Van Ward - Caerphilly County Borough Council

Plaid Cymru gain from Labour

🔘 Plaid Cymru - 374 - 43.3%
➡️ Reform UK - 246 - 28.5%
🔴 Labour - 231 - 26.8%
🔶Liberal Democrat - Tony Potts - 12 - 1.4%

Thanks to Tony for standing,

Stoneygate Ward - Leicester City Council

Green Party gain from Labour

🟢 Green Party 1195 30.4%
🔴 Labour 1089 27.7%
🔘 One Leicester 638 16.2%
🔘 Independent 453 11.5%
🔵 Conservative 327 8.3%
➡️ Reform 106 2.7%
🔶Lib Dem Asit Sodha 62 1.6%
🔘 Independent 61 1.6%

Thanks to Tony for standing

Zetland Ward - Redcar and Cleveland Council

Lib Dem Gain from Labour!

🔶Lib Dem - Alison Barnes - 446 50.5%
🔴 Lab - 191 - 21.6%
➡️Reform - 119 - 13.5%
🟢 Green Party - 65 - 7.4%
🔵 Conservative - 62 - 7.2%

Huge congratulations to Alison and the team - she has regained her seat from Labour!!

Bearsden South Ward
EAST DUNBARTONSHIRE UA;
LD GAIN from IND, elected as CON.
🔶 LD 1744, 38.1%
🎗️ SNP 789, 17.2%
➡️ REF 709, 15.5%
🔴 LAB 650, 14.2%
🟢 GRN 371, 8.1%
🔵 CON 283, 6.2%
🏘️ FAM 35, 0.8%
🔶 LD elected stage 5

Cotswold DC, The Rissingtons

Lib Dem GAIN from Green

🔶LDM (Craig Thurling): 321 (37.5%, new)
🔵CON: 268 (31.3%, -12.1)
➡️RFM: 221 (25.8%, new)
🟢GRN: 47 (5.5%, -51.1)

Congrats to Councillor Craig Thurling and the team!

Barnoldswick (Pendle) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 59.8% (+1.5)
➡️ RFM: 26.2% (New)
🌳 CON: 10.1% (-11.7)
🌹 LAB: 3.9% (-11.1)

No GRN (-4.9) as previous.

Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2024.

Three councillors quit Warwick District Council's Labour group amid scathing attack on group leader Three serving councillors have quit Warwick District Council’s Labour group amid claims it is “not led in an ethical or inclusive way”.

It has been obvious for a while that some of the Labour group have been pretty unhappy, but crikey:

www.warwickshireworld.com/news/politic...

St Leonard's Forest - West Sussex CC

Liberal Democrat Gain from Conservative!

🔶Sam Raby Lib Dem 644 32.5%
➡️Reform 584 29.5%
🔵Con 401 20.2%
🟢Green 13.1%
🔴Lab 4.7%

Congratulations to Sam and the team!

Maiden Erlegh and Whitegate - Wokingham BC

Liberal Democrat Gain from Conservative

🔶Mike Smith Lib Dem 1028 31.2%
🔴Lab 793 24.1%
🔵Con 788 23.9%
➡️Reform 486 14.8%
🟢Green 189 5.5%
🔘TUSC 17 0.5%

Congratulations to Mike and the team - gained the seat and the Council!!!

Local Government Reorganisation.
 
ALDC has articles from Paul Trollope (Westmorland) and Cllr Bill Revans (Somerset) on how they took the initiative during the creation of new unitary authorities and delivered Lib Dem controlled councils.

www.aldc.org/2025/03/local-...

MOLE VALLEY DC; Holmwoods & Beare Green Ward

LIBDEM HOLD

🔶 LDM, Bradley Nelson, 748, 
🔵 Con, 437, 
➡️ Ref, 348, 
🟢 Grn, 76, 

Huge congratulations 🎉 to new Councillor 
Bradley Nelson, and the 🔶 team on their hard work. 🥇

No time for sleeping, only 50 days to polling day!!!

Woodbridge (East Suffolk) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 53.6% (+25.5)
🌳 CON: 20.5% (+1.0)
➡️ RFM: 14.4% (New)
🌹 LAB: 11.5% (-8.5)

No GRN (-32.4) as previous.

Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.

Eamont & Shap (Westmorland & Furness) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 67.2% (+1.5)
🌳 CON: 20.5% (-13.8)
🏘️ PCF: 6.5% (New)
🌍 GRN: 5.8% (New)

Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2022.

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Really good to be at the @stemlgbtqyou.bsky.social conference in Birmingham - some great presentations; good to catch up with Avery and others!!