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South Korea's Democratic Party will elect a new floor leader on January 11 after Kim Byung-ki's resignation, forming an election committee to oversee the process.
#YonhapInfomax #DemocraticParty #FloorLeaderElection #KimByungKi #ByElection #SouthKoreaPolitics #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=97708

Reform UK candidate beaten in by-election says voters showed “strong appetite for something different”

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/12/14/reform-uk-candidate-beaten-in-by-election-says-voters-showed-strong-appetite-for-something-different/

Conservatives retain seat after by-election victory

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/12/12/conservatives-retain-seat-after-by-election-victory/

Voters head to the polls for Armitage with Handsacre by-election

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/12/11/voters-head-to-the-polls-for-armitage-with-handsacre-by-election/

Candidates (clockwise from top left) James Blackman, Andrew Clissett, David Cullen, Martyn Punyer and Morag Maclean

Fuck me, that Stranraer and the Rhins by-election is even more batshit than it first appears.

SNP voters, hold on to your bunnets.

So, Single Transferable Votes.

Here is the story of the counts in 4 points:

1️⃣ First Preferences: Reform UK started strong, topping the poll with 1,386 votes (34.4%) vs the Conservatives on 1,302 (33.5%).

2️⃣ The Standoff: For 6 stages of counting, Reform UK (John Roberts) held the lead as other parties (Heritage, Lib Dem, Green, Independent, Labour) were eliminated one by one.

3️⃣ The Decider (Stage 7): With no winner declared, the SNP (Simon Jones) were eliminated in 3rd place.

🗳️ SNP Transfers: Crucially, more SNP voters transferred their next choice to the Conservatives (+148) than to Reform (+68).

4️⃣ The Result: This final transfer overturned the lead, electing Julie Currie (Con) with 1,565 votes to Reform's 1,523—a winning margin of just 42 votes.

Winner: Julie Currie (Conservative) 🔵

It's important to recognise that "second preference" in this case could actually be well down the list, after the transference has been done, but in effect, SNP second preference nixed a Reform win and handed the Conservatives a victory.

#Stranraer #DumfriesAndGalloway #STV #ByElection #Politics

Remember #Leyton!

Some fans of #AndyBurnham want to create a #byelection for him to parachute back to the #HouseOfCommons, where he could challenge the drowning #Starmer.

But in the 1965 Leyton by-election, voter resentment at a similar stunt was a factor in the 8.6% swing against Labour. The man on a parachute was defeated.

Except attached from Marc Collinson's “The most astonishing election result since the war”? Re-examining the Leyton by-election of 1965"

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00182370.2023.2295150 #ukpol

Screenshot of a paragraph from Marc Collinson's paper “The most astonishing election result since the war”? Re-examining the Leyton by-election of 1965".

The excerpt reads: "Labour’s orchestration of a by-election to keep a Minister despite his having been recently defeated at the ballot box was not only unpopular in Leyton, but it also created a political issue that opponents weaponized. Liberal Party candidate Alistair McKay, who had stood at the recent General Election, covered his election material with phrases including “refuse outside politics,” “vote for the man who knows Leyton-the man Leyton knows,” and to elect “our local man.”Footnote63 His campaign literature advised electors to reject “the stranglehold of party politics” by refusing outside politicians.Footnote64 After all, many constituents wrote to Sorensen about this issue, with letters that are filled with references to this popular perception of him being “taken away” and “sent upstairs.”Footnote65 The perceived manipulation of the democratic process by the Prime Minister to secure a House of Commons constituency for his ministerial choices destroyed any potential goodwill Leyton voters possessed for the new candidate."

Five candidates to contest Lichfield District Council by-election

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/11/17/five-candidates-to-contest-lichfield-district-council-by-election/

Labour confirm candidate for Lichfield District Council by-election

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/11/16/labour-confirm-candidate-for-lichfield-district-council-by-election/

Conservatives unveil by-election candidate

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/11/14/conservatives-unveil-by-election-candidate-2/

Counting for eight assembly by-elections commenced Friday at 8 am across Telangana, Jammu-Kashmir, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Punjab, Mizoram, and Odisha. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/by-election-results-2025-india-l9gwhii9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ByElection #ElectionResults #results

Reform UK county councillor hoping to win Lichfield District Council seat in by-election

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/11/13/reform-uk-county-councillor-hoping-to-win-lichfield-district-council-seat-in-by-election/

Liberal Democrats confirm candidate for Lichfield District Council by-election

https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/2025/11/12/liberal-democrats-confirm-candidate-for-lichfield-district-council-by-election/

Wine shops: Wine shops closed for four days ahead of Jubilee Hills by-election
https://vaartha.com/hyderabad/wine-shops-closed-for-four-days-ahead-of-jubilee-hills-by-election/577751/
#WineShopClosure #వైన్‌షాపుల_మూసివేత
#JubileeHillsByElection #జూబ్లీహిల్స్_ఉపఎన్నిక
#Election2025 #ఎన్నిక2025
#HyderabadNews #హైదరాబాద్‌_వార్తలు
#TelanganaElections #తెలంగాణ_ఎన్నికలు
#PollingDay #పోలింగ్‌_దినం
#VoteSafe #బాధ్యతాయుతంగా_ఓటు
#NoAlcohol #ఆల్కహాల్_నిషేధం
#ElectionUpdate #ఎన్నికల_నవీకరణ
#ByElection #ఉపఎన్నిక
#PublicSafety #ప్రజాస్వాస్థ్య
#Rajendranagar #రాజేంద్రనగర్

PTI-backed Khurram Zeeshan wins Senate seat

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1392113/pti-backed-khurram-zeeshan-wins-senate-seat/

“End Of The Keir Show: How Senior Labour Figures Now Believe Starmer Is Already Toast”

by Kevin Schofield in Huff Post

@UKLabour
@uk_politics

“Will the embattled PM even make it to the New Year in No.10?”

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/end-of-the-keir-show-how-senior-labour-figures-now-believe-starmer-is-already-toast_uk_68fb5cfee4b03bb1113194c0

#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #McSweeney #Toast #Xmas #Caerphilly #ByElection #LabourIsntWorking #LabourFriendsOfGenocide

@Stevenheywood

Paraphrasing Leo Amery MP in his 1940 House of Commons speech (after Cromwell):

“You [Keir #Starmer] have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

@UKLabour @uk_politics

#UK #Labour #Caerphilly #PlaidCymru #ByElection

Alt-text

“Evil comes in many forms

Labour

is one of them”

Matt @MattCartoonist on #Caerphilly #Byelection #Labour @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

#MartinRowson on the #Caerphilly #byelection – cartoon | Martin Rowson | The Guardian

Just a reminder, #StGeorge wasn’t even English. #Farage would have happily had him deported given that he was a #Palestinian #Turk.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/oct/24/martin-rowson-on-the-caerphilly-byelection-cartoon

#UK #Wales #Politics #Satire #EnglishNationalism #Nationalism #PlaidCymru

Farage as a Deform UK coloured snake, wrapped around a white horse with a St George's flag shield attacked by a Welsh dragan bearing the rosette of Plaid Cymru.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/24/reform-caerphilly-byelection-britain-labour

>>The message for Labour ought to be clear: standing up to the hard right can win elections.<<

#UKPolitics #Wales #Caerphilly #ByElection #PlaidCymru #Reform #Labour

Plaid Cymru win - in Caerphilliy in the Senedd elections, with a healthy majority over Reform (who had been widely predicted to be in the lead). Notable was Labour’s collapse.

Plaid: 15,961
Reform: 12,113
Labour: 3,713

A good start and I hope Farage who appeared confident had some sore underwear to hand.

#ByElection #Senedd #Reform #UkPol #WelshPol

#ByElection

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