COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 07.07.22

Eight council seats were up for grabs this week with most of the action taking place in London and the south-east of England.  Labour were defending five, the Conservatives one and a residents association one.  The eighth seat was free-for-all in Epsom.

It was a mixed night for Labour.  They held four of the five defences and won the Epsom free-for-all.  However, they had a rough night in London, slipping to third place as the Lib Dems defeated them in Camden.  Their share of the vote also plummeted in Hackney, where they only just managed to hold off the Greens by 27 votes.

The Tories lost their defence in Mole Valley to the Greens and were also overtaken by the Lib Dems.  There was no evidence of the 'progressive alliance' in any of this week's contests.  In Chesterfield there were no Lib Dem or Tory candidates this time.  The only other absentee was UKIP in Mole Valley.

Hampstead Town, Camden London Borough Council

LDem: 919 (40.9%) +18.6%

Con: 620 (27.6%) -12.3%

Lab: 559 (24.9%) -12.9%

Grn: 104 (4.6%) New

Ind: 44 (2.0%) New

NHP: 1 (0.0%) New

LDem GAIN from Lab

Hollingwood & Inkersall, Chesterfield Borough Council

Lab: 747 (48.5%) +15.2%

Ind: 676 (43.9%) -9.1%

Grn: 118 (7.7%) New

Lab GAIN from Ind

West Ewell, Epsom and Ewell Borough Council

RA: 549 (43.4%) -35.3%

Lab: 395 (31.2%) +19.1%

Con: 205 (16.2%) +7.0%

LDem: 117 (9.2%) New

RA HOLD

De Beauvoir, Hackney London Borough Council

Lab: 758 (41.8%) -15.5%

Grn: 731 (40.3%) +18.3%

LDem: 133 (7.3%) -5.0%

Ind: 83 (4.6%) -3.8%

Con: 82 (4.5%) New

WEP: 27 (1.5%) New

Lab HOLD

Woughton & Fishermead, Milton Keynes Council

Lab: 1,355 (73.3%) +3.4%

Con: 340 (18.4%) -1.8%

LDem: 154 (8.3%) -1.6%

Lab HOLD

Charlwood, Mole Valley District Council

Grn: 284 (41.7%) +13.6%

LDem: 210 (30.8%) +19.5%

Con: 166 (24.4%) -22.0%

Lab: 40 (3.1%) New

Grn GAIN from Con

Hatfield Central, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

Lab: 599 (53.5%) +8.4%

Con: 273 (24.7%) -9.0%

LDem: 183 (16.3%) -4.9%

ATV: 61 (5.4%) New

Lab HOLD

Worthing West, West Sussex County Council

Lab: 1,262 (52.0%) +5.7%

Con: 795 (32.8%) -6.4%

LDem: 235 (9.7%) +5.3%

Grn: 133 (5.5%) -1.8%

Lab HOLD

Abbreviations

LDem = Liberal Democrat

Con = Conservative

Lab = Labour

Grn = Green

NHP = National Housing Party

RA = Residents Association

WEP = Women's Equality Party

ATV = Abolish The TV Licence

Ind = Independents