By-Election Watch (13/09/11)

Here are this week's changes to the by-election page:

Council	Type	Ward	Defending Party	Reason	Date
Barnsley	Metro.	St Helen's	Labour	Resigned	13th Oct
Gravesham	District	Meopham North	Conservative	Resigned	13th Oct
Lincolnshire	County	Sleaford West & Leasingham	Conservative	Death	13th Oct
South Ribble	District	Bamber Bridge East	Labour	Death	13th Oct
Cheshire West & Chester	Unitary	Ellesmere Port Town	Labour	Death	20th Oct
Mole Valley	District	Bookham South	Lib Dem	Death	20th Oct
Forest of Dean	District	Cinderford West	Labour	Death	TBA
Ipswich	District	St Margaret's	Conservative	Resigned	TBA
Highlands	Scotland	Inverness South	Labour	Resigned	TBA
Newport	Wales	Alway	Labour	Death	TBA
Walsall	Metro.	Bloxwich East	Conservative	Death	TBA

Yet again there are plenty new vacancies across the country for us to cover. As it stands the by-elections in October are much better spread out than September with three or four taking place on each of the first three Thursdays. However, with 20 vacancies awaiting a date there is still time for the end of the month to get very busy!

To follow up from yesterday's post on the boundary changes, the official review has been uploaded onto the Boundary Commission's website. Also, The Guardian have produced a pretty map in impressive time which is extremely useful when trying to visualise the new seats. However, they have used a rather crude methodology for their notional results; they've assumed voting patterns were uniform across constituencies at the 2010 General Election. Anthony Wells at UK Polling Report has announced he will publish his projection later today, and they'll certainly be worth a look.

 

Tom Harris