Local Elections Archive Project: Adur 2024 results added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1jtm

Since everything is awful and it’s nearly Christmas, who’d like some pictures of ship’s cats? Don’t worry dog lovers, a canine thread’s coming soon! Let’s start with Tiddles, sitting in his favourite spot on the carrier HMS Victorious in 1943 (he liked playing with the bell rope) 📷 IWM A 10646 🧵1/17

And if you thought battlecruisers had a tendency to explode at the tiniest provocation, imagine what the heck a Trump Class would be like?

Happy Christmas from under the missile toad

Local Elections Archive Project: Nottinghamshire CC 2025 results added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1kkp

This year's Father Christmas train is set down only at Altnabreac www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-n...

Funnily enough, that's the bit of the tapestry which the Bayeux postcards focus on.

Local Elections Archive Project: Ribble Valley 2023 results added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1hqr

Final Christmas engagement of the year coming up tonight: with Adamsons Band and a choir at the Mayor of Tameside's Charity Concert in Dukinfield Town Hall. 7:30pm start, see you there.

All of December's council by-election results are now on the Local Elections Archive Project: andrewteale.me.uk/leap

Counting is underway for the final by-election result of 2025, in the Pakefield division of Suffolk county council. This and my review of the year can be found in Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

Tonight's by-election results: Blackpool, Greenlands: RUK gain from Lab S Ribble, Broad Oak: LD hold Harborough, Mkt Harboro' Logan: C gain from LD Suffolk CC, Pakefield: counting in the morning Cornwall, St Columb Minor/Colan: RUK hold

Tonight's by-election results: Blackpool, Greenlands: RUK gain from Lab S Ribble, Broad Oak: LD hold Harborough, Mkt Harboro' Logan: C gain from LD Suffolk CC, Pakefield: counting in the morning Cornwall, St Columb Minor/Colan: RUK hold

Counting is underway for the final by-elections of 2025, with four results expected tonight. The Andrew's Previews Christmas Special has all you need to know and more: andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

It's by-election Thursday! - 5 polls today, defences LD 2 C 1 Lab 1 RUK 1 - A Christmas Bonus ghost story - And the Andrew's Previews Review of the Year.... All in the final Andrew's Previews of 2025 for @britainelects.com:

Out now for paid subscribers: Previews for the 5 council by-elections tomorrow A Christmas bonus track And this column's review of the year Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com: open.substack.com/pub/andrewsp...

Some highlights from the (finally) forthcoming Andrew's Previews 2024 book. More news on this very soon.

My simulation of these votes as a 4-seat ordinary election gives 1 seat each to RUK, SNP and Lab. The final seat most likely goes to independent Tam Lynch, but RUK or even the SNP could sneak a second seat with perfect candidate balancing.

Votes at final stage: RUK: 50.4% (+11.0) SNP: 49.6% (-11.0) Changes compared with the previous by-election in Nov 2024. There was no RUK candidate here in 2022.

A ward with an interesting electoral history. See andrewteale.me.uk/iwbs for the figures and Andrew's Previews (link in OP) for the commentary.

Every party heading towards disaster self-soothes itself by pointing out that turnout is lower in off-year elections, and it is a story with only one ending: defeat. By-elections are useful indicators even tho turnout is lower in them.

Reform UK have won their first ever election in Scotland, gaining the Whitburn and Blackburn ward of West Lothian in a by-election.

Me at the arrivals gate in any US airport after providing my social media accounts:

Last night's by-election results: E Devon, Seaton: LD gain from C Caerphilly, Penyrheol: PC hold Lichfield, Armitage/Handsacre: C hold S Kesteven, Aveland: RUK gain from C S Kesteven, Belmont: RUK gain from Ind Stockton, Eaglescliffe W: C hold Darlington, Red Hall/Lingfield: RUK gain from Lab 1/2

A lot of by-elections took place today, read all about them in Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com: andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

It's by-election Thursday! - 9 polls today, defences C 4 Lab 2 Ind 1 PC 1 SNP 1 All Previewed as usual by Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com:

9 by-elections are taking place tomorrow. Paid subscribers to Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com can read about tomorrow's polls today: open.substack.com/pub/andrewsp...

York Minster Christmas concert last night was wonderful. And I get to do it again tonight

Last night's by-election results: Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe: RUK gain from LD Broxtowe, Stapleford SE: Broxtowe Alliance confirm defection gain from Lab Watford, Tudor: LD hold E Devon, Exmouth Halsdon: LD hold Torridge, Winkleigh: LD gain from C

I've seen a lot of local government reorganisation schemes fall apart in the past, so this morning's news about the postponement of some new mayoral elections comes as absolutely no surprise to me.

It's by-election Thursday! - 5 polls today defences LD 3 C 1 It's Complicated 1 Another fine selection of England's quirks and eccentricities awaits in Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com:

Tomorrow's edition of Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com, covering five by-elections from Middlesbrough to Devon, is now available for paid subscribers: open.substack.com/pub/andrewsp...

Yesterday's by-election to Derbyshire County Council was a Reform UK hold in Long Eaton North division. Andrew's Previews will tell all at andrewteale.me.uk/previews as usual

Apologies to free subscribers who were hoping to read the Tuesday Andrew's Previews special this morning. I accidentally set it to unlock ten hours later than intended. It's free to read now: andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

From Radio 4 last week: an interesting and informative documentary about the history of the ballot box. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's by-election TUESDAY! One poll taking place today to Derbyshire County Council, with Reform UK defending Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com tells all at

Hope everybody is enjoying their Advent colanders so far.

We have an unusual Tuesday by-election taking pace tomorrow to Derbyshire county council. Paying subscribers can now read all about it on Andrew's Previews at

What happened here?

Local Elections Archive Project: Cornwall 2025 results added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1ka5

Local Elections Archive Project: By-election results 27th November 2025 added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1kxc

The BBC's election night TV show encapsulated this. A programme for people who have stayed up until 3am to watch the election that basically said 'live declarations? Naaah, they're boring!' They keep making shows for an imaginary audience of idiots who would never watch them anyway.

WTF are the people who produce this drivel on

For those waiting for the 2024 Previews book collection, hopefully it won't be too long now.

One by-election result from yesterday is being counted this morning. Visit the home of the UK's largest joke shop on Andrew's Previews: andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

Last night's by-election results: King's Lynn/W Norfolk, Hunstanton: counting today Pendle, Barnoldswick: LD hold Sunderland, Hetton: RUK gain from Lab Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com: andrewteale.me.uk/previews

Local Elections Archive Project: By-election results 20th November 2025 (last week) added www.andrewteale.me.uk/1kxv

Polls have closed in today's by-elections with two results expected tonight. The race is on - will you get to the end of this week's Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com before Sunderland finish counting? andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

It's by-election Thursday! - 3 by-elections today, defences Ind/Lab/LD - Lots to talk about in small-town England, including joke shops, jet engines and Just Eat... Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com:

Tomorrow's edition of Andrew's Previews for @britainelects.com is out now for paying subscribers. Find out what joke shops, jet engines and Just Eat tell us about our local politics at open.substack.com/pub/andrewsp...