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By-election update: Labour’s Oxford by-election tactics slammed

By ALDC | Fri 5th September 2014 - 5:25 pm

There were three principal Council by-elections this week in Oxford, Shepway and Surrey Heath.

In Carfax ward (Oxford City Council) Labour held on with 168 votes (44.2%; +15.6%). Tony Brett, the Liberal Democrat candidate who finished fourth in May’s local election, came a respectable second with 101 votes (26.6%) and increase of 9% since May. The Green Party slipped from first in May to third on Thursday with 16.6% (-14.2%). The Conservatives and UKIP both polled 24 votes (6.3%).

Turnout in the ward was a record low of just 8.6%. …

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Posted in Council by-elections and News | Also tagged by-election results, oxford and surrey heath | 23 Comments

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