2010 United Kingdom general election a troubled Labour campaign. Postal voters in the marginal Vale of Glamorgan constituency had to be issued with new ballot papers after mistakenly being told they did not have to sign applications for postal votes. A group of entrepreneurs warned on the dangers of a Labour-Liberal coalition in an open letter to "The Times" on 29 April. Gordon Brown, while in his Prime Ministerial Car on 28 April, privately described a 65-year-old woman and lifelong Labour voter, Gillian Duffy, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, a Labour-Liberal Democrat marginal seat, as a "bigoted woman". She had asked him about vulnerable people supposedly
2012 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election Farnell and Allen Brett. It also produced Rochdale's youngest ever councillor in Liam O'Rourke. These results also led to the resignation of local Liberal Democrat leader Wera Hobhouse. After the election, the composition of the council was: "In 2008 Peter Evans stood in this ward as a Liberal Democrat." "In 2008, Mohammad Sharif stood in this ward for the Liberal Democrats." "Maureen Rowbothan stood for the ward in 2008 as a Labour candidate." "Jean Ashworth stood for the ward in 2008 as a Liberal Democrat." 2012 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election The 2012 Rochdale Council election took place on 3