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London By-election Update

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Last Thursday (10 November) saw two London Labour wins in by-elections that took place in Islington and Redbridge. In the St Mary’s ward of Islington neighbouring ward of Conservative Mayor of London Boris Johnson’s residence, Labour candidate Gary Poole won a resounding victory – described as a landside in the Islington Gazette.Poole picked up 1,128…

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Labour hold Islington by-election

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Labour retained their council seat in the St Peter’s ward by-election Yesterday (Thursday 11 August). Alice Perry was elected as the Labour ward councillor with 1,167 votes – beating her nearest rival, David Sant of the Liberal Democrats, by 727 votes. Turnout was just 24.8 percent – down from 64 percent when the 2010 local…

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