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Bath & North East Somerset, Abbey Council by election result 17th November 2016

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Bath & North East Somerset, Abbey - Conservative gain from Green

Party   2016 votes      2016 share   since 2015 "top"since 2015 "average"since 2011 "top"since 2011 "average"
Conservative
350
32.8%
+2.4%
+3.8%
+1.0%
+1.2%
Liberal Democrat 
273
25.6%
+4.7%
+4.8%
-8.8%
-7.7%
Green
252
23.6%
-4.5%
-5.3%
+4.2%
+3.4%
Labour
126
11.0%
-4.9%
-5.5%
-2.6%
-3.2%
Independent
43
4.0%
+0.1%
+0.0%
from nowhere
from nowhere
UKIP
23
2.2%
from nowhere
from nowhere
from nowhere
from nowhere
Total votes
1,067

28%
29%
47%
49%

Swing Green to Conservative ~3½% / 4½% since 2015 but Conservative to Green ~1½% / 1% since 2011
- also Conservative to Liberal Democrat ~1% / ½% since 2015 but Liberal Democrat to Conservative ~5% / 4½% since 2011
Council now 37 Conservative, 15 Liberal Democrat, 6 Labour, 3 Independent, 1 Green, 1 Local Resident Independent, 1 No Party

Abbey - Bath & North East Somerset UA - Jonathan Carr (Green) resigned to move in the Home Counties, because he could not afford housing in Bath area, due to the "very high costs of living" in Bath. He was a councillor since 2015.

2015: Con 1158/985, Grn 1071, LD 798/741, Lab 639, Ind 148 
2011: LD 773/662, Con 716/646, Grn 436, Lab 323
2007: Con 728/661, LD 633/621, Grn 345, Ind 225
2003: Con 680/613, LD 587/561, Ind 166/82

Gerry Curran (Liberal Democrats)
Vicky Drew (Labour Party)
Lizzie Gladwyn (The Conservative Party Candidate) 
Marc Hooper (UK Independence Party (UKIP))
Jenny Knight (Independent)
Vipul Patel (Green Party)