Sentences with phrase «number of councillors by»

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.

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

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).

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And he did earn endorsements from a number of conservatives during his by - election bid, including Councillor Diane Colley - Urquhart, former PC MLA Gordon Shrake and former mayor Rod Sykes.

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.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

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

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

The civil service welcomes combined authorities with DEEMs as a way of achieving its long - held aspiration to diminish by amalgamations the number of councils, and thus councillors who do not want to accept the line from Whitehall.

Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

[6] Meanwhile, the number of independents was reduced by two to two councillors, while Labour remained with one councillor.

The Labour decline was also accompanied by a spike in the number of minor party councillors, mostly concentrated in specific local authorities.

It is certainly not an all male - club as the help - line in the daytime is run by a couple of dedicated women and the charity has a number of female directors including a Conservative councillor (Cllr Roz Willis — North Somerset).

Their numbers were previously boosted by the defection of two sitting UKIP councillors whose four - year terms were coming to an end; they held onto their seats in these areas whilst also gaining a seat from UKIP and another from an independent in Rugeley, leaving them with four net gains.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

[Mayor] Mussatto said it was important for councillors not to focus on just the harm caused by fossil fuel, but also pragmatic solutions that an ordinary person could implement, such as taking transit or not idling unnecessarily, «I couldn't live without my vehicle, but I can certainly reduce the number of trips I do use it for,» he said.

CHAIR - It seemed unfortunate to me that a number of these councillors had got to a point of frustration such that they felt that the best way to go was compulsory acquisition, which is really a position of last resort and quite an unfortunate one brought about by a sense of frustration at the delay and complexity of what started out to be for them quite a simple process.