Labour wins South London council by-election after previous councillor died of cancer

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Labour wins South London council by-election after previous councillor died of cancer

Labour have won a South London council by-election which was called after the previous councillor died. The party’s candidate for Vauxhall, Tom Swaine-Jameson, finished in first place with 595 votes (42 per cent).

The by-election, which took place on Thursday (October 5), was called after former Vauxhall Labour councillor Liam Jarnecki died of cancer in August. The Liberal Democrat candidate Fareed Alderechi finished second with 395 votes (28 per cent) and the Green Party’s candidate Jacqueline Rose Bond finished in third with 256 votes (18 per cent).

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Swaine-Jameson, who is a university lecturer and trustee of a local arts equalities charity, joins two other Labour councillors, Isla Wrathmell and Martin Bailey, in representing the area. The local Labour Party promised to help residents with housing repairs, antisocial behaviour and overcrowded accommodation in a leaflet distributed during the campaign.

Conservative candidate Lee Rotherham, a Brexit-supporting historian, finished in fourth place with 160 votes (11 per cent). Just over a fifth (22.5 per cent) of Vauxhall residents cast their vote in the by-election. Labour-run Lambeth Council is made up of 63 councillors. Of those elected, 58 are from Labour, three are Liberal Democrats and two are from the Green Party.

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