Bradford Conservatives http://www.bradfordconservatives.com Covering Bradford, Shipley, Keighley and Ilkley Fri, 02 May 2008 23:33:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en Election victory! http://www.bradfordconservatives.com/index.php/2008/05/02/election-victory/ http://www.bradfordconservatives.com/index.php/2008/05/02/election-victory/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 23:26:37 +0000 admin http://www.bradfordconservatives.com/index.php/2008/05/02/election-victory/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Election victory!", url: "http://www.bradfordconservatives.com/index.php/2008/05/02/election-victory/" }); ]]> Thursday’s local election has a resulted in a significant swing to the Conservatives.

  • We won both Keighley East and Keighley West from Labour
  • We reversed last years Labour victory in Clayton, with Deputy Lord Mayor Elaine Byrom retaining the seat for the Conservatives
  • We took Bowling and Barkerend from Labour with a majority of 420.
  • We restablished our lead in Queensbury, pushing back the BNP, with Michael Walls retaining his seat for the Conservative

Across the District, Conservatives gained three seats, Labour lost three seats and the Liberal Democrats made no progress.

Full election results are available here.

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