{"id":22507,"date":"2019-05-03T21:16:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22507"},"modified":"2019-05-03T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T20:16:20","slug":"congratulations-and-commiserations-on-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=22507","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations and Commiserations on Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag19\/19050301.jpg\" alt=\"Congratulations and Commiserations\" \/><br \/>\nThe Lib-Dems won 18 and the Greens won one of the Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council seats. The orange diamond with the slogan <em>&#8216;Liberal Democrats &#8211; Winning Here&#8217;<\/em> came true today. They were a long way ahead of the other parties. Conservative voter turnout was about half the level of 4 years ago due to national politics, and the Lib-Dem voter turnout was similar to, and possibly up on, 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Commiserations to the Conservative Mayor elect David Pope who lost his position. Other high profile Conservatives losses include:&nbsp; Mike Badcock (Council Leader); Alice Badcock (organiser of Fun and Music in the Park, and Chair of Amenities);&nbsp;Sandy Lovatt (former Council Leader); Monica Lovatt (Chair of the Vale), Dennis Garrett (who led the Guildhall revamp),&nbsp;Vicky Jenkins (a councillor who got things done on her local patch and who chaired the&nbsp;Community Services Committee).<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the new council who will be taking Abingdon forward for the next four years &#8211; especially to Cheryl Briggs who becomes Abingdon&#8217;s first ever Green Party Town Councillor. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everybody who voted for me as an Independent, and helped me in campaign. We were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/java\/support\/Main.jsp?MODULE=ElectionResultsParish&#038;NAME=Abingdon%3A+Caldecott\">just 14 votes short<\/a> and so nearly did it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lib-Dems won 18 and the Greens won one of the Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council seats. The orange diamond with the slogan &#8216;Liberal Democrats &#8211; Winning Here&#8217; came true today. They were a long way ahead of the other parties. Conservative voter turnout was about half the level of 4 years ago due to national politics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}