Labour take seats from UKIP and Tories

Only council seats but both the swings and areas won in are something.

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Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party just won a historic victory. But you wouldn’t have noticed it from the mainstream media. Labour won a seat on Worthing Borough Council for the Marine ward. The first time the party has held a seat there for 40 years. And Labour also won a council seat in Thanet from UKIP. This victory also means that UKIP is now running the council with a minority. Labour candidate Beccy Cooper won the Worthing by-election with 47.8% of the vote. This was a nearly 30% increase on the party’s previous vote. The Conservatives meanwhile dropped 6% to 38.8%. Meanwhile, in Thanet, Labour took the Margate Central ward from UKIP. Although turnout was low – just 21% – Labour won a decisive 57% share of the vote. And UKIP was pushed into third place behind the Conservative Party. The disastrous result for UKIP in one of its previous strongholds is more evidence that the party is becoming irrelevant. In the council elections in May 2017, the party lost 140 seats. And in the general election, the party saw its vote share fall by 10.8%.