2015 North East Lincolnshire Council election

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The 2015 North East Lincolnshire Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of North East Lincolnshire Council in England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections and the general election for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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Council make up

After the 2015 local election, the political make up of the council was as follows: [2]

PartyNumber of councillors
Labour20
Conservative10
Liberal Democrats3
UKIP9
Green0
Independent0

No seats changed hands between parties at these council elections, with the exception of a by-election for an additional seat in East Marsh which otherwise wouldn't have been contested again until 2016 that UKIP gained from Labour. The same seat would be vacated only months later by the winning candidate, and was left vacant until the next set of local elections in the authority because it occurred less than six months before the 2016 local elections.

In four wards (Humberston and New Waltham, Scartho, South, and West Marsh) elected new councillors as the incumbents did not stand again.

Shortly after these elections, a by-election was held in the Croft Baker ward in July 2015 due to the death of the winning candidate Michael Burnett shortly after these elections. Labour held the seat. [3] [4]

Ward results

Croft Baker

Croft Baker 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Burnett2056
Conservative Hayden Dawkins1370
UKIP Graham John Critchley1202
Liberal Democrats Sarah Elaine Hughes220
Green James William Barker202
TUSC Dave Mitchell95
Majority686
Labour hold Swing

Note: Burnett died shortly after this election. Labour retained the seat in the resultant by-election.

East Marsh

East Marsh 2015 (2 seats)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Terry Walker952
UKIP Becci Bishell883
Labour Neil Martin Trenchard867
Liberal Democrats Lauren Bruce834
Liberal Democrats Les Windsor662
Conservative Jake Brown386
Green Andy Dickson211
TUSC Phil Tuplin135
Majority16
Labour hold Swing
UKIP gain from Labour Swing

Note: A by-election was held for an additional seat in the ward, caused by the resignation of councillor Jon-Paul Howarth, whose seat was last contested in 2012. The results meant that Walker (who last contested his seat in 2011) held his seat and was elected for four years, as he would have done if there was no by-election and assuming he won. Bishell won the by-election seat and won a term of office for only one year. She resigned due to illness only several months later, and the seat was left vacant as it was less than six months until the 2016 local elections.

Freshney

Freshney 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ray Sutton1791
UKIP John William Chapman1181
Conservative Max Logan Burnett1133
Green Andy Lingwood136
TUSC Ian Michael Radford37
Majority610
Labour hold Swing

Haverstoe

Haverstoe 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Keith Cyrus Brookes2783
UKIP Terry Robinson1302
Labour Alexander Wallace1270
Liberal Democrats Roy Horobin369
TUSC Julian Darren Best37
Majority1481
Conservative hold Swing

Note: Wallace previously represented Sidney Sussex from 1995 to 2003, before contesting Humberston and New Waltham that year and losing. He later went on to represent his original seat again from 2010 until he lost to UKIP in 2014.

Heneage

Heneage 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Matthew David Patrick1730
UKIP Mark Smith1335
Conservative Mike Rudkin917
Liberal Democrats Stuart Shepherd289
TUSC Val O’Flynn105
Majority395
Labour hold Swing

Note: Rudkin previously represented Scartho from 1999 to 2006. Smith contested this ward in 2012 as an Independent candidate.

Humberston & New Waltham

Humberston & New Waltham 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stan Shreeve2902
UKIP David Rimmer Walker1627
Labour Kathryn Helen Wheatley1360
TUSC Samuel Chad Bankes-Archer93
Majority1275
Conservative hold Swing

Note: Wheatley previously represented East Marsh (then known as North-East) from 1999 to 2003.

Immingham

Immingham 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mike Burton2121
Conservative Debbie Hill1397
UKIP Joy Banks1344
Green Martin Leslie Reed184
TUSC Andrew Jonathan Simon Smith78
Majority724
Labour hold Swing

Notes: Hill previously contested this seat as a Liberal Democrat in 2010.

Park

Park 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Andrew De Freitas1745
Labour Ian Keith Townsend1223
Conservative Sarah Rudkin1144
UKIP Jane Whittingham980
Green Jacqueline Vessey272
TUSC Andrew Paul Wood63
Majority522
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Note: De Freitas received more votes at this local election held solely within his ward than his party's general election candidate got throughout the entire Great Grimsby constituency which took place on the same day, thus suggesting that a large proportion of the people who voted for him to be their councillor actually voted for other candidates than the Liberal Democrats on their general election ballot papers.

Scartho

Scartho 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ian Robert Lindley1962
Labour Irene Kelly1554
Liberal Democrats David Michael De Freitas439
Majority342
Conservative hold Swing

Note: This was the first occasion since 2011 in which the Conservatives managed to successfully win (regardless of whether it was a hold or a gain) a ward within the Great Grimsby constituency. Lindley was previously a Labour councillor for West Marsh from 2010 to 2014, but quit the party over not being selected for the seat in which he lived in (Yarborough) and his disagreement with the all-women's shortlist imposed on the Great Grimsby constituency candidate selection for the 2015 general election. He had been nominated for his West Marsh seat, but pulled out on the night before Tim Mickleburgh was chosen as his replacement.

South

South 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Chris Stanland1681
UKIP Paul David Batson1278
Conservative Alastair Carl Grigg742
Liberal Democrats Steve Hocknell172
TUSC Angela Heather Greenfield83
Majority403
Labour hold Swing

Notes: Stanland resigned little over a year after being elected. He previously contested Humberston and New Waltham as a Liberal Democrat in 2011. The resultant by-election saw Labour hold the seat with a small swing towards them. Hocknell previously represented Heneage ward from 2003 to 2011.

Sidney Sussex

Sidney Sussex 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Hazel Florence Jane Chase1666
UKIP Tanya Brasted1133
Conservative Debbie Landymore985
Green Warren Peter Jolly272
Liberal Democrats Steve Stead129
TUSC Malcolm Morland82
Majority533
Labour hold Swing

Notes: Morland was a former Labour councillor for this ward from 1995 to 1999, before changing seats in 1999 to Croft Baker until 2003. He returned to the council when he became a Liberal Democrat councillor for this ward from 2006 to 2010. Stead previously represented Yarborough for his party from 1999 to 2003.

Waltham

Waltham 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Philip Jackson2156
Labour Ashley David Smith840
UKIP Guy Thomas Twisleton Haxby760
Liberal Democrats Louise Julie Horobin146
TUSC Val Pow39
Majority1316
Conservative hold Swing

West Marsh

West Marsh 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Karl Wilson939
UKIP Stephen Whittingham560
Independent Peter Michael Barker301
Conservative Holly Joanne Amanda Hill233
Independent Keith Watkin201
TUSC David John Hardy74
Majority379
Labour hold Swing

Note: Wilson previously represented Heneage from 2010 to 2014. Watkin and Barker were elected to this ward as Independents in 1999, until losing their seats to Labour in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Wolds

Wolds 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hilda Melanie Dickerson2105
Labour Marian Jervis953
UKIP Anthony Alan Blake909
TUSC Karen Michelle Manley50
Majority1152
Conservative hold Swing

Yarborough

Yarborough 2015
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Peter Christopher Wheatley1900
UKIP Thomas James Furneaux1391
Conservative Martin Peter Johnson1096
Liberal Democrats Carol Beasant252
Green Vicky Dunn176
TUSC Benjamin Leech47
Majority509
Labour hold Swing

Note: Furneaux previously contested Park for the Conservatives in 2014.

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