Neck and Neck in Fairfield

2.16.52pm GMT Sat 3rd Dec 2005

Party affiliation of Fairfield councillors since 2002.

The Fairfield by-election is increasingly between Lib Dem Michael Bishopp and the Tory candidate.

With the Lib Dems and Tories each having one councillor in Fairfield, it is a two-horse race to decide who should be the third Fairfield councillor.

Whilst Labour is contesting to be elected on 15th December, they have no councillors in Fairfield, their share of the vote has gone down in every Croydon council by-election since 2002 and they have just lost the parliamentary constituency.

"Only the Lib Dems really want to represent the people of Fairfield," reflects campaign manager Tomas Howard-Jones, "The Tories don't care and Labour is nowhere."

The by-election has been caused by the resignation of one of Fairfield's Tory councillors - the second Tory councillor to do so.

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Read about the Lib Dem's campaign in Fairfield.