The councils prone to by-elections
What factors influence the frequency of by-elections, and are some councils more prone than others to having to fill casual vacancies?
What factors influence the frequency of by-elections, and are some councils more prone than others to having to fill casual vacancies?
We will never know, of course, but the Conservatives could have been celebrating their best local election results for nearly three decades.
We begin with two questions. First, considering council by-elections since 1983, which year has seen the largest proportion of seats changing hands – in other words, the greatest electoral volatility? …
Labour’s newly elected Councillor Gurdev Singh Hayre will probably be the last to succeed in a council by-election for quite some time.