2023 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election

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2023 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election
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  2022 4 May 2023 2024  

17 of 51 seats on Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council
26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout34.51% (Decrease2.svg 3.0%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
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LeaderTim SwiftSteven LeighJames Baker
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader's seatTownRyburnWarley
Seats before28156
Seats won10, 58.8%4, 23.5%2, 11.8%
Seats after28156
Seat changeSteady2.svgSteady2.svgSteady2.svg
Popular vote22,90415,2086,570
Percentage44.1%29.3%12.6%
Swing-1.1%-3.4%+0.8%

 Fourth partyFifth party
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Party Green Independent
Seats before11
Seats won2, 11.8%0
Seats after20
Seat changeIncrease2.svg1Decrease2.svg1
Popular vote6,291288
Percentage12.1%0.6%

Calderdale UK ward map 2023 Election.svg
Results by ward

Leader before election

Tim Swift
Labour

Leader after election

Tim Swift
Labour

Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council took place on 4 May 2023 alongside other elections in the United Kingdom. Labour retained its majority on the council.

Contents

Background

The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Calderdale was a district of the West Yorkshire metropolitan county. [1] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority was established in 2014 and began electing the mayor of West Yorkshire in 2021. [2]

Calderdale Council was under no overall control with Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour leaders until the Labour Party achieved a majority of seats in the 2019 election, when they gained four seats to hold 28 of the council's 51 seats. In the most recent election in 2022, seventeen seats were up for election. Labour won eleven seats, the Conservatives won 4 seats, and the Liberal Democrats and Greens both won one seat.

Positions up for election in 2023 were last elected in 2019. In that election, Labour won ten seats, the Conservatives won four, the Liberal Democrats won two and independent candidates won one seat. Labour retained its majority on the council at this election. [3]

Electoral process

The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election for three consecutive years and no election in the fourth year. [4] [5] The election used first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Calderdale aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Council results

PartyCouncillorsVotes
Of totalNetOf totalNet
Labour 100
10 / 17
22,90444.1%-1.1%
Conservative 40
4 / 17
15,20829.3%-3.4%
Liberal Democrats 20
2 / 17
6,57012.6%+0.8%
Green 1+1
1 / 17
6,29112.1%+3.0%
Freedom Alliance00
0 / 17
3660.7%+0.5%
Independent 0-1
0 / 17
2880.6%+0.4%

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

2815611
LabourConservativeLib DemGI

After the election the composition of the council was:

281562
LabourConservativeLib DemG
PartyPrevious councilNew council
Labour 2828
Conservative 1515
Liberal Democrats 66
Green 12
Independent 10
Total5151

Results

Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk. The results were: [6]

Brighouse

Brighouse [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Brenda Monteith* 1,320 43.9 −11.8
Labour Frank Darnley118039.2+19.9
Green Kim Atkinson2518.3−0.9
Liberal Democrats Stephen Cockroft1926.4N/A
Freedom Alliance Gabriella Paterson571.9N/A
Majority 1404.7
Rejected ballots70.23
Turnout 300736.43
Registered electors 8,254
Conservative hold Swing

Calder

Calder [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Israr Ahmed 2,615 58.8 +4.8
Green Alan McDonald61713.9−2.3
Conservative Joseph Matthews55512.5−0.9
Liberal Democrats Diana Harris50911.4−3.2
Independent Helen Lasham1102.5N/A
Majority 199844.9
Rejected ballots420.94
Turnout 444848.31
Registered electors 9,207
Labour hold Swing

Elland

Elland [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Veitch 1,300 47.3 +10.2
Conservative Vanessa Lee78128.4−4.3
Liberal Democrats Richard Phillips37113.5−3.0
Green Barry Crossland2288.3−3.5
Freedom Alliance Matthew Leadbeater602.2N/A
Majority 51918.9
Rejected ballots100.36
Turnout 275031.2
Registered electors 8,815
Labour hold Swing

Greetland and Stainland

Greetland and Stainland [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Sue Holdsworth* 1,240 42.3 −6.9
Conservative Alex Greenwood107736.7+9.5
Labour Adrian Horton42214.4+1.7
Green Jacquelyn Haigh1836.2−2.9
Majority 1635.6
Rejected ballots120.41
Turnout 293434.7
Registered electors 8,464
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Kirton* 1,661 52.1 −2.1
Labour Sam Ackroyd1,03132.3+10.5
Green Elaine Hey35311.1−3.1
Liberal Democrats Jennie Rigg1284.0−3.7
Majority 63019.8
Rejected ballots160.5
Turnout 318935.1
Registered electors 9,079
Conservative hold Swing

Illingworth and Mixenden

Illingworth and Mixenden [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Steph Clarke* 1,252 54.6 +14.3
Conservative Colonel Padgett68329.8−3.6
Green Laura Beesley1325.8−1.3
Independent Seán Loftus1185.1−7.8
Liberal Democrats Alexander Parsons-Hulse964.2−0.7
Majority 56924.8
Rejected ballots130.57
Turnout 229424.9
Registered electors 9,202
Labour hold Swing

Luddendenfoot

Luddendenfoot [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Katie Kimber 1,900 56.3 +11.5
Conservative Jill Smith-Moorhouse82024.3−2.7
Liberal Democrats Christine Bampton-Smith35510.5−5.3
Green Kate Sweeny2718.0−2.6
Majority 108032.0
Rejected ballots310.92
Turnout 337742.2
Registered electors 7,995
Labour hold Swing

Northowram and Shelf

Northowram and Shelf [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Daniel Wood 2,244 63.0 +52.7
Conservative Stephen Baines100428.2−28.3
Labour Khuram Majid2537.1−10.6
Liberal Democrats Philip White541.5−2.2
Majority 124034.8
Rejected ballots70.2
Turnout 356239.2
Registered electors 9,081
Green gain from Independent Swing +13

Ovenden

Ovenden [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Stuart Cairney* 1,029 56.9 +13.2
Conservative Christopher Matejak41723.1+3.4
Liberal Democrats Sean Bamforth22412.4−1.2
Green Finn Jensen1267.0−1.4
Majority 61233.9
Rejected ballots110.61
Turnout 180721.45
Registered electors 8,423
Labour hold Swing

Park

Park [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Rahat Khan 1,768 57.2 −29.5
Conservative Shakir Saghir56818.4+11.8
Liberal Democrats Abdul Rehman54517.6+15.4
Green Catherine Graham1304.2+0.3
Independent Craig Withers601.9
Majority 120038.8
Rejected ballots180.58
Turnout 308932.6
Registered electors 9,465
Labour hold Swing

Rastrick

Rastrick [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Chris Pillai 1,289 43.8 −6.1
Labour Co-op Alan Judge118040.1+12.2
Green Matthew Lawson2046.9−4.5
Liberal Democrats Francesca Carr1535.2−3.6
Freedom Alliance Corinne Henderson943.2N/A
Majority 1093.7
Rejected ballots230.78
Turnout 294335.51
Registered electors 8,288
Conservative hold Swing

Ryburn

Ryburn [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Felicity Issott* 1,463 46.0 +17.9
Labour David Wager110134.6+23.5
Green Freda Davis2778.7+2.3
Liberal Democrats Samuel Jackson2507.9+4.0
Freedom Alliance Michael Ogden832.6N/A
Majority 36211.4
Rejected ballots60.19
Turnout 318035.8
Registered electors 8,878
Conservative hold Swing

Skircoat

Skircoat [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Mike Barnes* 2,285 61.1 +19.1
Conservative Peter Hunt104928.1−2.5
Liberal Democrats Kathleen Haigh-Hutchinson2005.3−0.5
Green Mark Mullany1885.0−0.6
Majority 123633.1
Rejected ballots170.45
Turnout 373938.99
Registered electors 9,589
Labour hold Swing

Sowerby Bridge

Sowerby Bridge [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Simon Ashton 1,468 51.0 +10.3
Conservative Mark Edwards85229.6−7.6
Liberal Democrats Thomas Stringfellow29310.2+1.0
Green David Booth2448.5−2.6
Majority 61621.4
Rejected ballots240.83
Turnout 288132.89
Registered electors 8,760
Labour hold Swing

Todmorden

Todmorden [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Silvia Dacre* 1,791 57.6 +12.4
Conservative Mark Holmes53017.0+4.9
Green Kieran Turner47215.2+2.2
Liberal Democrats Christopher Wadsworth2718.7−15.1
Majority 126140.5
Rejected ballots481.54
Turnout 311234.9
Registered electors 8,906
Labour hold Swing

Town

Town [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Tim Swift* 1,116 48.0 +4.1
Conservative Anne-Marie Miles79634.2+5.8
Green Elliot Hey25010.7+1.1
Liberal Democrats Rosemary Tatchell1516.5+1.6
Majority 32013.8
Rejected ballots140.6
Turnout 232725.9
Registered electors 9,001
Labour hold Swing

Warley

Warley [7]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Abigail Carr 1,538 46.6 −6.4
Labour Ash Ashfaq121336.8+5.8
Conservative Vishal Gupta34310.4−0.4
Green Katie Witham1213.7−0.3
Freedom Alliance Martin Davies722.2N/A
Majority 3259.9
Rejected ballots120.36
Turnout 329936.2
Registered electors 9,105
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

References

  1. Local Government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 7. ISBN   0-11-750847-0.
  2. "West Yorkshire devolution deal". GOV.UK. 26 March 2021. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  3. "Local election results 2023: Labour continue to dominate in West Yorkshire". BBC News. 5 May 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  4. "Local government structure and elections". GOV.UK. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
  5. "Election Timetable in England" (PDF).
  6. "Calderdale election result". BBC News. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Election of Local Councillors 2023 - 04/05/2023". Calderdale Council. Retrieved 5 May 2023.