Walsall is always interesting. Three of the twenty seats up for grabs at yesterday’s Local Elections changed hands. Independent Pete Smith lost his seat in Blakenall to Labour then Labour lost a seat to the Tories in Bloxwich West. The one which is going to make a difference is St Matthews where the Tories deselected their sitting Councillor Arif then went and lost it to Labour.

When all the votes had been counted it became clear that the Tories had lost their tenuous grasp on power as the Parties came out as follows:

• Labour:     28
• Tories:       25
• Ukip:            3
• LibDem:      2
• Ind:              2

This leaves the Council on a knife edge which could leave contentious issues being decided on the Mayor’s casting vote.

The Liberal Democrats have all but ruled out any deal with the Tories for a variety of reasons. These include the totally uncaring attitude of the current Tory Government with its continued austerity measures which they feel is leading to the destruction of Local Government and local democracy.

“Only twelve months ago these self same Tories were campaigning for a majority Tory Government. Well that’s what they got” said LibDem Cllr Ian Shires 2so it’s no good the outgoing Leader of Walsall Council saying he doesn’t agree with what his Government is doing to local councils.”

Couple this with need to form some sort of a rainbow coalition with Ukip and the thing becomes unworkable.

Tentative talks will begin today with Labour to see if there is any common ground on which we build a workable majority.

Here are the full list of results from Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council:

 

• Aldridge Central and South
• Aldridge North and Walsall Wood
• Bentley and Darlaston
• Birchills – Leamore
• Blakenall
• Bloxwich East
• Bloxwich West
• Brownhills
• Darlaston South
• Paddock
• Palfrey
• Pelsall
• Pheasey Park Farm
• Pleck
• Rushall – Shelfield
• Short Heath
• St Matthews
• Streetly
• Willenhall North
• Willenhall South

Aldridge Central and South

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Dhillon Balvir Kaur	Labour Party	575
Hayward Colin	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	709
Sheward Roy	Liberal Democrat	236
Wilson Timothy Simon	The Conservative Party Candidate	1986**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Aldridge North and Walsall Wood

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Burton Pete	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	500
Grainger Bob	Labour Party	732
Greveson Mark Robert	Liberal Democrat	117
Sears Keith	The Conservative Party Candidate	1308**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Bentley and Darlaston North

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Khan Moz	Conservative Party Candidate	323
Rudd-Everitt Alan	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	583
Underhill Angela	Labour Party	1573**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Birchills-Leamore

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Ali Shaz	The Conservative Party Candidate	507
Jukes Tina Joan	Labour Party	1736**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Blakenall

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Derry Hilda	The Conservative Party Candidate	228
Smith Pete		811
Ward Matt	Labour Party Candidate	1068**G

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Bloxwich East

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Fitzpatrick Julie	Labour Party	1168**H
Statham Mark Andrew	The Conservative Party Candidate	682
Timmins Gary	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	478

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Bloxwich West

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Allen Brad	The Conservative Party Candidate	1434**G
Lane Patti	Labour Party	1325

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Brownhills

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Bennett Derek	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	537
Brittain Ben	The Conservative Party Candidate	978
Wade Steve	Labour Party Candidate	1217**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Darlaston South

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Bott Chris	Independent	1248**H
Fletcher Charlotte Jayne	The Green Party	144
Halford Corrie Ann	Labour Party	893
Patel Anant	The Conservative Party Candidate	199

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Paddock

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Fletcher Glyn	Liberal Democrat Focus Team	134
Friend Philip	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	360
Martin Rose	The Conservative Party Candidate	2175**H
Mohammed Adam	Labour Party	1271

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Palfrey

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Ditta Sabina Kausar	Labour Party	3041**H
Lad Kish	The Conservative Party Candidate	837

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Pelsall

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Beech Mark William		64
Eardley Graham	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	477
Perry Garry	The Conservative Party Candidate	2166**H
Williams Grant Edward	Labour Party	425

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Pheasey Park Farm

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Andrew Adrian John Austin	The Conservative Party Candidate	1574**H
Grey Steven George	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	597
Windwood Gill	Labour Party	718

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Pleck

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Ali Zulfiqar	The Conservative Party Candidate	1062
Gultasib Naheed Zohra	Labour Party	2596**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Rushall-Shelfield

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Cooke Sam	Liberal Democrat Focus Team	93
Duffen Jessica	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	506
Newey Chris	English Democrats Love England – Leave EU!	52
Shmim Sawra	The Conservative Party Candidate	601
Worrall Richard	Labour Party	1475**H

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Short Heath

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Barker Daniel James	Liberal Democrat Focus Team	775**H
Carpenter Ron	The Conservative Party Candidate	439
Castle Dan	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	524
Westley Jennie Elizabeth	Labour Party	549

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

St. Matthews

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Nazir Abdus Samad	Labour Party	2241**G
Samra Suky	The Conservative Party Candidate	1941

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Streetly

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Douglas-Maul Brian Alastair	The Conservative Party Candidate	2005**H
Duffen Adrian David	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	558
Garfitt John Paul	Liberal Democrat Focus Team	142
Shamji Raaj	Labour Party	508

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Willenhall North

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Bashir Hajran	Labour Party	466
Martston Glyn	The Conservative Party Candidate	504
Shires Ian	Liberal Democrat Focus Team	1191**H
Wycherley David	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	438

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

Willenhall South

Candidate	Party	Votes received
Carr Reiss Darren	The Conservative Party Candidate	330
Coughlan Sean Patrick	Labour Party	1551**H
O’Brien Ryan	UK Independence Party (UKIP)	520

** Elected
H or G: Hold or Gain

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