Camborne Pendarves by-election results

The Conservative Party won the two Camborne Pendarves by-elections which took place yesterday.

It was a heavily contested election and I would like to pay tribute to our candidates, Zoe Fox and Julia Prosser, who lead a team which worked really hard. I am disappointed for both of them that we failed to poll a higher share of the vote.

The Cornwall Council result was:

Conservative – 325 (30.3%)
Liberal Democrat – 311 (29.0%)
Labour – 220 (20.5%)
UKIP – 89 (8.3%)
Zoe Fox (Mebyon Kernow) – 85 (7.9%)
Green – 31 (2.9%)
Independent – 13 (1.2%)

Sadly for us, our share of the poll was considerably down on the result in 2013, when we polled 19.6%.

We polled much better in the town council contest however, achieving an additional one hundred votes.

The result was:

Conservative – 379 (35.7%)
Liberal Democrat – 272 (25.6%)
Labour – 226 (21.2%)
Julia Prosser (Mebyon Kernow) – 185 (17.4%)

In percentage terms, this is much better than the last town council by-election in the Pendarves ward which took place on the same day as the General Election when we polled 11%. [In that election, the full result was: Conservative – 841, Labour – 544 , UKIP – 520, Mebyon Kernow – 236.]