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Surprises? You can say that again, Jeff, but also a sense of déjà vu.
The surprises come in various guises. The occasional, unexpected Labour gain for instance (notwithstanding their five loses to the Conservative Party).
Bywell’s newly-elected 25-year-old Labour councillor Holly Waddell narrowly snatched her seat from incumbent Conservative councillor Stephen John Westgarth, 981 to 924.
Kelly Angus, Northumberland s returning officer announces one of the results.
The Greens secured not only their first seat but their second on the same night. Martin Swinbank, newly elected Green Party councillor for Alnwick, replaces former councillor, now Tory MP, Robbie Moore.
Then the déjà vu set in, but curiously we did not know it at first.