tweets: “Labour’s Clare Pritchard has defeated sitting indep councillor Malcolm Pritchard in Accrington North. He lost to Tory Barry Yates.ġ6.43pm willbrooks74 - head of the Conservative group at the LGA - tweets: “I’m going to start a slate - how many UKIP cllrs elected today will actually hold their seats in 4 yrs time? Not many I’d wager.”ġ6.40pm This is a good story. Tom Sharratt had represented the idle Toad Party in the Ribble South East Rural division since 1997. Lib Dem 36 Ind 35 Con 31 Lab 8 Ukip 6 Mebyon Kernow 4 Green 1 Others 2ġ6.44pm Voters in Lancashire have ended the reign of the UK’s most strangely-named political party. However, the Lib Dems did not secure enough for a majority given the high number of independents so the council remains hung. Lib Dems need to hold key Durham City seats to avoid a disaster”ġ6.45pm Liberal Democrats have replaced the Conservatives as the biggest group on Cornwall Council, which was previously hung but led by a Conservative. BBC Tees political reporter David Macmillan tweets “Labour landslide in County Durham. In fact the number of hung councils has increased from just five yesterday to 14 this evening.Īll results are in apart from Northamptonshire and Durham which look likely to remain unchanged: Conservative and Labour controlled respectively.ġ6.52pm Durham stays red although final results for all 126 divisions are not yet in. The rest of those Tory losses are now hung councils. However, Labour have failed to capitalise on the mid term effect and only managed to win two of the 11 councils the Tories lost. There were 29 Conservative county and unitary councils and that has been knocked down to 15. Following a count of second preferences Ms Jones had 25,364 votes.ġ6.59pm Most of the final results are in - full details here. With 28 of the 30 results in seats have gone to Independents (13), Plaid Cymru (11), Labour (3) and Liberal Democrats (1).ġ7.15pm Labour has won the Doncaster mayoral election with councillor Ros Jones beating incumbent Peter Davies who stood as an independent after parting company with the English Democrats. It is the only place with elections in Wales this year and is using new boundaries. Anglesey’s elections were deferred for a year last year after political turmoil led to the then local government minister Carl Sargent imposing commissioners to run the council. The 2009 result was Conservative 52, Lib Dem 10, Labour 6, Independent 4 and Ukip 1.ġ7.18pm With two seats still to declare Isle of Anglesey CC looked set to be under no overall control, having long been run by independents. Labour was in second place with 9, followed by the Liberal Democrats on 4, Ukip on 2 and 1 independent. With most results now in the Northamptonshire Conservatives have easily retained control at 33 seats. Nigel Farage has captured a mood, and he has done so adeptly and with panache.”ġ7.27pm: The final counties to count today is Durham CC, where Labour already has a majority ahead of final results, and Northamptonshire CC, which started only at lunchtime. “There is no getting away from the UKIP result. 18.09pm Just in: Lord Ashcroft has just published interesting analysis of local election results.
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