Friday May 3rd, 2024
Labour inflicts heavy local election defeats on Conservatives but fail to win West Suffolk by-election
The Conservative's have suffered a string of defeats in the local elections in England and Wales which where held yesterday. Labour have so far won several of it's target council's including Redditch, Thurrock, Hartlepool, and Rushmoor but lost Blackburn, Oldham and Rochdale to no overall control with the Socialist Alliance picking up seats on each council.
In the West Suffolk by-election local Conservative Council leader Michael Gordon defeated Labour's Claire Berry by 481 votes, holding on despite a 19% swing to Labour, it was not enough to overturn the Conservative majority of 23,111 from last years general election.
Counting across the country will continue through out the day.
West Suffolk By-election
No | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- % |
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1 | Conservative | Michael Gordon | 14,577 | 32.52% | -27.88% |
2 | Labour | Claire Berry | 14,096 | 31.44% | 10.64% |
3 | National Peoples | Terrance Forbes | 10,002 | 22.31% | 9.12% |
4 | Liberal Democrat | Peter Jacobs | 4,183 | 9.33% | 3.33% |
5 | Green | Susan Tucker | 1,010 | 2.25% | 0.14% |
6 | Anglia First | Wayne Randell | 508 | 1.13% | -0.41% |
7 | Save The NHS | Robert Davis | 262 | 0.58% | N/A |
8 | Happy Sunshine Party | William "Big Willy" O'Connell | 124 | 0.28% | 0.04% |
9 | English Independence | Steve Lucas | 51 | 0.11% | N/A |
10 | Ban Horse Racing | Dorothy Murray | 18 | 0.04% | N/A |
| | | 44,831 | 100.00% | |
| | Majority | 481 | 1.07% | |
19.26% swing from Con to Lab |