Riverside (Bermondsey), Southwark By-Election - Tories Down 47%!
Wilberforce Fri Dec 14, 2007 at 12:47:19 PM GMT 
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The results of the Riverside By-Election are out. Whilst the Lib Dems held the seat. Labour increased its vote and the Tories were hammered.
The results were:
Anood Al-Samerai – Liberal Democrat – 1,114
Cormac Hollingsworth – Labour – 691
Rahoul Bhansali – Conservative – 260
Amanda Penfold – Green – 122
Fernando Grace – UKIP – 49
Ballot papers counted: 2248 (12 rejected). Turnout was 24.7 per cent.
(Yesterday's by-election was prompted by the resignation the Paul Baichoo (Liberal Democrat) who had got 988 votes in 2006.)
Looking at the results turnout was only slightly less than that of the 2006 Local Elections, which was 26.9% for the ward, so that’s encouraging.
Whilst the Lib Dems increased their vote, so did Labour and the Tories came off worst. Here are the highest polling candidates from 2006 in Riverside:
Hollingsworth Cormac - Labour - 652
Stanton Phillip - Lib Dem - 1080
De Burgh, Hugo William - Conservative – 488
This means that the Lib Dems only actually picked up 34 votes over their best in 2006…. Cormac the Labour candidate increased his vote by 39 votes over 2006… but the Tories were roundly beaten… dropping from a high of 488 in 2006 to just 260 yesterday!! A 47% plunge!!
Anood Al-Samerai – Liberal Democrat – 1,114
Cormac Hollingsworth – Labour – 691
Rahoul Bhansali – Conservative – 260
Amanda Penfold – Green – 122
Fernando Grace – UKIP – 49
Ballot papers counted: 2248 (12 rejected). Turnout was 24.7 per cent.
(Yesterday's by-election was prompted by the resignation the Paul Baichoo (Liberal Democrat) who had got 988 votes in 2006.)
Looking at the results turnout was only slightly less than that of the 2006 Local Elections, which was 26.9% for the ward, so that’s encouraging.
Whilst the Lib Dems increased their vote, so did Labour and the Tories came off worst. Here are the highest polling candidates from 2006 in Riverside:
Hollingsworth Cormac - Labour - 652
Stanton Phillip - Lib Dem - 1080
De Burgh, Hugo William - Conservative – 488
This means that the Lib Dems only actually picked up 34 votes over their best in 2006…. Cormac the Labour candidate increased his vote by 39 votes over 2006… but the Tories were roundly beaten… dropping from a high of 488 in 2006 to just 260 yesterday!! A 47% plunge!!
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