Election results

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BBC are saying final results are:

Lab 21. Ind 9. Con 3.

Details of the winning candidates in those final 3 wards to come.

[The Great Dictator]

Is that nationwide ?

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Is that nationwide ?

Hartlepool results. 21 Labour councillors out of 33.

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Rural West: Brenda Loynes, Ray Wells and George Morris. All Conservatives.

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Victoria: Carl Richardson, Chris Simmons and Pamela Hargreaves. All Labour.

Just Seaton to go.

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Seaton: Cath Hill, Paul Thompson and Mike Turner. All Independent.

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Final results. Labour 21, independents 5, Putting Hartlepool First 4, Conservatives 3, Lib Dems 0.

Difficult to compare to last time but Labour now have 64% of the councillors compared to 61% last time. Independents (including PHF) are up from 25% of councillors to 27%. Conservatives up from 8% of councillors to 9%. LD wiped out.

Will be very interesting to see the actual number of votes. I imagine PHF will be delighted with the Fens and Rossmere result but disappointed to get nothing on the Headland.

I'm off to bed.

[The Great Dictator]

So Keith Dawkins is the only new winner from PHF ?

[notinshadow]

What a night..lol..

My thanks to the kind lady that put me on her guest list..

[The Great Dictator]

Was it exciting ?

[steveL]

Thanks for keeping everyone up to date with the results Sunken - better than the BEEB 

[notinshadow]

No not that but i had a cracking night..lol..

Had a nice chat for a while with A.L. until G.L. came over to tell her not to speak to me, she protested to him and he said I was an a*r**o** and she shouldn't speak to me..Tell me something new Geoffrey..

A.L. answered the question over the hospital I have been asking for 2 years..all good in the hood..

And West Ham won what a night.

[notinshadow]

The normal Indylabs won Seaton.

What surprised me was Thompson got 800 plus whereas last time it was 12 or 13 hundred I think.

[Stig of the Seaton Dump]

Thompson talked the talk last time but hasn't walked the walk, so no surprise he lost votes.

Surprising he got that many votes but I guess as a resident of Seaton people chose him on that misguided factor.

[dangerman]

Now that the hype is over and the knives are put back in the kitchen drawer I would like to see if the newly formed council still follows the same old party line with the same old independents raising their hands for Labour proposals?

I spoke to an ardent Conservative supporter she informed me: We have three Independent Councillors elected at Seaton Carew..Have you really; Well wait and see just how independent they really are.

The Mayor will kiss and make up forgive & forget..then choose Hargreaves. Brash. Hall. Jackson. Payne. Simmons & Lauderdale. cabinet members.

Also with a big fat pay rise for the rest of those elected £1.000 / £3.000 each with the excuse I will now have to work harder because of the larger wards.

Wait and see if I'm right.