2021 Hyndburn Borough Council election

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Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2021
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13 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority
Turnout36%
 First partySecond party
 
LeaderMiles ParkinsonMarlene Haworth
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seatAlthamSt Oswald's
Seats before257
Seats won2212
Seat changeDecrease2.svg4Increase2.svg4
Hyndburn UK local election 2021 Map.png
2021 local election results in Hyndburn
   Labour
   Conservative
  Not contested

A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election (postponed since March 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak), was held on Thursday 6 May 2021. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day. [1]

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This election, postponed for 12-months since 2020, took place at the same time as the regularly-scheduled 2021 Lancashire County Council elections and the rescheduled Lancashire Police & Crime Commissioner elections.

Background

Before the election Labour had a majority of 25 councillors, Conservatives had 7 councillors, with 1 Independent councillor who had previously been a Conservative and had since resigned from that party and become an Independent, plus 2 Vacant seats where after councillor Stephanie Haworth opted to stand-down (in 2020) her seat was left Vacant (during the covid pandemic) and the other suddenly became vacant (in March 2020) following the death of long-serving councillor Tony Dobson, who had also originally planned to stand-down (in 2020). [2]

  1. Hyndburn's Conservative MP, Sara Britcliffe was previously elected in 2018 to one of the St. Andrew's HBC-ward seats AND that vacated seat's postponed by-election is due to take place in May-2021

In this election, Labour was defending 10-ward-seats and Conservatives were defending 3-ward-seats. The winning ward-candidates will serve out only the last 3-years of a standard 4-year term in office, with those same seats coming up for re-election, in May 2024, 12-months prior to the next LCC election, in May 2025.

Candidates were also standing as potential Reform Party ward-councillors in Netherton, Overton, Rishton and St Andrew's. Candidates were also standing as potential Lib-Dem Party ward-councillors in Rishton and St Oswald's. A single Candidate stood as a potential Independent ward-councillor in Rishton. The Green Party did not stand candidates in any Hyndburn ward-seats and only contested LCC seats. There were no UKIP Candidates standing in any Hyndburn ward-seats, with just one such candidate for the Accrington North LCC-seat.

  1. Candidates standing for both a HBC-ward seat AND a LCC-seat – are tagged with "(& LCC)"

Local Election result

2021 Hyndburn Borough Council Election Results Map.png
PartyLeaderCouncillorsVotes
Of totalWhole CouncilOf total
Labour 6
22 / 35
7,83147.5%
Conservative Party 7
12 / 35
7,54845.8%
Independents 0
1 / 35
4112.5%
Reform UK 0
0 / 35
4042.5%
Liberal Democrats 0
0 / 35
730.5%

Reference: 2016 Hyndburn Borough Council election

NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats were NOT be up for re-election in 2021, include the following wards – Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. However, as there was ALSO an election previously scheduled for Lancashire's next Police and Crime Commissioner, polling stations in those other Four wards would normally ALSO have been OPEN to accept those ballots for a new Commissioner.

Previous Councillors who were looking to Stand-Down in May 2021 included – Stephanie Haworth (Lab-Overton), Jean Battle (Lab-Church) and Jeff Scales (Lab-Rishton). As well as the (Con) Barnfield seat, which became vacant in March 2020 when Councillor Tony Dobson died.

Ward results

Altham

Altham – Electorate 3,918
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Dominik ALLEN 632 54.62 31.38
Labour Steve BUTTON50243.39−3.01
...spoilt ballots220.19
Majority13011.24N/A
Turnout 1,15729.530.10
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Barnfield

Barnfield – Electorate 3,284
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Caroline Elizabeth MONTAGUE 594 51.34 7.88
Conservative Danny CASSIDY54547.100.17
...spoilt ballots171.47
Majority494.24N/A
Turnout 1,15735.23−4.63
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Baxenden

Baxenden – Electorate 3,226
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Terence Keith HURN (& LCC) 779 59.19 8.45
Labour Kimberley Jane WHITEHEAD53240.438.86
...spoilt ballots60.46
Majority24718.77N/A
Turnout 1,31640.792.21
Conservative hold Swing

Central

Central – Electorate 3,784
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Abdul Ghafar KHAN 986 49.70 −10.03
Conservative Mohammed YOUNIS (& LCC)96348.549.67
...spoilt ballots311.56
Majority231.16N/A
Turnout 1,98452.431.29
Labour hold Swing

Church

Church – Electorate 3,476
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sajid MAHMOOD 595 51.07 32.94
Labour Clare PRITCHARD54546.78−33.24
...spoilt ballots353.00
Majority504.29N/A
Turnout 1,16533.525.34
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Netherton

Netherton – Electorate 3,385
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Noordad AZIZ (& LCC) 745 59.74 8.79
Conservative Peter EDWARDS41733.445.12
Reform UK Sarah-Kay Margaret FITZHARRIS705.61N/A
...spoilt ballots151.20
Majority32826.30N/A
Turnout 1,24736.84−4.84
Labour hold Swing

Overton

Overton – Electorate 4,796
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael John HINDLEY 787 45.73 6.25
Conservative Gareth Jason MOLINEUX (& LCC)69840.564.62
Reform UK Wayne James FITZHARRIS (& LCC)21512.49N/A
...spoilt ballots211.22
Majority895.17N/A
Turnout 1,72135.88−2.58
Labour hold Swing

Peel

Peel – Electorate 2,965
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patrick SHORT 503 65.58 −3.61
Conservative David ECCLES24531.94N/A
...spoilt ballots182.35
Majority25833.64N/A
Turnout 76725.87−1.45
Labour hold Swing

Rishton

Rishton – Electorate 4,982
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE (& LCC) 658 37.54 3.25
Labour Jodi CLEMENTS62035.37−6.19
Independent Andrew Joseph HARRIS41123.45N/A
Reform UK Ian ROBINSON (& LCC)392.22N/A
Liberal Democrats Adam John Thomas WALLER-SLACK (& LCC)201.14N/A
...spoilt ballots60.34
Majority382.17N/A
Turnout 1,75335.19−0.52
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Spring Hill

Spring Hill – Electorate 3,589
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Munsif DAD (& LCC) 792 59.15 −17.33
Conservative Saghir HUSSAIN52138.9118.14
...spoilt ballots161.19
Majority27120.24N/A
Turnout 1,33937.311.60
Labour hold Swing

St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's – Electorate 3,295
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Peter BRITCLIFFE (& LCC) 550 52.38 7.60
Conservative Steven Lee SMITHSON (*) 372 35.43 N/A
Labour Stewart Thurston EAVES36434.67−19.23
Labour Gayle Bernadette KNIGHT31229.71N/A
Reform UK Jake Connor ALLEN (& LCC)807.62N/A
...spoilt ballots60.57
MajorityPB: 18617.71N/A
Turnout 1,05031.870.69
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Conservative hold Swing

St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's – Electorate 4,856
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Susan HAYES 945 50.45 17.89
Labour Glen Kevin HARRISON (& LCC)86145.976.49
Liberal Democrats Beth WALLER-SLACK (& LCC)532.83N/A
...spoilt ballots140.75
Majority844.48N/A
Turnout 1,87338.573.26
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

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References

  1. ↑ "Elections & Referendums – what we do". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Hyndburn Borough Council – Your councillors by political party". The Hyndburn Borough Council. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
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