Another double Lib Dems gain from Tories kicks off by-election results
Another Lib Dem win with a big vote increase to kick off the results from the eight by-elections today. Congratulations Adrian England and his team:
@sa_cullen @lizleffman @LibDems going for a win in Adeyfield West too! pic.twitter.com/Xn7KPzw1Xk
— Cllr Adrian England 🔶 (@Adrian_England) September 28, 2016
Liberal Democrat GAIN Adeyfield West (Dacorum) from Conservative.
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Adeyfield West (Dacorum) result:
LDEM: 49.5% (+24.4)
CON: 22.2% (-4.6)
LAB: 15.8% (-8.7)
UKIP: 10.9% (-12.7)
GRN: 1.6% (+1.6)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Most unusually, up to and including 2011 this ward was a Conservative versus Labour battle, but a 2013 Lib Dem by-election win from third place was followed in 2015 by the ward being split one Lib Dem, one Conservative in the elections. Now it is all Lib Dem.
Just a few minutes after this result, in came another Lib Dem gain from the Tories, making this week a repeat of last week’s double gain from the Tories:
Liberal Democrat GAIN Stow (Cotswold) from Conservative.
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Stow (Cotswold) result:
LDEM: 64.9% (+21.0)
CON: 35.1% (-21.0)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
There was also a good solid Lib Dem hold in North Norfolk in what had been a solidly Conservative ward until the Lib Dems gain it for the first time in May 2015 – making this one of the very rare sites of Liberal Democrat progress in that month:
Liberal Democrat HOLD Glaven Valley (North Norfolk).
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Glaven Valley (North Norfolk) result:
LDEM: 55.3% (+8.4)
CON: 36.2% (+3.8)
UKIP: 4.1% (-6.8)
LAB: 3.0% (-2.8)
GRN: 1.4% (-2.5)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Derby has held its by-election to replace the Conservative councillor convicted of election fraud. Good to see a Lib Dem move back into a good second, in a ward where the party has at its best in the past only got as far up as a bit of a distant second.
Conservative HOLD Allestree (Derby).
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Allestree (Derby) result:
CON: 54.6% (-6.1)
LDEM: 28.7% (+17.2)
LAB: 11.1% (-5.8)
GRN: 3.1% (+3.1)
UKIP: 2.5% (-8.5)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Also good to see a Lib Dem candidate this time round in Wellingborough, especially as the ward has not previously had a Lib Dem candidate since creation in 2003:
Conservative HOLD Finedon (Wellingborough).
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Finedon (Wellingborough) result:
CON: 62.3% (+15.5)
LAB: 19.3% (-7.7)
UKIP: 11.3% (-14.9)
LDEM: 7.1% (+7.1)
Con HOLD.— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 30, 2016
Elsewhere there was what seemed a promising result in Blackpool, but was actually a reporting error with Lib Dem and Ukip swapped round. Here are the correct figures:
Labour HOLD Tyldesley (Blackpool).
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Tyldesley (Blackpool) result:
LAB: 48.3% (+10.0)
CON: 26.8% (-2.4)
UKIP: 21.5% (-0.5)
LDEM: 3.3% (-2.3)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
There was, at least a Lib Dem candidate there. Not so in Lincolnshire:
Conservative HOLD Cherry Willingham (West Lindsey).
— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Cherry Willingham (West Lindsey) result:
CON: 51.1% (+12.2)
LAB: 26.5% (+0.6)
UKIP: 22.4% (+22.4)— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 29, 2016
Or in Blaenau Gwent:
Brynmawr (Blaenau Gwent) result:
IND: 80.1% (+80.1)
LAB: 19.9% (-0.4)
Ind GAIN from Ind.— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) September 30, 2016
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