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Council By election Results 18th - 20th August

Cornwall, Pendarves - Conservative gain from UKIP

Party  2015 votes     2015 share    since 2013   
Conservative           325       30.3%       +0.4%
Liberal Democrat           311       29.0%from nowhere
Labour         220       20.5%       +1.8%
UKIP           89         8.3%      -23.5%
Mebyon Kernow             85         7.9%      -11.8%
Green           31         2.9%from nowhere
Independent             13         1.2%from nowhere
Total votes     1,074
       100%

Swing if meaningful UKIP to Conservative ~12% since 2013

Council now 37 Liberal Democrat, 36 Independent, 30 Conservative, 8 Labour, 6 UKIP, 4 Mebyon Kernow, 1 Green, 1 Unspecified

Durham, Shotton & South Hetton - Labour hold 

Party  2015 votes     2015 share   since 2013 "top"since 2013 "average"since 2008 "top"since 2008 "average"
Labour         595       52.5%         -4.0%            -7.4%         +0.3%            -0.5%
North East         214       18.9%  from nowhere     from nowhere  from nowhere     from nowhere
UKIP         131       11.6%  from nowhere     from nowhere  from nowhere     from nowhere
Liberal Democrat           107         9.4%  from nowhere     from nowhere         -7.1%            -5.0%
Conservative           67         5.9%  from nowhere     from nowhere  from nowhere     from nowhere
Green           19         1.7%  from nowhere     from nowhere  from nowhere     from nowhere
Independents   

       -43.4%          -40.1%       -31.3%          -32.5%
Total votes     1,133
          72%             77%          48%             50%

Swing not meaningful

Council now 96 Labour, 17 Independent, 9 Liberal Democrat, 4 Conservative

West Oxfordshire, Witney North - Conservative hold

Party  2015 B votes     2015 B share     since 2015     since 2014     since 2012     since 2011   
Conservative          264         33.9%     -15.7%       -9.6%     -19.9%     -20.3%
Liberal Democrat            201         25.8%     +19.8%     +14.2%     +11.6%       +8.6%
Green          136         17.5%       +3.1%     -10.2%       -0.1%     -11.2%
Labour          114         14.6%       -3.9%       -2.7%       +0.2%from nowhere
UKIP            64           8.2%       -3.3%from nowherefrom nowherefrom nowhere
Total votes         779
        35%        75%         53%         71%

Swing Conservative to Liberal Democrat ~18% since May, ~12% since 2014, ~16% since 2012 and ~14½% since 2011

Council now 41 Conservative, 4 Labour, 4 Liberal Democrat

West Mainland – Orkney – Death of Alistair Gordon (elected as No Description, defected to Orkney Manifesto Group). He was the leader and a founder of the Orkney Manifesto Group.

2012: Johnston 427, Gordon 322, Moar 287, Tierney 249, Scott 238, Muir 132, Appleby 74, Granère 73, Ward 33 (winners: Johnston, Gordon, Tierney, Moar on 7th count; final count Tierney 359, Moar 353, Scott 314 for 2 seats)
2007: Moar 545, Gordon 400, Scott 242, Crichton 203, Tom Flett 135, Ian Flett 88, Shearer 83, Conservative 68, Gilmour 12 (winners: Moar, Gordon, Scott, Crichton on 7th count; final count Scott 369, Crichton 320, T. Flett 250 for two seats) The Conservative candidate was the only partisan candidate in Orkney that year.

Barbara Foulkes (Independent) 
Fiona Grahame (Scottish Green Party)
Rachael King (Orkney Manifesto Group)

OMG 593 votes (51.4%)
Ind 446 votes (38.6%)
Grn 115 votes (10.0%)