A row over the timing of last year’s council by-election in West Thamesmead has split Greenwich Labour – with the council leader being criticised for asking two party members to withdraw requests for a poll to be held. The election was held on December 19, the last Thursday before Christmas, and followed the resignation of […]
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Labour fends off Lib Dem surge to win West Thamesmead by-election
Labour’s Jahdia Spencer won the West Thamesmead by-election – but little more than one in eight voters cast their ballots on the last Thursday before Christmas. Spencer won 464 votes – 45.1 per cent of the vote – while the housing campaigner Steve Day, standing as a Liberal Democrat candidate, took 336 votes (32.7 per […]
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Labour newcomer among five standing in West Thamesmead by-election
A woman who has been a Labour member for just two years – and has said she plans to go into politics in Bermuda – has been picked to be the party’s candidate in the West Thamesmead by-election. Jahdia Spencer, 26, was born in the archipelago but has lived in London since she was 16. […]
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Royal Artillery Quays cladding campaigner to stand in by-election
A campaigner who has been fighting the developer behind a riverside housing development has been selected to fight a Greenwich Council by-election next month. Steve Day will contest West Thamesmead for the Liberal Democrats in the by-election, to be held on December 19. He hopes to succeed Chris Lloyd, who was the Lib Dems’ only […]
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Another by-election coming as Greenwich’s only Lib Dem councillor quits
Greenwich’s only Liberal Democrat councillor, Chris Lloyd, has announced his resignation – prompting the borough’s fourth by-election of the year in West Thamesmead. Lloyd had been a councillor for a decade after first being elected in the old Peninsula ward for Labour in 2014. He switched to West Thamesmead in 2022, but quit Labour last […]
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