Sentences with phrase «largest number of councillors»
Five are controlled by Labour, three are Conservative - run and two have no overall control, but Labour has the largest number of councillors.
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Swindon and South Gloucestershire are Conservative - run, and the Isle of Wight has no overall control, but the largest number of councillors are independent.
Five of these councils are controlled by the Labour party, three are Conservative - run and two have no overall control but Labour have the largest number of councillors.
Smaller national parties made significant gains, with the British National Party and Respect having the second - largest number of councillors in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and Tower Hamlets (respectively).
His Shadow Cabinet disintegrated; his Parliamentary Party passed a huge Vote of No Confidence against him — something that would have ended any other leader's time in office then and there — while large numbers of councillors, the Labour London Mayor and the Party's Leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, all lined up to condemn his ideas, or his performance, or both.
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The real problem for Labour is the erosion over a number of years of its local government base, with by far the largest number of UK councillors being Tories.
The person who gets the largest number of votes in each constituency (or ward) becomes the MP (or councillor).
The Conservative Party lost 13 notional seats, although the numerical loss was larger due to the reduction in the total number of councillors.
Like many of the other first - time councillors, I've been thrown in at the deep end: tangling with IT, deciphering which emails are for info and which are for action, meeting with residents and large numbers of council staff and working out who does what and how they can help.
Labour won 43 seats in 1999 elections but lost 5 seats in by - elections during the course of there term in office, but remained having the largest share of the vote and numbers of councillors.
Some of the councils that elect in this way can not possibly change overall control, because the existing majority for the controlling party is larger than the number of councillors they could lose.
The Education Bill, which was initially set to introduce the government's plans for the every school in England to be converted in an academy, has faced strong opposition from Education professionals, parents and local government, with a large number of Conservative Councillors speaking out against the proposals.