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[OS] UK: Blair's Labour Party Loses Seats in Local Elections
Released on 2012-10-19 08:00 GMT
|2007-05-04 13:43:35
Blair's Labour Party Loses Seats in Local Elections (Update3)
By Gonzalo Vina
May 4 (Bloomberg) -- Britain's ruling Labour Party lost seats in local and
regional elections, underlining the challenge Gordon Brown faces to regain
support as he takes over from Prime Minister Tony Blair.
With 144 of 312 English councils decided, Labour had lost five, David
Cameron's Conservative Party had gained 15 and the Liberal Democrats had
added one, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. The Scottish National
Party, which campaigns for independence from the U.K., gained five seats
from Labour in elections for the 129-seat Scottish Parliament. Labour also
lost seats to nationalists in the 60-member Welsh Assembly.
Blair said May 1 he will make a ``definitive'' statement on his political
future next week, coinciding with his 10th year in office. Yesterday's
vote, involving 39 million of the U.K.'s 45 million voters, was the
biggest test of public opinion since Labour won a third term at the May
2005 general election. A nationalist-led government in Scotland, where
Labour holds power, would open the way for a referendum on leaving the
``This is the fourth election where Labour has put in a poor
performance,'' said John Curtice, a professor of politics at Strathclyde
University in Glasgow. ``The party managed not to crash in England so the
inheritance for Brown is not quite as tarnished as it might have been, but
this is still a pretty abysmal result.''
Dwindling Popularity
The polls reflect the dwindling popularity of Blair, who defied public
opinion by supporting the war in Iraq while polls show voters are unhappy
with public services. Labour has suffered losses in every round of local
elections since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and had its majority in the
national Parliament halved to 67 two years ago.
Blair this week endorsed Brown, Britain's finance minister, as his
successor. A seven-week campaign to select a new leader means Brown, the
only member of the Cabinet to say he wants the job, may take over by early
He inherits a party at its lowest ebb in opinion polls in two decades, and
trailing a resurgent Conservative opposition. Polls show voters would
prefer a Cameron-led Conservative government to a Brown-led Labour
A projection by the BBC gives the Conservative Party 41 percent of the
vote in the local elections, Labour 27 percent and the Liberal Democrats
26 percent.
The last time the same seats were contested, in 2003, the Conservatives
had 38 percent of the vote and Labour 30 percent. Blair's party won 35.3
percent of the vote in the 2005 general election to 32.3 percent for the
Election Springboard
Blair said Labour had avoided the meltdown many predicted before the vote.
Robert Waller, co-author of ``The Almanac of British Politics'' had said
Labour could lose as many as 750 seats, with the Conservatives picking up
most of them.
``Everyone said we were going to get hammered, it was going to be a rout
and it's not turned out like that,'' Blair told reporters in London. ``You
always take a hit in the mid-term but these results provide a perfectly
good springboard to go on and win the next general election.'' The
election has to be held by June 2010 at the latest.
Waller said Labour's performance is probably good enough to guarantee ``no
serious challenge'' to Brown in his bid to take over.
In England, where about 10,500 council seats were contested, the
Conservatives had control of 70 authorities, Labour 19 and the Liberal
Democrats 11, according to the BBC. The Conservatives took 1,859 seats, a
gain of 370. Labour had 857 seats, down 181, while the Liberal Democrats
lost 131 to hold 740.
`Build for the Future'
``This is a great set of results,'' Cameron told BBC television. ``We can
really build for the future.''
Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell described his party's performance
as a ``mixed bag,'' saying the share of the vote for major parties was
``much where it was a year ago.''
Local elections in the U.K. are a poor predictor of national results. In
2000 and 2004, Labour suffered heavy defeats in local votes before going
on to win general elections the following year. Still, losing seats at the
local level erodes the base of activists parties use to campaign in
national elections.
``This is a mid-term election and it is usual, though not always certain,
that governments pull back some of the lead at general elections and
Labour has done this very successfully before,'' said Philip Cowley, a
professor of politics at the University of Nottingham. ``It strikes me
that the Conservatives need to do much better than this.''
The general election ``is almost too close to call,'' Ben Page, managing
director of polling organization Ipsos Mori, said in an interview. ``There
is still quite a lot to play for.''
Nationalist Gains
In the Scottish parliamentary election, the Scottish National Party made
gains in several key seats from Labour in a ballot marred by delays,
confusion and rejected ballots.
The election is crucial to Brown, himself a Scot, whose succession could
be overshadowed by an SNP win and any slide toward independence.
With 82 seats declared, the SNP had won 30 seats in the Scottish
Parliament against 32 for Labour and 12 for the Liberal Democrats, the
coalition partner of Labour since the parliament was established in 1999,
the BBC said. The Conservatives had seven.
At the last election, in May 2003, Labour won 50 seats to 27 for the SNP,
while the Liberal Democrats gained 17 seats and the Conservatives 18
seats. There were also seven Greens, six Scottish Socialist Party seats
and four independents.
``There's a wind of change blowing through Scottish politics,'' SNP leader
Alex Salmond said after winning his seat in Gordon, northeast Scotland,
from the Liberal Democrats. ``For the first time in half a century there's
a serious challenge to the Labour Party's hegemony in Scotland.''
The U.K. Electoral Commission promised a ``full, independent review'' of
the Scottish elections after results were delayed by complications with a
new electronic counting system.
With 56 of 60 Welsh Assembly seats declared, Labour had 26, a loss of
three and short of the 30 needed for a majority. Nationalist party Plaid
Cymru had 13, a gain of three. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats
were unchanged on 11 and five.
-- With reporting by Alan Crawford and Peter Woodifield in Edinburgh and
Mark Deen, Robert Hutton, Kitty Donaldson and Paul George in London.
Editor: Atkinson
To contact the reporter on this story: Gonzalo Vina in London at
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