Local Council By-Elections June 2019

This month saw 21,871 votes cast over 17 local authority (tier one and tier two) contests. All percentages are rounded to the nearest single decimal place. Nine council seats changed hands and two seats were contested for the first time. For comparison with May's results, see here.

Party	Number of Candidates	Total Vote	%	+/-  May	+/- June 18	Avge/ Contest	+/- Seats
Conservative	17	6,811	31.1%	+4.9%	+4.7%	401	-1
Labour	16	5,111	23.4%	-5.4%	-13.9%	319	-1
LibDem	16	5,662	25.9%	+7.8%	+3.1%	354	+5
UKIP	4	313	1.4%	-3.6%	+0.1%	78	0
Green	8	1,907	6.8%	+2.0%	+2.2%	238	0
SNP	0						0
PC**	1	120	0.5%	+0.4%	+0.5%	120	0
Ind***	12	1,947	8.9%	-0.6%	+2.9%	162	-1
Other****	0

* There were no by-elections in Scotland
** There was one by-election in Wales
*** There were three independent clashes this month
**** No others/minor parties ran this month

What a busy month! And what a curious one, given the happenings during last month's European elections. I say curious because it seems to be mirroring what we're seeing in the polls. Labour down, LibDems displacing them. And while UKIP are stuck in nowhere land, I'd day say that if the Brexit Party were piling in to local election contests we'd see the Tories here suffering more to.

That said, it is but a month, and as you can see from the seats listed below they were drawn disproportionately from the kinds of wards where Labour are an also ran. So it's not worth drawing any conclusions about the national filtering down to the local quite yet.


6th June
Herefordshire UA, Ross North, LDem gain from Con
South Staffordshire DC, Wombourne South West, Con hold x2

13th June
Broxtowe BC, Stapleford South East, LDem gain from Con x2
North Devon DC, Chittlehampton, Con gain from Ind
North Kestevan DC, Billinghay, Martin & North Kyme, Con gain from Ind

20th June
Forest of Dean, Newent & Taynton, Ind gain, LDem gain
Isle of Wight UA, Whippingham & Osborne, Con gain from Ind
Merton LBC, Cannon Hill, LDem gain from Lab
Neath Port Talbot UA, Pelenna, Ind hold
Salford MBC, Walkden South, Lab gain from Con
South Ribble DC, Farrington West, Con hold x2
Wandsworth LBC, Furzedown, Lab hold

27th June
Mansfield DC, Sandhurst, Ind gain from Lab