Full Results

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HERE is a full list of the voting in Hartlepool's election.

BURN VALLEY:

Alec Gough (Putting Hartlepool First) 165
*John Lauderdale (Independent) 586
Ray Pocklington (Local Conservatives) 222
Carolyn Stubbings (UKIP) 344
Ken Thompson (Labour) 344

DE BRUCE:

Jo Banks (Putting Hartlepool First) 268
Jean McKenna (Conservatives) 110
Michelle Plant (Lib Dem) 69
*Stephen Thomas (Labour) 584
Ronnie Whitlock (UKIP) 496

FENS AND ROSSMERE:

*Alan Clark (Labour) 711
Alison Lilley (Putting Hartlepool First) 611
Dennis Loynes (Conservative) 198
Dave Pascoe (UKIP) 688
Pat Rayner (Lib Dem) 91

FOGGY FURZE:

Phil Fenn (UKIP) 593
Lynn Gillam (Lib Dem) 110
Andrew Martin-Wells (Conservative) 208
Maaija Sinclair (Putting Hartlepool First) 197
*Kaylee Sirs (Labour) 677

HART:

Robert Addison (UKIP) 446
Sandra Belcher (Labour) 376
Keith Fisher (Independent) 435
Shane Moore (Conservative) 234
*David Riddle (Putting Hartlepool First) 534

HEADLAND AND HARBOUR:

Chris Broadbent (Conservative) 187
*Peter Jackson (Labour) 674
Steve Latimer (Putting Hartlepool First) 559
Jim Tighe (Lib Dem) 51

JESMOND:

Chris McKenna (Conservative) 154
Richard Pearson (Putting Hartlepool First) 403
Linda Shields (Labour) 449
*George Springer (UKIP) 451

MANOR HOUSE:

Peter Davis (UKIP) 645
*Marjorie James (Labour) 749
Mandy Loynes (Conservative) 102

RURAL WEST:

Martin Dunbar (Labour) 286
Kate Erskine (PHF) 169
*Brenda Loynes (Conservative) 918
Eric Wilson (UKIP) 633

SEATON:

*Tom Hind (UKIP) 562
Sue Little (Independent) 473
Graeme Measor (Putting Hartlepool First) 385
Shay Miah (Labour) 329
Jayne Wells (Conservative) 141

VICTORIA:

*Carl Richardson (Labour) 731

John Riddle (PHF) 517
Diana Wanduragala (Lib Dem) 63
Helen Wells (Conservative) 145

Turnout 27%

[TSteels]

Dear Labour Group,

In the middle of one of the most unpopular Tory administrations ever you as a group should be surging ahead, winning new votes, gaining more seats, growing your majority. Many of you may opt for complacency in light of holding at 19 seats last Thursday, but that would be a terrible mistake. An ever so slightly closer look at the figures shows a concerning trend.

Percentage swing is calculated by looking at what percentage of the vote a party got at one election and comparing to another. It is by far and away the most common and accurate method of seeing voter trends and attitudes. Below is the comparison between 2012 and 2014 in some key Labour strongholds:

De Bruce - 29% swing against Labour
Foggy Furze - 21% swing against Labour
Headland and Harbour - 9% swing against Labour
Jesmond - 37% swing against Labour
Manour House - 20% swing against Labour
Victoria - 7% swing against Labour

Now again I can well imagine the conversations being had and the spin of the SCABs, this was an unusual election, UKIP national issues etc, etc...

But you know better. If Labour locally were popular, if your leadership was doing a great job then scores of voters who have abandoned you would still be in the fold.

Consider:

Manor residents
The Local Plan
The cemetery pub
Slanderous public attacks on councillors
Banning public questions
£150k consultants
Unfettered development, including the SW extension, which you can't stop.

To name but a few...and you know that your political opponents have a lot more lined up.

Think about the last council meeting and the silly planted question about the peer review. No-one was going to raise it until your leader came up with a 'clever plan' and the next day there was another negative headline in the Mail. Is this the political savvy you want from the dear leader?

Some people, who you consider your enemy, actually still care about Labour in Hartlepool. It should not be someone's vanity project.

If you want to arrest the decline, if you want to get the swing going in the other direction then you need to summon up your courage and act.

Peter, Robbie, Chris - you guys know the truth better than anyone, you have a responsibility to act. Or Labour will start paying with their seats.

You can never now say you were not warned.

[steveL]

Interesting post but I think your thinking process centres too much around CAB. Yes his leadership has proven to be unusually inept but your faith in the old guard is unfounded and forms no basis for a 7th Cavalry style rescue.

Remember that the Manor Residents Epic began long before CAB appeared on the scene and for all both he and his equally inept partner have undoubtedly made things worse, both Robbie and Peter sat in the Cabinet while Ged Hall gave the £640,000 contract to Cranney and Wilcox and at a time when Chris Simmons was group leader for a while.

In the same mold, your three rescuers, in common with all other Labourites, still haven't said a word in support of those still awaiting their compensation payments or in criticism of their former colleague who we now know to be one of the most wicked and crooked individuals the town has ever produced.

No, I'm afraid Labour's problems are a lot more deep rooted than being merely the result of a spikey-haired, attention seeking, megalomaniac and a lot more serious than an appeal to three proven political eunuchs will resolve.