Independent wins this week’s one council by-election
Only one council by-election this week after last week’s recommencement of elections. Again it was in a remote ward, this time off the west coast of Scotland, in the Western Isles:
IND (Fulton) GAINS Na Hearadh agus Ceann a Deas nan Loch (Na H-Eileanan Siar) from IND (Cunningham) with 75% of first preference votes.
IND (MacDonald) was 2nd on 22% & IND (O'Donnell) 3rd on 3%. pic.twitter.com/5rMDjceN0J
— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) October 9, 2020
These by-election results round-ups cover principal authority by-elections. See my post The danger in celebrating parish and town council wins for your own party for the reasons to avoid straying too often into covering town, parish or community council by-elections.
Puppies very welcome. Had to dispose of a dead cat once on polling day.
I can see this would work in Australia with compulsory voting but here it could encourage bribery (here, have a hotdog).