Local Election 2006 GREEN VOTE SHARE IN BRENT AND HARROW *

BRENT WARD % % change from 2002 LE seat change L.W.V.**
Kensal Green 19.7 (3rd) +4.9 Lab hold 51.8%
Mapesbury 15.3 +1.2 Lib Dem gain 3 52.1%
Brondesbury Park 14.8 +1.3 Lib Dem gain 2 42.8%
Queen's Park 14.5 (3rd) -3.8 Lib Dem gain 3 52.0%
Kilburn 14.2 (3rd) -2.1 Lib Dem gain 2 45.3%
Willesden Green 14.1 (3rd) +0.6 Lib Dem gain 2 35.8%
Barnhill 11.8 +5.3 Con hold
Harlesden 11.5 +2.2 Lab hold
Dudden Hill 11.4 +1.5 Lib Dem gain 3
Northwick Park 8.3 +5.0 Con hold
Welsh Harp 8.0 +1.7 Lab hold
Preston 7.9 N/A Con hold
Kenton 7.8 N/A Con hold
Stonebridge 7.5 N/A Lab hold
Fryent 6.9 +0.2 Lab hold
Queensbury 6.7 N/A Con gain 3
Dollis Hill 6.2 -0.9 Lib Dem gain 1
Sudbury 6.0 N/A Lib Dem hold
Wembley Central 4.8 N/A Lib Dem hold
Tokyngton 4.5 N/A Lab gain 2
Lib Dem gain 1
Alperton 4.3 N/A Lib Dem hold
HARROW WARD
Greenhill 14.8 N/A Con hold
Wealdstone 13.1 N/A Lab hold
Rayners Lane 8.0 N/A Lib Dem gain 1
Headstone South 7.0 N/A Lab hold
Notes:
* CALCULATING VOTE SHARE IN MULTIPLE VACANCY CONTESTS. In many cases we are still fielding a single candidate in wards where three seats are up for election. This means that the vote of a Green candidate as a proportion of the total number of votes (Xs) cast in their ward may be small compared with our 'true' levels of support. To obviate this we calculate the average vote of a candidate from each Party and work out each Party's percentage of the total of these. As an example, if the votes are as follows: Labour 1,517 Lab 1,420 Lab 1,397; Green 656; Con 311 Con 266 Con 237; LD 199 LD 189 LD 180; TOTAL = 6,372; Green share of total votes (Xs) cast = 10.3%; Labour's = 68.01%. By alternative method: Average number of votes per Green candidate = 656; Average number of votes per Labour candidate = 1,444.66; Average number of votes per Conservative candidate = 271.33; Average number of votes per Lib Dem candidate = 189.33; TOTAL OF AVERAGES = 2,561.3. Here Green vote share = 656 divided by (2561.32 / 100 ) = 25.61%; Labour vote share = 56.40%. There's an assumption here that the number of votes for one Green is similar to what two others would have got if there had been running mates, but it's the same method that respected academics who study local election results use.
** The other thing to look at is what proportion of the Lowest Winning Vote our candidate(s) got. In the above example the Green got 656. The lowest-placed elected candidate was the Labour one with 1,397 votes. So the Green got 46.96% (nearly half) of the votes required to get elected.