The Ashfield Independents have secured another landslide majority on the district council despite difficulties including one of their councillors being convicted since the last election. The counting of votes at the new Kirkby Leisure Centre, which began at 10pm on Thursday (May 4), initially saw some difficult results for the Ashfield Independents as the Conservative and Labour party each made a gain.
But the party then began to make successive gains and hold current seats, with the victory of Tom Hollis being the one which took them to the key number of 18 councillors needed to form an overall majority. The re-election of Councillor Hollis comes despite his conviction in court last year for careless driving and harassment offences.
But speaking about whether such issues came up during the campaign, Ashfield Independents leader Jason Zadrozny said: "We've had all sorts come up because obviously everybody tried to use things against us and social media has become a bit of a nasty place to be, but I think people have seen through that. This was a council election and it's about council issues.
