Local Elections 2008
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By-elections
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- 3rd January 2008: Cambridgeshire (Roman Bank and Peckover); Welwyn Hatfield (Welham Green).
- 10th January 2008: North West Leicestershire (Ibstock and Heather).
- 24th January 2008: Basingstoke and Deane (Baughurst); Sandwell (Newton).
- 31st January 2008: Kennet (Upavon); North Lanarkshire (Kilsyth).
- 7th February 2008: East Lindsey (Roughton); Great Yarmouth (Bradwell South and Hopton); Hertfordshire (Harpenden South West); Lancashire (Thornton Cleveleys Central); Newcastle-under-Lyme (Butt Lane); Portsmouth (Copnor); West Devon (Tavistock North); Wiltshire (Holt and Paxcroft; Trowbridge East); Wycombe (Marlow North and West); Wyre (Victoria).
- 13th February 2008: Dartford (Princes).
- 14th February 2008: East Staffordshire (Stretton); Moray (Elgin City South); Preston (Tulketh); Waltham Forest (Leyton).
- 21st February 2008: Camden (Fortune Green); Corby (Oakley Vale); Perth and Kinross (Highland).
- 28th February 2008: Bromsgrove (Slideslow); Ellesmere Port and Neston (Westminster); Shetland (Lerwick South); Sutton (Cheam); Tynedale (Hexham Gilesgate).
- 6th March 2008: Haringey (Highgate); South Lanarkshire (Cambuslang East); Warwickshire (Lawford and New Bilton).
- 13th March 2008: Brent (Queens Park); Cotswold (Water Park); Harrow (Marlborough); Middlesbrough (Gresham; Marton West); Oxfordshire (Grove and Wantage; Wallingford); Telford and Wrekin (Horsehay and Lightmoor; Wrockwardine).
- 20th March 2008: Arun (Yapton); Havering (Gooshays); Lambeth (Vassall); St Edmundsbury (Haverhill North).
- 27th March 2008: Hertfordshire (Bedwell); Stevenage (Pin Green); Wellingborough (Redwell West).
- 3rd April 2008: East Devon (Dunkeswell); Fenland (Parson Drove and Wisbech St Mary).
- 10th April 2008: Herefordshire (Old Gore); North East Derbyshire (Holmewood and Heath).
- 17th April 2008: Eden (Morland); Suffolk (Stowmarket North and Stowupland).
- 24th April 2008: Dover (Little Stour and Ashstone); Hinckley and Bosworth (Hinckley Castle).
- 1st May 2008: Aberdeenshire (Troup); Barnet (Hale); Bournemouth (Queen's Park; Winton East); Cambridgeshire (Romsey); Camden (Highgate); Castle Point (Canvey Island South); Cheshire (Abbey; Abbey); Ealing (Greenford Broadway); Hammersmith and Fulham (Sands End); Kensington and Chelsea (Brompton); Mid Bedfordshire (Flitwick East); Oswestry (Sweeney and Trefonen); Oxfordshire (Kidlington and Yarnton); Somerset (Mendip North East); Staffordshire (Newcastle Rural); Taunton Deane (Comeytrowe); Tower Hamlets (Millwall; Weavers); Vale Royal (Leftwich and Kingsmead); Wansbeck (Ashington Central); West Somerset (Alcombe East).
- 8th May 2008: Medway (Rochester South and Horsted).
- 15th May 2008: Poole (Branksome East).
- 29th May 2008: Mendip (Shepton East; Street North); Somerset (Shepton Mallet); South Somerset (Chard Crimchard).
- 5th June 2008: Allerdale (All Saints); Forest Heath (Red Lodge); Newark and Sherwood (Edwinstowe); Shropshire (Market Drayton); Uttlesford (Great Dunmow North).
- 9th June 2008: Braintree (Braintree East; Hatfield Peverel).
- 12th June 2008: East Sussex (Bexhill King Offa); Gloucestershire (Brockworth); Harlow (Harlow Common); Oxford (Holywell); Rother (Collington); Waltham Forest (Forest).
- 19th June 2008: New Forest (Ringwood South); North Tyneside (Monkseaton North); Wellingborough (Wollaston); Wyre (Great Eccleston).
- 26th June 2008: Blackpool (Park); Welwyn Hatfield (Hatfield Central).
- 3rd July 2008: Barking and Dagenham (Chadwell Heath); Derbyshire (Eckington); Havering (South Hornchurch); Mid Sussex (Burgess Hill St Andrews); North East Derbyshire (Killamarsh West; Unstone); Rother (Sackville).
- 10th July 2008: Blyth Valley (Croft); Caerphilly (Risca West); Canterbury (Barton); Ceredigion (Aberystwyth Rheidol); Chichester (Bury); Great Yarmouth (Bradwell South and Hopton); Kirklees (Dalton); Redbridge (Cranbrook); Stafford (Common); West Wiltshire (Trowbridge Central); Wigan (Wigan West).
- 17th July 2008: Derwentside (Castleside); Hillingdon (Townfield); Redditch (Batchley); Wealden (Uckfield New Town); Worcestershire (Arrow Valley East).
- 24th July 2008: Boston (Coastal); Derby (Darley); Ipswich (Castle Hill); Mid Sussex (Hurstpierpoint and Downs); Newark and Sherwood (Magnus); Telford and Wrekin (Muxton); Westminster (Church Street).
- 30th July 2008: Bexley (Christchurch).
- 31st July 2008: Cardiff (Pentyrch); Cherwell (Kirtlington); Gateshead (Whickham South and Sunniside); Lincolnshire (Louth Wolds); Oadby and Wigston (Oadby Uplands); Suffolk Coastal (Witnesham).
- 7th August 2008: Maldon (Maldon North); Nottingham (Wollaton West); Richmondshire (Newsham with Eppleby).
- 14th August 2008: Rhondda Cynon Taf (Cilfynydd).
- 28th August 2008: Rotherham (Wickersley); Shrewsbury and Atcham (Pimhill).
- 4th September 2008: Barrow-in-Furness (Newbarns); Harborough (Broughton Astley—Broughton); Havant (Waterloo); Melton (Melton Egerton).
- 11th September 2008: Guildford (Stoke); Harrogate (New Park); Redcar and Cleveland (Guisborough).
- 18th September 2008: Glasgow (Baillieston); Leeds (Farnley and Wortley); Pembrokeshire (St Dogmaels); Suffolk (Woodbridge); Suffolk Coastal (Riverside).
- 25th September 2008: Camden (Hampstead Town); Chiltern (Chalfont St Giles); Greenwich (Plumstead); Stevenage (Pin Green); Swale (Minster Cliffs; Sheerness East); Wealden (Alfriston); Winchester (Colden Common and Twyford).
- 2nd October 2008: Braintree (Witham West); Herefordshire (Leominster South); Hillingdon (West Ruislip); Lincolnshire (Bourne Abbey); Redcar and Cleveland (Kirkleatham); Swale (Teynham and Lynsted); Taunton Deane (Ruishton and Creech).
- 9th October 2008: Bristol (St George West); Cheshire (Knutsford; Knutsford); East Hampshire (Holybourne and Froyle); Haringey (Alexandra); Isle of Wight (Mount Joy); Kent (Herne Bay); Southwark (Rotherhithe); West Lindsey (Middle Rasen).
- 12th October 2008: Oswestry (Castle).
- 16th October 2008: Kirklees (Dewsbury East); Redcar and Cleveland (South Bank); Tewkesbury (Churchdown Brookfield); Watford (Tudor).
- 23rd October 2008: Charnwood (Loughborough Dishley and Hathern); Chichester (East Wittering); East Dorset (Alderholt); Merthyr Tydfil (Town); Ribble Valley (Billington and Old Langho); Spelthorne (Ashford East); Westminster (Lancaster Gate); Wolverhampton (Wednesfield North; Wednesfield South).
- 30th October 2008: Allerdale (St John's); Brentwood (Hutton South); Camden (Kentish Town); South Oxfordshire (Thame North).
- 6th November 2008: Edinburgh (Forth); Glasgow (Baillieston); Rutland (Whissendine); Waltham Forest (Valley).
- 13th November 2008: Boston (Fenside); Darlington (North Road); Hinckley and Bosworth (Markfield, Stanton and Fieldhead); Wokingham (Coronation).
- 20th November 2008: South Cambridgeshire (Teversham); Tower Hamlets (Mile End East).
- 27th November 2008: Cambridgeshire (Hardwick); Devon (Exminster and Kenton); Teignbridge (Kenn Valley); Walsall (Birchills Leamore).
- 4th December 2008: Bradford (Bingley); Braintree (The Three Colnes); Colchester (Birch and Winstree); Rugby (Avon and Swift); Waltham Forest (Hale End and Highams Park).
- 11th December 2008: East Ayrshire (Ballochmyle); Fenland (Parson Drove and Wisbech St Mary); Hillingdon (Northwood); Newark and Sherwood (Clipstone); North Ayrshire (Kilbirnie and Beith).
- 18th December 2008: Cumbria (Kells and Sandwith); Isle of Wight (Newchurch); North Somerset (Weston-super-Mare Clarence and Uphill); North West Leicestershire (Ibstock and Heather); Rhondda Cynon Taf (Glyncoch).
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