Reform wins vacant town council seat in Wellingborough by-election
Gavin Beales has successfully won a seat on Wellingborough Town Council after an election took place yesterday (November 20).
Votes were counted today (November 21), with Reform UK’s Gavin Beales taking the seat with 403 votes.
Conservative Party’s Vinod Vaghela finished second with 322 votes, Labour’s William Inskip third with 186 votes, and the Green Party’s Faris Ayoub finished third with 172 votes. Of the 1085 ballot papers issued, two were void.
The turnout was 9.5 per cent of the 11,469 Wellingborough ward electorate.
As a councillor for Wellingborough’s Brickhill and Queensway ward, he now joins Maria Alexandra, Allan Shipham, Paul Bell, Graham Lawman, Sylvia Erskine, and Chris Ashton.
The seat became vacant after the resignation of Labour’s Scott Fitzsimmons in September.