COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS 14.07.22

Eight council seats up for grabs this week - five Labour defences, two Conservative and one Lib Dem.  Labour held all five of their seats and also took one from the Tories in Breckland, Norfolk.  They gained the seat with a small swing and the narrow margin of just 15 votes.

The Conservative vote share was down in all but two of the contests, but they managed to hold a safe seat in Warwickshire despite a Lib Dem surge there.  There was only one absence on Thursday - the Green Party did not contest Binley and Willenhall, Coventry.

Labour's victorious candidate in Coventry, Cllr Seyi Agboola, with MP Zarah
Sultana standing on his right

Thetford Boudica, Breckland Council

Lab: 398 (51.0%) +4.7%

Con: 383 (49.0%) -4.7%

Lab GAIN from Con

Binley & Willenhall, Coventry City Council

Lab: 934 (36.2%) -5.1%

Con: 765 (29.6%) +0.7%

CCP: 746 (28.9%) +9.6%

ADF: 91 (3.5%) +0.1%

TUSC: 46 (1.8%) New

Lab HOLD

Overton, Hyndburn Borough Council

Lab: 773 (52.2%) +5.9%

Con: 600 (40.5%) -0.5%

Ind: 71 (4.8%) New

RefUK: 36 (2.4%) -10.2%

Lab HOLD

Camperdown, North Tyneside Council

Lab: 873 (59.0%) -8.8%

Con: 388 (26.2%) -5.9%

LDem: 124 (8.4%) New

Grn: 58 (3.9%) New

UKIP: 36 (2.4%) New

Lab HOLD

Brympton, South Somerset District Council

LDem: 582 (58.6%) +4.5%

Con: 251 (25.3%) -11.3%

Grn: 71 (7.1%) New

Lab: 61 (6.1%) -3.2%

Ind: 29 (2.9%) New

LDem HOLD

Tooting Broadway, Wandsworth London Borough Council

Lab: 1,429 (62.2%) +1.6%

Con: 491 (21.4%) +2.8%

Grn: 285 (12.4%) -2.5%

LDem: 94 (4.1%) -2.0%

Lab HOLD

Arden, Warwickshire County Council

Con: 1,609 (59.3%) -14.7%

LDem: 854 (31.5%) +24.3%

Lab: 251 (9.2%) -0.8%

Con HOLD

Liscard, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council

Lab: 1,304 (64.8%) +7.9%

Con: 370 (18.4%) -7.8%

Grn: 172 (8.5%) +0.4%

LDem: 167 (8.3%) +1.7%

Lab HOLD

Abbreviations

Lab = Labour

Con = Conservative

CCP = Coventry Citizens Party

ADF = Alliance for Democracy and Freedom

TUSC = Trade Union and Socialist Coalition

RefUK = Reform UK

LDem = Liberal Democrat

Grn = Green

UKIP = UK Independence Party

Ind = Independents