Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council is a unitary authority with all the seats up for election on Thursday. At present it is Labour/Independent coalition with 27 Labour councillors, 16 Lib Dems, 11 Conservatives and five others. So gaining overall control must be among Labour's more modest aspirations. Disappointingly the Conservatives only have 33 candidates standing. […]
By Jonathan Isaby As we follow the local election results that come in on Thursday night and Friday morning, it's worth remembering that the media – and broadcasters in particular – will be comparing the party's national vote shares with the figures from last year's local elections rather than the general election. And those local […]
Darlington Borough Council is a unitary authority with all its seats up for election on Thursday. It has 29 Labour councillors, 18 Conservatives and six Lib Dems. I'm afraid the Conservatives haven't quite managed a full slate of candidates– but they have far fewer gaps than the Lib Dems. They have also been boosted by […]
East Riding is a unitary authority with all the seats up for election on Thursday. At present there are 46 Conservative councillors, 13 Lib Dems, three Labour, four independents and one for the SDP (for those of you who didn't know that party was still around.) There has been some lively factionalism in the Conservative […]
Taunton Deane Borough Council has all the seats up for re-election on Thursday. It currently has a minority Conservative administration – there are 26 Conservative councillors, 25 Lib Dems, one Labour and four others. This is a council which the Conservatives lost overall control of last time round in 2007. The Lib Dems had a minority administration […]
Thursday sees the direct election of the Mayor of Torbay. The incumbent Nick Bye was elected as a Conservative but is seeking re-election as an independent after being deselected. There are nine candidates altogether. Both the Conservative and the Labour candidates are standing on an "abolish the Mayor" platform. Susie Colley is among the independent […]
North Somerset is a unitary authority with all the seats up for election on Thursday. At present it is a Conservative council with a large majority. There are 46 Conservatives, five Lib Dems, three Labour councillors a Green councillor and six others. In the elections this time only the Conservatives are contesting all 58 seats […]
Wealden District Council in Sussex has all its seats up for election on Thursday. It is a Conservative councils with 33 Conservatives, 13 Lib Dems, two Green councillors and seven others. This could well be a council where the Conservatives make net gains bucking the national trend. We have already gained the two seats from […]
South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority with a minority Conservative administration and all the seats up for election on Thursday. There are currently 33 Conservatives, 28 Lib Dems and nine Labour councillors. Under Conservative leadership the Council was ahead of the pack on spending transparency – jumping not waiting to be pushed. The Council has protected frontline […]
Middlesbrough Council is a unitary authority with ts post of directly elected Mayor and all the Council seats up for election on May 5. Ray Mallon, an independent is the current mayor – a former police officer well known for his "zero tolerance" policy on crime. Mallon is the favourite but has been in trouble after […]
Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority with all the seats up for election on May 5. It is run by a Conservative/Labour coalition. There are 13 Conservatives and 22 Labour councillors also five Lib dems and 16 others made up of the Thornaby Independent Association, the Ingelby Barwick Independent Society and the Billingham Independent Association. The […]
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority with all the seats up for elections on May 5th. That is the simple bit. The political composition is more complicated. The Council has a Labour leader but also a Cabinet that includes Conservatives, a Lib Dem and councillors from the City Independents. There are also five BNP councillors, […]
Mark Andrew, Halifax Conservatives webmaster, reports Calderdale is run by the LD/Lab group who took control last May. There are at present 19 Conservatives, 15 LDs, 10 Lab, 4 Independents, 1 BNP, 1 Ind Lib, 1 Ind LD All three main parties are contesting the 17 wards, a third of members to be elected. The […]
Nottingham City Council is a unitary authority with all the seats up for election on May 5. It has a big Labour majority – there are 42 Labour councillors with seven Conservatives and six Lib Dems. It is also notorious as the only council in England that is so contemptuous of its residents that it […]
Cheshire East is a new unitary authority with all the seats up for election on May 5th. At present there is a substantial Conservative majority. There are 59 Conservatives, there are 12 Lib Dems and six Labour councillors. Cllr Brian Silvester, for the Conservatives took part of a recent BBC local radio debate (which starts two […]