2023 West Lancashire Borough Council election

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2023 West Lancashire Borough Council election
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All 45 seats on West Lancashire Borough Council
23 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond party
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LeaderYvonne GagenDavid Westley
Party Labour Conservative
Seats before2520
Seats after2615
 Third partyFourth party
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LeaderAdrian Owens
Party OWL Independent
Seats before7 [a] 2
Seats after40
West Lancashire UK ward map 2023.svg
Results by ward
Leader before election

Yvonne Gagen
Labour
No overall control

Leader after election

Yvonne Gagen
Labour

The 2023 West Lancashire Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 45 members of West Lancashire Borough Council in Lancashire, England. The council is usually elected in thirds, but the whole council was up for election in 2023 following changes to ward boundaries, which reduced the number of councillors from 54 to 45. [2]

Contents

Background

A parliamentary by-election in the constituency of the same name in February 2023 saw Labour's candidate Ashley Dalton elected on a 10% swing. [3]

Overview

Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being led by a Labour minority administration. [4]

Following the results, the Labour Party won the council from no overall control. [5] [6]

Ward results

Aughton & Holborn

Aughton & Holborn
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sarah Lawton 1,216 51.3
Labour Paul Hennessy 1,215 51.2
Labour Kerry Lloyd 1,178 49.7
Conservative David O'Toole1,05044.3
Conservative Bruce Porteous1,03543.6
Conservative Doreen Stephenson98941.7
Turnout 2,37237
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Burscough Bridge & Rufford

Burscough Bridge & Rufford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Gordon 1,043 52.4
Conservative Eddie Pope 1,024 51.5
Conservative Jayne Rear 939 47.2
Labour Sophia Hennessy78739.5
Labour Mary Jones76938.6
Labour Pinar Robinson67634.0
Liberal Democrats Ruxandra-Mihaela Trandafoiu23111.6
Turnout 1,99035
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Burscough Town

Burscough Town
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Patricia Burnside 885 50.9
Labour Andrew Fowler 823 47.4
OWL Paul Hesketh 776 44.7
Labour Damian Owen75043.2
Conservative Jason Grice42124.2
Conservative Richard Ainsworth32318.6
Liberal Democrats Neil Pollington21512.4
Conservative Dan Rear20812.0
Turnout 1,73733
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
OWL win (new seat)

North Meols & Hesketh Bank

North Meols & Hesketh Bank
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Howard 954 58.2
Conservative Thomas De Freitas 862 52.6
Conservative Ian Eccles 845 51.6
Labour Cynthia Dereli45928.0
Labour George Oliver40824.9
Labour Gavin Jones-Verity39023.8
Liberal Democrats Karen Taylor23014.0
Green Edwin Black20612.6
Turnout 1,63829
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Old Skelmersdale

Old Skelmersdale
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Neil Furey 1,167 80.2
Labour Nicola Pryce-Roberts 1,041 71.5
Labour Donna West 1,029 70.7
Conservative Keith Ashcroft17612.1
Conservative Ruth Melling16611.4
Conservative Juliana Gudgeon15710.8
Turnout 1,45523
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Ormskirk East

Ormskirk East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Nicola Hennessy 1,211 51.4
Labour Robert Molloy 1,057 44.9
Labour Adam Yates 1,022 43.4
OWL Janet Ingman1,01142.9
OWL Gordon Johnson96941.1
OWL Adrian Owens95440.5
Conservative Linda Gresty1687.1
Conservative Kate Maughan1677.1
Conservative Dave Meadows1636.9
Turnout 2,35539
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Ormskirk West

Ormskirk West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Mark Anderson 1,073 49.9
Labour Gareth Dowling 1,055 49.0
Labour Anne Fennell 1,053 49.0
OWL Jane Thompson88241.0
OWL Kate Mitchell87440.6
OWL John Evans77135.8
Conservative Laura Sampson1788.3
Conservative Sarah Westley1677.8
Conservative Bill Witter1456.7
Turnout 2,15135
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Rural North East

Rural North East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Rob Bailey 1,182 48.1
Conservative Katie Juckes 1,059 43.1
Conservative David Whittington 1,023 41.7
Labour Margaret Blake89136.3
Labour Stephen Kirrelly76631.2
Labour Michael Paris75130.6
OWL Neil Pye48019.5
Liberal Democrats John Puddifer38315.6
Liberal Democrats Peter Chandler29912.2
Turnout 2,45640
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Rural South

The election in Rural South ward was delayed until 22nd June as a result of the death of one of the candidates.

Rural South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
OWL Ian Rigby 704 48.0
OWL Linda Webster 674 46.0
OWL Thomas Marsh-Pritchard 664 45.3
Labour Julie Gibson48633.2
Labour Ian Moran48533.1
Labour Paul Dickie47932.7
Conservative Sangeeta Naraen24116.4
Conservative Paul Turpin23315.9
Conservative Asheem Naraen22615.4
Turnout 1,46628
OWL win (new seat)
OWL win (new seat)
OWL win (new seat)

Rural West

Rural West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Alex Blundell 765 43.6
Conservative Jane Marshall 684 39.0
Conservative Marilyn Westley 670 38.2
Labour Michael Brooks65537.3
Labour Pauline Gamester62535.6
Labour John Watt59633.9
OWL Richard Brown56932.4
Turnout 1,75631
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Skelmersdale North

Skelmersdale North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Yvonne Gagen 998 79.6
Labour Terence Devine 975 77.8
Labour Melissa Parlour 915 73.0
Conservative Jason Chapman16813.4
Conservative Sue Janvier14211.3
Conservative Nigel Fielding13811.0
Turnout 1,25422
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Skelmersdale South

Skelmersdale South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Terence Aldridge 974 76.2
Labour Victoria Cummins 922 72.1
Labour Julian Finch 828 64.7
Skelmersdale IndependentsAaron Body24519.2
Conservative Malcolm Hayman947.3
Conservative Jean Ross927.2
Conservative Ian White876.8
Turnout 1,27922
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre

Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Carl Coughlan 925 78.2
Labour Paul Hogan 920 77.8
Labour Maureen Nixon 902 76.2
Conservative Sue Brake15112.8
Conservative Gillian Taylor13611.5
Conservative William Cropper13511.4
Turnout 1,18319
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Tarleton Village

Tarleton Village
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Joan Witter 1,082 59.2
Conservative Darren Daniels 992 54.2
Conservative David Westley 987 54.0
Labour Janice Monaghan57831.6
Labour Noel Delaney51228.0
Labour Christopher Sawyer50927.8
Liberal Democrats Tina Stringfellow37820.7
Turnout 1,82933
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Up Holland

Up Holland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Fillis 1,128 65.8
Labour Suresh Patel 1,097 64.0
Labour Gaynar Owen 1,063 62.0
Conservative James Dorling46327.0
Conservative Julie Peel44726.1
Conservative John Mee39222.9
Turnout 1,71429
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

References

  1. ↑ Including one vacant seat in the old Derby ward which had been held by Our West Lancashire councillor Ian Davis until his death in April 2023. [1]
  1. ↑ Boothroyd, David (21 April 2023). "Manifest destiny". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  2. ↑ "The West Lancashire (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk , The National Archives, SI 2022/1179, retrieved 27 June 2023
  3. ↑ Bugel, Safi; Adu, Aletha (2023-02-10). "Labour wins West Lancashire byelection with 10% swing". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Your councillors by party". West Lancashire Borough Council. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
  5. ↑ Hainey, Fionnula (2023-05-05). "Election results from West Lancashire local council election 2023 count in full". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  6. ↑ "West Lancashire result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
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