Ten council contests this week, including three in London. Labour held in Tower Hamlets with an increased vote share, but their vote fell in Hackney where they lost a seat to the Greens.
Elsewhere there were Labour holds in Cambridge, Gateshead and Milton Keynes, but the Labour vote was down in all three. They gained a seat from the Conservatives on the Isle of Arran with a huge swing, due in part to the absence of an SNP candidate and the Scotting voting system. The Labour vote was down in seven of the ten by-elections.
The Lib Dems held two of the three seats they were defending, but surrendered a seat to an independent candidate in Norfolk. The Lib Dems chose not to defend the seat after the sitting councillor passed away, instead endorsing the independent candidate who ended up winning the seat.
Romsey, Cambridge City Council
Lab: 596 (42.8%) -2.7%
Grn: 409 (29.4%) +8.7%
LDem: 249 (17.9%) +3.4%
Con: 138 (9.9%) -9.3%
Lab HOLD
Bridges, Gateshead Borough Council
Lab: 320 (30.6%) -27.7%
LDem: 255 (24.4%) +13.0%
Grn: 253 (24.2%) +9.8%
Ref: 166 (15.9%) New
Con: 53 (5.1%) -10.9%
Lab HOLD
London Fields, Hackney London Borough Council
Lab: 746 (54.1%) -6.9%
Ind: 437 (31.7%) New
Con: 72 (5.2%) New
LDem: 71 (5.2%) -8.0%
WPB: 52 (3.8%) New
Lab HOLD
Stoke Newington, Hackney London Borough Council
Grn: 1,253 (53.0%) +19.5%
Lab: 945 (40.0%) -19.2%
LDem: 78 (3.3%) New
Con: 74 (3.1%) -4.1%
Ind: 12 (0.5%) New
Grn GAIN from Lab
Bletchley East, Milton Keynes City Council
Lab: 869 (49.7%) -7.1%
Con: 431 (24.7%) -0.7%
Ind: 147 (8.4%) New
Grn: 143 (8.2%) +2.6%
LDem: 127 (7.3%) +0.5%
Herit: 30 (1.7%) New
Lab HOLD
North Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne City Council
LDem: 740 (64.5%) +2.9%
Lab: 234 (20.4%) -6.0%
Grn: 93 (8.1%) -0.2%
Con: 35 (3.1%) -0.6%
Ref: 26 (2.3%) New
PoW: 19 (1.7%) New
LDem HOLD
Freebridge Lynn, Norfolk County Council
Ind: 723 (53.8%) New
Con: 454 (33.8%) +2.8%
Lab: 167 (12.4%) +5.8%
Ind GAIN from LDem
Arran, North Ayrshire Council
(first preference votes)
Lab: 748 (45.4%) +35.4%
Ind: 402 (24.4%) +2.4%
Grn: 340 (20.6%) +10.7%
Con: 90 (5.5%) -27.0%
Ref: 55 (3.3%) New
LDem: 12 (0.7%) New
Lab GAIN from Con (elected at stage 5)
North Walsham Market Cross, North Norfolk Council
LDem: 283 (46.5%) -3.8%
Con: 239 (39.3%) +1.8%
Grn: 53 (8.7%) New
Lab: 33 (5.4%) -6.7%
LDem HOLD
Bow East, Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
Lab: 1,266 (53.3%) +6.1%
Grn: 722 (30.4%) +14.1%
Con: 239 (10.1%) +4.4%
LDem: 148 (6.2%) -2.3%
Lab HOLD
Abbreviations
Lab = Labour
Grn = Green
LDem = Liberal Democrat
Con = Conservative
Ref = Reform UK
WPB = Workers Party of Britain
Herit = Heritage
PoW = Party of Women
Ind = Independents
One way to defeat Starmer is to make it difficult to govern Britain, This can be achieved by ensuring Labour loses all it's local government seats and with them control of local authorities.
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