Cheshire East

[Iain Lindley]

Conservatives have won 2 seats in Crewe West, with 1 Labour Councillor returned.

Labour polled 53% in this division at the last County election.

[Iain Lindley]

Crewe North: 2 Con, 1 Lab

2005: Lab 54.8% C 21.1% Ind 17.2 BNP 6.9%

[doktorb]

So looking at Crewe and Nantwich for the 22nd May by-election, this is looking very good for the first Tory gain from Labour in over a generation.

[Pete Whitehead]

Votes cast in the three districts which make up this authority were as follows (highest polling candidate per party per ward. Comparisons are with 2005):

Crewe & Nantwich            
Con   14797   42.1   %   +5.5
Lab   8239   23.4   %   -6.6
LD   5929   16.8   %   -2.1
IND   4880   13.9   %   +1.3
Oth   1342   3.8   %   +1.9

Congleton            
Con   12468   44.4   %   +5.3
Lab   2935   10.4   %   -12.7
LD   8752   31.2   %   -0.3
IND   3255   11.6   %   +11.6
Oth   686   2.4   %   -3.9

Macclesfield            
Con   26476   49.1   %   +3.2
Lab   7459   13.8   %   -3.8
LD   12678   23.5   %   -7.5
IND   6153   11.4   %   +10.2
Oth   1200   2.2   %   +2.2

Total for East Cheshire

Con   53741   45.8   %
Lab   18633   15.9   %
LD   27359   23.3   %
IND   14288   12.2   %
Oth   3228   2.8   %

[Al]

Comparision with the last district elections would be interesting

[Pete Whitehead]

The trouble that is except for Vale Royal I think all the districts have a number of 1 or 2 member wards so not all will have been up last year. Also seats tended to be less comprehensively contested. for example in Crewe & Nantwich 19 wards were up last year the Conservatives contested all of them, Labour 16 and the LDs only 6.  Thus the comparison with last year would show a large increse in LD support which is misleading

[Al]

Drat

[Mark Senior]

  Final result here Con 59 LibDem 12 Lab 6 Middlewich First 3 Nantwich First 1

[phildav76]

Elizabeth Gilliland, who was one of the three Conservative councillors for the Alderley ward has died.

She was previously a member of Macclesfield Borough Council for the Macclesfield Ivy ward, first elected in 1999.