By-Election Watch (11/07/11)

Here are this week's changes to the by-election page:

Council	Type	Ward	Defending Party	Reason	Date
Somerset	County	South Petherton	Conservative	Resigned	4th Aug
Islington	London	St Peter's	Labour	Resigned	11th Aug
North Devon	District	Fremington	Independent	Health	11th Aug
Windsor & Maidenhead	Unitary	Eton & Castle	Conservative	Resigned	11th Aug
Birmingham	Metro.	Sparkbrook	Respect	Health	TBA
Gwynedd	Wales	Diffwys & Maenofferen	Llais Gwynedd	Resigned	TBA

We have a few more by-elections called for August now with the 11^th beginning to look like a busy night. In addition, the two new vacancies are in interesting wards. The Sparkbrook by-election in Birmingham is to be held following the resignation of Respect's leader Salma Yaqoob for health reasons and we've already been to Diffwys & Maenofferen since the 2010 General Election.

I may not be around on Thursday evening but fear not; a preview of the Old Catton by-election in Norfolk will be up on Wednesday and I'm going to set up a LiveBlog anyway due to popular demand. You just might have to find the result yourselves! (That is, if they are even counting on the night…)