Thursday’s by-election in the Bloxwich East Ward of Walsall Council has seen an excellent victory for Labour and Julie Fitzpatrick, despite dreadful weather swing to Labour of 19% in a ward which has for a good number of years been split between Labour and the Conservatives, with the latter in the majority.
In a significant victory, the seat left vacant following the death of Tory Bill Tweddle fell to the local Labour party, seeing the defeat of Conservative candidate Les Beeley by almost ninety votes, leaving the other parties nowhere.
Labour’s successful candidate, the energetic and community-minded Julie Fitzpatrick, is married to Shaun Fitzpatrick, whose own battle on behalf of the Labour party saw a previous defeat of long-serving Beeley in the council elections earlier this year.
The full voting results are:
Labour 922, Conservative 834, UKIP 98, English Democrats 49, Green Party 16.
The numbers of seats on Walsall Council ws therefore as follows:
Labour 27
Conservative 27
Lib Dem 5
Independent 1
However, sadly on Friday night Joan Barton who was the current serving labour Councillor for Birchills Leamore died which now leaves a vacancy in that ward. Very sad as Joan was a long standing hard working patch councillor for Birchills Leamore and she will be much missed.
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