Lib Dems Perform Strongly in Elections
June 10, 2009 4:54 PM
The Liberal Democrats continue to make great advances
Liberal Democrats advanced strongly in last Thursday's elections.
Achievements included:-
Local elections
- Achieved a record high vote share of 28 per cent (BBC projected national vote share)
- Beat Labour into third place
- Were the only one of the three main parties to increase our projected share from last year's local elections
- Won almost three times as many council seats as Labour (484 Liberal Democrat councillors to Labour's 178)
- Added Bristol to the list of major cities run by Liberal Democrats that also includes Cardiff, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and Edinburgh
- Won five of the six county seats in Burnley from Labour (the BNP won the sixth)
- Became the largest group on the new unitary Bedford Council
- Took three seats from the Conservatives and one from Labour on Essex County Council
- Increased our number of seats on Surrey County Council with both the Conservatives and Labour seeing their number of seats fall
- Made net gains on many other county councils including Cumbria, Dorset, East Sussex, Hertfordshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Sussex and Worcestershire
- Defeated the Conservative group leader on Cumbria County Council and the Labour council leader on Nottinghamshire County Council
European Elections
- Gained an extra MEP (and more or less maintained our vote share)
- Elected Liberal Democrat MEPs in every part of England and Scotland, whilst narrowly failing to win a seat in Wales
- Elected Catherine Bearder (South East) and George Lyon (Scotland) to the European Parliament for the first time
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