Council by-election results
Last night's council by-election results:
Princes Ward, Dartford. Labour hold with a small net swing from Con to Lab. Good result in one of the key North Kent parliamentary marginals.
Oakley Vale Ward, Corby. Con hold with a 4.5% swing from Lab. Again in a parliamentary marginal.
Fortune Green Ward, Camden. LD hold with a swing to them from their Tory coalition partners, largely achieved by squeezing the Green vote. Labour vote stable. This is a safe LD ward in the new 3-way parliamentary marginal of Hampstead & Kilburn.
Highland Ward, Perth & Kinross. SNP hold with swing to second place Tories.
Earlier in the week control of Southampton City Council changed hands to a Labour/LD administration after the Tories failed to get their budget through.
posted by Luke Akehurst at 8:52 am
2 Comments:
Luke
The elections you have featured each week don't seem to have shown the swing to tories in national polls. Any ideas what is going on?
9:30 pm, February 24, 2008
There isn't a swing to the Tories in the national polls since the local elections last May. Looking at the polls taken just b4 last May's elections:
YouGov - Tory lead in May 6%, Tory lead now 6%.
IpsosMORI - Tory lead in May 4%, Labour lead now 1%.
Populus - Tory lead in May 8%, now 9%
ICM - Tory lead in May 7%, now 3%
ConRes - Tory lead in May 9%, now 8%
i.e. swing to Labour in 2 cases, virtually unchanged in the other 3.
7:59 am, February 25, 2008
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