New Faces, New Ideas for Sevenoaks Town Council as Conservatives lose political control
Five new Liberal Democrat councillors for Sevenoaks Town Council will bring new ideas to its work over the next four years....
TC
5 May 2019
National News
Europe - the Hello Suffolk campaign
On Monday 6 May(Bank holiday Monday) we launch our "Hello Suffolk!" campaign. Please join Jules Ewart and other campaigners at one of our local Pop-Up events organised specifically for YOU:
5 May 2019
They don't have a clue
The Government has dragged the country towards a disaster. While the Tories push for a deal just to avoid a party split, local plans and priorities in Wiltshire are being distorted to favour a Brexit that nobody wants.
PJ
5 May 2019
Woking Lib Dems win
Local Liberal Democrats cemented their strong position on Woking Council at Thursday's elections. The Liberal Democrats held all of their seats and made a gain to deprive Conservatives of control of the Council.
CAMB
5 May 2019
Two Liberal Democrat candidates elected in Stamford on South Kesteven District Council
Along with many other successes across the country, two Liberal Democrat candidates were successfully elected in Stamford to serve on South Kesteve District Council in the recent local elections.
5 May 2019
Mynott's Musings: The 2019 Election Results
What an incredible night for the Liberal Democrats! Our five wins here (out of 11 fought) pushed the country's Lib Dem win total over the 700 seats mark - not a bad result for a party that was being written off in recent years! I just thought I'd comment on a couple of interesting things which emerge from a closer look at the results across Brentwood. The Brentwood Council website is stating that the Conservatives got 42% of the overall vote whereas we got 41%. However these figures actually involve rounding-off fractional percentages. By my calculations the overall number of unspoiled votes cast in Brentwood was 16,447. Of that total we gained 40.92%, whereas the Tories gained 41.56% - a wafer thin 0.64% gap. This is also a massive leap forward from last year, when the Tories got 45% of the vote and we only got 34.5%. Furthermore in terms of the actual totals, the Tories picked up 6836 votes this year, but the Lib Dems were right behind them, on 6731. In other words we were only 105 votes short of their to
4 May 2019