2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election

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2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election
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11 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
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LeaderPeter Britcliffe Graham Jones
Party Conservative Labour
Leader's seatSt Andrew'sPeel
Seats before2113
Seats after1815
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 Third party
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LeaderIan Robinson
Party Independent
Seats before1
Seats after2
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Hyndburn UK local election 2010 map Revised.svg
2010 local election results in Hyndburn
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   Conservative
   Independent
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Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 6 May 2010. One third of the council was up for election. Since there was also the General Election being held on the same day, overall voter turnout was much higher than usual, for such local elections.

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Background

Before the election Conservatives had a majority of 21 councillors, Labour had 13 councillors, while Independent (politician) had 1 councillor.

Conservative candidates contested every ward, Labour candidates contested all wards except Overton-ward. Independents contested seven-wards, not including their one-existing uncontested-seat. LibDem's only single candidate contested in the Spring Hill-ward. BNP's only single candidate contested in the Clayton-le-Moors-ward.

Local Election result

After the election, the composition of the council was -

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2010 - over just 11 wards
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Labour 731263.6%41.2%11,047+0.4%
  Conservative 314-327.3%39.8%10,579+9.7%
  Independent 11019.116.84,480+14.0%
  Liberal Democrats 0000......281
  BNP 0000......192
Turnout 26,579

Reference: 2006 Hyndburn Borough Council election#Local Election result

NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2014 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.

Ward results

Clayton-le-Moors

Clayton-le-Moors
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tim O'Kane80033.77
Conservative Jennie Anderson72230.48
Independent Nick Collingridge65527.65
BNP Andrew Eccles1928.10
Turnout 2,36967.2
Labour gain from Independent Swing

Huncoat

Huncoat
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nick Whittaker79735.50
Labour Martyn Isherwood77934.70
Independent Paul Gott66929.80
Turnout 2,24565.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Immanuel

Immanuel
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Colette McCormack116350.46
Conservative Simon James Taylor114249.54
Turnout 2,30567.5
Labour hold Swing

Milnshaw

Milnshaw
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Clare Pritchard123057.40
Conservative Roger Jepson91342.60
Turnout 2,14364.8
Labour hold Swing

Netherton

Netherton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Ciaran Wells113756.18
Conservative Dennis Baron54026.68
Independent Stephen Aspin34717.14
Turnout 2,02465.9
Labour hold Swing

Overton

Overton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Ian Robinson161451.78
Conservative Roy Atkinson150348.22
Turnout 3,11767.0
Independent gain from Conservative Swing

Peel

Peel
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Bernard Dawson116871.31
Conservative Danny Cassidy47028.69
Turnout 1,63856.0
Labour hold Swing

Rishton

Rishton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ken Moss1,53546.53
Conservative Ross Sourbutts138441.95
Independent Chris Fisher38011.52
Turnout 3,29968.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Spring Hill

Spring Hill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Pam Barton129163.94
Conservative Mohammed Safdar44722.14
Liberal Democrats Akhtar Hussain28113.92
Turnout 2,01959.1
Labour hold Swing

St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter Britcliffe106051.78
Labour Co-op John McCormack74436.35
Independent Tony Hindley24311.87
Turnout 2,04763.4
Conservative hold Swing

St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Doug Hayes158447.20
Labour Stewart Eaves120035.76
Independent Brian Andrew Smith57217.04
Turnout 3,35666.6
Conservative hold Swing

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