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Congratulations to Veronica Oakeshott, the successful Labour candidate, and commiserations to the rest.
A big Labour win was never in doubt, but it is still surprising to see the party increasing its share of the vote, albeit on a very low turnout – just 21% of electors made it to the polls.
But the bigger surprise is the collapse of the Tory vote – down more than 12 percentage points – and the Liberals coming (a very distant) second. Bear in mind that in the 2014 general election the LibDems lost their deposits in both Newham seats and couldn’t even find a paper candidate to put up in the Stratford by-election.
The Greens also did a little better than their 2014 result would have suggested – they polled around 3% in East Ham. I think they’ll be reasonably pleased.
But for UKIP, this is a truly dismal result – though one that will hearten the rest of us. The hard right has never amounted to much in Newham and this continues that happy record.
forestgatedotnet 
please don’t be too complacent about nazis…and proto nazis like ukip..the east end has a history..hopefully corbyn’s on a roll..but so is islamaphobia and racism…how did the black or asian labour candidate do?
The other two Labour councillors for Boleyn ward are Harvinder Singh Virdee and Obaid Khan.