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By-Election Results 28 August 2008

Wednesday 03 September 2008 12:00

There were two principal council elections held on the 28^th August. The Tories held one seat and Labour the other seat. There was one Parish council and one town council result reported to ALDC where the Lib Dems made a gain from an Independent and lost one to the Tories.

In the Pim Hill ward of Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council, the Liberal Democrats came from nowhere to within 10 votes of taking the seat off the Conservatives. The last time the seat was fought it was a two-horse contest between the Tories and Labour, with the Tories gaining 80.6% of the votes. In the by-election Labour did not stand leaving it as a four-way fight between the Lib Dems, Tories, BNP and an Anti Incinerator candidate.

After a slow start, the campaign picked up pace with three leaflets and lots of canvassing being achieved, if the campaign had been started earlier and with one more piece of literature being delivered we could have achieved the 11 votes needed to win this seat. In by-elections extra effort is needed to be put in and more pieces of literature than you would deliver in a normal election is required to win, especially when we are coming from a standing start.

In the Wickersley Ward of Rotherham MBC by-election, we stood a candidate and with one leaflet achieved 6.8% vote share, the BNP had 19.2% of the vote.

It was really good to see that we had a candidate, meaning that 191 people who wanted to vote Liberal Democrat had the opportunity; this gives a good base to build on and with some hard work, at the next election we could pick up a lot of the protest vote that is in the BNP vote. This could put us in a position to challenge for the seat.

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By-elections 7th August 2008

Friday 08 August 2008 15:40

We can WIN in 2009 & 2010

There were three principal council elections held on the 7^th August. The Tories held all three seats. There was one Parish council result reported to ALDC where the Lib Dems made a gain from Labour.

In the Maldon North ward of Maldon DC in Essex we failed to stand a candidate.

We did not stand in the Ward in 2007 and have no councillors on the council. The Greens have no councillors on the council and did not stand in 2007 but they managed to grab second place with 24% in the by-election. Surely we can do better than this.

Newsham with Eppleby is a very rural ward in Richmondshire District Council of North Yorkshire on the fringe of William Hague's Constituency. It is a one councillor Ward that the Tories won unopposed in 2008. Despite some problems in our group in Richmondshire credit must be given for not just standing a candidate but fighting a campaign that included a Village survey, an A4 Focus an A3 Focus, Good Evening leaflet and knock up on election day.

The next two years see three key electoral tests for Liberal Democrats: in 2009 the County, Unitary and Euro Elections; in 2010 the London, Mets and local elections; a General Election at a date to be determined by the Daily Mail.

All three will be a tough challenge for Liberal Democrats, but a real opportunity to make a liberal difference in town and county halls, and in Parliament.

To win we will need:

• first class local campaigns that take advantage of the best modern techniques

• hard-working and motivated local teams

• excellent campaign strategies and plans that target to win

ALDC’s Kickstart Weekend 28^th-30^th November is a 48 hour programme of training and campaign planning to give you the best chance in the elections in 2009 and 2010. Using the top trainers and campaigners in the Party we will give your campaign team the skills, ideas and plans to win in 2009 and win in 2010.

Click here to book places for your team.

John Bridges

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