…and the first #libdems GAIN is Sunderland's Millfield ward. Congrats to newly-elected Cllr Niall Hodson & team! pic.twitter.com/URnBJRNmfI
— ALDC (@ALDC) May 5, 2016
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Fantastic gain in Gateshead too.
I was delighted to see this although I have never met the people involved.
As joint organisers of Sunderland Lib Dems, of which I later became Chair, Phil Hanmer and I started out the Liberal success in Sunderland in 1980 with wins on the Tyne & Wear County Council seats of Bishopwearmouth and Southwick and later several Sunderland MBC seats. Millfield was part of the Sunderland MBC Central Ward in which I stood several times before returning to Lancashire. our longstanding councillor in Central Sunderland (26 years) . Mark Greenfield was never defeated in his ward in a clean fight by Labour – he succumbed to a major re-warding and even then only lost by a handful of votes against the entire Sunderland Labour machine. Mark was my greatest helper this year in winning central Southport – a SLIGHTLY different area to central Sunderland! 🙂
What do you mean? They’re both seaside places.