How to pronounce“byelection”in English

byelections you mentioned the lip Dems of course the lip Dems you know lost their deposit in tanworth and and didn't make the any progress in mid

to byelections there can be that sense of who do you want to run the country rather than delivering a verdict on the government of the day but it's also

Kat these byelections were build as mail biters close tense in the end they

slashed in each byelections do often throw up surprises these ones could leave behind some significant political aftershocks Helen Kat BBC News well lots

lost both the byelections um we had great candidates in Festus Aken basya and Andy Cooper I think we had good campaigns I think the

or so byelections over the past couple of years and in each of them there was seemed to be one main party that had the most chance of housting the

mean of course as you say the first byelection of K st's government and that is going to be a hotly contested one his constituency was ranor and hsby and I

been blown away by not just these two byelections but the byelection in RG Glenn in Scotland a few weeks ago and some of the byelections in the summer

because of of course we already all know that byelections come with their own particular set of circumstances but still you know they are important

the conservatives have suffered crushing defeats in two byelections overnight with labor overturning substantial majorities in both mid Bedford and

inescapable that there are some Trends in the recent byelections there are Trends in the polls to they are all very good news for the labor party and

looks like they do have a chance now certainly if these byelections are anything to go by you also have Tory heartlands in the south of England where

labor and so if you look at something like uh the Blackpool South byelection the uh the conservatives only narrowly held off reform with with reform coming

ahead of themselves this morning but there is a pattern emerging there are four byelections in a row now if you take Oxbridge to the side and assume

that that's a slightly different one because of some local factors there are four byelections in a row Selby rgin Tamworth and mid beder where there's

resign as an MP I think he said as soon as possible um so then we will find out exactly when that byelection date happens and then it would be up to labor

happened was because the last time he done one of those big street moments was after George Galloway had won that byelection and he wanted to do a big

witnessed that um or heard that from your candidates well I think there's a lot of Fury about the background to the byelections what caused those

know I think it is a lot of work for us to do um but these are low turnout byelections governments traditionally don't win byelections and that was the