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Rob Hayward: The Liberal Democrats lost 40 % of the council seats they were defending but did much better in places where they had an incumbent MP

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However, if he claims to be a democrat, he can not defend a system which, in Scotland, in 2003 for example, gave his party 41 per cent of the seats in local councils on 32.6 per cent of the votes.

The Tories fielded Humberston parish council chairman Harry Hall to defend the seat but, in a possible sign of Ukip's continuing momentum stemming from their second place finish in the Eastleigh by - election in February, were only able to secure second place.

With the battle over, the question now is whether the Republicans can form any sort of detente that will allow them to defend several Council seats against in the next city election, take on State Sens. Tony Avella and Joe Addabbo in 2012, and defend Bob Turner «s congressional seat.

All seats were contested and successfully defended this year, seeing no change in the make - up of the council.

The Liberal Democrats, who were in coalition with the Conservatives at the time; lost ten of their eleven seats they were defending and won just 6.6 % of the vote share nationally and won just 4 council areas.

[3] 19 seats were being contested in the election with the Conservative leader of the council, Geoff Roberts, being one of those who were defending seats.

As Liverpool Council is elected in thirds, councillors elected in the 2006 elections defend their seats this year, and the vote share changes are compared on that basis.

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 iCouncil 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 icouncil seat - which he held in 2005 with a majority of, er, 7 - at the elections in June.

[4] With the split in seats between the parties the council was expected to remain without any party having a majority with Labour defending 6 seats, compared to 5 for the Conservatives and 4 for the Liberal Democrats.

[3] All three parties leaders on the council were defending their seats in the election, Labour's Norman Davies, Conservative Jim Carpenter and the Liberal Democrats Malcolm Gwynnett.

20 of the 60 seats on the council were up for election with Labour defending 15, the Conservatives 4 and the Liberal Democrats 1.

[3] This meant the Conservatives could not gain control of the council whatever the results, despite Labour defending 17 of the 24 seats being contested.