UKIP Telford & Wrekin Chairman, Denis Allen, has won tonight's by-election for the Dothill ward of Wellington Town Council.
Denis secured a whopping 46.25% of the vote, not just beating the Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem candidates but taking more than double the votes of the second placed Labour candidate.
The results were:
Name | Party | Votes | % |
Denis Allen | UKIP | 303 | 46.25% |
Margaret Malcolm | Labour | 151 | 23% |
Ed Bird | Conservative | 108 | 16.5% |
David Holloway | Lib Dem | 90 | 13.75% |