How did the Lib Dems do in the local elections? (LDN #112)
Liberal Democrat Newswire #112 came out last week, looking at the Lib Dem performance in the 2018 local elections. … 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.
Liberal Democrat Newswire #112 came out last week, looking at the Lib Dem performance in the 2018 local elections. … Read the full post »
As I analysed in some detail in the last Liberal Democrat Newswire, the Lib Dem performance in this year’s local elections is a mirror of last year. … Read the full post »
Regular readers may recall that ahead of the 2017 general election I pointed out how the polls weren’t really all over the place and the range of likely results they pointed to included the Conservatives losing their majority. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrats gain seat from Labour with a massive 57% increase in the vote. … Read the full post »
Oops. Template editing fail by Ilford Conservatives ahead of this week’s local council elections in the borough. … Read the full post »
Jeremy Moulton, leader of the Conservatives on Southampton Council, is facing a police investigation over the handing out of free pens. … Read the full post »
Barnet Liberal Democrats have picked up an endorsement from Sury Khatri, the deselected Conservative councillor who said he was victim of a “right wing and hard Brexit” coup. … Read the full post »
Carl Cashman, the leader of the Liberal Democrats in Knowsley, is going to be casting his vote for a Green Party candidate this May. … Read the full post »
The final candidate totals for this May’s local elections are now collated and the confirmed story is the one I trailed. … Read the full post »
The May elections are only a few weeks, a couple of dozen leaflet drops and three score candidate tweets away. So LDN #111 takes a look at the Lib Dem prospects, how Brexit may play out in those contests and what we can learn from the candidate numbers. … Read the full post »