The 2024 Warrington Borough Council election was held on Thursday 2 May 2024 to elect members of Warrington Borough Council in England. It took place on the same day as other local elections in the United Kingdom.
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All 58 seats to Warrington Borough Council 30 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Winner of each seat at the 2024 Warrington Borough Council election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Background edit
In the 2021 Warrington Borough Council election, the Labour Party retained overall control of the council but lost 10 seats.[1] Before the election, Labour had 36 Seats and the opposition having 22 seats.[2]
Party | Seats | |
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Labour Party | 36 | |
Conservative Party | 10 | |
Liberal Democrats | 8 | |
Independents | 4 |
Councillors standing down edit
Councillor | Ward | First elected | Party | Date announced | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Russ Bowden | Birchwood | 2010 | Labour | 28 October 2023[3] | |
Cathy Mitchell | Burtonwood & Winwick | 2016 | Labour | 29 October 2023[4] | |
Amanda King | Great Sankey South | 2016 | Independent (elected Labour) | 28 January 2024[5] | |
Kath Buckley | Lymm South | 2015 | Conservative | 7 March 2024[6] | |
Wendy Maisey | Culcheth, Glazebury & Croft | 2021 | Conservative | 25 March 2024[7] | |
David Ellis | Birchwood | 2021 | Labour | 6 April 2024[8] | |
Sarah Hall | Bewsey & Whitecross | 2016 | Labour Co-op | 6 April 2024 | |
Alex Abbey | Burtonwood & Winwick | 2020 | Labour | 6 April 2024 | |
Maureen Creaghan | Poulton South | 2014 | Labour | 6 April 2024 | |
Linda Butler | Chapelford & Old Hall | 2021 | Conservative | 6 April 2024 | |
Bob Barr | Lymm North & Thelwall | 2006 | Liberal Democrats | 6 April 2024 | |
Claire Lloyd-Fitzgerald | Orford | 2021 | Labour | 6 April 2024 | |
Morgan Tarr | Orford | 2016 | Labour | 6 April 2024 | |
Andrew Hill | Rixton & Woolston | 2016 | Labour | 6 April 2024 |
There were also six Councillors who were elected in 2021 that stood in different Wards in 2024.
Councillor | Party | Ward elected to in 2021 | Ward stood in 2024 | |
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Siobhan Carr | Labour | Westbrook | Burtonwood & Winwick | |
Hilary Cooksey | Labour | Poplars & Hulme | Rixton & Woolston | |
Brian Gallagher | Labour | Westbrook | Penketh & Cuerdley | |
Helen Milner | Labour | Orford | Lymm North & Thelwall | |
Peter Walker | Liberal Democrats | Stockton Heath | Appleton | |
Jane Whalen | Labour | Great Sankey North & Whittle Hall | Appleton |
Post-election edit
The Labour Party held control of the Council, increasing their majority from 36 to 42. The Liberal Democrats became the official opposition by increasing their seats from 8 to 12. The Conservatives had the most dramatic performance, losing 9 seats and leaving only one Conservative on the Council after they became the official opposition in the 2021 Warrington Borough Council election.[9] After the election, Labour has 42 seats and the opposition have 16 seats.[10]
Party | Seats | |
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Labour Party | 42 | |
Liberal Democrats | 12 | |
Independents | 3 | |
Conservative Party | 1 |
Summary edit
Election result edit
2024 Warrington Borough Council election | ||||||||||
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Party | Candidates | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
Labour | 51 | 42 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 72.4 | 47.2 | 54,064 | +8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 19 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 20.7 | 17.2 | 19,705 | +1.2 | |
Independent | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5.2 | 6.6 | 7,598 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | 47 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 1.7 | 25.6 | 29,261 | –11.0 | |
Reform UK | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 2,045 | N/A | ||
Green | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1,822 | –0.7 |
Ward results edit
Incumbent councillors in the Ward are denoted by an asterisk (*).
Appleton edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Laura Booth | 1,999 | 66.2 | +28.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter John Walker | 1,906 | 63.1 | +26.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matt Scott | 1,440 | 47.7 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | Mark Christopher Jervis* | 1,165 | 38.6 | –8.9 | |
Conservative | Ghazala Chapman* | 1,040 | 34.4 | –12.3 | |
Conservative | Kenneth David Critchley* | 997 | 33.0 | –12.2 | |
Labour | Jane Whalen | 518 | 17.1 | +4.7 | |
Turnout | 4,110 | 39.3 | –11.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | |||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | |||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative |
Bewsey and Whitecross edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Steve Wright* | 1,151 | 71.7 | +18.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Tom Jennings* | 1,133 | 70.6 | +23.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Shireen Saeed Mohammed | 1,015 | 63.2 | +18.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Crowther | 414 | 25.8 | +8.5 | |
Conservative | Cecilia Margaret Critchley | 378 | 23.6 | +0.5 | |
Conservative | Lisa Charlotte Thompson | 365 | 22.7 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Barbara May Price | 359 | 22.4 | +4.0 | |
Turnout | 1,944 | 20.9 | –1.9 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Birchwood edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kuldeep Singh Dhillon | 1,454 | 64.0 | +11.8 | |
Labour | Balbir Kaur Dhillon | 1,448 | 63.7 | +16.0 | |
Labour | Tim Price | 1,436 | 63.2 | +26.4 | |
Conservative | Nigel William Balding* | 891 | 39.2 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Craig Peter Allen | 626 | 27.5 | –9.2 | |
Conservative | Neil Anthony Murphy | 536 | 23.6 | –1.9 | |
Reform UK | Dion Challinor | 428 | 18.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,831 | 33.1 | –2.0 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Burtonwood & Winwick edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Kevin Burgess | 841 | 54.5 | +0.4 | |
Independent | Stuart David Mann | 714 | 46.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Siobhan Carr | 614 | 39.8 | –12.8 | |
Independent | Theresa-Jane Murray | 553 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Green | Maddison Stacey Wheeldon | 198 | 12.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Stewart Anthony Gardiner | 169 | 10.9 | –20.9 | |
Turnout | 1,779 | 34.7 | –1.7 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Independent gain from Labour |
Note: One of the Independent candidates, Theresa-Jane Murray, stood in the 2021 election as a Conservative candidate.
Chapelford and Old Hall edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Steve Parish* | 1,521 | 62.8 | +21.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Paul Warburton* | 1,394 | 57.5 | +17.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Barbara Pete | 1,163 | 48.0 | +10.9 | |
Conservative | Blake Cooper | 935 | 38.6 | +0.9 | |
Conservative | Gavin Hepherd-Hall | 737 | 30.4 | –2.8 | |
Conservative | Nisha Jethalal Shah | 692 | 28.6 | –2.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Allan Keith Bird | 446 | 18.4 | –1.0 | |
Green | Bec Hutton-Reidijk | 381 | 15.7 | –0.2 | |
Turnout | 2,871 | 31.7 | –2.0 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Culcheth, Glazebury & Croft edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Matt Smith | 1,763 | 57.3 | +18.3 | |
Labour | Neil Johnson | 1,694 | 55.0 | +18.8 | |
Labour | Janet Seddon | 1,691 | 54.9 | +25.9 | |
Conservative | Carol Ruth Benson* | 1,457 | 47.3 | –1.4 | |
Conservative | Valerie Margaret Allen* | 1,374 | 44.6 | –3.7 | |
Conservative | Alicia Edwards | 1,256 | 40.8 | –5.5 | |
Turnout | 3,863 | 37.3 | –8.1 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Fairfield and Howley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jean Flaherty* | 1,271 | 89.6 | +39.1 | |
Labour | Tony Higgins* | 1,167 | 82.3 | +33.9 | |
Labour | Sagheer Zaman* | 1,049 | 74.0 | +29.5 | |
Reform UK | Dave Fowler | 423 | 29.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Daniel Thompson | 345 | 24.3 | –2.8 | |
Turnout | 1,953 | 22.0 | –1.4 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Grappenhall edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Mark Damen Browne* | 1,184 | 55.8 | +6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Helen Speed* | 1,160 | 54.7 | +12.9 | |
Conservative | Andrew Freeman | 583 | 27.5 | –11.2 | |
Conservative | Joanne Freeman | 573 | 27.0 | –2.5 | |
Labour | Dave Cundy | 463 | 21.8 | +12.2 | |
Green | Michael Caldow | 282 | 13.3 | +6.2 | |
Turnout | 2,637 | 37.8 | –11.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Janet Henshaw* | 1,365 | 55.6 | +15.2 | |
Labour Co-op | Hitesh Patel* | 1,319 | 53.7 | +14.7 | |
Labour Co-op | Marcus Cameron | 1,285 | 52.3 | +18.0 | |
Independent | Nigel John Catlow | 1,159 | 47.2 | +22.6 | |
Conservative | Julie Groom | 606 | 24.7 | –3.4 | |
Conservative | Chi Kuong-Kwan | 592 | 24.1 | –2.0 | |
Green | Stephanie Davies | 568 | 23.1 | +8.4 | |
Conservative | Brodie Mitchell | 477 | 19.4 | –2.6 | |
Turnout | 2,846 | 36.2 | –1.1 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Great Sankey South edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Laura Watson* | 1,378 | 70.8 | +10.3 | |
Labour | Mo Hussain* | 1,256 | 64.5 | +7.9 | |
Labour | Leah Hussain | 1,243 | 63.8 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Andrew David Pennington | 490 | 25.2 | –11.5 | |
Conservative | Moira Dolan | 422 | 20.0 | –12.5 | |
Conservative | Caleb Michael Lovegrove | 389 | 17.8 | –12.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony James Tobin | 346 | 17.8 | +2.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Roy Alfred Smith | 319 | 16.4 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,460 | 27.5 | –2.6 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Latchford East edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Karen Mundry* | 880 | 69.9 | +10.0 | |
Labour Co-op | Hans Josef Mundry* | 847 | 67.2 | +7.6 | |
Conservative | Heather Winifred Allan | 294 | 23.3 | –1.2 | |
Conservative | Carl Andrew Olsen | 256 | 20.3 | –4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Vicki Duncan | 242 | 19.2 | +9.5 | |
Turnout | 1,525 | 21.2 | –2.9 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Latchford West edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Maureen McLaughlin* | 915 | 59.2 | +16.1 | |
Labour Co-op | Denis James Thomas Matthews* | 875 | 56.6 | +15.9 | |
Conservative | Stephen Howard Taylor | 565 | 36.6 | –1.0 | |
Conservative | Marc Turner | 504 | 32.6 | –4.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tim Jordan | 232 | 15.0 | +5.2 | |
Turnout | 2,064 | 30.0 | –6.1 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Lymm North and Thelwall edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Ian George Marks* | 2,014 | 53.8 | +1.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bob Hignett | 1,848 | 49.3 | -2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Wendy Johnson* | 1,817 | 48.5 | +5.9 | |
Labour | Helen Charlotte Milner | 819 | 21.9 | -0.2 | |
Conservative | Carole Margaret Pemberton | 802 | 21.4 | -8.3 | |
Conservative | Sue Farrington | 687 | 18.3 | -11.4 | |
Conservative | Calum Higginson | 616 | 16.4 | -10.6 | |
Turnout | 3,945 | 36.6 | -8.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Lymm South edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Graham Farrington Gowland* | 1,144 | 47.1 | +6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Luke William Stuttard | 816 | 33.6 | -1.9 | |
Conservative | Ian Pemberton | 639 | 26.3 | -18.1 | |
Conservative | Phillip Martin Ford | 532 | 21.9 | -12.1 | |
Labour | Sara Frith | 432 | 17.8 | +2.7 | |
Turnout | 2,431 | 38.6 | -11.1 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative |
Orford edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Dave Appleton | 1,039 | 45.8 | +0.8 | |
Labour | Emily Russon | 981 | 43.2 | +0.5 | |
Labour | Robin Michael David Frith | 948 | 41.8 | +4.6 | |
Independent | Carol Kilgannon | 806 | 35.5 | N/A | |
Reform UK | Trevor Nicholls | 476 | 21.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | David Bent | 262 | 11.5 | -11.0 | |
Turnout | 2,268 | 23.2 | -3.0 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Note: The Independent candidate Carol Kilgannon stood in the 2021 election as a Conservative candidate.
Penketh and Cuerdley edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Eunice Peters | 1,144 | 33.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Jacob Barnard | 1,130 | 33.2 | +3.5 | |
Independent | Geoff Fellows* | 986 | 29.0 | -10.8 | |
Labour | Brian Gallagher | 888 | 26.1 | -3.1 | |
Labour | Martin Paul McManus | 841 | 24.7 | +1.1 | |
Independent | Craig Joseph Lenihan* | 685 | 20.1 | -18.8 | |
Independent | Andy Heaver* | 620 | 18.2 | -23.9 | |
Independent | Christine Wych | 484 | 14.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Joanne Ellen Baxter | 468 | 13.8 | -13.2 | |
Conservative | Chuck Eriobuna | 390 | 11.5 | -11.2 | |
Conservative | Paula Wilkinson | 316 | 9.3 | -10.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Katie Barr | 150 | 4.4 | +0.3 | |
Turnout | 3,402 | 36.4 | -6.4 | ||
Independent gain from Independent | |||||
Labour gain from Independent | |||||
Independent hold |
Poplars and Hulme edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Nathan Sudworth* | 1,004 | 56.5 | -1.7 | |
Labour | John Kerr-Brown* | 894 | 50.3 | -2.1 | |
Labour | Gemma Southern | 825 | 46.4 | -2.9 | |
Reform UK | Dennis James Cornwell | 402 | 22.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Anthony Douglas Muir | 278 | 15.7 | -16.4 | |
Turnout | 1,778 | 18.7 | -1.9 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Poulton North edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Graham Jeffrey Friend* | 1,259 | 47.5 | +4.3 | |
Labour | Sue Emery* | 1,172 | 44.2 | +2.7 | |
Labour | Una Bernadette Gillham* | 1,166 | 44.0 | +8.7 | |
Conservative | Michael Millington | 711 | 26.9 | -2.8 | |
Turnout | 2,650 | 27.1 | -7.0 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Poulton South edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rebecca Knowles | 841 | 52.5 | +4.2 | |
Labour | Steven Rydzkowski* | 825 | 51.5 | +5.9 | |
Conservative | Andrew David Jones | 448 | 28.0 | -8.4 | |
Turnout | 1,603 | 28.3 | -5.3 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Rixton and Woolston edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rob Tynan* | 977 | 33.9 | -8.3 | |
Labour | Hilary Cooksey | 973 | 33.8 | -5.3 | |
Labour | Laurence Sheridan | 879 | 30.5 | -5.6 | |
Conservative | Gary Rushby | 782 | 27.1 | -12.0 | |
Labour | Sheejo Varghese | 738 | 25.6 | -7.2 | |
Conservative | Howard Klein | 730 | 25.3 | -10.7 | |
Independent | Phil Eastty* | 447 | 15.5 | N/A | |
Green | Karen Wild | 393 | 13.6 | N/A | |
Reform UK | Geoffrey Siddell | 316 | 11.0 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,881 | 32.6 | -6.3 | ||
Conservative hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Note: The Independent candidate Phil Eastty was elected in the 2021 election as a Conservative candidate. He then defected to Labour.[11]
Stockton Heath edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Judith Wheeler* | 1,210 | 48.1 | +9.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sharon Harris | 1,018 | 40.4 | +2.0 | |
Labour | Laurence James Murphy | 634 | 25.2 | +5.8 | |
Conservative | Seb Sheldon | 537 | 21.3 | -12.7 | |
Conservative | Lyndsey Jane Olsen | 440 | 17.5 | -14.7 | |
Turnout | 2,518 | 39.0 | -10.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Westbrook edit
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Marc Victor Rufus | 925 | 49.8 | +15.3 | |
Labour | Kate Eglington | 846 | 45.6 | +13.2 | |
Conservative | Gavin Ruben | 573 | 30.9 | -0.7 | |
Turnout | 1,856 | 31.2 | -5.8 | ||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
References edit
- ^ "Warrington result - Local Elections 2021". BBC News. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ "Composition of the council 2023". Warrington Borough Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Warrington council leader will not stand at next election". BBC News. 28 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Deputy council leader confirms she too will not stand for re-election next year". Warrington Guardian. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ^ "Great Sankey South councillor Amanda King will not stand in elections". Warrington Guardian. 28 January 2024.
- ^ "Former Tory group leader Kath Buckley announces retirement ahead of council elections". Warrington Worldwide. 7 March 2024.
- ^ "Tory councillor announces she will not seek re-election". Warrington Guardian. 25 March 2024.
- ^ Skentelbery, Gary (6 April 2024). "Election nominations close and list of candidates revealed". Warrington Worldwide. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ "Warrington Local Elections 2024 - all the results from across town". Warrington Guardian. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Make-up of the council | warrington.gov.uk". www.warrington.gov.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
- ^ "Tory councillor makes shock switch to Labour". Warrington Guardian. 21 June 2022. Retrieved 3 June 2024.