New election looms for Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner
A dramatic twist ahead of the count for Wiltshire Police and Crime Commissioner with legal problems for the Conservative candidate. … Read the full post »
2021 Local Elections
Read about the 6 May 2021 round of local elections. These were greatly increased in size by the elections postponed from May 2020, such as for Mayor of London.
For a full data series of the annual local election results, see my LocalBase.
How Lib Dems are doing: rolling election coverage, Saturday update
The Sunderland Liberal Democrats have done it again, giving the party a great start to election night. … Read the full post »
Good news for Chesham & Amersham by-election from local elections
There have been local elections in Buckinghamshire, which means we got a set of results from the wards that fall within the Chesham and Amersham constituency. … Read the full post »
Over 1,000 people wrongly given ballots for neighbouring ward
Not come across anything quite like this before: a whole batch of voters wrongly asked to vote in a neighbouring ward: Approximately 1,200 voters from the Brookside area were incorrectly allowed to cast their ballots for the neighbouring Stirchley ward of Stirchley and Brookside Parish Council. Votes had to be removed by hand after 500 … Read the full post »
Some people are really keen to vote today
Hard to beat Liberal Democrat campaigner Callum Robertson’s knocking-up experience today. … Read the full post »
The road to electoral reform: Lib Dem Newswire #148
LDN #148 covers the road to electoral reform, universal basic income (UBI), the decriminalisation of cannabis and more. … Read the full post »
Get the new Liberal Democrat virtual poster for Facebook
There’s a new ‘I’m voting Lib Dem’ frame you can use on your Facebook avatar ahead of the May elections. … Read the full post »
10,400 postal ballot papers being replaced after missing party logos
A major printing error on Gosport Council ballot papers for postal voters means they are all having to be reissued. … Read the full post »
We’re in the home stretch for the huge May elections
We’re in the home stretch now for the mammoth set of May elections, which also means huge extra demands on everyone’s time, both volunteers and staff. … Read the full post »
The council seat up for election in May that has no candidates
Only four seats in this year’s local elections are going completely uncontested, three of which are in the Isles of Scilly. … Read the full post »