Re: Local / Euro Elections
In article <MR+6+yJol2KKFwD8@blueyonder.co.uk>, pah@invalid.invalid (Paul
Hyett) wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 at 17:46:45, John M Ward
> wrote in uk.politics.electoral :
>
> >In article ,
> > Paul Hyett <pah@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> >> How come nobody is posting about them??
> >
> >Oh! Good point. I spent all of yesterday blogging (with continual
> >updating), following TV and Iain Dale's nine-hour marathon Internet
> >radio programme, and didn't really have time to post anywhere else. I
> >was, until now, taking some time off before tomorrow's Euro elections
> >mini-marathon.
>
> Am I right in thinking the UK's Euro results will all be released
> at 9pm tonight? Presumably they were counted back on Friday?
You're right abut the release. The counting hasn't started (not round here
anyway). We start at 3 in Cambridge.
> >It was well worth all the effort, to see how the British voting public
> >had reacted to events and recent revelations. Although non-Big Three
> >parties and Independents saw their number of seats rise by 90, this was
> >overshadowed by the Conservatives' nett overall gain of some 285 seats;
> >and Labour's losses amounting to 329 seats just added to the gulf
> >between those two parties.
>
> Glos CC saw Labour slip to just 4 seats.
>
> Now :
>
> Conservative - 42 (+9)
> Labour - 4 (-8)
> Lib Dem - 13 (-1)
> Green - 1 (+1)
> People against Bureaucracy 2 (+1)
> Independent - 1 (-2)
One of our new Cambridge County Councillors used to be a City Councillor
in Gloucester.
--
Cllr. Colin Rosenstiel
Cambridge http://www.rosenstiel.co.uk/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats: http://www.cambridgelibdems.org.uk/
date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:30:02 -0500
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