Council elections - plurality vs one third voting
Analysis I've seen of the local election results has been mainly focused on a basic comparison of seats won/lost.
I haven't seen any breakdowns that account for councils that had a wholesale vote of all councillor seats vs those that only had a third of seats up for election.
Reform won more seats, but if seats won is normalised against seats available do things look any different?
I'm wondering what proportion of councils Reform did well in had all 3 seats available this election vs those Green did?
And what is the picture if results are normalised to the same number of seats per council?
I wonder because it anecdotally feels like some of the city councils that Greens did particularly well in work on the 'one third each year' approach, but some of the suburban/large town councils where Reform are doing well had a larger proportion of having all 3 available.
Does anyone know what the results would look like if all 3 councillor slots had been up for re-election, if things were extrapolated?
I dunno, I feel like a lot of talk about how Reform absolutely stonked it and how the Green wave apparently failed to materialise (media narrative anyway), might not be based on standardised results?
Not seen anyone raise this, so interested to know if anyone has seen or heard anything along these lines. Mainly I'd love to see the numbers
Edit: if anyone knows where I can get the data to do this analysis that would also be great - I tried to find it but it seems it isn't that easy and would require searching for info council by council (which I'd rather not have to if there's an easier way, or someone else has already done it!)