Conservative gains from Labour and Greens in local by-elections

Congratulations to Councillor Daniel Husseini who won a council by-election yesterday. (By elections, like most other elections, are usually held on a Thursday but they can be held on another date if there is a good reason and several by elections were held on Tuesday this week.) 

Votes cast in the Godalming, Binscombe and Charterhouse ward of Waverley council in Surrey were as follows:

Daniel Husseini, Conservative     726 ELECTED

Lib/Dem                                         715

Green                                              195

Labour                                            151

The by-election was caused by the resignation of sitting Labour councillor (and former Labour MP) Nick Palmer who had moved out of the area.

Daniel fought off a strong challenge from the Lib/Dems to gain the seat, while the Labour party who were defending it came bottom of the poll with a very poor fourth place.

In other by-election  news yesterday, congratulations also to Cllr Harry Richardson, who gained the Thurston ward in Mid-Suffolk from the Greens with an 18.9 percentage point increase in the Conservative share of the vote. 

Harry Richardson, Conservative,         579 votes, 49.2% (+18.9) ELECTED

Green:                                                       518 votes, 44.0% (-10.6)

Labour:                                                       79 votes, 6.7% (-0.2)

(If you're wondering why the changes in vote shares don't add up to zero, it's because the Lib/Dems who previously got 8.1% of the vote didn't stand this time.)