2011 Wolverhampton City Council election

Elections to Wolverhampton City Council were held on 5 May 2011, the same day as the national referendum on the Alternative Vote, in Wolverhampton, England. One third of the council was up for election.

2011 local election results in Wolverhampton

Composition

Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

• Labour Party 31
• Conservative Party 25
• Liberal Democrat 4

Note: this differs from the total at the previous election, due to a by-election and a Liberal Democrat councillor defecting to Labour. ^[1]

Following the election, the composition of the council is:

• Labour Party 35
• Conservative Party 22
• Liberal Democrat 3

Election result

Wolverhampton Local Election Result 2011

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	35	4	0
	Conservative	22	0	3
	Liberal Democrats	3	0	1
	BNP	0	0	0		0
	Independent	0	0	0		0
	UKIP	0	0	0		0

Ward results

Bilston East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Valerie Gibson	1,764	66.14
	Conservative	Tom Fellows	903	33.86
Majority			861	32.28
Turnout			2667	29.67

Bilston North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Constable	1,696	59.82
	Conservative	David Hunt	625	22.05
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Heap	97	3.42
	BNP	Stewart Gardner	154	5.43
	UKIP	Remi Hodister	263	9.28
Majority			1071	37.78
Turnout			2,835	32.51

Blakenhall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Jones	3,073
	Conservative	Sid Sidhu	678
Majority			2,395	45.54%
Turnout

Bushbury North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Leslie Pugh	1,347
	Labour	Ian Angus	1,673
	BNP	Simon Patten	391
Majority			326
Turnout			3425	37.87%

Bushbury South and Low Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Peter O'Neill	1,763
	Conservative	Annette Pugh	625
Majority			1,138
Turnout			2,406	26.74%

East Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harman Banger	1,763
	Conservative	Darren Friel	1,508
Majority			705
Turnout			2,855	32.82%

Ettingshall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandra Samuels	Unopposed		−
Majority			-	-	−
Turnout			-	-	−

Fallings Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Valerie Evans	2,072
	Conservative	Simon Hewitt	1,123
Majority			949
Turnout			3,125	35.82%

Graiseley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elias Mattu	2,399
	Conservative	Jazz Boparai	614
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen Birch	201
	Independent	John Mellor	505
Majority			1,7585
Turnout			3,746	45.44%

Heath Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Milkinderpal Jaspal	1,488
	Conservative	John Lee	708
	Green	Matthew Addison	231
Majority			1,785
Turnout			2,448	31.85%

Merry Hill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Haynes
	Labour	Nav Rana
	Liberal Democrats	Lexi Lawrence
	Independent	Timothy Broomer
	UKIP	Phil Templar
Majority
Turnout

Oxley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Bisbey	1,263
	Labour	Ian Claymore	1,749
	UKIP	Keith Sinclair	276
Majority			513
Turnout			3,285	37.12%

Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Hardacre	1,910
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Webber	568
	Conservative	Nasim Ullah	968
	Green	David Belcher	262
Majority				942
Turnout			3,730	46.73%

Penn

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Singh
	Labour	Martin Waite
	Liberal Democrats	Bryan Lewis
	Green	Daniel Batchelor
	UKIP	Barry Hodgson
Majority
Turnout

Spring Vale

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Heap
	Labour	Gurcharan Bedi
	Conservative	Trevor White
	BNP	David Bradnock
Majority
Turnout

St Peter's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Zahid Shah	1,867
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Garside	236
	Conservative	Shailesh Parekh	270
Majority			1,597
Turnout			2,391	35.07%

Tettenhall Regis

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Yardley
	Labour	Muhammad Khan
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Gray
	UKIP	Donald Morris
Majority
Turnout

Tettenhall Wightwick

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wendy Thompson
	Labour	Stu Goldcrusher
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hollis
Majority
Turnout

Wednesfield North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tania Davis
	Labour	Rita Potter
Majority
Turnout

Wednesfield South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Dobb	1,074
	Labour	Bhupinder Gakhal	1,481
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Williams	572
Majority			407
Turnout			3,1743	37.41%

References

1. Wainwright, Daniel (2 April 2011). "Councillor's defection is unfair on the local voters" (PDF). Express & Star . Retrieved 19 September 2011.