By-Election Watch (21/06/2010)

Here are all the top tier by-elections I'm aware of.

Council	Type	Ward	Party	Reason	Date
Conwy	Wales	Mostyn	Labour	Death	24th June
Lambeth	London	Tulse Hill	Labour	Arrested	1st July
Shropshire	Unitary	Clee	Conservative	Misconduct	1st July
Barking & Dagenham	London	Goresbrook	Labour	Ineligible	8th July
Blaenau Gwent	Wales	Tredegar Central & West	Labour	Death	8th July
Brighton	Unitary	St. Peter's & North Laine	Green	MEP	8th July
Caerphilly	Wales	Blackwood	Independent	Personal	8th July
Darlington	Unitary	Cockerton West	Labour	MP	8th July
Redbridge	London	Chadwell	Labour	Ineligible	8th July
Gwynedd	Wales	Diffwys and Maenofferon	Llais Gwynedd	Arrested	15th July
Surrey	County	Worplesdon	Conservative	Death	15th July
Walsall	Metro.	Bloxwich West	Conservative	Death	15th July
Torbay	Unitary	St Mary's with Summercombe	Conservative	Death	22nd July
Bath & North East Somerset	Unitary	Radstock	Independent	Death	TBA
Camden	London	Frognal and Fitzjohns	Conservative	Death	TBA
Cumbria	County	Aspatria & Wharrels	Conservative	Death	TBA
Durham	County	Brandon	Labour	Death	TBA
Knowsley	Metro.	Park	Labour	Personal	TBA
Rhondda Cynon Taff	Wales	Cymmer	Labour	Death	TBA
Rotherham	Metro.	Sitwell	Conservative	Death	TBA
St Helens	Metro.	Billinge & Seneley Green	Labour	Death	TBA
Wolverhampton	Metro.	Bilston North	Conservative	Death	TBA

For the first time in a few weeks we have Principle Authority by-election. On Thursday, voters in the Mostyn ward of the Conwy County Council (North Wales) will head to their polling stations to elect a new councillor. This is due to the death of the sitting Labour Councillor Alun Barrett. The Council is currently controlled by an anti-Conservative rainbow coalition and, although the Tories have the most seats, the rest combined have a comfortable majority. Three candidates are contesting the election and the Conservatives appear to have the best chance of a gain. Two candidates were elected in the 2008 election of the whole council and although Barrett topped the poll the Conservatives gained the second seat. Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats both hold seats on the Conwy Council but they are not contesting this election.

Candidate	2008
Jobl Hold	36%
Garry Burchett	34.3%
Janet Jones	21%

*percentages are of the combined vote. PC fielded a candidate in 2008 but are not in this by-election.