Sentences with phrase «number of councillors»

Ward changes took place in every borough, following a series of reviews and 32 statutory instruments which reduced the total number of councillors by 56 from 1,917 to 1,861.

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).

Ward changes took place in Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, and Tower Hamlets, which reduced the total number of councillors by 10 to 1,851.

Following the Fifth Electoral Review by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, minor changes were made to several of the ward boundaries and one additional Councillor was added moving the total number of Councillors from twenty - two to twenty - three.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

Labour defied dire predictions with a steady performance in the English council elections, losing a similar number of councillors to the Tories with fewer than 10 councils left to declare.

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.

[64] In England and Wales around January 2004 the SWP began an involvement in Respect — The Unity Coalition, [65] an electoral alliance with a single Member of Parliament, the ex-Labour MP George Galloway, and a small number of councillors.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats lost five seats each, with Labour gaining two after boundary changes reduced the total number of councillors overall by nine.

They will likely end up with their number of councillors reduced by over 100, and the number of councils under Labour control almost halved.

Following a boundary review that has increased the number of wards but reduced the number of councillors, all seats are up for contention at once.

It ignores, for example, the number of councillors elected for each ward.

Mr Khan, speaking at the Wandsworth count, said: «What I'd be disappointed by was if we didn't make progress across London in terms of the numbers of councillors.»

According to the BBC, across all the council seats elected on 3 May, last fought in 2014, Labour increased its number of councillors by 77 (to 2,350), the Tories were reduced by 33 (to 1,332) and the Lib Dems increased by 75 (to 536).

No change in the number of councillors per party as Labour maintain control of Exeter City Council

In London Labour increased its number of councillors by 54 (to now hold 1,114 seats) and made a net gain of one council (so now controls 21 of the 31 that were up for election).

[94] The SNP increased their number of councillors elected in 2017 than it did in 2012, with 431 being elected, compared to 425 in the 2012 local elections.

That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 33, Liberal Democrat 14 and Green 4.

[1] The number of Councillors for each party after the election were Labour 28, Liberal Democrat 16 and Green 7.

The Conservative Party lost 13 notional seats, although the numerical loss was larger due to the reduction in the total number of councillors.

Although described in the official consultation as an open proposal as to the Size of Council, this denotes the number of councillors only, not relating to budget or number of local government staff.

Due to boundary changes and a reduction in the number of councillors from 63 to 53 [n 2] following a public consultation by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England [5] the notional results to be used for the purposes of election planning and comparison before the election were: Conservatives - 36, Liberal Democrats - 10, Labour - 4, People Against Bureaucracy - 1, Greens - 1, Independents - 1.

When their alleged Holy Grail, multimember STV, was introduced for local government in Scotland, their number of Councillors there went down.

One of the very few places in the country where the Lib Dems actually managed to improve their number of councillors was Poole, which saw the Conservatives lose control.

This result meant the Party fell to third place in terms of both vote share and number of councillors.

[3] Only seven wards had no boundary change and the number of councillors for Witney increased from 9 to 12.

The Conservatives narrowly won the popular vote across the city, increased their number of councillors by 115 and won control of 4 more councils.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

SNP, Liberal Democrats and independents all increase there share of the vote and number of councillors.

The Commission also looks at the number of councillors, the number of wards or divisions and whether the wards or divisions should be represented by a single councillor, or jointly by two or three councillors.

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.

After being under no overall control for a number of years, the Conservative party gained a majority at the 2003 election, when boundary changes saw the number of councillors increase by one.

The number of councillors for each party after the election were Labour 22, Conservative 12, Liberal Democrat 5, Residents 5 and Independent 4.

In 2005 the Greens managed over ten percent of the vote here, their second highest in the country, and in 2006 they increased their number of councillors to six.

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.

[2] Labour said that local businesses were suffering because of the charges and proposed to end the charges and cut the number of councillors, while the Conservatives said the charges enabled them to preserve services and keep council tax down.

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.

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 are controlled by Labour, three are Conservative - run and two have no overall control, but Labour has the largest number of councillors.