The minority LibDem leadership in Bristol City Council has been converted into a LibDem majority after yesterday’s local elections. The Green’s targeting of Ashley ward wasn’t enough to unseat sitting LibDem Dr Jolly Jon Rogers, despite Shirley Not’s CoconutGate race shenanigans threatening to complicate matters.
I’ve been busy on other matters lately, so here’s some handy links to other Bristol bloggers on the elections:
- Bristol Blogger – ‘Vote 2009‘ & ‘Election 2009‘ posts (tag & title properly, dammit!)
- Green Bristol Blog – Chris Hutt endorses Jon Rogers
- James Barlow – unsuccessful Tory candidate displays his virtute & industria with MS Paint on an election map
- Trym Tales – Al Shaw’s poll predictions from Thursday
As a postscript, he’s the sum of all the politicking I’ve been subjected to in the trenches of St Paul’s…
Election campaign results from the BunKRS
Leaflets-through-the-door count (alphabetical):
- BNP (Euro) 1
- Green (BCC) 1
- Labour (Euro) 2
- No2EU (Euro) 1
- UKIP (Euro) 1
Leaflets-seen-in-windows etc count (alphabetical):
- All parties (BCC) 0
- All parties (Euro) 0
Canvassers for BCC elections:
- 0
Conversations about BCC elections with local neighbours:
- 0
Conversations about BCC elections with others in Bristol:
- 1
This is all down my ends of Ashley ward. Seeing as we were supposed to be some kind of battleground, I was surprised there was no doorstep business from Greens or LibDems, and only one leaflet from either! The nearest to any kind of canvassing was a Green who buzzed my flat asking to be let in to the block on a Sunday to deliver leaflets, but they didn’t knock on the door to talk or anything.