Caron Lindsay

Another Friday, another TWO Lib Dem gains

By | Fri 23rd September 2016 - 10:38 am

More good news from our friends in the West Country:

This is another gain from the Conservatives with a massive 28% leap in the vote. Tories and Labour both slumped.

It was the only win for us last night, but we had some very good results:

Up almost 8% in Gateshead:

8.6% of the vote in an area of Carmarthenshire where we didn’t stand last time, in a crowded field. Great result for newbie candidate Catherine Nakielny. There is a very impressive crowd of newbies in that area. I met some of them at Welsh conference in February.

In Cumbria, our vote went up 20% in a by-election in Allerdale:

There is still a county council result from Suffolk to come through.

UPDATE: We won Hadleigh in Suffolk from the Tories!!

Well done to all the Lib Dem campaigns on such good results.

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

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10 Comments

  • paul barker 23rd Sep '16 - 12:21pm

    Wot, only 3 gains this week ?

  • paul barker 23rd Sep '16 - 12:48pm

    Political Betting.Com are claiming that we have made 18 net gains since May with Tories down 8 & Labour 3.

  • Peter Thornton 23rd Sep '16 - 1:27pm

    That’s the Tory majority gone on Suffolk County Council. They will probably now have to deal with UKIP to stay in power.

  • Roger Billins 23rd Sep '16 - 2:09pm

    can any geek out there tell us when the last time we had 18 gains in a row with no losses ?

  • Jason 23rd Sep '16 - 4:14pm

    Why is the party failing to get this in the news?! If UKIP was winning won more than half of byelections, I bet we’d hear about that.

  • Liberal Neil 23rd Sep '16 - 6:02pm

    There was a feature about it on the Daily Politics just the other day.

  • Theakes 23rd Sep '16 - 6:20pm

    Also a couple of town council gains best one at cocker mouth in Christchurch ward which we narrowly missed last night

  • Robin Grayson 24th Sep '16 - 11:27am

    I think we are doing as well as Manchester City.

  • Simon Banks 26th Sep '16 - 8:55pm

    On much less money.

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