UKIP hold Chatteris division on Cambridgeshire County Council

UKIP have held the Chatteris division on Cambridgeshire County Council in a by-election yesterday.

The seat became vacant after the incumbent Cllr Sandra Rylance sadly passed away from a brain tumour in August. Cllr Rylance was described by her colleagues as a tremendous lady, loyal, honest and trustworthy who will be sorely missed.

Richard Mandley has managed to hold on to the seat for UKIP with a slim majority but a 6.2% increase in votes.

Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Richard Mandley	UKIP	600	40.98
Alan Melton	Conservatives	590	40.30
John Freeman	Lib Dems	274	18.72

Two wins for UKIP while Elvis beats the Lib Dems

More popular than the Lib Dems

UKIP won two council seats from the Conservatives in Haverhill yesterday:

St Edmundsbury Borough Council (Haverhill East)
Name	Party	Votes	%
Tony Brown	UKIP	529	54%
Pat Hanlon	Lab	240	24%
David Roach	Con	157	16%
Ken Rolph	LD	54	5%
UKIP gain from Con

Haverhill Town Council (Haverhill East)
Name	Party	Votes	%
Paul Firman	UKIP	630	64%
Ken Rolph	LD	107	11%
Liz Smith	Lab	229	23%
UKIP gain from Con

The best result of the day. though, was in the Clifton North by-election in Nottingham where the Lib Dems were relegated to last place by the Bus Pass Elvis Party.

Nottingham City Council (Clifton North)
Name	Party	Votes	%
Patricia Ferguson	Lab	1,179	41%
Andrew Rule	Con	1,025	36%
Kevin Clarke	UKIP	536	19%
David "Lord Biro" Bishop	Bus Pass Elvis	67	2%
Tony Marshall	LD	56	2%

EARLY RESULTS

Dave Nixon, the Chairman of the Newcastle Under Lyme UKIP branch has reported a UKIP win in the Metropolitan Council election in the Woolstanton Ward.

The results were:

UKIP 475, Conservative 345, Labour 393, Lib Dem 285. UKIP win.

In the same area in the Seabridge Ward UKIP came second. The results were:

Conservative 602, UKIP 352, Labour 310, Lib Dem 302.

At the verification for the Euro elections in Walsall town hall it was showing a higher than normal turnout for the European elections with most wards showing around, or over, 40% turnout. The St Martins church hall polling station in the Park Farm Pheasey Ward there was a 60% turnout.

Mike Nattrass has said the signs look good in Erdington and Nikki Sinclaire also reported a high turnout in Solihull. Although the ballot papers for the European elections have been counted face down for the verification of the votes before the main vote on Sunday, from those ballot papers that have been glimpsed the signs are looking good for UKIP.