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  Local by-elections show north-south voter divide
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Last EditedNew Jerusalem  Oct 22, 2010 10:19am
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News DateFriday, October 22, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe haves stuck with coalition parties in the first voting test since Chancellor George Osborne's cuts announcement but the have-nots swung strongly to Labour.

In a larger than usual clutch of 13 council by-elections the Tories' vote held up or shifted to their Westminster Liberal Democrat allies across a swathe of prosperous southern England - with the exception of the urban enclave of Oxford.

But there were huge swings to Labour in the sole northern big city contest at Sheffield and at Bassetlaw on the Nottinghamshire-Yorkshire border.

Labour's Mike Rowley won a landslide victory against Liberal Democrats at Barton and Sandhills, Oxford, in a ward where his party took another seat in May's main polls.

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But party leader Nick Clegg might be concerned at the large swings to Labour at Oxford and at Manor Castle in his own city of Sheffield, which are both in marginal Commons constituencies where Liberal Democrats might have had hopes.


Sheffield Central Labour MP Paul Blomfield said: "On the day after the comprehensive spending review, Nick Clegg has been sent a very clear message from my constituency in the heart of Sheffield.


"This is a fantastic result for Labour and a devastating result for the Lib Dems. People are angry about this Government's attack on jobs, housing and local services."
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