Bloxidge Tallygraph 16 Jul 10

The Conservative Party have been soundly beaten, and the Liberal Democrats decimated, in Thursday’s by-election for the Walsall Council ward of Bloxwich West which was triggered by the untimely death of respected long-standing Tory Councillor and former mayor Melvin Pitt on the eve of the General Election earlier this year.

Late results, as yet unofficially declared, appear to reveal that Fred Westley, the Labour candidate, has overturned the Tory majority with his own new majority of 342, based on 1142 votes cast for him. The Conservative candidate polled just 800 votes with the other parties barely getting a look in as follows: UKIP 91, Lib Dem 71 and Green 28…

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