It was a long list of holds for this week’s by-elections as only 1 out of 10 seats switched hands, where Lib Dems snatched a seat out of Labour in Sheffield City Council. Labour defended their other 7 seats, albeit losing a hefty amount of votes in almost all seats; the Lib Dems also defended the 2 remaining seats.
For the only gain this week, the young Cllr Willis Marshall brought the Lib Dems from fourth place to first in the Woodhouse ward in Sheffield City Council. Coming from the single digits, Willis and the Sheffield team more than quadrupled the Lib Dem vote share to 33% this time around and won the seat! Congratulations to the Willis and the team for the hard work put in to achieve this momentous result.
Sheffield City Council, Woodhouse
Liberal Democrat (Willis Marshall): 1018 (33.0%, +26.8%)
Reform: 1008 (32.7%, new)
Labour: 650 (21.1%, -36.8%)
Conservative: 168 (5.0%, -9.5%)
Green Party: 153 (5.4%, -4.5%)
TUSC: 56 (1.8%, -1.0%)
The Social Democratic Party: 33 (1.1% , new)
In the nearby City of York Council, the Lib Dems comfortably defended its seat with 64% of the vote, towering the second place Conservatives. In the Haxby & Wigginton ward, Cllr Richard Watson and the team grew the vote from just over one-half to almost two thirds of the voting base. Congrats and thank you to Richard and the local team for the tremendous win!
City of York Council, Haxby & Wigginton
Liberal Democrat (Richard Watson): 1847 (64.0%, +11.1%)
Conservative: 435 (15.1%, -7.8%)
Reform: 325 (11.3%, new)
Labour: 203 (7.0%, -7.4%)
Green Party: 76 (2.6%, -2.6%)
The final Lib Dem win belongs to Cllr David Goodwin in the South Gloucestershire Council in the Frampton Cotterell ward, holding the seat with close to half the votes in the ward. Congrats and huge thank you to David and the team for the win and the work put into running the campaign.
South Gloucestershire Council, Frampton Cotterell
Liberal Democrat (David Goodwin): 1315 (49.3%, -2.4%)
Conservative: 1114 (41.7%, +8.1%)
Green Party: 160 (6.0%, -3.0%)
Labour: 80 (3.0%, -2.7%)
For a full summary of these results, and all other principal council by-elections, please refer to the ALDC by-elections page here.
* Matthew Ma works in the Campaigns and Communications team at ALDC
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3 Comments
And last week’s results?
@ Graham,
We are advised that last week’s report didn’t arrive because the ALDC team were holding one of their biggest events of the year – Kickstart.
Given that ALDC supply a weekly report because we asked nicely, I tend to think that we might cut them a little slack sometimes.
I was out of the country last week, but when I caught up with the results on Mark Pack’s website, they were not good, losing council seats in constituencies where we have MPs.