There
have been 76 local authority by-elections so far this year. Here is a summary
of the results:
|
|
Gains
|
Holds
|
Losses
|
Nett
|
|
Liberal
Democrat
|
10
|
3
|
2
|
8
|
|
Green
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
Labour
|
4
|
12
|
4
|
0
|
|
Others
|
7
|
4
|
11
|
-4
|
|
Conservative
|
9
|
26
|
14
|
-5
|
The
obvious success story here are the Liberal Democrats, the biggest losers are
the Conservatives. Labour has had an electorally neutral year thus far.
I
am not sure what this will mean for the May 3rd elections, but I
would caution about expecting too many gains from Labour.
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