In Berkhamsted... East, West - Lib Dems Best!
10 Apr 2014
There have been two Berkhamsted Town Council By Elections recently - one last June in Berkhamsted East and one last week in Berkhamsted West. The first was won decisively by the Liberal Democrats and the second was won narrowly by the Conservatives.
Now both wards have almost the same number of electors, the turn-out was 25% both times and 5 candidates stood for the same parties on both occasions. This means that the two by elections are directly comparable and it makes perfect sense to add the votes for the parties in the two elections to get a measure of their support accross both the East and the West of the town.
And if we do that, then the results are very encouraging for the Liberal Democrats!
Across both wards the totalled results come out as follows:
Votes in Berkhamsted East in 2013 and Berkhamsted West in 2014
Liberal Democrat 826 36.4%
Conservatives 770 33.9%
UKIP 345 15.2%
Labour 186 8.2%
Green 143 6.3%
As we said, "East, West - Lib Dems Best!