Labour Celebrating another win on Thursday night ( Photograph courtesy of Derby Evening Telegraph)

Despite attempts by the Tories to play down the significance of Thursday's election results it cannot be ignored that this was Labour's performance in Amber Valley for 10 years and the is a great building block to take control of the Council back in 2014.There were two losers on election night the Tories and the BNP.

The size of Labour's achievement can be seen from the fact that of the 24095 vote cast ( including the by election) Labour obtained 50.02%, the Tories 36.36%, Lib Dems 4.82%, BNP 4.41%, UKIP 1.61% Greens 1.37%, Ind 0.88% and National Front  0.41%. This could have a significant impact on the County Council elections next year.

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Whilst the Local Tories and indeed the Prime Minister are celebrating clinging on to Amber Valley by their fingernails an analysis of the results shows that they have nothing to be cheerful about and the public have no confidence in the Tory administration.

Labour not only won four seats from the Tories in Langley Mill & Aldercar, Ironville & Riddings ,Ripley and Ripley & Marehay  but came from 3rd place in Heanor East to win.

In the 10 seats they did win on the night Labour received over 50 % of the votes cast in 7 of the 15 seats .The Tory vote fell in all but one of the 15 seats and in all but two seats Labour had a double digit swing

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