Manifesto delivery tracker
Swale Borough Council
Pledge-by-pledge tracking of what the controlling party committed to at the most recent Swale election against what has actually been delivered. Scored per the Kent Council Scorecard methodology — KEPT, PARTIAL, BROKEN, PENDING, or OUT_OF_SCOPE — with full right-of-reply for the council.
Tracked pledges
- ✅ Kept
Run the council via a cross-party Labour + Swale Independents + Greens coalition that ends Conservative single-party control
KLN judgement
Three-party rainbow coalition has run the council continuously since May 2023, with cabinet posts shared across coalition partners.
- ⏳ Pending
Tackle the local impact of the cost-of-living crisis through targeted council support
KLN judgement
Specific schemes + uptake data to be reviewed; baseline at FY 2022/23.
- ⏳ Pending
Deliver on climate and environment commitments through the coalition's shared programme
KLN judgement
Specific climate-action plan progress + carbon reporting to be reviewed at the next published environmental report.
How KLN tracks pledges
- Curate each council's pledge list from manifesto + election material at the most recent election.
- Each pledge gets a permalink, source citation, date, KLN's judgement, and supporting evidence.
- Council leadership receives the preliminary tracker 14 days before publication for factual correction (longer than the 7-day window for data metrics).
- Council's response published verbatim alongside any pledge where they choose to provide one.
- Pledges re-evaluated quarterly; status changes logged.
Full methodology including categorisation criteria + score formula: Metric 9 — Manifesto delivery.
Spotted a pledge we should track, or have evidence on one we're assessing? editor@kentlocalnews.co.uk.