Louise Bours MEP stands down from Congleton Town Council

Louise Bours MEP has stepped down from Congleton Town Council where she sat as a town councillor.

With so much of her time taken up combating the blatant lies spread by the Labour Party about UKIP wanting to privatise the NHS, it appears that she was unable to devote enough time to the town council and has stepped down.

Conservative Councillor in Congleton defects to UKIP

A Conservative councillor on Cheshire East Council has defected to UKIP.

Cllr Andy Barrett, who represents the Odd Rode ward in Congleton, is the second UKIP councillor on Cheshire East Council.

We brought you the news in May of UKIP's other Cheshire East councillor, Brian Sylvester, making a complaint about the Conservative leader of Cheshire East Council sending an email urging people not to vote UKIP during the restricted election period. Clearly that message was lost on Cllr Barrett who has instead ditched the Tories for UKIP.

UKIP wins Congleton by-election

UKIP's Louise van de Bours last night comfortably won a Congleton by-election.

The results of the election were:

Party	Vote
UKIP	769
Con	587
Ind	263
Ind	125

Cllr van de Bours contested a by-election in Congleton last year and came third, just 90 votes behind the winning Tory and 9 behind the second placed Labour candidate.  Perseverance and hard work has clearly paid off.

Congleton Town Council Result

UKIP's Louise van de Bours secured 27% of the vote in yesterday's Congleton Town Council by-election, missing the win by just 90 votes.

The turnout was a very low 19.23% and the Tories managed to scrape a victory with 614 votes, followed by Labour with 533 votes and UKIP in third with 524 votes.  Some minority party who I vaguely remember having been successful at some point last decade called the Lib Dems came last with 340 votes.

This was the first time UKIP have contested an election in Congleton so this was a great result.  If the Tories hadn't put up a vote-splitting candidate, Louise van de Bours would have beaten Labour.