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Helen Duffett

This week’s by-election results: holds all round

By Helen Duffett | Fri 29th October 2010 - 4:50 pm

Camden LBC, Kentish Town
Lab 1411 (53.0; +17.7)
LD Nick Russell 715 (26.9; -3.6)
Green 349 (13.1; -4.7)
Con 186 (7.0; -5.1)

Majority 696
Turnout 26.02%
Lab HOLD
Percentage change is since May 2010

South Lanarkshire UA, East Kilbride West
Lab 847 (41.4; +0.8)
SNP 571 (27.9; -2.4)
Con 403 (19.7; +5.7)
Green 82 (4.0; +0.2)
East Kilbride Alliance 71 (3.5; -0.7)
LD Gordon Smith 70 (3.4; -3.7)
Turnout 17.44%
Labour HOLD
Percentage change is since May 2007

See here for the breakdown of votes for each stage of the count.

Cheltenham BC, Springbank
LD Chris Coleman 722 (66.4; -2.9)
Con 188 (17.3; -13.4)
Lab 142 (13.1; +13.1)
Green 35 (3.2; +3.2)
Majority 534
Turnout not known
LD HOLD
Percentage change is since May 2010

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Mark Pack

Kentish Town result: Lib Dems take Labour seat; Green’s leader beaten

By Mark Pack | Fri 8th December 2006 - 12:59 am

Ralph Scott has scored an excellent victory in the Kentish Town by-election in Camden, taking a Labour seat and beating the Green candidate – their newly elected principal speaker (equivalent of party leader), Sian Berry – who had told the Camden New Journal hours before the polls closed: “We are ahead”.

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Mark Pack

Did Labour’s Camden election campaign break the law?

By Mark Pack | Thu 7th December 2006 - 11:57 pm

Labour’s eve-of-poll election leaflet in Kentish Town looks like it could land them in legal hot water for breaking election law.

 

Photo of Labour's election leaflet

 

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