My initial expression is that the electoral bias will be increasing further to the Tories with Labour running up useless scores in places they already have big vote shares. About the only place this might help them in 2020 is one or two London marginal. Meanwhile Derbyshire NE heads CON Tec.
It is worrying when the mayor of a major UK city has such a poor grasp of spoken English - but there we are.
It's not just Sheffield, it happens all over the place.
I know - but that doesn't make it any better. The failure to encourage all communities to integrate is a failure that we will regret for decades to come.
My initial expression is that the electoral bias will be increasing further to the Tories with Labour running up useless scores in places they already have big vote shares. About the only place this might help them in 2020 is one or two London marginal. Meanwhile Derbyshire NE heads CON Tec.
But that's exactly what you expect with a left wing Lab leader.
It's not a fluke that Blair got huge bias in Lab favour and Cameron has got a bias in Con favour.
You optimise efficiency by losing core supporters and gaining floaters.
My initial expression is that the electoral bias will be increasing further to the Tories with Labour running up useless scores in places they already have big vote shares. About the only place this might help them in 2020 is one or two London marginal. Meanwhile Derbyshire NE heads CON Tec.
Labour will be pleased to have held Harlow, Stevenage, Hastings and Nuneaton and Bolton, all of which have Tory MPs and it looks like the Tories have lost Worcester too, so some crumbs of comfort for Corbyn there, though the Tories have held the likes of Tamworth and Swindon which are key marginal seats
Jeremy Vine on the BBC. The important part of the graphic is the map or the table. They're less than 50% of the screen real estate, with the rest taken up by him and some generic pictures. The map has topographical info for no reason at all. His presentation is very silly.
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http://www.tamworth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/councillors_docs/LOCAL COUNT RESULTS 2015.pdf
Tories hold W Oxfordshire and Fareham
LDs hold Eastleigh
Basildon NOC
BREAKING NEWS: Conservatives LOSE overall control of Worcester City Council after Green Party Louis Stephen gains Battenhall from the Tories
Lab 651
LD 7440
SNP 2545
Tories 405
LD hold
UKIP on about 20%, down a couple of points from 2015
It's not a fluke that Blair got huge bias in Lab favour and Cameron has got a bias in Con favour.
You optimise efficiency by losing core supporters and gaining floaters.
Oh. My. Actual. God. The Scottish Tories have won Eastwood. #sp16
LOL
Tories 12932
SNP 11321
Lab 11081
LD 921
Tories gain from Labour
Labour 9922
Tories 4558
UKIP 3765
PC 1944
LDs 980
Green 527
Lab Hold
SNP gain from Labour
14% swing Lab to SNP
Tories hold Wokingham
Right off to bed, will catch up on rest of results tomorrow
Con +5.9%
Lab -6.7%
LD -0.9%
UKIP -1.3%
Greens +3.8%
Compared to 2015:
Con +0.9%
Lab +3.5%
LD +2.3%
UKIP -7.1%
Greens +0.4%
LD 9 Con 4 Lab 1
LD gain Nelson ward from Labour
Con gain Cosham from Labour ( elected as Lib Dem )
2015 result Con 9 Lib Dem 4 Lab 1
2014 result Con 5 Lib Dem 3 UKIP 6
Lib Dem to take control in 2017