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Good news from Aylesbury where new Cllr Waheed Raja gained the Central and Walton ward from the Conservatives.

Central & Walton (Aylesbury Valey) result:

LDEM: 40.9% (+18.1)
CON: 31.5% (-1.1)
LAB: 19.8% (+0.9)
GRN: 4.5% (-4.0)
IND: 3.3% (+3.3)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

No UKIP (-17.2) as prev.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) March 23, 2018

We actually lost this ward by a single vote back in 2011. It’s great to see Waheed and the team win it back with a really good swing.

Central & Walton (Aylesbury Valey) result:

LDEM: 40.9% (+18.1)
CON: 31.5% (-1.1)
LAB: 19.8% (+0.9)
GRN: 4.5% (-4.0)
IND: 3.3% (+3.3)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

No UKIP (-17.2) as prev.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) March 23, 2018

During my long time in the East Midlands, I knew that Worksop was not exactly a Lib Dem hotspot, so it was good to see a respectable result from a standing start for Leon Duveen in the Worksop South East ward:

Nice work, Lara Pringle and team!

Well done Cllr. Lara Pringle for smashing it in Northchurch, Dacorum. pic.twitter.com/U1qHHvwrKq

— ALDC (@ALDC) March 8, 2018

Liberal Democrat GAIN Northchurch (Dacorum) from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) March 8, 2018

And this is what is known as one hell of a swing.

Electoral law takes no account of the Beast from the East. Once an election is set, it goes ahead regardless. Returning Officers have no discretion to alter the timetable.

So, yesterday in East Devon, the Lib Dems quietly held a Council seat despite a strong challenge from an Independent.

Exmouth Town (East Devon) result:

LDEM: 28.2% (-2.7)
IND: 26.6% (+26.6)
CON: 21.5% (-3.6)
LAB: 13.0% (-7.7)
GRN: 10.7% (-12.6)

Liberal Democrat HOLD.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) March 2, 2018

Well done to Tim Dumper and the team. I hope they have thawed out.

Other by-elections took place in Clackmannanshire, Basingstoke and Solihull and we had candidates in all of them. This post will be updated with the results when they are known.

Update: A respectable 10% from a standing start.

Blythe (Solihull) result:

CON: 75.9% (+24.7) HOLD.
LAB: 13.6% (+4.6)
LDEM: 10.5% (+10.5)

No Res Assoc (-33.5) and Grn (-6.4) as prev (2016).

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) March 2, 2018

And an increase in vote share in Basingstoke.

We’ll start with the bad news and disappointment of two losses to the Tories in Dorset.

Hugely popular District and County Councillor Ros Kayes stood down for work reasons. A former Mayor of Bridport, even her opponents admired her. Even with strong local candidates and campaign, we couldn’t hold off the Conservatives.

Bridport (Dorset) result:

CON: 39.6% (+2.5)
LDEM: 34.6% (-3.7)
LAB: 16.5% (+4.4)
GRN: 9.3% (-3.2)

Conservative GAIN from Liberal Democrat.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) February 23, 2018

Bridport North (West Dorset) result:

CON: 36.0% (+5.0)
LDEM: 30.0% (-9.1)
LAB: 23.0% (+9.8)
GRN: 11.0% (-5.7)

Conservative

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Last night was a good night for Lib Dems across the country:

Dawlish Central & North East (Teignbridge) result:

LDEM: 70.6% (+52.4)
CON: 29.4% (+5.6)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) February 16, 2018

Brilliant from Martin Wrigley and team.

Chudleigh (Teignbridge) result:

LDEM: 41.0% (+31.1)
CON: 40.3% (+14.6)
LAB: 18.7% (+7.0)

No Ind(s) as prev.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) February 15, 2018

Congratulations, Margaret Evans and team.

Worstead (North Norfolk) result:

LDEM: 72.7% (+39.4)
CON: 16.9% (-25.0)
LAB: 10.4% (-1.8)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) February 15, 2018

Well done to Saul Penfold and team.

And we had some pretty impressive increases in vote share in 3 more contests.