Sentences with phrase «local council elections results»

Local council election results in the wards making up Hallam constituency, while by no means good for the Liberal Democrats, paint a more equivocal picture than the polls, as a comparison of the 2010 local election results with those in the most recent local elections in 2014 shows.

Not exact matches

The full results of the local elections won't be known until Friday evening, as some councils don't start the count until the day after polling...

Local council elections in England mostly result from the London Government Act 1963 and Local Government Act 1972.

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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.»

In the 2014 local elections, Berry was elected to the Highgate ward of Camden London Borough Council, holding the seat of outgoing Green councillor Maya De Souza in a split result for the ward.

As well as the obvious point that councils spend billions of pounds on important public services, an unexpectedly good or bad local election result can have an important psychological effect on a party.

The demand comes in the wake of disastrous election results, which saw the Lib Dems punished in local councils and an overwhelming rejection of AV.

With local elections being held all over the country on May 2nd, these results do not look good for the Tories, who will be defending their control of 26 county councils and three unitary authorities in England in addition to the mayoralty of North Tyneside.

Some see local election results as pointers for the coming national political fights, but others say they are more about council tax and bins and other services.

Counting will start at 10 pm across the Anglia region in the local council election with results coming through in the early hours of Friday.

Results in scores of councils could be delayed after next month's local election, as problems with new vote - checking software emerge.

The announcement follows a night of indifferent election results for Labour in local council by - elections.

The Conservatives gained control of five councils and Labour lost two in the first sets of results from the local and mayoral elections.

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Citing local council by - elections is normally a festival of cherry picking — there are a handful or so each week and results vary wildly, so it is simple to pick out only those that paint a positive picture for a party.

Last week, the Enugu State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC) released the final results of the 2017 Local Government Elections conducted to elect chairmen and councilors of the 17 council areas and 260 electoral wards in the state, respectively.

That relationship deteriorated even further in the wake of a recent local council by - election result which saw an 11 per cent swing to Labour.

Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.

The huge No2AV operation merant Conservative HQ was fighting at a close - to - general - election pace and that energisation of the Tory vote explains much better than expected local council results.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.

The Tories and Labour suffered today as voters turned to Ukip in the local elections, with the two largest parties in Westminster losing control of councils as a result of gains for Nigel Farage's «people's army».

As the local election results come in and Ukip's numbers continue to look remarkable, the rest of us should maybe pause for thought and realise that something rather sobering is afoot, as happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more so.

Local election results so far show the Conservatives have made a net gain of 27 seats across the West Midlands region, with Labour losing control of Nuneaton and Bedworth Council.

Labour councillor Baggy Shanker said the local election results show people in Derby have had enough of cuts to council services.

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The use of at - large elections frequently results in one party winning all of the seats on a council, and this situation tends to make the local elections a popular referendum on the performance of the party in power at the national level.