{"id":5377,"date":"2017-05-05T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5377"},"modified":"2017-05-05T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T17:43:21","slug":"local-election-county-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5377","title":{"rendered":"Local Election &#8211; County Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Wallace holds Blackmore Vale with an increased vote of 495 . His total was \u00a01905. The turnout was 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Somerset Tories \u00a0improved their majority on the council, but John Osman, Council Leader, lost his seat in Wells<\/p>\n<p><strong>Somerset County Council (gain\/losses in brackets)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives 35 (+4)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liberal Democrats 12 (-2)<\/li>\n<li>Labour3 (-)<\/li>\n<li>Independent Group 3 (+1)<\/li>\n<li>Green Party 2 (+2)<\/li>\n<li>UK Independence Party 0 (-3)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Conservative Group now has an overall majority of 15 seats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5380\">Blackmore Vale &#8211; County Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blackmore Vale Ward by election &#8211; South Somerset District Council. &#8211; conservative win for Hayward Burt.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5386\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=5386\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Eletion-17SSDC.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"726,186\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Richard&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1493999676&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Eletion 17SSDC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Eletion-17SSDC.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5386\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Eletion-17SSDC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Eletion-17SSDC.jpg 726w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2017\/05\/Eletion-17SSDC-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The Blog congratulates William Wallace on his increased majority on a higher turnout. And Hayward Burt on his first victory in Somerset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Wallace holds Blackmore Vale with an increased vote of 495 . His total was \u00a01905. The turnout was 40%. Somerset Tories \u00a0improved their majority on the council, but John Osman, Council Leader, lost his seat in Wells Somerset County Council (gain\/losses in brackets) Conservatives 35 (+4) Liberal Democrats 12 (-2) Labour3 (-) Independent Group &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Local Election &#8211; County Council&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1oJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5407,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5377\/revisions\/5407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}