[ad_1] The Newham Independents, a neighborhood political celebration, made a landslide acquire in a by-election held final Thursday within the ward of Plaistow South. The Plaistow space has fallen inside Labour-run councils’ domains since 1919, initially as a part of the County Borough of West Ham and since 1965 as...
Lewis Baston: Hounslow by-election hold gives Labour little cheer
[ad_1] Labour efficiently defended Hounslow Council’s Cranford ward in a by-election on Thursday, however wanting past the headline there's little for the occasion to have fun – it was one of many Conservatives’ greatest ends in London for the reason that normal election. The by-election was attributable to the loss...
Lewis Baston: Lib Dem by-election win shows trouble Tories are in
[ad_1] There was a single borough by-election on Thursday, 22 Could 2025, a Liberal Democrat defence in Sutton’s Carshalton South & Clockhouse ward. With subsequent 12 months’s full borough elections lower than a 12 months away, its outcome might be a big straw within the wind Though Sutton has been...
Lewis Baston on Labour’s Barnet by-election hold
[ad_1] London’s newest electoral contest, held on Thursday, was in Barnet, the place Labour – surprisingly efficiently, regardless of unpromising circumstances – defended a seat within the marginal ward of Whetstone, an space the place the social gathering had by no means gained earlier than 2022. Whetstone is a compact...
Three different London by-election winners, one underlying trend
[ad_1] There have been three London borough by-elections on Thursday – two in Hounslow and one in Barnet. The outcomes have been among the many extra fascinating in London these days. The usual by-election final result has tended to be a Labour maintain with a much-reduced vote share on a...
Tory Westminster by-election gain may not mean Labour doom
[ad_1] Labour confronted a tricky by-election contest in Thursday within the Westminster Metropolis Council ward of Vincent Sq.. It was essentially the most precarious London seat Labour has needed to defend in a by-election within the borough since profitable management of it for the primary time in its historical past...
Lewis Baston: Three London by-election holds for Labour
[ad_1] Following Tuesday’s contest in Alperton ward in Brent, there have been three extra London by-elections on the same old election day of Thursday. Two have been in Hammersmith & Fulham, one was in Barking & Dagenham and Labour have been defending in all of three. Let’s begin with the...
Labour’s Barnet by-election win brings party limited joy
[ad_1] Thursday's outcome confirmed once more that Labour help is extra resilient within the capital than elsewhere, nevertheless it nonetheless suffered a lack of vote share London’s first election of 2025 befell in Barnet’s Burnt Oak ward on Thursday. Burnt Oak lies simply south of Edgware on the western border...