Excellent results from Friday's count of voting in the Warwickshire County Council election. Our best hope was to win four seats from Labour and we did exactly that. We fully expected to win in Admirals Ward where Peter Butlin has been a Borough Councillor for five years and is well-known. We knew that there was a good chance in Lawford & New Bilton where we lost a by-election a year ago by just one vote and since then Claire Watson has continued to work hard. We thought that it might be more difficult to win in Brownsover, but a combination of the work that Carolyn Robbins has been doing there over many years, the effort during the election campaign by her and Helen Walton and the move against Labour were enough to secure a victory for both of our candidates here. All four new councillors will make an impact in Warwick. In other wards we increased majorities, taking 42% of the total vote. The Lib Dems on 21% took a larger proportion than Labour. I think it is safe to say we are looking forward to the General Election whenever it may be!Sunday, 7 June 2009
Election results
Excellent results from Friday's count of voting in the Warwickshire County Council election. Our best hope was to win four seats from Labour and we did exactly that. We fully expected to win in Admirals Ward where Peter Butlin has been a Borough Councillor for five years and is well-known. We knew that there was a good chance in Lawford & New Bilton where we lost a by-election a year ago by just one vote and since then Claire Watson has continued to work hard. We thought that it might be more difficult to win in Brownsover, but a combination of the work that Carolyn Robbins has been doing there over many years, the effort during the election campaign by her and Helen Walton and the move against Labour were enough to secure a victory for both of our candidates here. All four new councillors will make an impact in Warwick. In other wards we increased majorities, taking 42% of the total vote. The Lib Dems on 21% took a larger proportion than Labour. I think it is safe to say we are looking forward to the General Election whenever it may be!
