Labour councillor joins the Lib Dems in Hull
Cllr Julia Conner has switched from the Labour Party to the Liberal Democrats on Hull Council, praising the work of the local Lib Dem team. … Read the full post »
Read about the 2022 local council elections, held on the first Thursday in May, 5 May 2022. They saw big gains for the Liberal Democrats, making it the fourth round of net gains in a row for the party.
For a full data series of the annual local election results, see my LocalBase.
Cllr Julia Conner has switched from the Labour Party to the Liberal Democrats on Hull Council, praising the work of the local Lib Dem team. … Read the full post »
Back in the years of New Labour, the government ran an extensive set of pilots to see what might raise turnout in elections. … Read the full post »
The former Welsh Conservatives Member of the Senedd for Monmouth, Nick Ramsay, has joined the Welsh Liberal Democrats. … Read the full post »
Jonathan Oxley, a former Conservative councillor in Ealing, will be standing for the Lib Dems in May. … Read the full post »
Rabina Khan is a Liberal Democrat councillor for Shadwell ward in Tower Hamlets and came second in the Mayoral race in 2018. … Read the full post »
It’s deeply frustrating for many voters when they turn up to vote and see their preferred party isn’t on the ballot paper. … Read the full post »
The Liberal Democrats have selected local campaigner and veteran James Barker as their candidate for the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner election to be held on 6th May. … Read the full post »
Elected Mayor of Watford Peter Taylor has been re-selected by the local Liberal Democrats ahead of next May’s elections. … Read the full post »
Given the usual complaint about politicians and timescales is that they are too short-termist, the move from four to five years has something to commend it, though government reformers are generally curiously silent on the issue. … Read the full post »