Conservatives gain from Liberal Democrats in Vale byelection

Lee Evans won took more than 45 per cent of the vote in the Stanford byelection on Thursday, March 26 with 666 votes.

Liberal Democrats came in second with 395 votes making up a 27.2 per cent of the share and Reform came in third with 261 votes (18 per cent).

Labour won just 14 votes to not even take one per cent of the voters backing, while the green took almost eight per cent (115 votes). Turnout was 43.4 per cent.

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Mr Evans, who was already a county councillor, said: “I am thrilled and honoured to have been elected as the new district councillor for the Stanford ward.

“I am really honoured by the trust placed in me and I’ll work hard to deliver for local residents on the district council.”

Conservative leader Liam Walker said: “I’m so pleased for Cllr Lee Evans who works so hard as a county Councillor and is now a district Councillor.

“I was out helping Lee this morning and it was clear the Lib Dems were worried. As they should be. They’re ruining Oxfordshire and residents are quite rightly not happy about it.

“Only Conservative councillors are standing up for the interests of residents and holding the Lib Dems to account. Change is coming.”