It adjusts the actual results to take into account the fact that
annual local elections feature a disproportionate number of elections in either Tory or Labour areas.
This year, with the focus on metropolitan boroughs, sees the smallest set of
annual local elections.
Not exact matches
Your article on
elections (TP, September) seems to suggest that the choice lies between «allout»
elections which is better for good
local government or
annual elections which leads to stronger political parties.
As a former chair of Hammersmith Labour Party in west London, Milne organised an
election campaign for the then
local MP, Clive (now Lord) Soley, and attended
annual conferences as a delegate.
Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with
local Tories to vote down the
annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral
election, despite having been selected by a majority of
local party members.