Politics
| Eyres Monsell By-Election 6 May 2010 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Virginia Cleaver | 1,446 | 35.3 | -2.5 | |
| Conservative | Jon Humberstone | 999 | 24.4 | +2.8 | |
| Liberal Democrat | Scott Kennedy-Lount | 908 | 22.2 | +5.8 | |
| BNP | Adrian Waudby | 745 | 18.2 | -3.2 | |
| Majority | 447 | 10.9 | |||
| Turnout | 4,098 | ||||
| Labour hold | Swing | -2.65 | |||
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