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In a sensational result Ukip have consolidated their surprise by-election performance and returned three county councillors in Eastleigh taking the seats from the Liberal Democrats while the Conservatives comfortably held their seat in Chandler’s Ford and overall control of the County Council with a reduced majority. Ukip won 10 seats in the county –...
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Polling has closed in today’s county elections, held throughout England and Wales. Twenty-seven county councils and seven unitary authorities have gone to the polls and in Eastleigh district all seven divisions are being contested – the winners will represent Eastleigh on Hampshire County council until 2017. At the moment conservatives’ hold 51 of Hampshire...
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Out and about today in Hedge End was Hedge Ender Andrew Helps, the Labour Candidate for the Botley and Hedge End division in the forthcoming County Council elections, to be held on 2nd May. The Labour campaigners had also hired the Hedge End 2000 Centre for the afternoon, inviting local residents to come and...
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Eastleigh’s electorate, many of whom were alienated by the saturation leafleting during Februarys Parliamentary by-election campaign, will shortly be asked to vote in elections for Hampshire County Council. This election, where we get the chance to select our County Councillors for the next four years, are being held on 2nd May. Besides another batch of...
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Eastleigh’s Ukip branch has welcomed another high profile defector from a rival party. John Edwards – the Chairman of Hampshire English Democrats – has resigned his position and signed up to the Euro-sceptics. Waiting to greet him at Ukip’s Market Street HQ were two of Eastleigh’s former Lib Dem councillors, Glynn Davies-Dear and...
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With Council Tax bills dropping through letterboxes this morning, some householders in some parts of the Borough of Eastleigh are wondering how the Borough Council’s claim to have “frozen” Council Tax translates into in increase in their bills. Council Tax Bills being received in Hedge End today, showed a 1.9% increase in the Eastleigh...
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Exclusive Maria Hutchings first post Eastleighby-election interview
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Mike Thornton has held on to Chris Huhne’s seat for the Lib Dems, surviving a collapse in the Lib Dem vote, in what was the lowest election turnout since Eastleigh’s very first election night in 1955. In a tense night at the Fleming Park Leisure centre last Thursday, under the glare of the nations...
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Voting is well underway in the Eastleigh by-election and weeks of crouching behind the sofa and slaloming politicians and their minions in the town centre is soon to come to an end. In a few hours we should know who the successor is to disgraced Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne. This evening bookies...
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Whilst lights were still burning in the Labour campaign HQ on Saturday night, directly across the road at The Point, a full house was gathering for the final performance of a production of Cats. Ironically, The Point is housed in buildings that were formerly Eastleigh’s Town Hall, and is situated just a short walk from the...
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With another forest of campaign ”newspapers” dropping through letterboxes in Eastleigh this weekend, the fears of the main contenders are apparent… In a campaign leaflet that calls itself “The Parishes Voice”, the Lib Dems mysteriously use the colour blue on the masthead, a colour that is traditionally used by the Conservatives… Meanwhile, in a campaign...
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Ray Hall, the Beer, Baccy & Crumpet party candidate in the Eastleigh by- election has explained some of his plans for the future. Clearly pleased with his progress to date, Ray Hall said; This has been a good week for the Beer, Baccy & Crumpet party. We have moved through the field into 5th place and considering the BB&C...
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Two of the candidates in the Eastleigh by-election have expressed their dissatisfaction at a being excluded from campaign events; In a press release for the Independent Candidate, Danny Stupple, his campaign team claim that they spoke at length to the BBC before an event which was broadcast on Radio 5 Live yesterday, but were refused an invitation for Danny...
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Eastleigh’s electors not only have to decide on the issue of distancing themselves from Europe, in the by-election on February 28th, but also on distancing themselves from Westminster… Colin Bex, the candidate for the Wessex Regionalist Party in the Eastleigh by-election, spoke to Eastleigh News on Friday, saying; “We are standing for a Parliament for Wessex...
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Some of the minor parties in the Eastleigh by-election are struggling to get their message across. Often excluded from the main hustings events, which the main four parties (UKIP, Conservative, Labour & LibDem) tend to dominate, at an alternative hustings at the Pavillion on the Park yesterday evening (Friday 22nd), the other side of the problem faced by the...
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