The 2019 Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council in England. [1] [2] This was on the same day as other local elections.
Vote share changes compared to 2018.
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council | ||||||||||
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Labour | 16 | 1 | 80.0 | 31 | 47 | 78.3 | 23,461 | 49.36 | -2.73 | |
Conservative | 3 | 1 | 15.0 | 6 | 9 | 15.0 | 10,110 | 21.27 | -5.70 | |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | 5.0 | 3 | 4 | 6.7 | 5,156 | 10.85 | -2.17 | ||
UKIP | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 7,069 | 14.87 | +10.93 | ||
Green | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,731 | 3.64 | +2.34 |
Councillors seeking re-election are marked with an asterisk; they were last elected in 2015 and changes are compared to that year's election. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Daniel Joseph Meredith* | 880 | 45.0 | -1.4 | |
UKIP | Guy Bradley | 380 | 19.4 | -5.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Patricia Ann Colclough | 369 | 18.9 | +9.1 | |
Conservative | John Kershaw | 204 | 10.4 | -4.6 | |
Green | James O'Meara | 124 | 6.3 | +2.7 | |
Majority | 500 | 25.5 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 1,957 | 25 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Patricia Sullivan* | 1,499 | 47.8 | +7.5 | |
Labour | Mohammad Arshad | 1,048 | 33.4 | +1.9 | |
UKIP | Stephen Sanderson | 251 | 8.0 | -12.2 | |
Green | Sarah Croke | 199 | 6.3 | n/a | |
Liberal Democrats | Barrie Nicholson | 140 | 4.5 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 451 | 14.4 | +5.6 | ||
Turnout | 3,137 | 41 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +2.8 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jean Gladys Hornby* | 1,035 | 47.5 | +3.9 | |
Conservative | Michael Cullen | 481 | 22.1 | +7.7 | |
UKIP | Mark Izzo | 375 | 17.2 | -13.9 | |
Green | Jonathan Kershaw | 197 | 9.0 | +5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Thornley | 91 | 4.2 | -3.1 | |
Majority | 554 | 25.4 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 2,179 | 28 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.9 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Ali Ahmed* | 2,292 | 78.7 | +35.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rifat Mahmood | 422 | 14.5 | n/a | |
Conservative | Roger Howarth | 200 | 6.9 | +2.4 | |
Majority | 1,870 | 64.2 | +29.3 | ||
Turnout | 2,914 | 39 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Donna Martin* | 1,162 | 57.4 | +7.5 | |
UKIP | Robert Mudd | 520 | 25.7 | -4.0 | |
Conservative | Jacqueline Holt | 342 | 16.9 | -0.6 | |
Majority | 642 | 31.7 | +11.4 | ||
Turnout | 2,143 | 26 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.75 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Shah Wazir* | 1,190 | 46.2 | +14.6 | |
Conservative | Robert McLean | 582 | 22.6 | -6.2 | |
UKIP | Fredrick Willis | 440 | 17.1 | -8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | John Rogers | 365 | 14.2 | +5.2 | |
Majority | 608 | 23.6 | +20.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,577 | 33 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +10.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Emmott* | 1,095 | 51.5 | +6.8 | |
UKIP | Angela Gardner | 572 | 26.9 | -8.0 | |
Conservative | Paul Ellison | 460 | 21.6 | +7.2 | |
Majority | 523 | 24.6 | +14.8 | ||
Turnout | 2,127 | 25 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Elsie Wraighte | 1,778 | 70.2 | +11.7 | |
Green | Mark Hollinrake | 268 | 10.6 | +6.9 | |
Conservative | Richard Duckworth | 267 | 10.5 | +3.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anthony Hughes | 221 | 8.7 | +0.7 | |
Majority | 1,510 | 59.6 | +20.6 | ||
Turnout | 2,534 | 29 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tom Besford | 879 | 34.7 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Ann Stott* | 687 | 27.1 | -7.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kathryn Clegg | 433 | 17.1 | n/a | |
UKIP | Stephen Mitchell | 336 | 13.3 | -11.1 | |
Green | Stuart Howard-Cofield | 196 | 7.7 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 192 | 7.6 | |||
Turnout | 2,532 | 32 | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +5.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Mohammed Zaman* | 2,142 | 83.8 | +6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Eden-Maughan | 145 | 5.7 | -0.4 | |
Green | Feruz Ali | 134 | 5.2 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Keith Taylor | 134 | 5.2 | +0.3 | |
Majority | 1,997 | 78.2 | +9.0 | ||
Turnout | 2,555 | 33 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.25 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Andy Kelly* | 1,714 | 60.0 | +21.2 | |
Labour | Neil Butterworth | 595 | 20.8 | -4.1 | |
UKIP | Hillary Smith | 362 | 12.7 | -6.3 | |
Conservative | George Carpenter | 184 | 6.4 | -7.2 | |
Majority | 1,119 | 39.2 | +25.3 | ||
Turnout | 2,855 | 36 | |||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +12.65 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Winkler* | 1,428 | 55.2 | +8.7 | |
Labour | Shaukat Ali | 483 | 18.7 | -1.7 | |
UKIP | Beverley Taylor-King | 270 | 10.4 | -13.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Nigel Sarbutts | 218 | 8.4 | +3.4 | |
Green | Adam Mir | 187 | 7.2 | +3.2 | |
Majority | 945 | 36.5 | +14.0 | ||
Turnout | 2,586 | 33 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.2 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ray Dutton* | 968 | 54.8 | +16.7 | |
UKIP | Bernard Akin | 526 | 29.8 | -1.6 | |
Conservative | Adrian Coan | 274 | 15.5 | +7.0 | |
Majority | 442 | 25.0 | +18.3 | ||
Turnout | 17.68 | 23 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.15 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Sara Louise Rowbotham* | 1,061 | 54.8 | +3.8 | |
UKIP | Thomas Barnes | 592 | 30.6 | -2.4 | |
Conservative | Rachel McLachlan | 284 | 14.7 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 469 | 24.2 | +6.3 | ||
Turnout | 1,937 | 25 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.1 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Aftab Hussain* | 1,335 | 58.7 | +11.9 | |
UKIP | Laurent Baudry | 410 | 18.0 | -12.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Eleanor Kelly | 294 | 12.9 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Keith Branton | 234 | 10.3 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 925 | 40.7 | +23.5 | ||
Turnout | 2,273 | 28 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +11.95 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Williams* | 1,184 | 47.7 | +5.6 | |
Conservative | Stephen Anstee | 648 | 26.1 | +2.8 | |
UKIP | Philip Partington | 440 | 17.7 | -9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sue Curzon | 212 | 8.5 | +5.0 | |
Majority | 536 | 21.6 | +6.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,484 | 32 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.4 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Rachel Massey | 1,692 | 61.7 | +14.4 | |
Conservative | Steven Scholes | 429 | 15.6 | +1.8 | |
Green | Mick Coats | 426 | 15.5 | +10.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joseph Marsden | 196 | 7.1 | -1.7 | |
Majority | 1,263 | 46.0 | +20.5 | ||
Turnout | 2,743 | 33 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Rina Paolucci-Escobar* | 1,213 | 49.2 | +3.6 | |
Labour | Julian Farnell | 595 | 24.1 | +0.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Clegg | 336 | 13.6 | +7.4 | |
UKIP | Robert Neave | 320 | 13.0 | -7.6 | |
Majority | 618 | 25.1 | +2.7 | ||
Turnout | 2,464 | 31 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +1.35 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jacqui Beswick* | 958 | 49.3 | +1.1 | |
UKIP | Michael O'Brien | 699 | 36.0 | +1.7 | |
Conservative | Darren Bayman | 287 | 14.8 | +2.9 | |
Majority | 259 | 13.3 | -0.6 | ||
Turnout | 1,944 | 22 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -0.3 | |||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Philip Burke* | 1,089 | 56.2 | -1.0 | |
UKIP | Lee Seville | 576 | 29.7 | +1.1 | |
Conservative | Andrew Neilson | 273 | 14.1 | +4.6 | |
Majority | 513 | 26.5 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,938 | 21 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -1.05 | |||
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