8 Lib Dem GAINS in Oxfordshire – including Tory Council Leader’s seat

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8 Lib Dem GAINS in Oxfordshire – including Tory Council Leader’s seat

By Caron Lindsay | Sun 9th May 2021 - 6:46 pm

Lib Dems in Oxfordshire have taken 8 seats from the Conservatives and are now just one seat behind them.

One of the seats was that of the County Council Leader in Woodstock.

To add to Tory miseries, they also lost a seat in affluent Chipping Norton to Labour.

And there could be more..

https://twitter.com/LaylaMoran/status/1391435093537959941?s=20

Final Oxfordshire Council Results
Conservative 22 (-9)
Liberal Democrat 21 (+8)
Labour 15 (+1)
Green 3 (+3)
Other 2 (-3)

Before and after maps below show the huge change. Presumably the Liberal Democrats will now lead a rainbow coalition on the council. Big Tory loss! pic.twitter.com/LGRlWnqy09

— Andy McKay 🔶 (@andygmckay) May 9, 2021

Good work by the brilliant Oxfordshire team.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social

Read more by Caron Lindsay or more about layla moran, local elections 2021 or oxfordshire liberal democrats.
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5 Comments

Nick Cotter 9th May '21 - 7:28pm

This is terrific news here – achieved after a hell of a lot of hard work – so many names but Cllr Neil Fawcett and Cllr Tim Bearder stand out ! Here in my patch the new Otmoor County Councillor is Cllr Calum Miller ………….
Michael 1 9th May '21 - 8:04pm

Layla Moran has tweeted that this is the biggest group we have *ever* had on Oxfordshire County Council.

https://twitter.com/LaylaMoran/status/1391435092447404033
Brian Ellis 9th May '21 - 8:48pm

Fantastic set of results. I had a relation living in this County back in the 1970’s the area was totally blue and these results have been achieved by hard graft over the decades.
All warrant great credit, many names from the past spring to mind including Margaret Godden, but the fact remains folk have stuck with it and a team has been built that WINS elections at every level. I followed these results all afternoon on live feed and it felt almost as if I was at the count.
John Littler 10th May '21 - 10:41am

Some great local news!
Thankfully the Council is in a lot better state than in neighbouring Northampton, where contracting out of services totally failed
tim rogers 10th May '21 - 1:16pm

I just love looking at the maps like this. Good tonic after the Cornwall result.