David Chappell

Campaigning for Bury St Edmunds

 David Chappell

Lib Dems take Red Lodge from Tories

12.00.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 6th Jun 2008

In a spectacular by-election victory Liberal Democrats in neighbouring Forest heath District Council stormed to victory with 55% of the vote taking the seat from the Conservatives after their existing Councillor resigned. Labour's local collapse was highlighted by their failure to even find a candidate. A characteristic of this by-election was the high turnout at over 38%.

The full results are below:

Forest Heath DC

Red Lodge Ward

Turnout 38%

Pat McCloud Lib Dem 321 votes 55.9%

Conservative 230 votes 40.1%

UKIP 23 Votes 4.0%

Majority 91

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