On May 5th the local elections were contested in 19\u00a0out of a total of 57 council seats in Preston.\u00a0 Of these 4 changed hands giving Labour a narrow gain with an overall majority of 1 councillor.<\/p>\n
The full\u00a0council now comprises:\u00a0Labour 29\u00a0 (+4), Conservative 21 (-1), Liberal Democrats 6 (-1), Others \u00a01 (-2).<\/p>\n
The seats were last contested in 2003 so it isn’t easy to compare like for like, but Labour achieved an increase in vote of 6000 votes or 40%\u00a0compared with the seats contested in 2007 while the Liberal Democrats lost 2000 votes or 48% compared with 2007. The Conservatives breaking even.<\/p>\n
It could be concluded that results followed a\u00a0northern trend where\u00a0the Liberal Democrats lost votes to Labour, whereas in the south the LD’s lost votes to the Conservatives.\u00a0 While the Conservatives maintained a national trend of not losing voters. The LibDems are said by some to be\u00a0suffering for being a party in government rather than a protest group for disaffected voters from other parties. This could be an honest position for true\u00a0LibDems, if unpreferable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On May 5th the local elections were contested in 19\u00a0out of a total of 57 council seats in Preston.\u00a0 Of these 4 changed hands giving Labour a narrow gain with an overall majority of 1 councillor. The full\u00a0council now comprises:\u00a0Labour 29\u00a0 (+4), Conservative 21 (-1), Liberal Democrats 6 (-1), Others \u00a01 (-2). The seats were … Continue reading “Preston Council May 2011 Labour Gain Control”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPtnz-mF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeinpreston.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}