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English Local Elections 2011 The Local Elections Media Briefing Wednesday 18th April English Local Elections 2012 Colin Rallings & Michael Thrasher The Elections Centre University of Plymouth 2011 Outcome 1 Con Lab LD 2007 National Equiv Vote 40 26 24 2011 forecast 35 38 17 2011 National Equiv Vote 38 37 16 Change -2 +11 -8 Error in forecast 3 1 1 National equivalent vote 1979-2011 50 9045 8040 7035 6030 5025 4020 3015 2010 105 0 0 2011 Outcome 2 Con Lab LD 2011 seat forecast -1,000 +1,300 -400 2011 outcome +60 +850 -800 Error in forecast 1060 450 400 Change in share 2007-11 and party competition *Three-party contests in both 2007 and 2011. N = 2,130 Con Lab LD Con first; Lab second -5.2 9.4 -3.6 Con first; LD second -2.7 8.3 -7.6 Lab first; Con second -3.3 8.7 -4.6 Lab first; LD second 0.9 14.7 -14.9 LD first; Con second 1.0 9.7 -11.4 LD first; Lab second 0.1 17.5 -17.8 Seat change by region Con Lab LD North -70 +370 -250 Midlands -70 +330 -190 South +200 +180 -410 National equivalent vote 1997-2011 50 45 40 35 30 25 20 Con 43 15 Lab 24 10 LD 23 5 0 By-elections forecast 2012 37 (+13) 40 34 (-9) 30 18 (-5) 20 10 0 Con Lab LD Councils up in 2012 (England) Con Lab LD Other NOC Met Boroughs 3 24 - - 9 Unitaries 6 6 1 - 5 Districts 43 8 6 - 17 Total 52 38 7 - 31 Seats up in 2012 (England) Con Lab LD Other Met Boroughs 245 312 204 54 Unitaries 166 108 73 20 Districts 717 159 250 75 Total 1128 579 527 149 Contestation Year Con Lab LD England 2012 97.1% 95.5% 70.5% 2008 95.6% 89.1% 78.9% 2004 86.6% 91.3% 72.1% Wales 2012 46.7% 72.5% 28.0% 2008 40.5% 69.0% 34.4% 2004 27.6% 73.9% 33.6% Source: 2012 figures Conservative Party Six English councils to watch • Birmingham (NOC) • Stockport (NOC) • Plymouth (Con) • Southampton (Con) • Cambridge (LD) • Carlisle (NOC) Birmingham (NOC) • Labour need five gains to take overall control for the first time since 2002. • A 3% swing from the Lib Dems in wards such as Aston, Bordesley Green, and Springfield will suffice. • Labour gained all these and many more in 2011. Stockport (NOC) • The Lib Dems lost their overall majority for the first time since 2002 last year. • This is the only remaining metropolitan borough where they continue to run the council. • That status could be threatened by further losses now. Plymouth (Con) • Labour need four gains to take control directly from the Conservatives. • A swing of up to 5% since 2008 in Moor View, Southway, St Budeaux and St Peter wards will do the trick. • The party won all four last year. Southampton (Con) • Conservatives gained overall control in 2008. • They failed to win either of the city’s seats at the general election, and their council majority is now under threat too. • They are vulnerable to the loss of 3 seats to Labour on a swing of 3% since 2008 in the Bargate, Coxford, and Redbridge wards. Cambridge (LD) • A symbolically important council (and constituency) for the Lib Dems. • Labour won 3 of the wards the LDs are defending in last year’s contest; if a seat in any additional wards slips away then so does their overall majority. • There are no Conservative councillors in either Oxford nor Cambridge. Carlisle (NOC) • Finely balanced between Labour and the Conservatives. • Labour needs 3 gains for control with a 2% swing from both Conservatives and Lib Dems since 2008. • It comfortably won each of the key wards – Belle Vue, Morton, and Yewdale- last year. Benchmarking the outcomes Three 2-party battles: • Lab/Lib Dem –mainly in Mets. LD lost 150 seats there alone in 2011. • Lab/Con –the traditional contest. Con could lose up to 300 seats to Lab in England and nearly 100 in Wales • Con/Lib Dem. ‘Saved’ the Tories in 2011; potentially up to 100 Con gains this time too Seat change (England and Wales) Labour – 700 gains to justify poll/by-election lead BUT Scenario 1 – continuing tactical unwind favouring Tories in south. Con -250; LD -350 Scenario 2 – LD do better than last year in seats being defended. Con -350; LD -250 Mayoral referendums & voting 41 Mayoral referendums • First in May 1998; Salford on January 2012 • 15 Yes; 26 No • 21 conducted all-postal • 10 held synchronous with general/local elections (six No; 4 Yes) Referendum mandates • 15 Yes vote – Yes vote ranges 51-84% • 26 No vote – No vote ranges 53-77% or to put it another way… • Between 9-36% of electorate determined the outcome of the Yes decisions • Between 5-47% of electorate determined the outcome of the No decisions. Variability in mayoral referendum turnout 70 60 50 40 Turnout (%) 30 20 10 0 general local election postal voting in-person election voting Mayoral voting First Second Conservative 6 15 Labour 15 14 LD 5 6 Independent 14 5 English Dem 1 - Respect - 1 SV does not mean majority winner Winner's share 17% 22% Absolute maj Abs maj after 2nd count > 40% of first votes 15% 40% or less 46% Rank order of mayoral win share (% of first votes cast) % eligible second votes cast for first two Mean 38.2% Max 68.3% Min 16.4% Turnout & other elections Scotland – A Different Country? John Curtice Strathclyde University Key Differences and Changes • Proportional representation – STV in 3 & 4 member wards • Nearly all councils ‘hung’ • SNP still riding high – and Labour low? • 1st local elections since 1995 not to take place on same day as another election • Seats last fought 2007 Turnout at Recent Scottish Local Elections % valid vote 70 60 59.4 52.9 50 50.1 45.9 45.1 44.9 40 41.4 30 20 10 0 1990 1992 1994 1995 1999 2003 2007 Everyone gets to play! No. of Councils in Administration 14 13 12 12 12 11 11 10 8 6 4 2 0 Con Lab Lib Dem SNP Ind Local and Holyrood 2007 35 32.2 32.9 30 28.1 27.9 25 20 15.6 16.6 16.2 15 12.7 10.9 10 4.9 5 2.1 0 Con Lab LD SNP Ind Others Local Holyrood Split Ticket Voting % split ticket 35 30 29 25 26 25 20 15 10 5 0 1999 2003 2007 How Voters Used STV in 2007 70 60 60 57 50 41 40 30 22 20 10 0 1 preference 1 party Straight ticket Alphabetical The Transfer Pattern in 2007 1st Pref Con Lab LD SNP Ind/Other None Con (%) - 15 27 11 15 32 Lab (%) 5 - 22 15 10 46 LD (%) 6 19 - 23 19 31 SNP (%) 4 21 21 - 17 37 Recent Holyrood Vote Intentions 60 49 50 50 44 40 40 36 32 29 30 23 20 13 13 14 12 10 10 7 8 4 0 Con Lab LD SNP YouGov - Jan MORI Panelbase YouGov - Feb Implied Change since 2007 20 17 16 15 11 10 7 YouGov - Jan 5 4 MORI 0 0 Panelbase Con Lab LD SNP YouGov - Feb -3 -3 -5 -4 -4 -5 -6 -8 -10 -9 -9 -12 -15 The By-Election Record Mean change in % vote since 2007 15 12.1 10 5 3.8 1 0 Con Lab LD SNP -5 -10 -8.8 Ones to Watch? - 1 • SNP Might Gain – Dundee – Midlothian – Perth – Angus? • Lab at Risk – Glasgow – North Lanarks? Ones to Watch? – 2 • Lib Dem Woes? – Edinburgh – Aberdeenshire – Aberdeen – Fife • Erosion of Independents? – Highland • Plenty of post-polling day bargaining! The Local Election in Wales Richard Wyn Jones Wales Governance Centre Cardiff University [email protected] 07734 679 421 The Local Elections in Wales: Presentation • The 2008 results and subsequent developments • Wales 2012: The ‘British perspective’ • Wales 2012: The ‘Welsh perspective’ • The runners and riders • The ‘ones to watch’ and some predictions General: Local Government in Wales • Local elections in Wales still (so far?) ‘First Past the Post’ • Independents still very important in rural Wales (but for how long?) • 9 councils with over 60 councillors (cf. NAW) • Elections to be held in 21 out of the 22 Welsh unitary authorities • The exception is Ynys Môn/Anglesey where elections have been delayed for a year as the authority continues under ‘special measures’ • While Ynys Môn has specific problems, island’s plight illustrative of deep structural problems that bedevil Welsh local government deriving from botched reorganisation of the early 1990s (current boundaries in effect since 1996). • Unfortunately (for those of us who hail from the island), cross-party consensus across Welsh politics on two points: 1. present structure of Welsh local government is dysfunctional; 2. but reorganisation too expensive/politically difficult. Hence (predictably unsuccessful) attempts to encourage ‘cooperation’ The 2008 results • The 2008 elections awful for Labour (lost overall control of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Flintshire, Merthyr, Newport and Torfaen; disastrous night in Cardiff (3rd), etc. • Good for the Tories and WelshLDs; decent for Plaid (but NB Gwynedd) 2008 Result (net loss/gain) • Labour 342 (-124) • Plaid 205 (+41) • Conservatives 172 (+64) • LDs 162 (+20) • Independents/Others 373 (+11) Electoral Politics in Wales since 2008 The story since then may be summarised as follows: • Labour’s loss in the UK general election provided a big boost to the electoral fortunes of Welsh Labour • The Tories have been doing relatively well N.B.
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