I’m sure we’ll have more details in ALDC’s by-election report later, but the news of two more by-election gains overnight is lovely to wake up to.
First, in Cornwall, we took a seat from the Tories which is always a pleasure.
🚨 BY-ELECTION GAIN 🚨
Long Rock, Marazion & St Erth – Cornwall County Council:
LIB DEM: 811 [45.4%, +21.9%]
CON: 503 [28.1%, -8.2%]
GRN: 244 [13.6%, +2.5%]
LAB: 230 [12.9%, +1.2%]No IND (-17.4%) as previous.
LIB DEM GAIN from CON 🔶
CONGRATS to Cllr John Martin! pic.twitter.com/yFT8lHYJBt
— ALDC (@ALDC) February 17, 2023
And then, in St Neots in Cambridgeshire, we took a seat from the St Neots Independents.
🚨 BY-ELECTION RESULT 🚨
St Neots The Eatons, Cambridgeshire CC:
LIB DEM – 1,042
CON – 746
IND – 360
LAB – 250Liberal Democrat GAIN from St Neots Independents 🔶
HUGE congratulations to Cllr Geoffrey Seeff who has been duly elected! 😁 pic.twitter.com/fWNmWpDAfw
— ALDC (@ALDC) February 16, 2023
Thanks to all the Liberal Democrat candidates who stood yesterday and their teams for all the hard work they have put in and for keeping the Lib Dem flag flying. It is so important that people have the chance to vote for us in every election.
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Two excellent results. My only concern,especially with my area of Cornwall is the failure to squeeze down the Labour and Green vote despite being in a clear second place.
A small snark, why does Mark Pack produce a a fuller report ( 3 Wards & percentages) 10 hours earlier, ALDC don’t seem very good at this.
Tim Rogers, Labour wasn’t squeezed because they put some effort into this by-election, check the St Ives Labour Facebook site, they expected they would do much better here and instead lost third place.
All the more to squeeze in 2025!
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