English Local Council, Mayoralty and Police Commissioner Elections 2016

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The voting takes place tomorrow and what you can vote on depends in which area you live in. I've posted the 2012 results above because the Local Council seats that are up for election this year are those from 2012 so you can't compare with say 2015 or 2014 as it is different seats.

Main focus is whether Jeremy Corbyn's Labour can prove itself as a viable opposition to the government and win seats under his leadership. In addition, there's been a big focus on the London Mayoralty elections with the main two candidates being Labour's insufferable Sadiq Khan and Conservative Zac Goldsmith in the race to replace Boris Johnson as Mayor. Mayor elections are also taking place in other cities such as Liverpool.

Thoughts?

[FlyingJesus]

If Goldsmith doesn't win then RIP London, don't really care about the others since no-one but Conservative will ever win my area and the police commissionership is a total scam that means nothing anyway

[abc]

Forgot to post my postal vote. oppsss.

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think i'm gonna vote the Independent candidate for Liverpool mayoralty as he doesn't seem mad and Ukip for council seat if they're standing. agreed with Tom on Zac Goldsmith in regards to London. Khan makes my skin crawl. Goldsmith has good independent-minded record on EU and environmental issues and his dad was a babe

[lawrawrrr]

I haven't had a letter in the post with my polling station so I'm so annoyed! I registered in time as well just haven't had anything. Gonna go via the closest polling station to me before work tomorrow and hope I'm on the list ;///

voting for london mayor again, how exciting! I'm voting for one of the two main candidates for Mayor but for local I'm going to vote for the person I actually want to and hope that their party gets a few seats in the London Assembly.

[AgnesIO]

Supported Goldsmith right up until a few days ago when he revealed himself to be an embarrassing liar. No longer care if it is Khan or Goldsmith.

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Just went and voted, was tempted to leave it as there's no need to vote if the selection is naff.

Anyway voted for the Independent guy for Mayor of Liverpool, voted English Democrats for local councillor and the useless post of Police and Crime Commissioner only had the LibLabCon and Greens so I put a large X across the ballot. On way back in my street I watch a guy place his beer can on a wall and said ay mate you left your beer on the wall there and he then picked it up and tried being all pally. Voting for some opposition to Labour's vice-like grip and telling a litter bug off, two good deeds done in a day.

[Inseriousity.]

Only had PCC vote in my area so completely pointless. Had to google the candidates cos I'd not had anything through letterbox or local media.

Total political geek but it'd be interesting to see the effect that Corbyn has outside London (if any), whether UKIP increases its lead or its earlier successes were its peak and whether the destruction of the Lib Dems continues or they manage to bounce back

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Polls have now closed across the United Kingdom.

Sunderland, as usual, will be first to declare in under an hour.

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Only had PCC vote in my area so completely pointless. Had to google the candidates cos I'd not had anything through letterbox or local media.

Total political geek but it'd be interesting to see the effect that Corbyn has outside London (if any), whether UKIP increases its lead or its earlier successes were its peak and whether the destruction of the Lib Dems continues or they manage to bounce back

The first Sunderland results seem to be giving us an indication of that already...

First result is in: Labour down 15 points on 2012, Tories down 3 (UKIP didn't stand last time) https://t.co/Un87QyH8ik

— Matt Singh (@MattSingh_) May 5, 2016

Pallion (Sunderland):
LAB: 50.7%
UKIP: 28.9%
CON: 12.6%
LDEM: 4.4%
GRN: 3.4%

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 5, 2016

Silksworth (Sunderland):
LAB: 43.9%
UKIP: 27.3%
CON: 19.2%
GRN: 6.1%
LDEM: 3.5%

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 5, 2016

Sandhill (Sunderland):
LAB: 55.0%
UKIP: 25.9%
CON: 12.4%
LDEM: 4.0%
GRN: 2.6%

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) May 5, 2016