Paul Walter

Big swing to Lib Dems in Sheffield Hallam (by-election results 2)

By | Fri 19th January 2024 - 1:21 pm

The victorious Sheffield team last night

Congratulations to new councillor Will Sapwell, who won the Stannington by-election yesterday in Sheffield Hallam constituency. And what a great swing from Labour…


Thank you to Thillainathan Haren for being the Lib Dem candidate in Tooting Broadway, Wandsworth, London:


Also in London, in Hackney, there was an unusual Conservative gain from Labour, with the winning candidate being a former Lib Dem councillor and the Labour candidate being suspended by her party during the campaign:


Thank you to Laurence Byrne for standing in Warwick All Saints and Woodloes, Warwick:

This is part two of our by-election reporting this week, you can find part one here.

Thanks to Mark Pack for his tireless reporting on his blog, where you can read the latest 2023-24 by-elections scorecard.

* Paul Walter is a Liberal Democrat activist and member of the Liberal Democrat Voice team. He blogs at Liberal Burblings.

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4 Comments

  • Tim Rogers 19th Jan '24 - 6:43pm

    A good week overall but what happened in Hackney. We lost 98pc of our vote, down from1473 to 73. It would appear we were viciously squeezed by everybody. Not good in an election year.

  • Alan Jelfs 19th Jan '24 - 6:49pm

    Re: Hackney.
    There were particular circumstances there.
    The winning Tory was a popular ex-LD former councillor for the ward, who had defected to the tories over our support for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. And he took his personal vote with him.

  • Dominic 19th Jan '24 - 9:09pm

    Cazenove ward in Hackney is an unusual one – the demographics are interesting. Ian Sharer was a good cllr as a Lib Dem, unsurprisingly he carried a lot of that vote with him

  • Paul Barker 19th Jan '24 - 10:24pm

    On that result in Cazenove ward – about a quarter of the voters are Orthodox Jews who are likely to have a strong interest in events in Gaza. The Tories are about the only mainstream Party giving unambiguous support to Israels actions. That could have had a big effect too.
    Low Traffic Neighbourhoods were a big issue in the Election apparently with Us & Labour in favour & The Tories against.
    That sort of combination of very Local & International issues is not unusual in London Elections.

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