Super Thursday: English Council Elections Analysis 1

Okay, so this time, I am focusing only on the English Council Election, and anlysing the results so far, now that we have roughly about 1/3rd of the results in.

In England, it has been a good night for the Tories. Not spectacular, but good. They have lost Salisbury, Thurrock, Eastbourne and West Somerset, but gained East Cambridgeshire, Lincoln, North Somerset, North West Leicestershire, South Ribble, Dover, Oswestry, Torbay, Gravesham, Woking, Plymouth, North Warwickshire and Chester. A lot of these gains were the result of gaining no more than 2 seats, so they can't be called spectacular, but it is a solidly upward performance.

The Liberal Democrats have managed to gain Eastbourne, Rochdale and Kingston-upon-Hull, but have also lost Torbay and St Albans. A solid performance, but not much more really than holding your own.

Labour have been on the wrong end electorally in England tonight. They haven't gained a single council and have lost Lincoln, North West Leicestershire, Blackburn with Darwen, Gravesham, Oldham and Plymouth, and 4 of those councils went straight into Tory control! Not the disaster they were expecting, but not a nice result.