Council by-election outcomes from yesterday and forthcoming contests

Birmingham – Sparkbrook and Balsall Heath East

Labour 2,410 (69.6 per cent, +2.4 on May) Lib Dems 517 (14.9 per cent, +10.6) Conservatives 305 (8.8 per cent, -14.0) Workers Party 158 (4.6 per cent, +4.6) Green Party 72 (2.1 per cent, -2.9)

Labour hold

Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole – Highcliffe & Walkford

Christchurch Independent 1,778 (62 per cent, +62 on 2019) Lib Dems 571 (19.9, +9.3) Conservatives 358 (12.5 per cent, -19.5) Labour 163 (5.7 per cent, -2.5)

Christchurch Independent gain from an independent

Ceredigion – Lampeter

Plaid Cymru 291 (39.5 per cent) Lib Dems 268 (36.4 per cent) Labour 160 (21.7 per cent) Independent 18 (2.4 per cent). In May Labour had been elected unopposed

Plaid Cymru gain from Labour.

Eastbourne – St Anthony.

Lib Dems 972 (49.6 per cent, -1.5 on 2019) Conservatives 513 Green Party 420 UKIP 55

Lib Dems hold

Mendip – Butleigh & Baltonsborough.

Conservatives 393 (50.3 per cent, -2.3 on 2019) Lib Dems 389 (49.7 per cent, +16.5)

Conservatives hold

Shropshire – Bridgnorth West and Tasley

Labour 887 (55.9 per cent, +10.3 on 2021) Conservatives 480 (30.2 per cent, -7.1) Lib Dems 176 (11.1 per cent, -3.1) Green Party 45 (2.8 per cent, -0.1)

Labour gain from Conservatives

Forthcoming contests

October 13th

• Epping Forest – Waltham Abbey. (Green Party held.)
• Gloucester – Tuffley. (Conservative held)
• Hartlepool – Throston. (Labour held)
• Leicester – North Evington. (Labour held)
• Stockport – Edgeley & Cheadle Heath. (Labour held)

October 20th

• Broadland – Thorpe St Andrew. (Conservative held)
• Fareham – Portchester East. (Lib Dem held)
• Guildford – Tillingbourne. (Conservative held)
• Monmouthshire – Devauden. (Conservative held)
• St Helens – Moss Bank.  (Labour held)

October 27th

• Derbyshire – Long Eaton. (Conservative)
• Sandwell – Wednesbury South (Labour)

November 3rd

• Croydon – Selsdon Vale & Forestdale. (Conservative held)
• Moray – Buckie. (Lib Dem held)
• Nottinghamshire – Eastwood.  (Conservative held)
• South Cambridgeshire – Longstanton. (Lib Dem held )
• South Cambridgeshire – Longstanton. (Liberal Dem held )
• Wiltshire – Salisbury St Paul’s.  (Conservative held)

November 10th

• Cannock Chase – Cannock West. (Conservative held.)

November 17th

• Shetland- Shetland West. (Independent held)