Respect Council Election Results – Summary

Respect contested nine council areas, 42 local government wards with 85 candidates on 6th May. The total Respect vote was 34,839, average vote of 12.5%. The Respect results by summaries Council are below: Council Candidates Wards Total Votes Avge Vote Tower Hamlets 50 17 16,236 15.0% Newham 12 4 3,448 12.1% Manchester 6 6 1,664…

Liam

May 9, 2010

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Respect contested nine council areas, 42 local government wards with 85 candidates on 6^th May.

The total Respect vote was 34,839, average vote of 12.5%.

The Respect results by summaries Council are below:

Council	Candidates	Wards	Total Votes	Avge Vote
Tower Hamlets	50	17	16,236	15.0%
Newham	12	4	3,448	12.1%
Manchester	6	6	1,664	4.9%
Birmingham	4	4	10,646	21.8%
Oldham	4	4	387	2.0%
Redbridge	3	1	437	7.4%
Bradford	3	3	772	3.7%
Rochdale	2	2	1,152	11.9%
Salford	1	1	97	2.2%
Total	85	42	34,839	12.5%

In 20 of the 42 wards contested, Respect scored more than 10%; in 30 wards Respect scored more than 5%. 19 of the wards will be fought again in May 2011 and in three of these Respect scored over 20% (Birmingham and Rochdale), while eight of the wards Respect won more than 5% in will be up for election in May 2011 (Birmingham x 4, Rochdale, Manchester x 3).

The full list of ward results are as follows:

Council	Ward	Vote		%		Position	Cand idates	Seats Won
Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green North	795	*	12.2%	~	3rd	3
Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green South	1,166	*	23.8%	~	2nd	3
Tower Hamlets	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	799	*	11.3%	~	4th	3
Tower Hamlets	Bow East	506	*	6.5%	~	5th	3
Tower Hamlets	Bow West	574	*	9.2%	~	5th	2
Tower Hamlets	Bromley-by-Bow	1,100	*	16.5%	~	2nd	3
Tower Hamlets	East India & Lansbury	835	*	13.8%	~	3rd	3
Tower Hamlets	Limehouse	1,500	*	23.7%	~	3rd	3
Tower Hamlets	Mile End & Globetown	558	*	9.4%	~	4th	3
Tower Hamlets	Mile End East	967	*	18.2%	~	3rd	3
Tower Hamlets	Millwall	668	*	7.2%	~	4th	3
Tower Hamlets	Shadwell	1,628	*	26.4%	~	2nd	3	1
Tower Hamlets	Spitalfields & Banglatown	1,068	*	16.4%	~	2nd	3
Tower Hamlets	St Dunstan’s & Stepney Green	1,458	*	20.3%	~	2nd	3
Tower Hamlets	St Katharine’s & Wapping	491	*	10.7%	~	4th	3
Tower Hamlets	Weavers	1,009	*	17.3%	~	3rd	3
Tower Hamlets	Whitechapel	1,114	*	18.2%	~	3rd	3
Newham	Green Street East	728	*	12.7%	~	2nd	3
Newham	Green Street West	1,362	*	24.4%	~	2nd	3
Newham	Little Ilford	785	*	6.7%	~	3rd	3
Newham	Plaistow North	573	*	10.5%	~	3rd	3
Redbridge	Mayfield	437	*	7.4%	~	4th	3
Birmingham	Hall Green	1,136		8.9%		4th	1
Birmingham	Moseley & Kings Heath	1,420		11.3%		4th	1
Birmingham	Sparkbrook	5,119		45.1%		1st	1	1
Birmingham	Springfield	2,971		24.6%		3rd	1
Manchester	Cheetham	607		9.5%		4th	1
Manchester	Crumpsall	321		5.9%		5th	1
Manchester	Gorton South	270		4.5%		4th	1
Manchester	Higher Blackley	111		2.1%		5th	1
Manchester	Longsight	282		5.2%		4th	1
Manchester	Rusholme	73		1.4%		6th	1
Salford	Kersal	97		2.2%		6th	1
Oldham	Chadderton Central	66		1.4%		4th	1
Oldham	Chadderton North	166		3.2%		4th	1
Oldham	Medlock Vale	94		2.1%		4th	1
Oldham	Royton South	61		1.2%		4th	1
Bradford	City	211		3.5%		4th	1
Bradford	Heaton	302		4.3%		5th	1
Bradford	Toller	259		3.4%		4th	1
Rochdale	Milnrow & Newhey	153		3.1%		4th	1
Rochdale	Milkstone & Deeplish	999		20.9%		3rd	1
	TOTAL	34,839		12.5%			85	2

* multi member ward, vote of highest placed candidate

~ multi member ward, percentage based on average vote for each party (votes divided by candidates)

The 20 wards in which Respect won more than 10% of the vote proportion, in order are as follows:

Council	Ward	Vote	%
Birmingham	Sparkbrook	5,119	45.1%
Tower Hamlets	Shadwell	1,628	26.4%
Birmingham	Springfield	2,971	24.6%
Newham	Green Street West	1,362	24.4%
Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green South	1,166	23.8%
Tower Hamlets	Limehouse	1,500	23.7%
Rochdale	Milkstone & Deeplish	999	20.9%
Tower Hamlets	St Dunstan’s & Stepney Green	1,458	20.3%
Tower Hamlets	Mile End East	967	18.2%
Tower Hamlets	Whitechapel	1,114	18.2%
Tower Hamlets	Weavers	1,009	17.3%
Tower Hamlets	Bromley-by-Bow	1,100	16.5%
Tower Hamlets	Spitalfields & Banglatown	1,068	16.4%
Tower Hamlets	East India & Lansbury	835	13.8%
Newham	Green Street East	728	12.7%
Tower Hamlets	Bethnal Green North	795	12.2%
Tower Hamlets	Blackwall & Cubitt Town	799	11.3%
Birmingham	Moseley & Kings Heath	1,420	11.3%
Tower Hamlets	St Katharine’s & Wapping	491	10.7%
Newham	Plaistow North	573	10.5%

13 responses to “Respect Council Election Results – Summary”

Derek Wall

May 9, 2010 at 8:41 pm

We were squeezed especially in London but net losses were only 4, with Green Left members winning council seats in Cambridge and Reigate.

http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2010/05/union-militants-fight-camerons-cuts.html is about a Respect member we should all be supporting.

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Phil

May 9, 2010 at 9:21 pm

How many council seats was Respect defending? How many has the party now got overall?

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MikeMP

May 9, 2010 at 10:06 pm

Phil, depends on how you count them. Respect won 12 seats in Tower Hamlets and 3 in Newham in 2006 but due to defections numbers have changed – there were 8 Respect councillors in TH and 1 in N before this election, though two were Labour defectors.

Respect held one seat in TH and the one it was defending in Birmingham.

As far as I can tell these were the only two left wing holds anywhere in the country – the SP lost all four seats they were defending (Coventry, Lewisham x2 and Kirklees), and the Socialist People’s Party in Barrow, the Community Action Party in Wigan and the Democratic Labour Party in Walsall all of whom still hold council seats failed to win any. The IWCA in Oxford which is not really left wing did not defend its seats but still has one councillor.

The Green Party lost a swathe of council seats last Thursday.

The SWP still have two councillors (Preston & Bolsover) from their period in Respect, but have not taken part in elections in either place for years so it must be unlikely they will be defended when they are up in 2011. The SP have one seat (Nellist) in Coventry, up for reelection in 2012.

Respect hold four council seats – 3 in Birmingham, 1 in Tower Hamlets – and will be defending one of the Birmingham ones in 2011, one in 2012 and the two won on Thursday in 2014.

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Phil

May 10, 2010 at 7:16 am

Respect held one seat in TH

Ugh – worse than I thought.

(Not sure I agree with you about the IWCA, but never mind.)

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MikeMP

May 10, 2010 at 1:04 pm

“worse than I thought”

Well it’s a very fine line between winning and losing seats under First Past The Post. If I remember rightly Respect’s average vote in 2006 was only just over 20% compared to 15% last thursday. However in Newham the Respect vote was actually a bit higher 23% I think, but they only won three seats our of 60 (all in one ward).

That’s why it’s important to compare vote share and not get too hung up on how many seats. Respect suffered a knocking on Thursday but it was a long way from a collapse.

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Chris C

May 10, 2010 at 1:52 pm

Respect contested 7 seats in Manchester. You’ve missed Whalley Range, which was contested for the first time. Mohammed Zulfikar received 166 votes.

The number crunching is very useful and does not lie. However, the gain in places such as Manchester was to register as a limited force for the first time in many wards and to build a good activist network with many new supporters in some. The soundings from these suggest the long term project remains firmly possible.

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martin ohr

May 10, 2010 at 1:52 pm

MikeMP,

Although there’s another way to look at it;

this time Labour simply put a massive effort into canvassing and turning out the vote.

However it’s no bigger effort than was routine when I was an active member 15 years ago (before our branch and consituency were suspended).

It appears to me from seeing what has been happening in Leeds and Bradford that labour is recovering something of the layer of activists it used to have and that have been missing through defections, dissafection etc over the last few years.

So put another way- respect’s vote last week was the more accurate reflection compared to labour, and the past few years respect has been allowed to prosper thanks to laziness on the part of labour activists?

For working class parties there is no subsitute for the leg-work involved in speaking direct to voters.

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1. Liam
  
  May 10, 2010 at 2:59 pm
  
  “we ….sold a hundreds of papers and have a contact list many pages long.” and as projects go that’s identical to the rest of the far left. Individual recruitment and paper sales by groups numbering in the dozens or hundreds does nothing to address the vacuum of working class leadership in Britain. It may make group members feel that there is some point to their activity but it does nothing whatsover to begin creating structures which mobilise and engage significant numbers of people in working class commnities. In a modest and flawed way Respect’s campaign did that.
  
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bill j

May 10, 2010 at 4:23 pm

But in a way its all history. GG’s flown the nest. Salma Yaqoob will no doubt be looking or an alternative home – Labour or the Greens. The full time apparatus will need new jobs. The whole thing will collapse. If it hasn’t already done so.
So that was that. The aim to build a liberal alternative to Labour failed. So where now?

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RobM

May 10, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Bill, do keep up- your fellow crystal ball Marxist, Martin Ohr, is predicting Salma to join the Lib-Dems, not Labour or Greens.
I suggest you sit down together and thrash out what is really going to happen. Who knows, he might let you have a look at his contact sheet…

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bill j

May 10, 2010 at 6:13 pm

What’s crystal ball gazing got to do with it? She said she held out the option of joining New Labour herself. Where she would be a centre left MP aka John Cruddas.

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RobM

May 10, 2010 at 7:15 pm

Why would she also be known as John Cruddas? Surely that name is already taken…

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bill j

May 10, 2010 at 7:28 pm

Biting.

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