Most local election results won’t be declared until well into Friday, but a handful of councils are counting overnight – so please use this thread to update Lib Dem Voice readers with what’s happening near you, or links to emerging stories elsewhere.
Update 3: Looks like solid results Eastleigh (no scope for gains given how many seats we already hold!). Bristol looking good with several gains.
Update 2: News of gains against the Conservatives in Eastbourne and Norfolk.
Update: News from Bristol sounds very positive for the Lib Dems and absolutely disastrous for Labour, with Tories making little progress.
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Labour vote in Grantham Barrowby down from 52.6% to 17.5% according to Vote UK
http://www.vote-2007.co.uk/index.php?topic=2404.30
Labour vote down in Grantham South from 41.8% to 20.7% according to Lincolnshire County Council http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/elecResultsDetail.asp?division=4&locationGroup=122
LD gain Bristol Southmead from 3rd place. Looks like a Labour meltdown in Bristol and Lib Dems take overall control of the city
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/item/elections/?XSL=main&ElectionId=63
Generally good news from Bristol so far. Just hope the Greens don’t stuff it up for us!
LD gain from Tory on Winsford (Cheshire West UA) Town Council
LD gain Bristol Hillfields from 3rd place. Now 3 LD gains in Bristol.
@Joe Greens bottom of the poll in all three of our gains in Bristol.
Good! That’s what I like to hear…
Lab hold district by-election seat in Bury, Radliffe West: Lab 30.7%, Con 30.4%, BNP 16.0%, LD 15.0%, ED 8.0%
Tory Gain in Grantham East up 6.6%, Labour down 23.6% to 22.1%. Lib Dem 11.6%(not contested 2005)
Tory gains in Lincoln Glebe, North, Bracebridge, Moorland, hartsholme & Boston East
Just back from the Hillfields Bristol count/victory!
A good night so far in Bristol- but not an overall majority………… yet.Fingers crossed.
Tory gain in Lincoln East (from lab)
of the ten Lincoln seats. Tories GAIN 7. Labour HOLD 3.
The British Nazi Party vote looks high in Bristol, worrying for the Euros.
LD gain Bristol Horfield Ward. That’s four gains in Bristol now.
LD gain Horfield – Labour fall to 3rd there.
4 seats to come; assuming we hold Bishopston and Henleaze and don’t win Avonmouth it’s all down to Ashley.
Tory gain from Ind in Boston South.
@Kristen – Lincolnshire CC website are showing all 10 seats declared as Conservative.
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/elecresultshome.asp?catid=2221
Holding my breath for Bristol…………………
Libdems take bristol from NOC!
Source: telegraph
Tory gain in Lincoln Birchwood, but Lab gain (from Tory) in Boultham Division!
LD hold Bristol Henleaze by 73 votes
so far lab lose 11 out of 19 seats in Lincolnshire, (unfortunately all tory gains)
@Mike – we haven’t got overall control of Bristol yet. Need to hold Ashley ward.
Looks like the Tories will be the official opposition in Bristol. Shocking, shocking night for Labour.
Lib Dems Lose Boston Fishtoft to tory Gain
Telegraph have now pulled that call of Bristol for us, from their liveblog.
Lib Dems hold Ashley, and gain control of Bristol. Unless something really weird happens in Bishopston
from vote 2007
Bristol: We have held (comfortably) Ashley ward which we were defending against the Greens.
We’re just waiting for the result in Bishopston. If we hold that, we will have a majority of two…
Telegraph have removed their 2.06 post about gaining control of bristol!
here’s hoping for ashley…
…and now just waiting on Bishopston!
Some good turnouts in Bristol too, but as mentioned earlier, about 10% for the BNP where they stood.
Bristol Ashley ward – our majority over Green up from 110 to 695
Just saw a flash of yellow on the map of Lincolnshire – turns out the Boston Bypass Independents have gained Boston West
Big increase in votes for Greens, UKIP and various Independents in these parts. Labour vote disapearing fast. There may be a few places where leakage of our votes to the Greens costs a few seats.
It’s all over folks – LD Gain Bristol!
..And we’re home in Bristol.
Majority of 2.
LD hold Bishopton. Now have overall majority in Bristol
Great stuff.
With 26 of 77 seats now declared, it’s Conservatives 21 seats, Labour 3 & Boston Bypass Independent 1, 1 ind (gain from Tory – 2 votes in it)
Sorry, last post was for Lincs CC
2 Lib Dem gains reported from Tories in Brentwood (Essex CC). North maj. 301; South by 7.
If Lib Dems hold their remaining seats, they will be opposition at Lincs CC
Lib Dem Holds Gainsborough Hill – strangely UKIP second, Trent (Lincs CC)
Lib Dems lose one seat to tories in Hants (waterside – New Forest)
lib dems lose gainsborough rural south (Lincs CC)
Lib Dems hold six of the seven Hampshire County Divisions in Eastleigh Borough, the Tories hold the other one.
http://election.hants.gov.uk/hwdivisions.aspx?distid=2
Lib Dems now clearly second in vote share in Lincolnshire after 34 results. Currently Con 43.9%, LD 20.3%, Lab 15.5%, Lincs Ind 6.1%, Ind 3%, Oth 11.1%
http://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/elecResultshome.asp?catid=2221
Lib dems lose Market Rasen to Tory (lincs cc)
A loss to the Tories in Hants (Gosport).
lib dems gain Skellingthorpe & Hykeham south from Tory (lincs cc)
Lib Dems lose Welton Rural to Tory (Lincs CC)
Signing off with Tory gain from labour.
Lincs CC current state of play:
Tory: 35
Lib Dem: 5
Labour: 3
Ind: 2
Oth: 1 (local single issue party)
39 required for Control
Loss in Hants to Tories (Alton Town)
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Central Bedfordshire gone to Tories – BBC
Con = 54
LD = 11
Ind = 1
Can’t tell is if this them calling it, or the actual results.
The Guardian’s called the same results. And yes, you did read that correctly, Central Bedfordshire (new council) didn’t vote in a single Labour councillor!
Not. A. Single. One.
This going to be a black day for Labour.
Hampshire so far – Lab has lost 2 seats to the Tories. (one in Gosport, one in Havant) Labour holds 2 seats yet to declare. They should lose 1 of them. A saving in Council tax on the Group leader and deputy group leader allowances !
Labour plunged from 47% to 32% in the Gosport seat and from 33% to 14% in Havant(a two seats ward) in real votes their top candidate went from 4467 in 2005 to 1106 this morning.
Lib Dems have lost one in the new forest (south waterside by 6.6%) and Alton Town (by 84 votes) Lib Dems have also won a seat from the Cons in East Hants (Catherington) to balance the loss in Alton.
Just a quick Essex update – 35 seats counted overnight, where we got the two gains in Brentwood mentioned above. Yes, we gained two seats in Eric Pickles’ constituency!
Elsewhere, we held all five of our seats in Chelmsford, and Labour have lost all the seats they were defending so far (3 in Harlow, 2 in Braintree). At present, we’re on course to be the opposition in Essex. There are potential gains today in Colchester, Tendring, Uttlesford and Epping Forest.
Cornwall Update:
Tories 38
LD 20
Ind 18
MK 1.
Some significant losses in there (Bodmin E, Poundstock etc.)