2019 Selby District Council election

2019 Selby District Council Council election
All 31 seats to Selby District Council; 16 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the results of the 2019 Selby District Council elections. Blue showing Conservative, Red showing Labour, Light Blue showing the Yorkshire Party and Grey showing Independents. Striped wards have mixed representation.
Council control before election; Conservative ;	Council control after election; Conservative ;

Last updated March 04, 2025

The 2019 Selby District Council election was held on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Selby District Council in England. It was the final election to the authority before its dissolution in 2023, and subsequent subsumption into the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

The election was noted for the surprise success of the Yorkshire Party, who won four seats on the council, which remains their best performance to date in a local authority election. However, two of the four councillors elected for the party would rejoin the Conservative Party the following year, a third would resign with their seat being won by the Conservatives in the ensuing by-election, while the fourth would eventually join the Labour Party, leaving the Yorkshire Party with no representation on the council by 2022.

Background

At the previous Selby District Council election, 22 seats were won by the Conservative Party, 8 seats were won by the Labour Party, and one independent candidate, Mary McCartney, was elected in the Eggborough ward. Over the next four years, the following seat changes occurred:

Jack Crawford, elected as a Labour Party councillor for Byram and Brotherton, died in early 2016. The resulting by-election was won by Bryn Sage of the Conservative Party.
Donald Bain-Mackay, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Tadcaster, resigned from the Conservatives early in 2017 in order to run as an independent candidate for North Yorkshire County Council at that year's election.
Michael Jordan, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Camblesforth and Carlton, defected to the Yorkshire Party in July 2018.

Results summary

Selby District Council election, 2019^[1]^[2]

Party		Candidates						Votes
Party		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Conservative	26	16			6	51.6%	47.9%	15,156	6.8%
	Labour	24	8				25.8%	33.2%	10,496	0.2%
	Yorkshire	5	4			4	12.9%	9.5%	3,023	N/A
	Independent	3	3			2	9.7%	8.7%	2,764	4.2%
	Socialist Labour	1	0	0	0		0%	0.7%	216	N/A
	UKIP	1	0	0	0		0%	0.3%	106	5.2%

Results by Ward

Appleton Roebuck and Church Fenton

Appleton Roebuck and Church Fenton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Musgrave	1,072	64.6
	Conservative	Keith Ellis	1,036	62.4
	Labour	Andrew Lowe	489	29.5
	Labour	John Rushby	465	28.0
Majority
Turnout			1,729	37.71
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Barlby Village

Barlby Village
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephanie Duckett	295	52.7	−0.6
	Conservative	Ian Lawton	265	47.3	+0.6
Majority
Turnout			589	24.58
	Labour hold		Swing

Brayton

Brayton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Mark Crane	898	61.2
	Conservative	Ian Chilvers	879	59.9
	Labour	Eva Lambert	553	37.7
Majority
Turnout			1,506	30.85
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Byram and Brotherton

Byram and Brotherton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Yorkshire	Eleanor Jordan	320	45.3	*N/A*
	Conservative	Bryn Sage	245	34.7	+2.1
	Labour	Craig Laskey	142	20.1	−23.9
Majority
Turnout			719	31.69
	Yorkshire gain from Labour		Swing

Camblesforth and Carlton

Camblesforth and Carlton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Yorkshire	Paul Welburn	799	55.3
	Yorkshire	Michael Jordan	702	48.6
	Conservative	Craig Blakey	365	25.3
	Labour	David Leake	345	23.9
	Conservative	Connor Brocklesby	330	22.8
Majority
Turnout			1,469	31.85
	Yorkshire gain from Conservative		Swing
	Yorkshire gain from Conservative		Swing

Cawood and Wistow

Cawood and Wistow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Cattanach	582	75.1	+2.7
	Labour	Susan Andrew	193	24.9	−2.7
Majority
Turnout			805	33.06
	Conservative hold		Swing

Derwent

Derwent
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christopher Topping	781	64.2
	Conservative	Karl Arthur	657	54.0
	Labour	Neal Seargent	407	33.5
Majority
Turnout			1,276	29.27
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Eggborough

Eggborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Mary McCartney	673	84.4	+23.2
	Conservative	Alexander Bruce	124	15.6	−6.7
Majority
Turnout			815	34.49
	Independent hold		Swing

Escrick

Escrick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Neil Reader	471	67.1	−2.6
	Labour	Kevin Riley	231	32.9	+15.1
Majority
Turnout			731	38.09
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hambleton

Hambleton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Pearson	383	49.4	−19.5
	Yorkshire	Scott Conor	277	35.7	N/A
	Labour	Anne Riley	116	14.9	−16.2
Majority
Turnout			779	36.30
	Conservative hold		Swing

Monk Fryston

Monk Fryston
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Mackman	590	77.5	+8.9
	Labour	Claire Stephenson	171	22.5	−8.9
Majority
Turnout			788	33.43
	Conservative hold		Swing

Riccall

Riccall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Duggan	357	50.3	+24.7¹
	Conservative	Charles Richardson	353	49.7	+8.6
Majority
Turnout			731	36.98
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

¹ - Swing is compared to the Labour Party's performance in 2015, rather than Duggan's performance as an independent candidate that year.

Selby East

Selby East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Wendy Nichols	570	58.3
	Labour	Steven Shaw-Wright	529	54.1
	Labour	Paul Welch	520	53.2
	Conservative	Joshua Crane	365	37.4
	Conservative	Conor Dickinson	355	36.3
Majority
Turnout			1,032	19.09
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Selby West

Selby West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Judith Chilvers	875	49.6
	Labour	Jennifer Shaw-Wright	847	48.0
	Labour	Keith Franks	798	45.2
	Labour	Malik Mohd Rofidi	677	38.4
	Socialist Labour	Ian Wilson	216	12.2
Majority
Turnout			1,833	24.68
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Sherburn In Elmet

Sherburn In Elmet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Yorkshire	David Brook	925	52.4
	Conservative	David Buckle	816	46.3
	Labour	Robert Packham	769	43.6
	Conservative	Alexander Tant-Brown	682	38.7
	Labour	Dennis Baillie	521	29.5
Majority
Turnout			1,778	29.78
	Yorkshire gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

South Milford

South Milford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Timothy Grogan	426	67.4	+7.5
	Labour	Tracey Woods	206	32.6	+6.2
Majority
Turnout			666	32.42
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tadcaster

Tadcaster
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Donald Bain-Mackay	1,526	72.7
	Conservative	Richard Sweeting	1,056	50.3
	Conservative	Andrew Lee	801	38.2
	Labour	Stephen Cobb	611	29.1
	Labour	David Bowgett	454	21.6
Majority
Turnout			2,108	35.54
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Thorpe Willoughby

Thorpe Willoughby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Clifford Lunn	480	67.6	+4.7
	Labour	Gavin Harding	230	32.4	−4.7
Majority
Turnout			742	29.76
	Conservative hold		Swing

Whitley

Whitley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John McCartney	565	60.1	+19.6
	Conservative	Laura Watkinson-Teo	269	28.6	−15.2
	UKIP	Neil Lockwood	106	11.3	N/A
Majority
Turnout			940	39.97
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Seat changes and By-elections

In-between this election and the council's dissolution, the following seat changes took place:

Eleanor Jordan and Michael Jordan, elected as Yorkshire Party councillors for Byram and Brotherton and Camblesforth and Carlton respectively, both defected to the Conservative Party in August 2020.
John Cattanach, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Cawood and Wistow, was expelled from the party in April 2022 for declaring as an independent candidate at the 2022 North Yorkshire Council election, and subsequently sat as an independent.
Neil Reader, elected as a Conservative Party councillor for Escrick, resigned from the party in May 2022, and subsequently sat as an independent.
David Brook, elected as a Yorkshire Party councillor for Sherburn in Elmet, defected to the Labour Party in May 2022.

Camblesforth & Carlton

Camblesforth & Carlton: 6 May 2021
replacing Paul Welburn (resigned)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Charles Richardson	996	66.4	+42.2
	Labour	David Bowgett	342	22.8	−0.1
	Green	Barry Jones	162	10.8	N/A
Majority			654	43.6
Turnout			1,511	32.0
	Conservative gain from Yorkshire		Swing

Byram & Brotherton

Byram & Brotherton: 20 January 2022
replacing Eleanor Jordan (resigned)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Georgina Ashton	215	48.1	+13.4
	Labour	Matthew Burton	207	46.3	+26.2
	Green	Cherry Waters	25	5.6	N/A
Majority			8	1.8
Turnout			448	19.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	6.4

References

1 2 "Council structure". Selby District Council. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
↑ "District Council Election Results" (PDF). Selby District Council. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

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[composition-1] 1 2 "Council structure". Selby District Council. Retrieved 21 May 2020.

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