Top 5 Labour wards, 2001 to 2016

Following on from my previous post, here (below) is a table showing those wards that got the highest Labour vote in the local elections (2001 – 2016) in Southend-on-Sea.

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
2001	St Luke’s	Victoria	Shoeburyness	Kursaal	Milton
2002	Victoria	St Luke’s	Milton	Kursaal	West Shoebury
2003	Victoria	Kursaal	St Luke’s	Shoeburyness	Milton
2004	Victoria	St Luke’s	Kursaal	Milton	Shoeburyness
2006	St Luke’s	Victoria	Shoeburyness	Kursaal	Milton
2007	St Luke’s	Victoria	Kursaal	Milton	Shoeburyness
2008	Kursaal	Victoria	St Luke’s	Milton	Chalkwell
2010	Victoria	St Luke’s	Kursaal	Milton	Westborough
2011	Victoria	Kursaal	Milton	St Luke’s	Westborough
2012	Victoria	Milton	Kursaal	St Luke’s	Westborough
2014	Milton	Victoria	Westborough	St Luke’s	Kursaal
2015	Milton	Victoria	Westborough	Kursaal	Prittlewell
2016	Milton	Victoria	Kursaal	Westborough	Prittlewell

                                            

Kursaal, Milton  and Victoria are ever present in the sixteen years shown here.

Victoria is either first or second in every election.

St Luke’s feature in the first eleven elections, then drop out of the top five.

Nine wards have appeared in the top five, meaning that eight have yet to make an appearance.

Achieving a first does not necessarily equate to a victory. Milton was not won in 2015, Kursaal was not won in 2008, St Luke’s was not won in 2007.

Westborough was won in 2001, yet is not in that year’s top five for Labour; and the same again in 2002.