The newly elected group of 6 Liberal Democrat Councillors met for the first time this weekend in the wake of their election victory on May 3rd. The group, led by Eastfield Councillor Brian O'Flynn met to discuss how best to represent their wards, Eastfield, Falsgrave, Streonshalh and Ramshill on Scarborough Borough Council.
The Liberal Democrats in Scarborough and Whitby are celebrating their huge success in Thursday's Borough elections. The group have increased their number by 300% since the last election 4 years ago.
Newly re-elected West End Councillor Fraser Macpherson today slammed the Solidarity Party for its "irresponsible actions" in flyposting dozens of utilities boxes in the West End and across the City during the recent elections to advertise their election campaign, with absolutely no permission or authority to do so.
Well the elections are over in Eastleigh for another year and after last years results when the Liberal Democrats reached a high of 34 seats out of 44 it was looking difficult to better that this year. However after the votes were counted the result was amazing and humbling that the electorate of Eastleigh increased their backing for Liberal Democrat policies. There were 14 seats contested for the Borough Council the Liberal Democrat team managed to win 13 of them and only failed to win the normally safe Labour seat of Eastleigh South by 6 votes.
Stockton Liberal Democrats had a very successful election day. In Billingham North Ward we faced very heavy campaigning by both Labour and Conservatives, but took all three seats with very comfortable majorities.
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats increased their number of council seats to 16 as they won the Brickhill ward election from the Conservatives. Charles Royden won the seat by almost 600 votes from the nearest challenger, on a night when the Lib Dems also won all 6 seats they were defending.
