Former Labour councillor jailed for electoral fraud in 2018 elections
A former councillor has been jailed and ordered to pay more than £28,000 back to Redbridge Council after committing electoral fraud. … Read the full post »
Read about the 2018 local council elections, held on Thursday 3 May. They saw the Liberal Democrats under Vince Cable make more net gains than the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn.
For a full data series of the annual local election results, see my LocalBase.
A former councillor has been jailed and ordered to pay more than £28,000 back to Redbridge Council after committing electoral fraud. … Read the full post »
A Conservative Party agent has appeared in court on charges of electoral fraud. She’s accused of tricking people into signing nomination papers for the last Hackney Council elections. … Read the full post »
Welcome to the latest in my occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – how do party efforts to persuade supporters to sign up for postal votes work? … Read the full post »
Muswell Hill ward in north London is where I first cut my campaign manager teeth, working with a brilliant team to win somewhere that had the Labour Party’s largest ward membership in London. … Read the full post »
Faisal Rana, a Labour councillor in Rochdale, has been cautioned by the police after admitting voting twice in May’s elections for the local council. … Read the full post »
Evaluating the controversial voter ID pilots run during this May’s local elections, the Electoral Commission has recommended more testing next year.
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A bumper set of eleven council by-elections or deferred contests from May this week. A little disappointing to see that it is only eight Lib Dem candidates across those eleven – but that is up four on the last time these seats were all fought. … Read the full post »
One Parliamentary by-election, one council by-election and one delayed council election (due to the death of a candidate) this week. … Read the full post »
Two men have been arrested in Norwich following allegations of fraud involving a Conservative Party nomination paper in the May local elections. … Read the full post »
Peering into the details and the patterns behind the Liberal Democrat performance in this May’s local elections, one intriguing political opportunity presents itself. The party did best in shire district elections up against the Conservatives. … Read the full post »