{"id":82048,"date":"2025-05-03T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=82048"},"modified":"2025-05-03T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T06:14:00","slug":"explain-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/03\/explain-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Explain this\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/02\/i-have-to-live-with-this\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted this result<\/a> in the mayoral election where I live, yesterday:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-550x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-550x598.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37-368x400.png 368w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screenshot-2025-05-02-at-14.35.37.png 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then, later in the day, came this election result for the council covering the same area:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637-550x507.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637-550x507.jpeg 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637-326x300.jpeg 326w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637-768x707.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637-434x400.jpeg 434w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_1637.jpeg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The party that came a quite distant fourth in the mayoral election took control of the council.<\/p>\n<p>The party that regained the mayor's office lost ten seats on the council.<\/p>\n<p>How to explain this? I can only presume that Tories only voted in the mayoral election and seemed to ignore their second ballot paper. It's that, or the electoral calculus is more complicated than it superficially looks to be, at least in a county as varied as this one is, varying from the deeply rural to university-dominated seats in Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noted this result in the mayoral election where I live, yesterday: Then, later in the day, came this election result for the council covering<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/05\/03\/explain-this\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,122,203,118,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-election","category-fascism","category-labour","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82059,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82048\/revisions\/82059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}