- The Greens vote rose by 20.2% where it was the only progressive challenger to the Tories.1 Meanwhile, the same research estimated that the effect of this tactic on the Conservative vote share is an increase of 2.9 per cent. [...] Win As One Over the Party Wall - Local Elections in 2024: The Progressive Majority at a Crossroads 6 TRAGEDY COUNCILS AND MAYORS Win As One Over the Party Wall: Local Elections in 2024 7 Councils The local elections this May will see voters head to the polls in 107 local authority areas, the majority of which last held elections in 2021. [...] The worst deficits are in Gloucester where the Conservatives won 66.7% of seats with 47.1% of the vote, and Havant where the Conservatives won 78.9% of seats with 48.9% of the vote. [...] They’re forced to endure a ‘tyranny of the minority,’ where the Conservatives take all the power with as little as 39.3% of the vote, as was the case in Dorset. [...] The most extreme democratic deficits were in Havant, where the Tories won 78.9% of the seats with only 48.9% of the vote, and Gloucester where the Tories won 66.7% of the seats with only 47.1% of the vote.
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