Conservatives in any seat where we are well - placed to defeat Labour, then they will have a council that is fulfilling its statutory duty.

In this council election, the Labour Party gained two seats; the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative lost one each.

Labour clung on in the English council elections with few losses last night despite claims more than 100 seats would vanish.

With most of the overnight councils declared in England, Labour had lost fewer than a dozen seats out of 750.

Labour won all 51 seats on the council in 2010, but, by the time of this election, had only 44 councillors due to defections, with Robert Douglas, Dorothy Hunt, Graham Letchford and Tariq Saeed defecting to the UK Independence Party, and James McDermott, Barry Poulton and Gerald Vincent defecting to the Socialist Labour Party.

«In English council elections we have gained seats from both Labour and the Tories, and have won in areas which were previously no - go areas for the Lib Dems.

Labour officials have launched an investigation after the party lost its only seat on a local council after failing to field a candidate in a crunch by - election.

The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party retained control of the council winning all of the seats.

Councils to look out for include East Riding of Yorkshire, Bath and NE Somerset, Waverley, Rugby, Basingstoke, Barrow in Furness, Brighton and Hove, Braintree, Chester, Ipswich, Maidstone, and perhaps also Bury, as well as winning a majority of the seats on North Tyneside, although a Labour Mayor means that authority will remain under Labour control.

In Redditch, another Leave - voting area, Labour struggled, losing three seats while the Conservatives picked up four to take control of the council.

The event in Essex follows several stinging criticism in the days since the disastrous council and mayoral elections, in which Labour won 830 council seats, mostly from the coalition partners, and took control of an additional 32 councils in England, Wales and Scotland.

Overall, nearly 44 % of council seats in England and Wales are now held by the Conservatives, compared to 26 % for Labour.

The number of seats won by Labour fell from 132 in 2009 (14.9 % of the total number of City / Council seats at that election) to 51 in 2014 (5.4 % of the seats).

In a supplementary question to 326 members in Liberal Democrat - held seats / councils we asked; «Do you agree that «a vote for the Liberal Democrats could produce a hung parliament and keep Labour in power» is the best line of attack in Lib / Con marginals?»

[4] When Labour came to power under Ramsay MacDonald in January 1924, Buxton was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, [5] with a seat in the cabinet, and sworn of the Privy Council.

[1] Despite losing 4 seats to the Conservatives, the Labour Party remained the largest party on the council, albeit with a reduced majority.

Trafford district council in Greater Manchester, which Labour held only during the absolute peak of New Labour's support between 1996 and 2002, went to no overall control from a Conservative majority, with Labour's nine - seat swing not enough to take it.

In the event, overall we took 8 seats from the Conservatives and have a majority Labour Council.

The Tories have won a seat in Sunderland council from Labour, challenging Gordon Brown's comfortable poll lead.