2008 Leeds City Council election

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2008 Leeds City Council election
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  2007 1 May 2008 2010  

33 of the 99 seats on Leeds City Council
(and 1 vacancy)
50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout35.76% (Decrease2.svg 1.76%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Leader Keith Wakefield Richard BrettAndrew Carter
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative
Last election15 seats, 32.5%8 seats, 19.7%7 seats, 27.0%
Seats won1398
Seats after432422
Seat changeSteady2.svg0Steady2.svg0Steady2.svg0
Popular vote56,12437,21659,722
Percentage28.67%18.89%31.41%

Leeds UK local election 2008 map.svg
Labour in red (13), Liberal Democrats in yellow (9), Conservatives in blue (8), Morley Borough Independents in dark green (2) and Greens in light green (1).

Council control before election

Coalition
Liberal Democrats and Conservatives

Council control after election

Coalition
Liberal Democrats and Conservatives

The 2008 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 1 May 2008 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England.

Contents

As per the election cycle, one third of the council's 99 seats were contested, plus an additional vacancy in Calverley and Farsley ward as Amanda Carter stood down. Those seats up for election were those of the first-placed candidate elected for every ward at the 2004 all-out election, who had been granted a four-year term to expire in 2008.

It saw the Liberal Democrat and Conservative coalition administration continue their control of the council. Despite both Labour and the Liberal Democrats winning more seats, the Conservatives won the majority of votes cast for the first time since 1992.

The Liberal Democrats regained a total of 24 seats on the council by defeating former Liberal Democrat-turn-independent and then Conservative councillor for Weetwood ward, Brian Jennings. This had followed Hyde Park and Woodhouse councillor, Kabeer Hussain, defecting from the Liberal Democrats to Labour in October 2007, who he then left less than six months later to sit as an Independent before the 2008 election. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Election result

Leeds local election result 2008 [1] [2] [4]
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 800Steady2.svg026.531.4159,722+4.41
  Labour 1300Steady2.svg038.228.6756,124-3.83
  Liberal Democrats 900Steady2.svg026.518.8937,216-0.81
  BNP 000Steady2.svg00.011.3522,094+0.15
  Green 100Steady2.svg02.93.727,449-0.18
  Morley Borough Independent 200Steady2.svg05.93.196,379+0.49
 Alliance for Green Socialism000Steady2.svg00.00.971,945+0.07
  Independent 000Steady2.svg00.00.771,532-0.03
  UKIP 000Steady2.svg00.00.91,8080.0
  English Democrat 000Steady2.svg00.00.14276-0.16

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections: [1] [2]

Party2007 electionPrior to electionNew council
Labour434343
Liberal Democrat242324 [lower-alpha 1]
Conservative2223 [lower-alpha 2] 22
Morley Borough Independent555
Green333
BNP111
Independent1 [lower-alpha 3] 1 [lower-alpha 4] 1
Total9999
Working majority -13  -13  -13 

Councillors who did not stand for re-election

Councillor/s who did not stand for re-election (3)
CouncillorWardFirst electedPartyReasonSuccessor
Amanda Carter [6]
Calverley & Farsley 1999 [lower-alpha 5] Conservative stood downJoe Marjoram (Conservative)
Elizabeth Minkin [7] Kirkstall 1988 Labour stood downLucinda Yeadon (Labour)
David Morton [8] Headingley 2000 Liberal Democrats stood downJamie Matthews (Liberal Democrats)

Incumbent Labour councillor, Sharon Hamilton (Chapel Allerton), was selected as her party's candidate for Roundhay ward and lost to the Conservative incumbent. Hamilton was later elected for Moortown in 2010.

Ward results

Adel & Wharfedale [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Barry Anderson* 4,377 57.6 +5.9
Liberal Democrats Christina Shaw2,02026.6−3.4
Labour Doreen Illingworth7279.6−2.5
BNP Jason Harland2693.5−0.1
Green Paul Marchant2022.7+2.7
Majority2,35731.0+9.4
Turnout 7,59547.6−0.1
Conservative hold Swing +4.6
Alwoodley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ronnie Feldman* 4,059 56.8 +4.6
Labour Doug Masterton1,39019.5−2.1
Liberal Democrats John Clay1,04114.6−0.9
UKIP Warren Hendon2503.5−0.9
BNP Christine Whitaker2283.2−0.3
Alliance for Green SocialismBrian Jackson1742.4−0.3
Majority2,66937.4+6.7
Turnout 7,14240.7−2.0
Conservative hold Swing +3.3
Ardsley & Robin Hood [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Karen Renshaw* 1,696 29.8 −5.5
BNP Joanna Beverley1,68529.6+2.0
Conservative Billy Flynn1,29822.8+1.6
Independent Stewart McArdle4207.4+7.4
Liberal Democrats Philip Moore3967.0−3.2
UKIP David Daniel2013.5−2.3
Majority110.2−7.5
Turnout 5,69635.5−0.4
Labour hold Swing -3.7
Armley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Alison Lowe* 2,104 42.9 −3.1
Conservative Jeremy Kapp91518.7+2.2
BNP Shaun Fitzpatrick75315.4+2.2
Green Michael Croke61612.6+0.3
Liberal Democrats Christopher Lovell51210.4−3.2
Majority1,18924.3−6.9
Turnout 4,90028.0−0.8
Labour hold Swing -3.4
Beeston & Holbeck [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Angela Gabriel* 1,841 41.7 −2.4
Conservative Robert Winfield1,00222.7+3.8
BNP Dean Taylor66315.0+0.1
Liberal Democrats James Fuller46210.5−2.1
Green Julie Cuthbert2375.4−0.3
UKIP Wilfred Woodhouse2074.7+0.9
Majority83919.0−6.3
Turnout 4,41228.5−2.1
Labour hold Swing -3.1
Bramley & Stanningley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Denise Atkinson* 2,019 42.2 +1.1
Conservative Michael Best1,06922.4+6.5
BNP David Gatenby62813.1−5.7
Liberal Democrats Adam Slack54111.3−0.3
English Democrat Dean Locke2765.8−0.5
Green Pamela Brown2485.2−1.1
Majority95019.9−2.4
Turnout 4,78128.9−3.2
Labour hold Swing -3.8
Burmantofts & Richmond Hill [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ralph Pryke* 1,852 41.8 −6.4
Labour Danial Adilypour1,33030.0+0.0
BNP Mark Collett91920.7+2.2
Conservative Caroline Anderson2415.4+2.0
Alliance for Green SocialismAllan House932.1+2.1
Majority52211.8−6.4
Turnout 4,43529.4−2.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -3.2
Calverley & Farsley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Carter* 4,283 60.2 +6.8
Conservative Joseph Marjoram 3,159
Labour Lorraine Hoy1,32718.7−4.5
Labour Andrew Jarosz1,262
Liberal Democrats Kate Arbuckle83611.8+0.7
BNP Jane Hollings6669.4−3.0
BNP Robert Leary637
Liberal Democrats Chris Read613
Majority2,95641.6+11.3
Turnout 7,11237.0−4.7
Conservative hold Swing
Conservative hold Swing +5.6
Chapel Allerton [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Eileen Taylor 2,415 44.2 −7.6
Liberal Democrats Altaf Hussein1,22222.4+7.8
Conservative Simon Baker79414.5+1.0
Alliance for Green SocialismBeverley Samuels4969.1−0.3
Green Mark Elliot3596.6−1.0
BNP David Whitaker1773.2+0.0
Majority1,19321.8−15.5
Turnout 5,46331.6−2.1
Labour hold Swing -7.7
City & Hunslet [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Elizabeth Nash* 1,697 46.8 +3.2
Conservative Simon Harley53814.8+8.3
Liberal Democrats Pip Sadler48813.5−1.1
BNP John Atkinson43612.0+0.4
Independent Muserat Sujawal2727.5+7.5
Green Andy Parnham1935.3−0.4
Majority1,15932.0+3.0
Turnout 3,62419.7−2.7
Labour hold Swing -1.0
Cross Gates & Whinmoor [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Suzi Armitage* 2,368 36.8 −4.9
Conservative David Schofield2,23334.7+3.1
BNP John Douglas97915.2+1.0
Liberal Democrats Ann Norman5779.0−3.4
UKIP Darren Oddy2764.3+4.3
Majority1352.1−8.0
Turnout 6,43338.0+0.2
Labour hold Swing -4.0
Farnley & Wortley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green David Blackburn* 2,556 44.6 +4.9
Labour Stephen Towler1,26422.0−5.9
Conservative Glenn Broadbent85915.0+3.7
BNP Helen Foster79313.8+0.6
Liberal Democrats Michael Taylor2334.1−0.6
Alliance for Green SocialismDeclan Normaschild280.5+0.1
Majority1,29222.5+10.7
Turnout 5,73332.5−1.0
Green hold Swing +5.4
Garforth & Swillington [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrea McKenna* 3,004 42.6 −11.7
Conservative Louise Turner2,76839.2+7.1
BNP Winnifred Mowbray75210.7+3.2
Liberal Democrats Robert Jacques5357.6+1.4
Majority2363.3−18.9
Turnout 7,05944.7−4.4
Labour hold Swing -9.4
Gipton & Harehills [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Alan Taylor* 2,584 42.9 +4.9
Labour Kamila Maqsood2,55142.3−8.5
BNP Darran Smith3896.5+0.8
Conservative Beatrice Greenwood2173.6+0.3
Independent Katie Wheatley1101.8+1.8
Green Martin Reed941.6+0.0
Alliance for Green SocialismAzar Iqbal831.4+0.6
Majority330.5−12.4
Turnout 6,02838.2−4.8
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +6.7
Guiseley & Rawdon [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Graham Latty* 3,456 50.8 +3.4
Labour Mike King1,66424.5−4.2
Liberal Democrats Cindy Cleasby83412.3−0.1
BNP Wayne Taylor4366.4+0.5
Green Colin Avison3475.1+0.1
Alliance for Green SocialismGareth Christie620.9+0.3
Majority1,79226.4+7.7
Turnout 6,79940.3−0.4
Conservative hold Swing +3.8
Harewood [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ann Castle* 4,940 73.3 +5.2
Labour David Nagle73410.9−2.3
Liberal Democrats Benjamin Chapman4266.3−0.6
BNP Martin Gibson3765.6−1.0
Green Patricia Capstick2103.1−1.4
Alliance for Green SocialismFiona Christie530.8+0.0
Majority4,20662.4+7.4
Turnout 6,73945.9−0.6
Conservative hold Swing +3.7
Headingley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Jamie Matthews 1,021 41.2 −6.6
Labour Mohammed Azam73029.5+6.6
Green Tim Sunderland34413.9−1.1
Conservative Michael Horwood31812.8+3.4
BNP Lawrence Hansard401.6−0.1
Alliance for Green SocialismSequoyah de Souza Vigneswaren251.0−2.1
Majority29111.7−13.2
Turnout 2,47819.7+1.9
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -6.6
Horsforth [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Chris Townsley* 3,321 45.9 +8.8
Conservative Richard Hardcastle2,74637.9+1.3
Labour Nigel Gill5637.8−3.9
BNP Ian Asquith3394.7+0.1
Green Andrea Binns2723.8−1.1
Majority5757.9+7.5
Turnout 7,24141.9+0.6
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +3.7
Hyde Park & Woodhouse [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Penny Ewens* 1,206 40.6 −3.2
Labour Gerry Harper1,14238.5+5.8
Green Kate Bisson29910.1−0.4
Conservative Syprian Pitkin2197.4+1.1
BNP Bernard Allen1023.4+0.3
Majority642.2−8.9
Turnout 2,96819.9−1.5
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -4.5
Killingbeck & Seacroft [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Graham Hyde* 2,576 49.8 −4.4
Conservative Donald Townsley76714.8+1.3
BNP Mark Powell72314.0−2.8
Liberal Democrats Sadie Fisher53010.2−5.3
UKIP Adam Douglas4548.8+8.8
Alliance for Green SocialismSimon Fearn1222.4+2.4
Majority1,80935.0−2.4
Turnout 5,17231.4−0.6
Labour hold Swing -2.8
Kippax & Methley [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Keith Parker* 3,048 50.6 −5.3
Conservative Tina Phillips1,72028.5+5.2
BNP Peter Maverick75112.5+0.1
Liberal Democrats John MacArthur5068.4−0.1
Majority1,32822.0−10.5
Turnout 6,02537.8−1.0
Labour hold Swing -5.2
Kirkstall [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Lucinda Yeadon 1,981 39.4 −4.4
Liberal Democrats Ruth Coleman1,84436.6+2.5
Conservative Philip Smith4959.8+2.5
BNP Tony Thackwray3767.5+0.0
Green Anne-Marie Hill3376.7−0.7
Majority1372.7−6.9
Turnout 5,03330.1−1.9
Labour hold Swing -3.4
Middleton Park [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Geoff Driver* 1,960 38.3 −8.3
BNP Kevin Meeson1,91137.4+3.0
Conservative Alastair Gunn72414.2+5.3
Liberal Democrats Christine Golton51710.1+0.0
Majority491.0−11.3
Turnout 5,11229.4−2.5
Labour hold Swing -5.6
Moortown [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Mark Harris* 2,813 41.3 +1.2
Labour Linda Cullen1,75625.8−5.4
Conservative Amy Smith1,59723.5+2.5
BNP Anthony Brown2673.9+0.8
Alliance for Green SocialismMichael Davies2423.6+0.2
UKIP Jeff Miles1311.9+0.6
Majority1,05715.5+6.6
Turnout 6,80639.6−5.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +3.3
Morley North [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Morley Borough Independent Robert Finnigan* 3,665 51.7 +10.7
BNP Tom Redmond1,38819.6+1.8
Labour Neil Dawson95513.5−0.1
Conservative Neil Hunt86112.1+3.1
Liberal Democrats James Jennings2243.2+0.1
Majority2,27732.1+8.8
Turnout 1,38840.2−3.1
Morley Borough Independent hold Swing +4.4
Morley South [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Morley Borough Independent Judith Elliott* 2,714 43.8 +7.9
BNP Mike Mee1,77928.7−0.3
Labour Alec Hudson83213.4−7.4
Conservative Mark Holmes5178.3+0.2
Liberal Democrats Nathan Fossey2023.3+0.2
Independent Charles Slingsby1582.5−0.6
Majority93515.1+8.2
Turnout 6,20237.7−4.0
Morley Borough Independent hold Swing +4.1
Otley and Yeadon [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Graham Kirkland* 2,951 38.8 −5.3
Conservative Kenneth Creek2,13928.2+5.2
Labour John Eveleigh1,71622.6−0.8
BNP Richard Warrington3825.0+0.4
Green David Webb2323.1−0.3
Alliance for Green SocialismFrancis Denning1772.3+1.5
Majority81210.7−10.1
Turnout 7,59744.2−1.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing -5.2
Pudsey [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Josie Jarosz* 2,530 39.0 −2.9
Conservative Jason Aldiss2,22034.2+1.8
BNP John Hirst85713.2+1.5
Liberal Democrats Gregory Hall5808.9+2.2
Green Irene Dracup3034.7+1.1
Majority3104.8−4.7
Turnout 6,49037.8−3.3
Labour hold Swing -2.3
Rothwell [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Don Wilson* 2,534 43.5 +2.1
Labour Karen Bruce1,95433.6−3.0
Conservative Matthew Robinson70612.1+1.3
BNP Robert Peel62510.7−0.5
Majority58010.0+5.2
Turnout 5,81937.6−0.9
Liberal Democrats hold Swing +2.5
Roundhay [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Matthew Lobley* 3,337 47.0 +6.8
Labour Sharon Hamilton2,14530.2−2.3
Liberal Democrats Sean Brawley82011.5−1.0
Green Colin Johnston2944.1−4.0
Alliance for Green SocialismMalcolm Christie2814.0+1.0
BNP Mark Ferguson2283.2−0.4
Majority1,19216.8+9.1
Turnout 7,10541.4−2.3
Conservative hold Swing +4.5
Temple Newsam [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative William Hyde* 2,386 33.9 +1.3
Labour Jeff Coupar2,08329.6−4.4
BNP Peter Hollings1,56022.2−1.2
Liberal Democrats Keith Norman5217.4−2.7
Independent David Gale4876.9+6.9
Majority3034.3+3.0
Turnout 7,03744.0−0.1
Conservative hold Swing +2.8
Weetwood [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Ben Chastney 2,436 41.3 −6.2
Conservative Brian Jennings*1,71329.0+4.9
Labour Rosie Pickard95216.1+2.3
Green Martin Hemingway3065.2−2.1
BNP Sharon Knight3025.1+0.6
Alliance for Green SocialismTrevor Bavage1091.8+0.4
Independent Alan Procter671.1+1.1
Independent Ercan Hayirioglu180.3+0.3
Majority72312.2−11.2
Turnout 5,90334.9−0.3
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
Wetherby [1] [3] [4]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gerald Wilkinson* 4,208 64.6 +4.3
Labour Jolene Cassell1,07016.4−2.6
Liberal Democrats Kate Gagen6319.7−0.5
BNP David Craven3154.8−0.7
UKIP Tony Robson2894.4−0.6
Majority3,13848.2+6.9
Turnout 6,51342.2−1.1
Conservative hold Swing +3.4

By-elections between 2008 and 2010

Farnley & Wortley by-election 18 September 2008
replacing Luke Russell (resigned) [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Andy Parnham 1,183 27.1 −17.5
Liberal Democrats Rosie Spencer1,15126.3+22.2
Labour Stephen Towler1,00923.1+1.1
BNP Peter Hollings55612.7−1.1
Conservative Glenn Broadbent4289.8−5.2
Alliance for Green SocialismMichael Davies451.0+0.5
Majority320.8−21.7
Turnout 4,37224.8−7.7
Green hold Swing -19.8
Temple Newsam by-election 2 April 2009
replacing Jacqueline Langdale (resigned) [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Schofield 1,785 28.0 −5.9
BNP Tom Redmond1,50223.6+1.4
Labour Danny Adilypour1,47623.2−6.4
Liberal Democrats Ian Dowling1,46823.1+15.6
Green Christopher Foren1372.2+2.2
Majority2834.4+0.1
Turnout 6,368
Conservative gain from Labour Swing -2.2
Hyde Park & Woodhouse by-election 18 February 2010
replacing Kabeer Hussain (deceased) [5] [11] [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gerry Harper 1,054 47.8 +9.3
Liberal Democrats Mike Taylor67130.5−10.1
Conservative Yasser Khalid1888.5+1.1
Independent Adele Beeson1506.8+6.8
Green Christopher Foren1406.4−3.7
Majority38317.3+15.1
Turnout 2,20314.8−5.1
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing +9.7

Notes

  1. The Liberal Democrats increased their number of council seats by defeating incumbent Weetwood ward councillor, Brian Jennings, who had previously resigned from the Liberal Democrat council group following the 2006 election and joined the Conservatives in May 2007.
  2. Former Liberal Democrat and now independent Brian Jennings (Weetwood) joined the Conservatives after the 2007 election. He lost his seat to the Liberal Democrats at the 2008 election.
  3. Former Liberal Democrat councillor, Brian Jennings (Weetwood), was an independent at the time of the 2007 election.
  4. Kabeer Hussain (Hyde Park and Woodhouse) defected from the Liberal Democrats to Labour in October 2007, leaving the Labour council group less than six months later to sit as an independent. He rejoined the Lib Dems in March 2009. [5]
  5. Carter was later elected again for the same ward in 2015, replacing her successor Marjoram.

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