Sentences with phrase «lost local council seats»

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Indeed had he done they might have lost even more local council seats.

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

Local government's four - year electoral cycle means that the baseline with which to compare these elections was 2011, when most of the actual council seats up this year were last won and lost.

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 local elections held on 22 May 2014, the Liberal Democrats lost another 307 council seats [84] and ten of their eleven seats in the European Parliament in the 2014 European elections.

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.

Mr Corbyn became the first opposition leader for 50 years to lose council seats in his first local elections and saw the party routed in Scotland and falter in Wales.

This will exacerbate the effects of years of depletion of local government representation: in those local council elections held on May 7, the Lib Dems lost control of four councils, and 324 council seats.

Later on, Corbyn also hits out at the BBC for promoting the narrative that Labour needed to do better in May's local elections — when it lost fewer than 20 council seats — to show it was on track to win the next general election.

Labour did take the most votes in the local elections on the same day but lost seats due to the introduction of proportional representation for local council elections.

Nick Clegg has said «it's never easy to see dedicated, hardworking Liberal Democrat councillors lose ground,» after his party lost two councils and more than 100 seats in English local elections.

It is also feared the Lib Dems could lose up to 500 council seats in the local elections, further destabilising Mr Clegg.

Since that appearance, which he described as a «lynch mob», the party has lost all of it's seats in Barking and Dagenham, it's only seat on the London Assembly in 2012, as well as it's only remaining county council seat in last May's local elections.

The election saw the Scottish Labour Party gain 5 seats to regain an overall majority on the Council that they had lost at the time of the 2007 Local Elections, while also significantly increasing their vote.

Conservative councillors won an overall majority in the council and formed a majority administration, Labour councillors form the second - largest grouping and UKIP's win of a seat was its single gain nationally in the 2017 local election cycle which saw all 145 of its other candidates standing in the election lose their seats.

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.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott proposed paying police officers just # 30 per year - before making terrible guesses at the number of seats the party had lost in the local council elections.