Swingometer

[Slacker]

Chances are Highways will be her responsibility if Labour take control

[Fly]

At least she's having a walk around looking at some 

[Slacker]

Labour 7, Lib 1, one very close
High UKIP vote

[Old Cruser]

UKIP seem to be doing ok - could this mean that maybe in the not so distant future in the gov. elections we will have UKIP as majority vote???

[Pete]

>> UKIP seem to be doing ok - could this mean that maybe in the not so distant future in the gov. elections we will have UKIP as majority vote???

I doubt it. This is as much a protest vote against the current parties cluelessness as it is a valid political force. We'll see how they shape up when we, the public, want to know their intentions on the big issues that are currently plaguing the country.

Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for the existing parties.

IMHO of course.

[Old Cruser]

It's been said that Licolnshire has the highest number of immigrants so am presuming this maybe has something to do with the voting? Surprised at that though as i would have though Bradford or some other place would have had the highest immigration population

[Old Cruser]

Here you are keep an eye on Derbyshire elections

http://www.derbyshire.gov.uk/council/elections/2013/results/default.asp?VD=results#9/53.1006/-1.7207

[Pete]

>> It's been said that Licolnshire has the highest number of immigrants

Probably because of immigrant labour working in the fields.

I think locals there will love the opportunity to work in the field for five bob a week...

[Pete]

Nice election link OK.

[therealjr]

if you can't be bothered to add up the numbers Labour have re-taken DCC.

[Pete]

In my area, results are:

Sharon Buxton - UKIP - 414
Keith Falconer - Liberal Democrat Focus Team - 932
Marcus Stanton Linsey - Conservative  - 183
Ron Mihaly - Labour - 1300

So UKIP got over twice the votes the Cons got.

[therealjr]

In mid term elections there is usually a protest vote against the sitting government.
This time of course it's unusual because two parties are in government.
The interesting thing is that in the past when the Lib Dems were a party of protest rather than a party of power people voted for them with no real idea what they stood for. Slowely they changed a lot of that protest vote into permanent votes that allowed them to win a lot of councils, councils where in theory they had no right to be in power (Sheffield Liverpool and yes even Chesterfield spring to mind)
The difference now is that UKIP are the vehicle for peoples protest votes but it will take far less time for them to get their message over of what they stand for, in fact I think most people who voted for them already know.
The big worry in the past has been that Independance for Scotland (and indeed Wales) would make a Labour government unelectable in England. Also a worry has been that boundary changes in England would achieve the same thing. If UKIP does establish itself as the 4th or maybe even 3rd party if English politics then the Tories will have things far less their own way.
I can see a situation where UKIP and some disaffected Tories would occupy the right, the rest of the Tories the Centre Right and Labour the centre Left with who knows maybe the majority of the Lib Dems returning to their SDP roots and returning to a centre left Labour party. Either way that still leaves the traditional working class with nowhere to go.

[Old Cruser]

>> It's been said that Licolnshire has the highest number of immigrants

Probably because of immigrant labour working in the fields.

I think locals there will love the opportunity to work in the field for five bob a week...

and probably live in over crowded flats 

[Pete]

The current situation now looks like this – Labour 43 seats, Conservatives 18 seats, Liberal Democrats 3 seats.

The whole picture (in reverse order as the results were announced) looks like this:

Spire – Sharon Lesley Blank – Labour
Brimington – Walter Burrows – Labour
Boythorpe and Brampton South – Ron Mihaly – Labour
Wingerworth and Shirland – Barry Lewis – Conservative
Derwent Valley – Michael Vernon Longden – Conservative
Loundsley Green and Newbold – Stuart Brittain – Labour
St Marys – Jean Mary Innes – Labour and Co-operative
Birdholme – Dave Allen – Labour
Staveley – John Graham Williams – Labour
Shirebrook and Pleasley – Marian Stockdale – Labour
Sandiacre – Wayne Major – Conservative
Breadsall and West Hallam – Carol Ann Hart – Conservative
Ilkeston South – John Arnold Frudd – Labour
Ilkeston West – Michelle Wendy Booth – Labour
Bakewell – Judith Anne Twigg – Conservative
Alfreton and Somercotes – Steve Marshall-Clarke – Labour
Alfreton and Somercotes – Paul James Smith – Labour
Alport and Derwent – Martin Tomlinson – Conservative
Belper – John Robert Owen – Labour
Duffield and Belper South – Stuart John Bradford – Conservative
Greater Heanor – Paul Jones – Labour
Heanor Central – Celia Mary Cox – Labour
Horsley – Kevin Buttery – Conservative
Ripley East and Codnor – Steve Freeborn – Labour
Ripley West and Heage – David Alan Williams – Labour
Matlock – Andy Botham – Labour
Sawley – Daniel Walton – Conservative
Breaston – Robert Alan Parkinson – Conservative
Ilkeston East – Glennice Birkin – Labour
Long Eaton – Roland Leon Hosker – Labour and Co-operative
Petersham – Clare Elaine Neill – Labour and Co-operative
Tibshelf – Clive Richard Moesby – Labour
South Normanton and Pinxton – Jim Coyle – Labour
Sutton – Julie Ann Hill – Labour
Swadlincote South – Trevor Southerd – Labour
Swadlincote North Sean – Andrew Bambrick – Labour
Swadlincote Central – Paul Dunn – Labour
Melbourne – Linda Mary Chilton – Conservative
Linton – Kath Lauro – Labour
Hilton – Julie Elizabeth Patten – Conservative
Etwall and Repton – Martyn Ford – Conservative
Aston – Robert Davison – Labour
Eckington and Killamarsh – Diane Charles – Labour
Eckington and Killamarsh – Brian Ridgway – Labour
Ashbourne – Andrew Iain Lewer – Conservative
Clay Cross South – Kevin Gillott – Labour
Bolsover North – Duncan McGregor – Labour
Barlborough and Clowne – Anne Western – Labour
Clay Cross North – Brian Wright – Labour
Dovedale – Simon Andrew Spencer – Conservative
Dronfield West and Walton – Stuart Ellis – Conservative
Bolsover South – Joan Elizabeth Dixon – Labour and Co-operative
Wirksworth – Irene Ratcliffe – Labour
Glossop and Charlesworth – Damien Thomas Greenhalgh – Labour
Glossop and Charlesworth – Ellie Wilcox – Labour
Walton and West – Keith Patrick Morgan – Liberal Democrat Focus Team
Staveley North and Whittington – Dean Collins – Labour
New Mills – Beth Atkins – Liberal Democrat
Whaley Bridge – David William Lomax – Liberal Democrat Focus Team
Buxton West – Tony Arthur Kemp – Conservative
Chapel and Hope Valley – Jocelyn Sarah Street – Conservative
Buxton North and East – Caitlin Janette Bisknell – Labour
Etherow – Dave Wilcox – Labour

[Fly]

Labour walked it in the Bolsover district.
The winning candidate in each area won the vote by at least twice the votes of his/her nearest rival.

http://www.bolsover.gov.uk/derbyshire-county-council-elections-2013.html