Labour win Coventry Lower Stoke by-election

Labour retained their 16 seat majority on Coventry City Council with a comfortable win in the Lower Stoke by-election.

The poll - called following the death of former Lord Mayor Jack Harrison - was won by 59-year-old mother of two Catherine Miks.

She was 803 votes ahead of second placed candidate, Conservative Jaswant Singh Birdi.

The turnout was just 18.51 per cent.

Results:

Jaswant Singh Birdi Conservative Party 563

Robert McArdle Socialist Alternative 254

Catherine Elizabeth Miks Labour Party 1366

Keith Oxford British National Party 149

Laura Vesty Green Party 114

Mark Edward Widdop Liberal Democrat 79