November and December’s by-election summary
January 2, 2015 Leave a comment
There were forty-two local authority by-elections in the final two months of last year, of which thirteen resulted in seats changing hands.
| party | vote share % | seats won | candidates | net gain |
| Conservative | 30.5 | 15 | 38 | 1 |
| Labour | 24.5 | 13 | 37 | -5 |
| UKIP | 18.8 | 4 | 31 | 3 |
| Liberal Democrat | 9.5 | 3 | 24 | 1 |
| Independent | 7.0 | 2 | 18 | -2 |
| SNP | 5.9 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Green | 2.7 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| Plaid Cymru | 1.1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Others | 0.2 | 0 | 6 | -1 |
Nationalists parties certainly appear to be the flavour of the month(s) with UKIP, SNP and PC making six gains between them. The minus five number against Labour is worrying; there were actually six losses (offset by one gain) – two to the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, and sole gains for the SNP and an independent.
Otherwise it is a story of no real change.
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