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Socialist Party/CWI Local Election Results in England

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Friday May 05, 2006 23:54

by SP Member - Socialist Party/CWI

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The Scoialist Party of England and Wales stood 19 candidates in the local elections in England on May 4th. The results are as follows:

The Socialist Party won an extra seat (Rob Windsor) in Coventry (now 3) with 40% vote in St. Michaels ward. Over the rest of Coventry the SP polled between 8% -16%. SP third largest party on Coventry Council ahead of Libs.

Outgoing SP Councillor Paul Sutton lost his seat in Stoke, where the BNP took the seat in a three way fight between BNP, Labour and SP.

SP retained its two seats in Lewisham (Ian Page and Chris Flood) and narrowly missed a third by a handful of votes.

SP member Dr. June Grunsell romped home in Huddersfield with 35% against 20% for both Libs and Lab. The SP stood as part of the Save Huddersfield NHS Campaign.

In other areas the SP generally polled between 6%- 10%.

Given the difficulties presented by the first past the post system in the UK, with the exception of Stoke, all in all a very satisfactory result for a small party like the Socialist Party.

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Comments (5 of 5)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	votes	hs	Fri May 05, 2006 23:59
2	News	Mark P	Sat May 06, 2006 00:13
3	Split vote allows BNP to gain	Oisín	Sun May 07, 2006 00:37
4	Read an interesting discussion	John Meehan	Sun May 07, 2006 00:43
5	The SP candidate was the sitting councillor...	SP Member	Sun May 07, 2006 14:07

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