This article lists the election results of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in UK elections.
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Bootle | Peter Glover | 472 | 1.1 |
Brighton Kemptown | Dave Hill | 194 | 0.5 |
Bristol East | Rae Lynch | 184 | 0.4 |
Bristol South | Tom Baldwin | 206 | 0.4 |
Cambridge | Martin Booth [lower-alpha 1] | 362 | 0.7 |
Cardiff Central | John Metcalfe | 162 | 0.4 |
Carlisle | Ross Saunders | 376 | 0.9 |
Colne Valley | Jackie Grunsell | 741 | 1.3 |
Coventry North East | Dave Nellist [lower-alpha 2] | 1,592 | 3.7 |
Coventry North West | Nicky Downes [lower-alpha 2] | 370 | 0.8 |
Coventry South | Judy Griffiths [lower-alpha 2] | 691 | 1.5 |
Doncaster North | Bill Rawcliffe | 181 | 0.4 |
Dundee West | Jim McFarlane | 357 | 1.0 |
Edinburgh East | Gary Clark | 274 | 0.7 |
Edinburgh North & Leith | Willie Black | 233 | 0.5 |
Gateshead | Elaine Brunskill | 266 | 0.7 |
Glasgow North | Angela McCormick | 287 | 1.0 |
Glasgow North East | Graham Campbell | 187 | 0.6 |
Glasgow South | Brian Smith | 351 | 0.9 |
Glasgow South West | Tommy Sheridan [lower-alpha 3] | 931 | 2.9 |
Greenwich & Woolwich | Onay Kasab | 267 | 0.6 |
Huddersfield | Paul Cooney | 319 | 0.8 |
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey | George MacDonald [lower-alpha 3] | 135 | 0.3 |
Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle | Keith Gibson | 150 | 0.5 |
Leicester West | Steve Score | 157 | 0.4 |
Lewisham Deptford | Ian Page [lower-alpha 2] | 645 | 1.6 |
Liverpool Walton | Darren Ireland | 195 | 0.6 |
Manchester Gorton | Karen Reissman | 337 | 0.9 |
Midlothian | Willie Duncan | 166 | 0.4 |
Motherwell & Wishaw | Ray Gunnion | 609 | 1.6 |
Portsmouth North | Mick Tosh | 154 | 0.3 |
Redcar | Hannah Walter | 127 | 0.3 |
Salford and Eccles | David Henry | 730 | 1.8 |
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough | Maxine Bowler | 656 | 1.7 |
Southampton Itchen | Tim Cutter | 168 | 0.4 |
Spelthorne | Paul Couchman | 176 | 0.4 |
Stoke-on-Trent Central | Matthew Wright | 133 | 0.4 |
Swansea West | Rob Williams | 179 | 0.5 |
Tottenham | Jenny Sutton | 1,057 | 2.6 |
Walthamstow | Nancy Taaffe | 279 | 0.7 |
Wellingborough | Paul Crofts | 249 | 0.5 |
Wythenshawe & Sale East | Lynn Worthington | 268 | 0.7 |
Total | 42 | 15,573 | 0.05 |
Source: [1]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Aberavon | Owen Herbert | 134 | 0.4 |
Aberdeen North | Tyrinne Rutherford | 206 | 0.5 |
Barking | Joseph Mambuliya | 183 | 0.4 |
Barnsley Central | Dave Gibson | 573 | 1.6 |
Barnsley East | Ralph Dyson | 364 | 0.9 |
Batley & Spen | Dawn Wheelhouse | 123 | 0.2 |
Bermondsey & Old Southwark | Kingsley Abrams [lower-alpha 1] | 142 | 0.3 |
Bethnal Green & Bow | Glyn Robbins | 949 | 1.8 |
Birmingham Erdington | John Vickers | 212 | 0.6 |
Birmingham Perry Barr | Robert Punton | 331 | 0.8 |
Birmingham Yardley | Eamonn Flynn | 135 | 0.3 |
Bolton West | John Vickers | 209 | 0.4 |
Bootle | Peter Glover | 500 | 1.1 |
Brent Central | John Boyle | 235 | 0.5 |
Bridgend | Aaron David | 118 | 0.3 |
Bristol East | Matt Gordon | 229 | 0.5 |
Bristol North West | Anne Lemon | 160 | 0.3 |
Bristol South | Tom Baldwin | 302 | 0.6 |
Caerphilly | Rachel Ball | 178 | 0.4 |
Camberwell & Peckham | Nick Wrack | 292 | 0.6 |
Cardiff Central | Steve Williams | 110 | 0.3 |
Cardiff South & Penarth | Ross Saunders | 258 | 0.6 |
Cardiff West | Helen Jones | 183 | 0.4 |
Chatham & Aylesford | Ivor Riddell | 125 | 0.3 |
Chesterfield | Matt Whale | 202 | 0.4 |
Chingford & Woodford Green | Len Hockey | 241 | 0.6 |
Cleethorpes | Malcolm Morland | 215 | 0.5 |
Coventry North East | Nicky Downes | 633 | 1.5 |
Coventry North West | Dave Nellist | 1,769 | 3.9 |
Coventry South | Judy Griffiths | 650 | 1.5 |
Croydon Central | April Ashley | 127 | 0.2 |
Croydon North | Glen Hart | 261 | 0.5 |
Darlington | Alan Docherty | 223 | 0.5 |
Derby South | Chris Fernandez | 225 | 0.6 |
Don Valley | Steve Williams | 437 | 1.0 |
Doncaster Central | Mev Akram | 421 | 1.0 |
Doncaster North | Mary Jackson | 258 | 0.7 |
Dudley North | David Pitt | 139 | 0.4 |
Dulwich & West Norwood | Steve Nally | 248 | 0.5 |
Dundee East | Carlo Morelli | 104 | 0.2 |
Dundee West | Jim McFarlane | 304 | 0.7 |
Ealing North | David Hofman | 214 | 0.4 |
East Ham | Lois Austin | 230 | 0.4 |
Eastleigh | Declan Clune | 114 | 0.2 |
Edinburgh East | Ayesha Saleem | 117 | 0.2 |
Edinburgh North & Leith | Bruce Whitehead [lower-alpha 1] | 122 | 0.2 |
Edmonton | Lewis Peacock | 360 | 0.9 |
Ellesmere Port & Neston | Felicity Dowling | 192 | 0.4 |
Enfield North | Joe Simpson | 177 | 0.4 |
Exeter | Ed Potts | 190 | 0.4 |
Folkestone & Hythe | Seth Cruse | 244 | 0.4 |
Gillingham & Rainham | Jacqui Berry | 273 | 0.6 |
Glasgow Central | Andrew Elliott | 119 | 0.3 |
Glasgow North | Angela McCormick | 160 | 0.4 |
Glasgow North East | Jamie Cocozza | 218 | 0.6 |
Glasgow South | Brian Smith | 299 | 0.6 |
Gloucester | Sue Powell | 58 | 0.1 |
Gower | Mark Evans | 103 | 0.2 |
Great Grimsby | Val O'Flynn | 173 | 0.5 |
Greenwich & Woolwich | Lynne Chamberlain | 370 | 0.8 |
Hackney South & Shoreditch | Brian Debus | 302 | 0.6 |
Harlow | David Brown | 174 | 0.4 |
Harrow East | Nana Asante | 205 | 0.4 |
Hove | Dave Hill | 144 | 0.3 |
Huddersfield | Mike Forster | 340 | 0.8 |
Islwyn | Josh Rawcliffe | 151 | 0.4 |
Jarrow | Norman Hall | 385 | 1.0 |
Kingston and Surbiton | Laurel Fogarty | 174 | 0.3 |
Kingston upon Hull West & Hessle | Paul Spooner | 171 | 0.5 |
Kingswood | Richard Worth | 84 | 0.2 |
Leeds Central | Liz Kitching | 330 | 0.7 |
Leeds West | Ben Mayor | 205 | 0.5 |
Leicester East | Michael Barker | 540 | 1.1 |
Leicester South | Andrew Walton | 349 | 0.8 |
Leicester West | Heather Rawling | 288 | 0.8 |
Leigh | Stephen Hall | 542 | 1.2 |
Lewisham Deptford | Chris Flood | 286 | 0.6 |
Lewisham West & Penge | Martin Powell-Davies | 391 | 0.8 |
Lincoln | Elaine Smith | 344 | 0.7 |
Liverpool Riverside | Tony Mulhearn | 582 | 1.3 |
Liverpool Wavertree | David Walsh | 362 | 0.9 |
Llanelli | Scott Jones | 123 | 0.3 |
Manchester Central | Alex Davidson | 270 | 0.6 |
Manchester Gorton | Simon Hickman | 264 | 0.6 |
Mansfield | Karen Seymour | 324 | 0.7 |
Milton Keynes North | Katie Simpson | 163 | 0.3 |
Newcastle upon Tyne East | Paul Phillips | 170 | 0.4 |
Newton Abbot | Sean Brogan | 221 | 0.5 |
North Tyneside | Tim Wall | 304 | 0.6 |
North Warwickshire | Eileen Hunter | 138 | 0.3 |
Nottingham North | Cathy Meadows | 160 | 0.5 |
Nottingham South | Andrew Clayworth | 230 | 0.5 |
Nuneaton | Paul Reilly | 194 | 0.4 |
Ogmore | Emma Saunders | 165 | 0.5 |
Oxford East | James Morbin | 108 | 0.2 |
Paisley & Renfrewshire North | Jim Halfpenny | 193 | 0.4 |
Plymouth Moor View | Louise Parker | 152 | 0.4 |
Pontypridd | Esther Pearson | 98 | 0.3 |
Poplar & Limehouse | Hugo Pierre | 367 | 0.7 |
Portsmouth North | Jon Woods | 231 | 0.5 |
Portsmouth South | Sean Hoyle | 235 | 0.5 |
Reading West | Neil Adams | 83 | 0.2 |
Rochester & Strood | Dan Burn | 202 | 0.4 |
Rossendale & Darwen | Simon Thomas | 103 | 0.2 |
Rotherham | Pat McLaughlin | 409 | 1.1 |
Rugby | Peter McLaren | 225 | 0.5 |
Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner | Wally Kennedy | 302 | 0.6 |
Salford & Eccles | Noreen Bailey | 517 | 1.2 |
Selby & Ainsty | Ian Wilson | 137 | 0.3 |
Sheffield Brightside & Hillsborough | Maxine Bowler | 442 | 1.1 |
Sheffield Heeley | Alan Munro | 238 | 0.6 |
Sheffield South East | Ian Whitehouse | 185 | 0.4 |
Southampton Itchen | Sue Atkins | 233 | 0.5 |
Southampton Test | Nick Chaffey | 403 | 0.9 |
Spelthorne | Paul Couchman | 228 | 0.5 |
Stevenage | Trevor Palmer | 175 | 0.4 |
Stoke-on-Trent South | Matthew Wright | 372 | 1.0 |
Streatham | Unjum Mirza | 164 | 0.3 |
Sutton & Cheam | Pauline Gorman | 79 | 0.2 |
Swansea West | Ronnie Job | 159 | 0.5 |
Taunton Deane | Stephen German | 118 | 0.2 |
Tottenham | Jenny Sutton | 1,324 | 3.1 |
Uxbridge & South Ruislip | Gary Harbord | 180 | 0.4 |
Wakefield | Mick Griffiths | 287 | 0.7 |
Walsall North | Peter Smith | 545 | 1.5 |
Walthamstow | Nancy Taaffe | 394 | 0.9 |
Warrington South | Kevin Bennett | 238 | 0.4 |
Washington & Sunderland West | Gary Duncan | 341 | 0.9 |
Watford | Mark O'Connor | 178 | 0.3 |
Weaver Vale | Joseph Whyte | 94 | 0.2 |
Welwyn Hatfield | Richard Shattock | 142 | 0.3 |
Worcester | Pete McNally | 153 | 0.3 |
Worsley & Eccles South | Steve North | 142 | 0.3 |
Wythenshawe & Sale East | Lynn Worthington | 215 | 0.5 |
York Central | Megan Ollerhead | 288 | 0.6 |
Total | 135 | 36,195 | 0.12 |
Source: [2]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen North | Lucas Grant | 214 | 0.5 |
Basildon and Billericay | Dave Murray | 192 | 0.4 |
Birmingham Erdington | Corinthia Ward | 37 | 0.1 |
Bristol North East | Dan Smart | 399 | 1.0 |
Cardiff East | John Williams | 195 | 0.5 |
Chorley | Martin Powell-Davies | 632 | 1.9 |
Coventry East | Dave Nellist | 797 | 2.2 |
Crawley | Robin Burnham | 153 | 0.3 |
Croydon West | April Ashley | 247 | 0.6 |
Doncaster North | Andy Hiles | 212 | 0.7 |
Dundee Central | Jim McFarlane | 600 | 1.5 |
Folkestone and Hythe | Momtaz Khanom | 249 | 0.6 |
Gateshead Central and Whickham | Norman Hall | 369 | 0.9 |
Glasgow North East | Chris Sermanni | 236 | 0.7 |
Glasgow South | Brian Smith | 473 | 1.1 |
Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes | Mark Gee | 222 | 0.6 |
Ilford South | Andy Walker | 376 | 0.9 |
Islington South and Finsbury | Ethan Saunders | 215 | 0.5 |
Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham | Michael Whale | 262 | 0.7 |
Leeds Central and Headingley | Louie Fulton | 186 | 0.6 |
Liverpool Riverside | Roger Bannister | 622 | 1.9 |
Leicester West | Steve Score | 317 | 0.9 |
Mansfield | Karen Seymour | 123 | 0.3 |
Northampton South | Katie Simpson | 296 | 0.7 |
Plymouth Sutton and Devonport | Alex Moore | 220 | 0.5 |
Reading Central | Adam Gillman | 221 | 0.5 |
Sheffield Central | Isabelle France | 409 | 1.3 |
Sheffield Heeley | Mick Suter | 398 | 1.0 |
Smethwick | Ravaldeep Bath | 163 | 0.5 |
Southampton Itchen | Declan Clune | 264 | 0.7 |
Southampton Test | Maggie Fricker | 366 | 1.0 |
Southgate and Wood Green | Karl Vidol | 785 | 1.7 |
South West Devon | Ben Davy | 141 | 0.3 |
Swansea West | Gareth Bromhall | 337 | 0.9 |
Swindon North | Scott Hunter | 139 | 0.3 |
Uxbridge and South Ruislip | Gary Harbord | 223 | 0.5 |
Walthamstow | Nancy Taaffe | 561 | 1.2 |
West Ham and Beckton | Lois Austin | 190 | 0.5 |
Worcester | Mark Davies | 280 | 0.6 |
Worsley and Eccles | Sally Griffiths | 241 | 0.6 |
Total | 40 | 12,562 | 0.04 |
Source: [3]
By-election | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
2012 Manchester Central | Alex Davidson | 220 | 1.3 |
2012 Rotherham | Ralph Dyson | 261 | 1.2 |
2012 Middlesbrough | John Malcolm | 277 | 1.6 |
2013 Eastleigh | Daz Proctor | 62 | 0.1 |
Source: [4]
By-election | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
2022 Birmingham Erdington | Dave Nellist | 360 | 2.1 |
2023 Rutherglen and Hamilton West | Chris Sermanni | 178 | 0.6 |
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Dundee City East | Leah Ganley | 437 | 1.5 |
Dundee City West | Jim McFarlane | 642 | 2.3 |
Glasgow Cathcart | Brian Smith | 909 | 3.0 |
Glasgow Pollok | Ian Leech | 555 | 2.0 |
Glasgow Shettleston | Jamie Cocozza | 583 | 2.3 |
Renfrewshire North & West | Jim Halfpenny | 414 | 1.3 |
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Glasgow | Brian Smith, Sinead Daly, Oisin Duncan, Maddie Jamieson | 645 | 0.2 |
Highlands & Islands | Sean Robertson, Yolanda Piotrowicz, Luke Ivory | 280 | 0.1 |
West Scotland | Jim Halfpenny, Lynda McEwan, Ian Kerr | 479 | 0.1 |
Source: [13]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Aberdeen Donside | Lucas Grant | 240 | 0.7 |
Dundee City East | Wayne Scott | 287 | 0.9 |
Dundee City West | Jim McFarlane | 432 | 1.3 |
Source: [14]
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
South Wales Central | Ross Saunders, Sarah Mayo, Brian Lewis, Helen Jones, Andrew Price, Filipa Machado, Leanne Francis, Rae Lewis-Ayling, Nagina Kabul, Glyn Matthews, Keiron Hopkins, Rowena Mason | 830 | 0.4 |
South Wales West | Ronnie Job, Owen Herbert, Mark Evans, Les Woodward, Claire Job, Alec Thraves, Caroline Butchers, Dave Phillips, Helen Shaw, Martin White, Rob Williams, Rob Owen | 809 | 0.5 |
Source: [15]
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
South Wales Central | Ross Saunders, Mia Hollsing, Lianne Francis, Steve Williams, Helen Jones, Matthew Hatton, Catherine Peace, Seb Robyns | 736 | 0.3 |
South Wales East | Jamie Davies, Clare Gibbs, David Reid, Joshua Rawcliffe, Mohammed Miah, Rhys Pewtner | 618 | 0.3 |
South Wales West | Owen Herbert, Claire Job, John Evans, Aaron David, Ronnie Job, Emma Saunders | 686 | 0.4 |
Source: [16]
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Mid and West Wales | Carys Phillips | 257 | 0.1 |
North Wales | Michelle Francis | 164 | 0.1 |
South Wales Central | Ross Saunders, Beth Webster, Mia Hollsing, Andrew Wilkes, Kevin Gillen | 519 | 0.2 |
South Wales East | Mariam Kamish, Cammilla Mngaza, Melanie Benedict, Dave Reid | 362 | 0.2 |
South Wales West | John Evans, Karen Geraghty, Gareth Bromhall, Oisin Mulholland, Charlie Wells | 362 | 0.2 |
Source: [17]
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
London-wide | Alex Gordon, Nick Wrack, April Ashley, Sian Griffiths, Steve Hedley, Ian Leahair, Gary McFarlane, Martin Powell-Davies, Merlin Reader, Joe Simpson, Jenny Sutton, Nancy Taaffe, Jackie Turner, Lee Vernon, Lesley Woodburn, Michael Dooley, Mark Benjamin | 17,686 | 0.8 |
Source: [18]
Region | Candidates | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
London-wide | Nancy Taaffe, April Ashley, Lewis Baker, Deji Olayinka, Andrew Walker, Thea Everett, Lawanya Ramajayam, Jack Jeffery, Marvin Hay, Len Hockey, Lois Austin, Bob Law, Ferdy Lyons, Rachel Lyon, Naomi Bryan, Pete Mason, Angharad Hillier, Hugo Pierre, Brian Debus, Mira Glavardanov, Niall Mulholland, John Viner, Wally Kennedy, Paul Kershaw, Paul Scott | 9,004 | 0.3 |
Source: [19]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|
Havering & Redbridge | Andy Walker | 1,856 | 1.1 |
Lambeth & Southwark | April Ashley | 2,919 | 1.6 |
North East | Nancy Taaffe | 3,236 | 1.5 |
Source: [19]
Authority | Election | Candidate | 1st round votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Liverpool City | 2017 | Roger Bannister | 7,881 | 2.7 |
Source: [20]
Authority | Election | Candidate | 1st round votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lewisham | 2014 | Chris Flood | 1,354 | 1.9 |
Newham | 2014 | Lois Austin | 1,708 | 2.2 |
Tower Hamlets | 2014 [lower-alpha 1] | Hugo Pierre | 871 | 1.0 |
2018 | 728 | 0.9 | ||
Lewisham | 2022 | Andy Beadle | 1,620 | 2.4 |
Newham | 2022 | Lois Auston | 2,096 | 3.3 |
Tower Hamlets | 2022 | Hugo Pierre | 1,462 | 1.7 |
Hackney | 2023 [lower-alpha 2] | Anooesjka Valent | 1,265 [lower-alpha 3] | 3.4 |
Authority | Election | Candidate | 1st round votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Liverpool | 2012 | Tony Mulhearn | 4,792 | 4.9 |
Doncaster | 2013 | Mary Jackson | 1,916 | 3.1 |
Liverpool | 2016 | Roger Bannister | 4,950 | 5.1 |
Doncaster | 2017 | Steve Williams | 1,531 | 2.4 |
Liverpool | 2021 | Roger Bannister | 2,912 | 2.9 |
Authority | Election | Candidate | 1st round votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bristol | 2012 | Tom Baldwin | 1,412 | 1.6 |
Leicester | 2015 | Barbie Potter | 3,028 | 2.3 |
Bristol | 2016 | Tom Baldwin | 1,876 | 1.3 |
2021 | 3,194 | 2.3 | ||
Leicester | 2023 | Steve Score | 2,173 [lower-alpha 3] | 2.4 [lower-alpha 3] |
Authority | Election | Candidate | Votes | % |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mansfield | 2023 | Karen Seymour | 420 | 1.9 |
Source: [39]
TUSC stood 174 candidates in the May 2011 council elections. [40] In 13 seats TUSC polled over 10% and in over a quarter polled more than 5%.
TUSC stood 132 candidates in 38 councils, with 17 candidates for the London Assembly. Two TUSC-backed candidates were elected, Michael Lavalette in Preston and Peter Smith in Walsall. [41] In the council elections in England and Wales TUSC candidates averaged 6.2% of the poll. Tony Mulhearn, one of the 47 Liverpool Councillors who refused to set a budget for the council, and led a campaign of defiance of the Conservative government in the 1980s stood as the candidate for Mayor of Liverpool, coming fifth with 4.86% of the vote. In Scotland, 38 candidates stood in nine councils as the Scottish Anti-Cuts Coalition (SACC). [42] The TUSC campaign for the London Assembly was launched by Bob Crow of the RMT and Matt Wrack of the FBU, [43] and candidates included Alex Gordon, President of the RMT trade union and April Ashley a member of the UNISON National Executive.
A total of 120 candidates contested the English local elections on 2 May under the TUSC umbrella, 5% of the seats. In addition, TUSC stood a candidate in the Doncaster mayoral contest and two candidates in council by-elections that were held on the same day. It was mainly county councils up for election, largely Conservative controlled. The TUSC candidate for the mayor of Doncaster, Mary Jackson, polled 1,916 votes, achieving sixth place, ahead of the Liberal Democrats.
TUSC announced the 'biggest left-of-Labour electoral challenge in 60 years' in the 2014 local elections, fielding 561 candidates. [44] There were 53 candidates who were members of the RMT transport workers' union, 19 Communication Workers' Union members who were candidates, 18 members of the National Union of Teachers, 16 PCS members, 20 members of the university and College Union. From the big Labour-affiliated unions, there were 74 Unison members standing for TUSC and 130 members of Unite. TUSC gained two seats in Southampton with the defection of Don Thomas from Labour and the re-election of Keith Morrell, also previously Labour, as Councillors Against Cuts, [45] as well as a second seat on Maltby Town Council. The overall popular votes achieved in the campaign exceeded 68,000. [46]
TUSC lost its representation in Maltby in the autumn of 2014 with the removal of their two councillors for non-attendance, [47] and lost its Preston councillor when Michael Lavalette retired his seat. [48] However, TUSC gained two affiliated councillors in the shape of Hull Red Labour, following their expulsion from Labour in 2014. [49] In January 2015, TUSC gained a councillor in Warrington (Fairfield and Howley ward) with the defection of Kevin Bennett from Labour. [50]
TUSC renewed its promise to field the largest left-of-Labour challenge in the parliamentary and local authority elections. It bolstered its 2014 local election candidacy count by 70, bringing the total to 650. As it also fielded 135 PPCs, in every major town and city in England, Wales, and Scotland, TUSC subsequently exceeded the overall number of candidates to satisfy the BBC's fair coverage threshold, qualifying it for distribution of election material via the Royal Mail, as well as time on the major networks for the airing of a Party Election Broadcast. [51]
TUSC gained no seats (and, in one ward, no votes) and lost three anti-cuts councillors in Leicester and Hull. They retain one affiliated councillor each in Warrington, Walsall and Hull, and two in Southampton. [52]
Following the 2016 elections, TUSC had three councillors in Southampton under the banner of Coxford Putting People First, [53] Kevin Bennett having lost his seat in Warrington; [54] Hull Red Labour and Walsall Democratic Labour also lost their remaining seats.
TUSC stood a total of 78 council candidates in 24 councils across England, Scotland and Wales, contesting 71 wards or divisions. TUSC also stood candidates in two of the eight Mayoral elections held on 4 May.[ citation needed ]
Following the 2018 elections, TUSC retained at least one affiliated councillor in Coxford, Southampton, following the re-election (as Independent - Putting People First) of TUSC national steering committee member Keith Morrell. [55] Two other former Putting People First councillors also retain their seats as Independents, but the group has since dissolved. [56] Morrell resigned in 2019. [57]
TUSC claimed to have put up nearly 300 candidates in the 2021 UK local elections. [58]
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