West Midlands Election Results

Unsurprising really Labour losses and Conservative gains, what was a shock was the degree. Conservatives gained 13 seats with Labour losing 14. So for our County Council the Conservatives remain in control with 42 out of 57 seats.

So now they're in control, sorry still in control I expect to see the Stourport Relief Road coming up in the agenda shortly as promised hahahahhahah!

Average turnout was about 37%, with Conservatives polling an average of 42%. So they're in control with the consent of about 18% of the entire electorate, can't beat democracy can you?

The two seats for Stourport were resoundingly taken by the ICHC with 2396 (21%), 2231 (20%) votes versus the two closest runners-up at 1894 (17%) and 1764 (16%). As someone mentioned I'm also betting that nice new estate on Millfields had a lot to do with that.

A wake-up call occurred in Withall, and St George's and St Oswald's where Labour didn't poll as many votes as the BNP. Nor did they poll as many as the Green Party in Harvington, Claines Bowbrook, Riverside, St Peter's, Warndon, or Redditch South - Ouch. Yep because not voting for your local Labour party member has sent a message to the national party oh yes indeedy [sigh].

A Sky reporter was interviewing national party figures about the results and as they kept on about a result for their party and sending a message and how it's their policies my father kept injecting that the national policies of any of the parties bare only a scant resemblence to the local ones; or as he put it more bluntly "It's got bugger all to do with national politics" well as least it shouldn't have.

Full results from the Shuttle are here.

The European result was a little more balanced with both Conservative and Labour losing a seat appiece to UKIP and Lib-Dem this means a tie of two between Cons and UKIP and a tie of one between Lab and Lib-Dem, but as if that makes a jot of difference.