Yellow flag keeps flying as the Lib Dems gain Cockington with Chelston

By PRSD, on Friday, June 24, 2011

There’s wind beneath those wings: the Lib Dems gain the Cockington with Chelston seat from the Tories

Who’da thought anyone would be voting for the Lib Dems at the moment? But news of the demise of the party which is putting the ‘us’ into u-turn (that’s Coalition government for you) is perhaps a little overstated as Lib Dem Mark Pounteny gains the Torbay council seat of Cockington with Chelston.

Mark managed to win over more than 1,000 burghers to win the seat from the Tories in a 14.35% swing away from them and to the Lib Dems.

Mark brings the number of Lib Dems on Torbay council to 10. There are 22 Tories, one independent, two on the independent group, one Labour and one UKIP councillor.

Here are the figures: LD 1048, Con 614, Lab 357, Ind 129, Ind 61, Grn 55.

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Graham Watson says:

‘It was not the victory in a supposedly safe Tory area that I was most surprised with but the level of the victory.

'An 18% swing is a colossal gain and the size of the losses by the Greens and Labour is encouraging as we look to plan ahead for more gains in the unitary and county elections over the next two years.

'I take my hat off to the team in Torbay who have worked really hard and have had to put up with the poor weather over recent weeks!’

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