• Two Conservative defeats in council by-elections.
• Conservatives lose seat to Greens in this week’s by-election.
• Conservative council by-election losses continue.
• Liberal Democrats gain council by-election from Conservatives.
• Full slate of Lib Dem candidates in this week’s by-elections.

There have been five weeks of council by-elections and deferred elections from May to report on. They saw one Lib Dem gain.

These results mean the Conservatives are already down a net five seats in the 2022-2023 cycle of council by-elections. Full details here.

Elsewhere, the leader of East Devon Council has joined the Liberal Democrats, as has a Conservative councillor in the East Riding along with two Conservative councillors in Folkestone.