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Conservatives dominate Isle of Wight council election

OnTheWight reported live from the 2017 Isle of Wight council election count this evening (Thursday 4th May).

Throughout the evening and into the early hours, we fed you interesting facts about the election and revealed the results for each ward as they were announced, as well as some great photos from the hall by Allan Marsh.

Keep an eye on our dedicated election site
We’ve spent over 100 hours working on our dedicated election Website which helped residents in the run up to the election as well as during the count.

Read the blow by blow account of the night’s proceedings.

 

At 4am the count was still ongoing for the town and parish councils.

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Our thanks to Joseph Moore for the loan of his super fast laptop, to Andrew N for his fab Chromebook and to the Friends of Ventnor Library for the use of two of their tablets – all items vital to us providing you with uninterrupted live coverage.

Image: © With kind permission of Allan Marsh

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hermit
5, May 2017 7:07 am

I’m stunned.WTF just happened? Has the Island lost all sense of humanity? Has the Island lost it’s support for the children in our schools? Has the Island stopped caring about the NHS? We obviously don’t care about people with disabilities or life long illnesses anymore and are happy that the Foodbanks on the Island are seeing year on year increases. 56,000 tonnes of food has been handed… Read more »

Billy Builder
Reply to  hermit
5, May 2017 8:15 am

One viable right of centre party compared with 3 left of centre parties and independents. Unless the centre-left can be represented by a single party/candidate then the island will always be Tory

Caconym
Reply to  hermit
5, May 2017 8:16 am

Shocking, isn’t it.

Still every cloud and all that. It looks like UKIP are finished on the Isle of Wight.

Billy Builder
Reply to  Caconym
5, May 2017 8:22 am

Yes they’ve rejoined the Tory party as a hidden cancer. Well it always was the Nasty party

paludian
Reply to  hermit
5, May 2017 10:22 am

Quick. Tune in to Adam Boulton interviewing Diane Abbott this morning.

If you don’t understand WTF just happened after witnessing this lady’s latest utterances, you never will.

electrickery
Reply to  paludian
5, May 2017 11:56 am

Does somebody out there still harbour the illusion that Labour are in any state to govern? Labour in meltdown, Indies all over the place, just leaves the Greens as the only disciplined group.

Robert Jones
Reply to  electrickery
5, May 2017 12:09 pm

Whether Labour is in any condition to govern – I know the Tories aren’t – is a point on which you made up your mind a while ago. But there is absolutely no evidence that the Green Party is capable of forming a government, or ever will be able to.

Billy Builder
Reply to  electrickery
5, May 2017 12:15 pm

electickery, We need a party/candidate that can appeal to the tory-left through to the labour-right and all those in-between. Whilst the Greens have many policies that would appeal to that group they also have many more that would drive a large portion of those voters away. For the election on 8th June we need to drop tribalism, drop party politics and adopt a candidate and a subset… Read more »

dan
5, May 2017 7:28 am

Will you be doing (when you’ve woken up, had coffee etc) a break down of total votes and % that went to each party? It would be interesting to see it vs the general election votes.

dan
Reply to  dan
5, May 2017 6:17 pm

Great. Looking forward to it.

Robert Jones
5, May 2017 8:53 am

I’m afraid this ‘if all the non-Tory parties joined together’ narrative has no wheels. In most of these seats, not quite all, the combined votes of Liberal, Labour and Green wouldn’t have been enough to defeat the Tories, or at least to prevent their domination of the council. What someone has to do is win over Tory voters – cobbling together a majority out of minorities isn’t… Read more »

Billy Builder
Reply to  Robert Jones
5, May 2017 11:03 am

RJ, I disagree, only 9 of the Tory candidates won by more than 50% of the votes cast, and if you combined the Independent vote with that of the second named party the Tories would not have a majority. The centre-left vote should either be represented by named parties or should be represented by a single independent, not both. If you were to look at Ex councillor… Read more »

Robert Jones
Reply to  Billy Builder
5, May 2017 12:02 pm

If you throw in every single anti-Tory candidate you’re bound to get an anti-Tory majority in some cases. But in practice, you can’t do that – the electors won’t all play ball, and even if they did there’s no telling what Independents will do. It won’t work: if you take all the votes together, there’s not enough there to defeat the Tory candidate; if you take them… Read more »

Billy Builder
Reply to  Robert Jones
5, May 2017 12:22 pm

And that is what the LibDems tried in 2010, but the Tories and Labour (in 2010) adopted the Turkeys voting for Christmas mentality which is why we are where we are today.

To prevent total Tory domination on 9th June we need to be pragmatic.

Paleo
Reply to  Billy Builder
5, May 2017 3:20 pm

Which, of course, includes not continually insulting voters who didnt vote for your party…

electrickery
Reply to  Robert Jones
5, May 2017 11:49 am

RJ: OK, so what are all these Tory sheep voting for? Strong and stable government (how many U-turns before breakfast? How many EU negotiators can we insult today?). OR do they just think it’s their God-given right to govern?

Billy Builder
Reply to  electrickery
5, May 2017 11:55 am

It’s because the Daily Mail and Daily Express told them to. Obviously every word in those two papers is the gospel truth and not False/Fake News, bigotry and lies, as readers of The Times, The Independent and The Guardian would tell you

Robert Jones
Reply to  electrickery
5, May 2017 12:06 pm

Not sure why you’re expecting me to know why people vote Tory, and you called them sheep, I didn’t. If you were hoping to convince them not to vote Tory, there are possibly better ways of doing it. For what it’s worth, I think that what the elections last night suggest, but don’t prove, is that those who voted for UKIP have flocked back to the Tory… Read more »

greenfiremouse
Reply to  Robert Jones
5, May 2017 4:46 pm

Robert, I am afraid I disagree with your last sentence. It’s not the Tory voters that you have to win over – a lot of them would vote for a sheep as long as it is wearing a blue rosette. But there is a huge contingent of non-voters; people who often feel totally disenfranchised by the current voting system that makes their vote pointless if it stands… Read more »

bones
5, May 2017 9:37 am

The people have voted !

bigj
5, May 2017 10:42 am

yes – the people have voted
not entirely as i would have liked, but as predicted
for the good of the Island, can we have a POSITIVE comments only section in the run up to the equally predictable election

and on a positive note- what excellent coverage
big thank you

electrickery
5, May 2017 10:43 am

Hot News: Island Shoots Self in Foot!

Still, at least now we know who is the organised, credible opposition.

electrickery
5, May 2017 11:54 am

Luisa is a sad loss, but shows why Indies cannot progress; What possessed her and Karl to run against each other???

Robert Jones
Reply to  electrickery
5, May 2017 12:17 pm

Does this not give you a clue as to why rainbow alliances won’t work? You cannot mandate people not to stand for election – any strategy attempting to would have to deal with the Independent element, and as by definition they have no organization (if they’re genuinely independent) or scatter like so many cats if you try herding them, they present an insuperable obstacle to parties attempting… Read more »

Luisa Hillard
Reply to  electrickery
7, May 2017 10:08 pm

electrickery, seeing as how Karl won it would seem that he was right to stand. I expected that it would split the vote and let the Conservatives in but it would seem that he picked up both the Conservative and UKIP vote.

paludian
5, May 2017 12:05 pm

The internet has brought about a wealth of advantages.

On the downside, it also provides a platform for a tiny minority of bitter losers to moan about their unelectability.

Robert Jones
Reply to  paludian
5, May 2017 12:13 pm

And, you’ll note, to call the electorate “sheep” in the process, while making absurd claims on behalf of one party which has approached electability in just one constituency in Britain so far.

Caconym
Reply to  Robert Jones
5, May 2017 12:39 pm

I suspect the local election result has more to do with apathy than any ovine tendencies.

When I voted I didn’t see anyone who looked under 60 in the polling station.

If we don’t want the same sort of whitewash on a national level we need to get the 18-30’s out and voting on polling day.

Billy Builder
Reply to  Caconym
5, May 2017 3:31 pm

According to the bbc the LibDem projected share of the vote is 18%, which is not to bad a place to be 5 weeks out. If on the Island you were to assume that the majority of independents are really closet LibDems, then the LibDems on the island could be real contenders.

peterj
Reply to  Billy Builder
5, May 2017 4:11 pm

Did you not see Nick Belfitt’s result? I suggest the LD has serious problems seeing as he came last with a quite pitiful 42 votes, even being beaten by UKIP!

Geoff Brodie
Reply to  Billy Builder
5, May 2017 4:16 pm

He was seen scurrying out with his tale between his legs

Geoff Brodie
5, May 2017 4:16 pm

Tail !

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