January’s by-election summary
February 21, 2013 2 Comments
Here is a summary of January’s local elections, ten contests in all.
| % votes cast | candidates | seats won | |
| Conservative | 35.2 | 8 | 4 |
| Labour | 32.8 | 8 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat | 12.8 | 8 | 3 |
| Independent | 6.7 | 7 | 0 |
| UKIP | 6.7 | 4 | 0 |
| Green | 3.8 | 5 | 0 |
| Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition | 0.8 | 3 | 0 |
| others | 1.2 | 3 | 0 |
Julian's musings 
I make that the LibDems are still the best performers. They have the same number elected from the same number standing as Labour and with roughly a third of the vote.
I want to know why there was ten contests, and Labour only contested eight of them. This is a constant source of irritation to me, how we cannot manage to find candidates for every contest. Since by-elections are fought in isolation there should be no excuse.