28 July: Lib Dems increase vote share and take a seat from Tories

It was another good night for the Liberal Democrats, who increased their vote share across the four council seats contested, strengthening their hold on two seats and taking one from the Tories in Cornwall.


The Lib Dems took the Cornish council seat of Newlyn & Goonhaven by 13 votes.  They hadn't even contested the seat at the local elections and their victory here occurred alongside a collapse in the Conservative vote as well as that of the Cornish Mebyon Kernow party. 


They also held on to Carshalton Central, seeing off a challenge from the Conservatives, whose vote increased at the expense of UKIP, whose post-Brexit downward trend continued. 


Although Labour hung on to a seat in Haringey, once again demonstrating their current strength in the capital, it was another bad night.  The party lost more than 20% of their vote share in Newport St Julians as the widow of Ed Townsend, whose death brought about the by-election, turned a one-vote majority last time out into a landslide this time, the Liberal Democrats securing more than 50% of the vote.


28 July results:

Cornwall	Newlyn & Goonhaven		Lib Dem Gain
PARTY	VOTE	PCT.	CHG.
Liberal Democrat	247	24.4	24.4
Conservative	234	23.1	-23
Ind (Yeo)	163	16.1	16.1
Mebyon Kernow	161	15.9	-28.1
Labour	77	7.6	-2.2
Ind (Tucker)	75	7.4	7.4
Ind (Thomas)	54	5.3	5.3
Haringey	Harringay		Lab Hold
PARTY	VOTE	PCT.	CHG.
Labour	1,054	46.2	3.7
Liberal Democrat	765	33.6	3.7
Green	325	14.3	-2.3
Conservative	99	4.3	-1.2
UKIP	36	1.6	1.6
Newport	St Julians		Lib Dem Hold
PARTY	VOTE	PCT.	CHG.
Liberal Democrat	948	53.7	11.6
Labour	432	24.4	-20.3
UKIP	156	8.8	8.8
Conservative	135	7.6	-5.5
Plaid Cymru	71	4	4
Green	25	1.4	1.4
Sutton	Carshalton Central		Lib Dem Hold
PARTY	VOTE	PCT.	CHG.
Liberal Democrat	1,250	43.4	5.1
Conservative	1,061	36.9	11.6
Green	211	7.3	-0.3
Labour	176	6.1	-3.1
UKIP	150	5.2	-10.5
Christian Peoples Alliance	29	1	-1.1