Local elections May 6

[T_i_B]

Now I'm pretty certain there aren't any local elections on May 6th where I live but elsewhere there are local authority elections on the same day as the general election.

Please feel free to comment if you have local elections due. You are also more then welcome to comment on the parties local election campaigns and what the local politics round you is anyway.

http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/default.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_local_elections,_2010
http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/news-and-media/public-awareness-campaigns/uk-parliamentary-general-and-english-local-elections-2010

[T_i_B]

1. So I take it....

...that nobody else has local government elections due on May 6th either?

[Nihil]

2. Not sure but you could probably take it ...

... that not many people check in over the weekend ... :P

We have some seats up for election on May 6th but not all
(hence our house hasn't been pestered by itinerant politicians
as our ward isn't changing).

[T_i_B]

3. Well....

one less set of itinerant politicians anyway!

We had a by-election in my council ward in February so I can't complain too much about not having local elections where I am in May.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. We have some, but they've been swamped in the general election leaflets

The Lib Dem for my ward is standing again; I don't think there are enough seats up for election to overturn the very large Lib Dem majority on the council. There's not much to be said about it.

We have also just had a parish council created, to go along with the borough council, but they've put the vote for that back to late May, so that they don't have to do 3 elections on one day. For 4 seats from my ward, there are 4 Lib Dem nominations, and 4 Tories - no Independents, or Labour.

[LeftishBrit]

5. We have one, though it's not getting much publicity with the GE going on.

Oxfordshire County Council is Tory controlled, but the two Councillors for my ward are LibDem. I expect I'll vote for them. But we haven't had any leaflets as yet.

[fedsron2us]

6. Plenty of local seats up for relection in my area

Interesting to note that the Lib Democrats appear to have virtually excised the names of not only their local council candidates but also the Parliamentary candidate from all their posters and much of their literature. For a party that claims to be more about grass roots politics than Labour or Tories they seem to be trading almost entirely on Cleggmania. This is exactly the perversion of the democratic process that so dismayed me when the leadership debates commenced.

The Tories must be ruing the fact that Cameron was so keen to take on his opponents in a as series of head to head TV spectaculars.The net result has been to gift the Liberal Democrats loads of free publicity that their party could not possibly have obtained any other way. Moreover, it has largely negated the financial and local organizational advantage that the Tories normally possess in my area.

I know one shrewd punter who has a £500 quid bet laid with the bookmakers that Cameron will not be Tory leader by Christmas. I think he may be collecting his winnings before too long.

[T_i_B]

7. That's odd from the Lib Dems!

I'm in a neighbouring constituency to Nick Clegg but so far his ugly mug has only featured in one glossy leaflet (pictured with the leader of Sheffield City Council, which probably won't cut much ice with a lot of people in Derbyshire to be honest).

Mind you, only the Tories appear to have tried the dodgy bar chart trick on leaflets round here.

[dipsydoodle]

8. We've got all 3

including The Mayor here in Watford. Whole lot likely to be Lib dem.

[T_i_B]

9. Council elections in England

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8663247.stm

About 20 million electors will be voting in 164 council polls being held in England on Thursday, at the same time as the general election.

These include those for 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan authorities and 20 unitary authorties. A total of 15,785 candidates are fighting 4,222 seats.

Five are already returned unopposed - two Tories at Cherwell and one at Daventry, one Labour at Hartlepool and an independent at Purbeck.

There are mayoral contests at Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Watford where residents face a triple election on the same day - general, council and mayor.

[T_i_B]

10. Any of you had any local election results round your way?

Neighbouring Sheffield has gone from Lib Dem to NOC. As I cannot abide Sheffield Labour party (far too keen on wasting money on white elephant projects, of which the worst was the 1991 World Student Games) I'm not mad keen on that result.

[dipsydoodle]

11. Watford

Lib Dem mayor was re-elected with an even bigger majority are as far as I'm aware the LIb Dems have kept control of the council. Friday morning was apparently tragic farce because they were still counting when the workforce turned up for work at the Town Hall and there were no parking spaces unoccupied at all.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Lib Dems took one ward for the Tories, and one from Labour

which means the council is now:
39 Lib Dem
4 Tory
1 Labour.

[LeftishBrit]

13. County Council wasn't up after all - confused the year for it- but the City Council was

Very little change; still split between Labour and LibDem. Two of the three Green seats went LibDem, and one LibDem seat went Labour. Still no Tories!

[legin]

14. my favourite lady, Jane Avis (Lab), survived

:toast:

For some reason Labour gained in local elections. In Croydon Labour +6, Conservative -6.

Perhaps better the devil you don't know than the one you do (It was a Tory council - and still is - ).