A by-election is due to take place in north Bristol this week.
This comes after the resignation of Labour councillor Helen Godwin, who had been education chief at City Hall until she got a new job as a management consultant and quit the Bristol City Council cabinet and then as a councillor altogether before Christmas.
The Southmead ward has, almost exclusively, been a Labour stronghold for 25 years or more, but with the Green Party drawing level with Labour on 24 councillors each at last May’s full council elections, who wins the by-election on February 17 matters more than it might have done.
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