1999 Pendle Borough Council election

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The 1999 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to no overall control. [1]

Contents

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Campaign

Before the election the Liberal Democrats ran the council with 30 councillors, compared to 17 Labour, 3 Conservatives and 1 independent. [3] 17 seats were being contested in the election, with the Liberal Democrats defending 12 and Labour 5. [3] 4 sitting councillors stood down at the election, 2 each from the Liberal Democrat and Labour parties. [3]

The only candidate not from the three main parties was Peter Hartley, who stood as an independent green in Vivary Bridge ward, [3] but during the campaign it was reported that he was actually living in Sheffield and standing as a candidate there as well. [4]

Election results

The results saw the Liberal Democrats lose their majority on the council after 4 years in control. [5] [6] The Liberal Democrats lost 4 seats to the Conservatives and a further 3 to the Labour Party, [6] meaning that the Liberal Democrats fell to 23 seats, Labour rose to 20, the Conservatives to 7 and there remained 1 independent. [7] The Liberal Democrats said the other two parties had worked together to target Liberal Democrat held seats, but this was denied by the Conservative and Labour parties. [8]

The Labour gains came in the wards of Craven, Vivary Bridge and Whitefield, while the Conservatives took the seats of Barrowford, Earby, Foulridge and Reedley. [7] All 4 Conservatives gains were by women, meaning the Conservative group leader Roy Clarkson then had 6 female Conservative councillors in his council group. [7] Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats only narrowly held a further 2 seats after recounts, Edwina Sargeant holding Waterside by 9 votes and Ian Gilhespy retaining Horsfield by a single vote. [7]

Following the election the parties were unable to agree on who should run the council. [9] As a result, the council meeting after the election had no nominations for leader of the council. [9] The Liberal Democrats voted down an attempt by Labour to take minority control and instead the councillors voted to rotate the chairmanship of the main committees over the next 12 months between the three parties. [9]

Pendle local election result 1999 [10] [11]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 830+347.140.79,060+2.1
  Liberal Democrats 507-729.438.28,520-3.4
  Conservative 440+423.521.04,672+1.2
 An Independent Green Candidate00000.00.129+0.1

Ward results

Barrowford [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Linda Crossley59538.6+9.6
Liberal Democrats Paul Carrins50933.1−12.1
Labour Anthony Hargreaves43628.3+2.6
Majority 865.6
Turnout 1,54032.4−1.1
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Boulsworth [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Robertson64954.6−5.6
Conservative Richard Wood28624.1+7.1
Labour David Foat25421.4−1.5
Majority 36330.5−6.8
Turnout 1,18928.1+0.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Bradley [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Frederick Hartley94051.1+1.7
Liberal Democrats Mohammed Munir81544.3+4.8
Conservative Janet Riley854.6−6.5
Majority 1256.8−3.1
Turnout 1,84051.1+9.8
Labour hold Swing
Brierfield [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Sajjad Karim57838.2+28.0
Labour Anthony Martin56237.1−17.6
Conservative Zita Lord37324.7−10.3
Majority 161.1
Turnout 1,51346.7+11.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Clover Hill [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Colin Waite68169.0+10.9
Conservative Frank Chadwick22322.6+3.8
Liberal Democrats David French838.4−14.7
Majority 45846.4+11.4
Turnout 98728.6−1.5
Labour hold Swing
Coates [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Margaret Bell67453.8−3.4
Labour John Edwards43434.7+5.8
Conservative Morris Horsfield14411.5−2.4
Majority 24018.2−10.0
Turnout 1,25232.5+1.2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Craven [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Frank Neal54945.8+17.0
Liberal Democrats Alison Whipp46939.1−15.5
Conservative Mark Langtree18015.0−1.5
Majority 806.7
Turnout 1,19829.9+1.2
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Earby [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rosemary Carroll77842.7+3.2
Liberal Democrats Timothy Haigh75641.5−2.2
Labour Jean Skinner28915.9−0.9
Majority 221.2
Turnout 1,82342.3+4.5
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Foulridge [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Carol Belshaw24751.8
Liberal Democrats Peter Moss16634.8
Labour Martin Wilson6413.4
Majority 8117.0
Turnout 47742.0
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Horsfield [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ian Gilhespy44943.0−10.3
Labour David Johns44842.9−3.8
Conservative Smith Benson14714.1+14.1
Majority 10.1−6.5
Turnout 1,04430.9−2.1
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Marsden [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Azhar Ali61461.9−10.1
Conservative Michael Landriau27928.1+0.1
Liberal Democrats William Masih9910.0+10.0
Majority 33533.8−10.1
Turnout 99227.8+6.4
Labour hold Swing
Reedley [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tonia Barton65550.5−6.6
Liberal Democrats Allan Buck45935.4+15.8
Labour Mohammed Razaq18314.1−9.2
Majority 19615.1−18.7
Turnout 1,29735.8+2.1
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Southfield [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sheena Dunn58756.4−18.0
Liberal Democrats Michael Le-Page23622.7+22.7
Conservative Peter Wildman21820.9−4.7
Majority 35133.7−15.2
Turnout 1,04132.2+3.7
Labour hold Swing
Vivary Bridge [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Julie Hunting72150.1+5.1
Liberal Democrats John Beck55538.6−8.7
Conservative Geoffrey Riley1339.2+1.6
An Independent Green CandidatePeter Hartley292.0+2.0
Majority 16611.5
Turnout 1,43834.3+4.8
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Walverden [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Judith Robinson70751.3+18.2
Liberal Democrats Lawrence Collett53438.7−13.4
Conservative Ann Tattersall13810.0−4.9
Majority 17312.5
Turnout 1,37946.7+1.9
Labour hold Swing
Waterside [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Edwina Sargeant57947.0+3.4
Labour Ian Tweedie57046.3−3.1
Conservative Adrian Mitchell826.7−0.3
Majority 90.7
Turnout 1,23138.4+3.2
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Whitefield [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mohammed Ansar1,02150.0+6.7
Liberal Democrats Ghulam Rasool91044.6−7.1
Conservative Frank Hook1095.3+0.3
Majority 1115.4
Turnout 2,04066.0+6.0
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

References

  1. ↑ "Pendle". BBC News Online . Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  2. ↑ "How Britain voted: Council Election Results". The Independent . 8 May 1999. p. 12.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Pendle Council election candidates". Lancashire Telegraph . 10 April 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "Green Pete the Poet up the poll twice". Lancashire Telegraph . 16 April 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  5. ↑ "Local elections: Overall Liberal control lost in Pendle on night of upsets". Lancashire Telegraph . 7 May 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  6. 1 2 "Polls only a slight tonic for the Blues". Lancashire Telegraph . 7 May 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Elections: Girl power as Roy's angels oust liberals". Lancashire Telegraph . 7 May 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  8. ↑ "Pre-election pact claim is denied". Lancashire Telegraph . 12 May 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  9. 1 2 3 "Pendle: A council without a leader". Lancashire Telegraph . 21 May 1999. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "Election results". Pendle Borough Council. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
  11. ↑ "How the nations voted". The Times . 8 May 1999. p. 48.
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