A bumper crop of by-elections tonight with 10 contests from Carlisle to Cornwall. And already the Lib Dems have lost a seat with their failure to defend a vacancy in the Torrington ward of Torridge.
The Lib Dems are standing in six contests - Boston Fenside; Carlisle Yewdale; Cornwall Wadebridge East - where the independent councillor resigned over remarks about 'putting down disabled children' and had a majority of just four over the Lib Dems in May; Daventry Ravensthorpe; East Cambridgeshire Ely East and Northamptonshire Middleton Cheney.
In contrast the Conservatives are standing in every contest as are UKIP and Labour in nine out of ten.
The seats to look out for from a Lib Dem perspective are the previously mentioned hyper marginal Wadebridge and the constest in Ely East where the Tories have a majority of 57 over the Lib Dems.
UKIP will be confident of picking up the former English Democrat seat in Boston where they did very well in the counties. Labour should hold comfortably in Charnwood (where the Lib Dems are not standing) and in Carlisle. The Tories should pick up the rest - apart from Torrington where two independents, UKIP and the Greens make up the field and an independent already holds one of the seats.
The Lib Dems are standing in six contests - Boston Fenside; Carlisle Yewdale; Cornwall Wadebridge East - where the independent councillor resigned over remarks about 'putting down disabled children' and had a majority of just four over the Lib Dems in May; Daventry Ravensthorpe; East Cambridgeshire Ely East and Northamptonshire Middleton Cheney.
In contrast the Conservatives are standing in every contest as are UKIP and Labour in nine out of ten.
The seats to look out for from a Lib Dem perspective are the previously mentioned hyper marginal Wadebridge and the constest in Ely East where the Tories have a majority of 57 over the Lib Dems.
UKIP will be confident of picking up the former English Democrat seat in Boston where they did very well in the counties. Labour should hold comfortably in Charnwood (where the Lib Dems are not standing) and in Carlisle. The Tories should pick up the rest - apart from Torrington where two independents, UKIP and the Greens make up the field and an independent already holds one of the seats.
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