Paul Walter

By-election results 1 – Conservatives lose last seat in Richmond

By | Fri 19th January 2024 - 10:08 am

There were six principal authority council by-elections yesterday, and there were Liberal Democrat candidates in all those contests.

After winning 39 of the 54 seats in Richmond-upon-Thames in 2014, the Tories yesterday lost their last seat on the council!:

We also held a second seat up for grabs in the borough last night:

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

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

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One Comment

  • Martin Pierce 20th Jan '24 - 9:14am

    Quite a milestone. We used to think 49-3 in 1986 and 48-4 in 1990 (when I was elected) were peak LibDem (and Alliance) but this surpasses them both. Geoffrey Samuel, the last Tory, who was 92 I think, was a veteran of the Council who was on with me in 1994-98 (and not especially pleasant then – don’t know if he mellowed). He only got elected in 2022 because something went wrong for the Greens in that ward who should have won it under the electoral pact that had two LD and one Green stand in some wards. In Teddington the vacancy was caused by the death of another veteran, but this time ours. Cllr Martin Elengorn was continuous Liberal then Lib Dem Councillor for Teddington since 1982. I believe they both died in the same week.

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