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Another Thursday, more by-election gains

By Mark Valladares | Fri 23rd November 2012 - 5:22 pm

After last week’s splurge of local government gains, this week saw another pair of gains, this time in Kent.

Tim Prater reports;

“Lynne Beaumont was the Councillor for Park ward from 2003-11. the by-elections were held after a Conservative Councillor for Park ward resigned his seats (having not attended a Folkestone Town Council meeting for six months).

“The Conservative Shepway District Council have made a number of hugely controversial decisions lately, not least consulting on whether to host the UK high level nuclear waste storage facility (not unsurprisingly, the consultation said no) and introducing on-street parking charges in Folkestone that have been hugely unpopular …

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Posted in News | Also tagged lynne beaumont | 2 Comments

New campaign buttons up and running on Prater Raines and MyCouncillor sites

By Mark Pack | Sun 4th November 2012 - 10:25 am

Thanks to the kind efforts of Tim Pickstone and colleagues at ALDC and Tim Prater and co. at Prater Raines, the newly revived Liberal Democrat campaign buttons have now been tested successfully on websites run using their own systems.

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Posted in Online politics | Also tagged aldc, prater raines and tim pickstone | 1 Comment

By-election roundup for 10 December 2009

By Helen Duffett | Fri 11th December 2009 - 11:45 am

We’ll update this post as new info comes in.

East Dunbartonshire Council, Bearsden South

Lib Dem gain from Conservatives
The results of this STV election in full:

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Posted in Council by-elections | Also tagged adam symons, andrew reeves, andy gerard, ashay ghai, bearsden south, bedford borough council, hythe town council, Jo Swinson, kirstie clish-green, mark blackburn, neil matthews, rushmoor borough council, west devon borough council and westminster city council | 10 Comments

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