Council By-Election Quarterly Review (July to September 2023)

The Lib Dems are having a remarkable year in council by-elections! This report rounds up our performance between July and September. Once again we were first in terms of net gains and share of the vote increases.  Overall 51 council seats were contested. We made 8 gains and successfully defended 5 wards - while only losing 1 ward during this period (to an independent candidate - we didn't suffer a single loss to another political party). This gave us a net result of 7 more Lib Dem councillors. This is comfortably the best performance of any party (the Conservatives, Labour and Nationalist parties all went backwards). Our gains came from the Conservatives (5), Labour (2) and 1 from the Vectis Party in the Isle of Wight.