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Maidstone Central (Kent) council by-election result: Liberal Democrat HOLD (twitter.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by 15liam20 to c/[email protected]

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Maidstone Central (Kent) council by-election result:

LDEM: 28.5% (-1.6) GRN: 28.4% (+13.8) CON: 24.0% (-12.4) LAB: 14.0% (-5.0) REF: 4.3% (+4.3) IND: 0.9% (+0.9)

Votes cast: 6,521

Liberal Democrat HOLD*. *Seat up for grabs was second (LDem) of two up in 2021.

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[–] breadsmasher 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tories demolished. Lets hope this continues

[–] 15liam20 3 points 11 months ago

Nice to see them coming in with fewer votes than the Greens. They can't have Nimbied hard enough.

[–] guriinii 3 points 11 months ago

Glad to see the Greens doing so well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That was close

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

6,521 votes cast?, that seems awfully low

[–] 15liam20 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

And just 11 votes between first and second place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Another great example of why it's so important to vote in local elections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's a worryingly small figure, Maidstone isn't exactly small, according to this

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2019-12-12/results/Location/Constituency/Maidstone%20and%20The%20Weald

There's an electorate of over 76k