Wheatley Ward on Rochford District Council is a real Conservative stronghold - when the seat was contested in May, only the Tories and English Democrats actually stood.
Following the sad death of Conservative ward councillor John Pullen, we've just had a by-election, in which the Lib Dems and Labour dipped their toe into the electoral waters here. However the result was, as expected , a Conservative hold:
Aron Priest Conservative                 417         61.0%  (down 7.8% since previous election)
John Hayter English Democrats     142         20.7%  (down 10.4%)
Sid Cumberland  Liberal Democrats                            78             11.4%  (up 11.4%)
David  Bodimeade  Labour                             47                 6.9%  (up  6.9%)
Turn out this time was 21.3 %
 
 
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