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The 2012 United Kingdom local elections were held across England, Scotland and Wales on 3 May 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Local Elections 2012 )〕 Elections were held in 131 English local authorities, all 32 Scottish local authorities and 21 of the 22 Welsh unitary authorities, alongside three mayoral elections including the London mayoralty and the London Assembly. Referendums were also held in 11 English cities to determine whether or not to introduce directly elected mayors. All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 3 May 2012 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election. The deadline to register to vote in the election was midnight on Wednesday 18 April 2012,〔The deadline for the receipt of electoral registration applications is the eleventh working day before election day.〕 though anyone who qualified as an anonymous elector had until midnight on Thursday 26 April 2012 to register.〔The deadline for the receipt and determination of anonymous electoral registration applications was the same as the publication date of the notice of alteration to the Electoral Register (i.e. the fifth working day before election day).〕 The inaugural election of police and crime commissioners for 41 of the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales took place separately, in November 2012. ==Results== The Labour Party was seen as making strong progress across the country, by making gains in areas where the party had suffered losses at the General Election two years earlier. Their biggest prize was England's largest council, Birmingham, after ending eight years of Conservative-Liberal Democrat rule at City Hall. They also gained councils like Nuneaton & Bedworth, Southampton and Great Yarmouth from the Conservatives. Nuneaton & Bedworth had been seen as a sensational gain for the Conservatives in 2008 when Labour suffered nationally. Labour also won a clutch of councils from No Overall Control, including Norwich and Chorley. In Wales they regained control of Cardiff. In Scotland they had been expected to lose ground, but instead they retained control of their existing two councils and gained another two. The election was a bad showing for the Conservatives, who suffered their first major set of losses since coming to power in 2010. They suffered a backlash from voters after a badly received budget in March. Unlike 2011, their losses to Labour were not compensated by gains from their junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats. The party was unnerved to lose councils like Dudley to Labour, which was considered as natural middle-England territory necessary to winning a General Election. The Tories also suffered in their heartlands: in leafy West Oxfordshire they lost 4 seats to Labour, in Daventry 4 and in Peterborough they lost another 3. The only point of cheer for the party came when they gained Winchester from No Overall Control. In Wales they lost control of Monmouthshire and the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as dozens of seats in other councils. The Liberal Democrats again suffered a huge setback across the country. They fell back heavily in northern cities where they had once made gains against Labour: in Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and their leader Nick Clegg's home city of Sheffield. Just a few years earlier, they ruled in three of the four cities. In intellectual Oxford and Cambridge, they lost yet more ground to Labour. In Cambridge they lost their majority, although narrowly remained the largest party. In Scotland they had been the largest party in the capital Edinburgh, where they held 16 seats prior to the election. Afterwards they were reduced a rump of just 3, and were now the smallest delegation at City Hall. Similarly in Wales, they handed victory to Labour in Cardiff after losing their comfortable majority in the capital by shedding more than half of the seats they were defending. By contrast they fared better in straight fights with the Conservatives than was the case in 2011. On the south coast in Portsmouth and Eastleigh, for example, they made small gains. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Kingdom local elections, 2012」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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