Just realised I never actually linked to the results… here they are…
http://www.salford.gov.uk/results
I’ll post a percentage breakdown when I get around to it!
Archive for May 2nd, 2008
I’m going to make another post about the overall vote shares across the City – they are truly astonishing. Remember this is Salford City Council – a supposedly rock-solid Labour Council that only 10 years ago was electing 57 Labour Councillors out of a total of 60 and no Conservatives at all.
Conservative 17472 (34.00%)
Labour 17899 (34.83%)
Liberal Democrat 10949 (21.31%)
We hear a lot of guff from Labour and the Liberal Democrats about Conservative performance in inner-city authorities. Well, here is a genuine northern City authority and the Conservative and Labour vote shares are separated by 0.83%. I wonder what Hazel has to say about that…
It’s been a fantastic night for the Conservatives in Salford. We have three new Councillors – in Walkden South, Eccles and Cadishead wards – and our vote share is up all across the City.
Labour have lost 6 seats, 3 to us, 2 to the Liberal Democrats and 1 to Community Action – the latter in Irlam where GMPTA Chairman Roger Jones collapsed into third place. They have failed to win a majority of seats contested and they have lost their moral mandate to run Salford City Council.
Even more startling are the vote shares across the City:
Con 17472 (34.00%)
Lab 17899 (34.83%)
LD 10949 (21.31%)
Across the whole of the City of Salford, a Labour heartland Council which has had a Labour majority since it was created, the Labour lead over the opposition Conservatives was a mere 427 votes – 0.83%. It is a disastrous result for Labour. In the wards making up the new Worsley & Eccles South Parliamentary constituency, Conservatives lead Labour by a whopping 12%.
More tomorrow!
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