Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Councils with Only Two Parties Represented
We hear a lot about how the Conservatives have no seats in many Councils, yet the fact of the matter is that many councils (my suspicion is more) have no Labour or LibDem councils. I want to compile a list to get a true reflection of "no-go" areas for the three parties. So in the comments, can you tell me any councils who have no councillors from one party or another? Or point me to anywhere else where this info has been compiled.
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Wandsworth - no yellow peril here!
Malvern Hills District Council has not had a Labour councillor for several years.
Hi Iain.
Try this list for starters - seems to cover most of them.
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/uklocalgov/makeup.htm
Cheers
F
Oxford has five parties represented - none of them Tories, tho... Last Tory cllr to serve their term was voted out in 1996! (Thought you'd like to know.)
Test Valley in Hampshire has no Labour Councillors
Winchester has only 3 out of around 60.
"...many councils (my suspicion is more) have no Labour or LibDem councils."
I think you mean 'councillors' for the second mention of 'councils', Iain?
Hiya
Quick and dirty analysis shows this list based on the data source I posted earlier.
F
List of councils with no representation from one of the major parties.
London Borough Councils
Con - 3
Haringey
Islington
Newham
Lab - 2
Richmond upon Thames
Sutton
LD - 10
Kensington & Chelsea
Wandsworth
Bexley
Westminster
Hammersmith & Fulham
Merton
Enfield
Croydon
Barking & Dagenham
Newham
County Councils
None
Unitary Authorities
Con - 1
York
Lab - 6
Wokingham
West Berkshire
Poole
Windsor & Maidenhead
Rutland
Torbay
LD - 2
North Lincolnshire
Thurrock
Metropolitan Borough Councils
Con - 5
Liverpool
Newcastle upon Tyne
Manchester
Gateshead
Knowsley
Lab - 0
LD - 1
Rotherham
District Councils
Con - 10
Ashfield
Derwentside
Easington
Wansbeck
Wear Valley
Oxford
Cambridge
Durham
Chesterfield
Bolsover
Lab - 60
East Hertfordshire
Huntingdonshire
Mid Bedfordshire
East Devon
Runnymede
Spelthorne
Rochford
Wealden
South Bucks
Stratford-on-Avon
Broadland
Test Valley
New Forest
Aylesbury Vale
Mendip
Chiltern
Harrogate
Adur
Fylde
Cotswold
Elmbridge
Congleton
East Hampshire
Waverley
West Dorset
Chichester
East Dorset
Worthing
Mole Valley
Horsham
Fareham
Forest Heath
Vale of White Horse
Shepway
South Norfolk
West Lindsey
Hart
East Cambridgeshire
South Somerset
Purbeck
Eastbourne
North Norfolk
Penwith
North Dorset
Teignbridge
Craven
Ryedale
Christchurch
Malvern Hills
West Devon
Uttlesford
Lewes
South Shropshire
Eden
Oadby & Wigston
North Devon
Restormel
Richmondshire
North Cornwall
Torridge
LD - 25
Runnymede
Forest Heath
Bolsover
Chester-le-Street
Gravesham
West Lancashire
South Derbyshire
Amber Valley
Barrow-in-Furness
Great Yarmouth
Dartford
Hyndburn
Kettering
Rossendale
Wellingborough
Teesdale
Breckland
Tamworth
Melton
Fenland
East Northamptonshire
Broxbourne
Maldon
Castle Point
South Holland
Scottish Unitary Authorities
Con - 8
Eilean Siar
Highland
Inverclyde
Midlothian
North Lanarkshire
Orkney
Shetland
West Dunbartonshire
Lab - 5
Orkney
Shetland
Aberdeenshire
Scottish Borders
Argyll & Bute
LD - 11
Orkney
North Lanarkshire
East Ayrshire
North Ayrshire
West Lothian
West Dunbartonshire
South Ayrshire
Falkirk
Stirling
Clackmannanshire
Eilean Siar
SNP - 7
Orkney
South Ayrshire
Inverclyde
East Dunbartonshire
Shetland
East Renfrewshire
East Lothian
Welsh Unitary Authorities
Con - 10
Blaenau Gwent
Caerphilly
Carmarthenshire
Ceredigion
Gwynedd
Merthyr Tydfil
Neath Port Talbot
Pembrokeshire
Powys
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Lab - 0
LD - 4
Caerphilly
Carmarthenshire
Merthyr Tydfil
Vale of Glamorgan
Plaid Cymru - 4
Merthyr Tydfil
Powys
Wrexham
Torfaen
Pretty certain both Chiltern District Council and South Bucks District don't have any Labour councillors, and haven't had for many years.
Broxbourne three non-Tory councillors: 35 Conservative, 2 Labour and 1 British National Party, but they are saved from the worst of the lot - no Liberal Democrats in Broxbourne.
No Lib Dems in Breckland and Great Yarmouth. No Labout in North Norfolk, Broadland and South Norfolk.
You probably already knew that.
Pretty certain both Chiltern District Council and South Bucks District don't have any Labour councillors, and haven't had for many years.
Many years really doesn't justify the time I think. If those two Councils, along with Aylesbury Vale, ever retruned a Labour politicians you'd know that we were in End Times.
No labour councillors in Shepway District Council, Kent
No Tories in Islington for a very long time. I was watching this discussion 18ds last night and I am certain that I heard Mr. dale say the only good thing about ( boring ) Kerron Cross was that " ...He hates the Lib Dems 'even' more than I do... "
....and yet many seem to turn up here where they are apparently most unwelcome? I won’t miss them.
OR DID I MIS-HEAR?
Iain,
Try the Local Government Association.
I have done a quick search and thrown up the "census of local authority councillors"
http://www.lga.gov.uk/Briefing.asp?lsection=761&id=SX8271-A780C6D3&ccat=120
I have not had time to read it properly but there are bits about party representation, though possibly not exactly what you're looking for.
I'm sure the LGA elsewhere has all this info, though.
Thanks
The last Liberal was elected to Westminster City Council (and predecessors, Westminster, Paddington and St Marylebone) in 1919. Since then we have remained entirely free of the yellow peril. The SDP never won anything either (although they did get one councillor for six months through defection).
'Oxford has five parties represented - none of them Tories'
Perhaps the Tories are pleased they are not part of a Council which is 'wallowing in deferred failure' ;)
Interesting that despite all the stuff about the Tory Party's alleged lack of reach into large parts of the country, it is the Labour Party which has by far the longer list of places where it doesn't figure.
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Belfast?
Can confirm Waverley has no Labour councillors.
What is more about Malvern Hills is that in 2003 and 2005 County Council elections there was not a single Labour candidate. Do not know whether there are any in 2007 because the council in its usual inefficiency has not yet published the list of candidates on the website. However I understand at least 5 Tories have been returned unopposed.
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