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Election 2010: Tories in control after national and city council elections
Friday, 2pm: Blue is the colour for Peterborough after the Conservatives lost control of two seats but maintained their domination of Peterborough City Council.
The party snatched a win in Orton Waterville ward and lost Central and Walton, reducing their overall number of seats by one to 40 after 19 seats were decided today.
Labour were victorious over the Conservatives in the vigorously fought Central ward, bringing their total number on the council to three seats.
Meanwhile, the Independents held steady and the Liberal Democrats lost one seat but toasted a win in Walton ward.
More details later.
General election results
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In the early hours of Friday, Conservative Stewart Jackson increased his majority in Peterborough, polling 18,133 votes to beat Labour’s Ed Murphy.
Mr Murphy came in with 13,272 votes with Liberal Democrat Nick Sandford in third with 8,816.
In North West Cambridgeshire, Conservative Shailesh Vara boosted his majority by 6,000 votes, polling 29,425.
The Liberal Democrats, through Kevin Wilkins, leap-frogged Labour’s Chris York to clinch second spot with 12,748 votes.
Meanwhile, Conservative Louise Bagshawe snatched Labour’s Corby seat, which had been held by Phil Hope since 1997.
There was also victories for the Conservatives in South Holland & The Deepings, Grantham & Stamford, North East Cambridgeshire, and Rutland & Melton.
In a later result, Jonathan Djanogly held Huntingdon for the Conservatives with a 10,819 majority, with Liberal Democrat Martin Land coming second.
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gonzales
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 03:54 PMCameron will be Prime Minister by Monday at the latest but will it save us? I doubt it, hung parliaments have never worked well before in the U.K. Brown is a disgrace and should have resigned - the electorate have informed him that his party is not wanted.He lost by 2 million votes and, if the benefit scroungers had not cast their votes for him he would have lost by a lot more.
Genghis Khant
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 09:54 AMhow can a LIB-LAB would have to rely on help from a even smaller party because the number of seats both got doesnt reach 326
Genghis Khant
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 08:58 AMsurely whatever happens BROWN has got to resign ,he was never elected in the first place then loses a general election by 2 million votes to conservatives , how is it fair that a party that finishes 3rd with paltry 50 + seats decides who is going to be pm .
J J Carter
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 08:47 PMThere are outrageous distortions in the electoral system. 1) That Labour need far fewer votes per MP on average than the Tories due to the way boundaries are drawn in cities 2) That Scotland can return 41 Labour MPs to Westminster, who can vote on legislation that only affects England. The fact is, Labour have used their 13 years to gerry-mander the system in their favour.
Trigger
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 07:37 PMThe truth is our current style of democracy is dead MP's of all parties showed what they are really after with the expenses scandal, most MP's are not really moral upstanding people they just want to fill their boots with our cash.
Trigger
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 07:29 PMI am not so much disappointed nationally as whoever is in power it will be poorest people in society that end up with the biggest tax burden as a percentage of their income, however I am very surprised at the local election result I do not see this as an endorsement of the current conservative led council, it is more a dissatisfaction with the quality of the non conservative candidates.
mesotrons
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 07:19 PMSo this is a democratic society? Peterborough's MP had 59.6% vote against him, and only 40.4% for him, and yet he represents 100% of the population, doesn't sound very democratic to me!
mesotrons
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 07:19 PMSo this is a democratic society? Peterborough's MP had 59.6% vote against him, and only 40.4% for him, and yet he represents 100% of the population, doesn't sound very democratic to me!
cwp35
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 05:41 PMI know we vote for parties, but in the end we elect a parliament to govern the country. In this case there is no overall control for a single party, a good thing at this point in time to my mind. Now they will be forced to look at the electoral system...it's not fair...full stop - a quarter of the vote gives a party one tenth of the seats!! ridiculous. PR would also never allow totally distorting landslides. If politicians can't work together for the benefit of the country do we really want them ? My hope now is that the Lib Dem's stick to their demand that we, the electorate have the opportunity to vote in a referendum on a new voting system.
Dalek Sec
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 05:33 PMAs someone who voted Lib Dem I will be very annoyed if they do a deal with the Tories - this is wrong and should not happen under any circumstances. Cameron was harping on about how the country had chosen him earlier - fine, let the Tories lead a minority government and the other parties do what they've got to do in opposing legislation they don't like etc.
Bamboozler
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 05:15 PMBoroReader: Even if the Tories do mess up, we have a two party system, they will be the opposition at the least. Labour back in, they mess up, Tory back in, they mess up, Labour back in, they mess up. Do you get the picture now. Proportinal Reprentation means alliances and deals like we are having now, so lets see how this goes.
Trigger
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 05:14 PMpborolad I must agree the electoral boundries are very very strange I live on the northern side of Peterborough have worked and shopped in Peterborough, any major services come from Peterborough, I pay Council Tax to Peterborough City Council but my MP is one for NorthWest Cambridgeshire even though Peterborough is just a few miles away. Peterborough has influence on the services I receive yet I cannot vote for the Peterborough MP.
BoroReader
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 04:57 PMWhat an excelnt result..... Back to the pole in a years time ..... Just long enough to let the Tories remind us what a cheeting chiseling bunch of hipocrits they are. Hang in there Gordon, judging by there general performance in the past the Tories will be history in this country.
Mark Zuckerberg
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 04:06 PMWhere are the council results? Getting bored of waiting!
Dalek Sec
Friday, May 7, 2010 at 03:29 PMSurely the most democratic solution would be for the two largest parties to form an alliance?
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