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The 2024 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections across the United Kingdom being held on the same day.
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 2023, seventeen seats were up for election. Labour won ten seats, the Conservatives won four seats, Liberal Democrats won two seats and the Greens won one seat. [3]
Seats up for election in 2024 were last elected in 2021. These elections were originally scheduled for 2020, but were delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [4] In that election, the Conservatives won nine seats, Labour won eight, and the Liberal Democrats won two. Labour retained its majority on the council at this election. [5]
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. [6] [7] 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.
| After 2023 election | Before 2024 election | ||||
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| Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
| Labour | 28 | Labour | 27 | ||
| Conservative | 15 | Conservative | 14 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 6 | Liberal Democrats | 6 | ||
| Green | 2 | Green | 2 | ||
| Independent | 0 | Independent | 1 | ||
Changes:
Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Kim Atkinson | ||||
| Conservative | Geraldine Carter | ||||
| Labour | Frank Darnley | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Jennie Rigg | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour Co-op | Josh Fenton-Glynn* | ||||
| Conservative | Christopher Lee | ||||
| Green | Mark Stanley | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Wadsworth | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Barry Crossland | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Hunt | ||||
| Labour | Khuram Majid | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Richard Phillips | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal Democrats | Paul Bellenger* | ||||
| Conservative | Alex Greenwood | ||||
| Green | Jacquelyn Haigh | ||||
| Labour | Mark Pitkethly | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Labour | Sam Ackroyd | ||||
| Green | Catherine Graham | ||||
| Conservative | George Robinson* | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Nikki Stocks | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Laura Beesley | ||||
| Independent | Sara Gaunt | ||||
| Independent | Seán Loftus | ||||
| Conservative | Stephen Padgett | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Nicholas Proctor | ||||
| Labour | Shane Taylor | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal Democrats | Christine Bampton-Smith | ||||
| Labour | Jane Scullion* | ||||
| Conservative | Jill Smith-Moorhouse | ||||
| Green | Kate Sweeny | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Elaine Hey | ||||
| Labour | Allen Slingsby | ||||
| Conservative | John Vaughan | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Anne Baines | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Sean Bamforth | ||||
| Labour Co-op | Danielle Durrans* | ||||
| Green | Finn Jensen | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Sabir Hussain | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Samuel Jackson | ||||
| Conservative | Naveed Khan | ||||
| Workers Party | Shakir Saghir | ||||
| Labour | Sadia Zaman | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Andrew Bramley | ||||
| Labour Co-op | Alan Judge | ||||
| Conservative | Joseph Matthews | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Bernardette Stancliffe | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | Cordelia Prescott | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Rosemary Tatchell | ||||
| Conservative | Robert Thornber* | ||||
| Labour | Leah Webster | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Oliver Gibson | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Holdsworth | ||||
| Labour Co-op | Ann Kingstone* | ||||
| Green | Robert Orange | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Green | David Booth | ||||
| Conservative | Mark Edwards | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Diana Harris | ||||
| Labour | Adam Wilkinson* | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Liberal Democrats | Abdul Kye | ||||
| Conservative | Brian Carter | ||||
| Labour Co-op | Diana Tremayne* | ||||
| Green | Kieran Turner | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Conservative | Vishal Gupta | ||||
| Green | Elliot Hey | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Garry Prashad | ||||
| Labour Co-op | Kelly Thornham | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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| Independent | Sohail Ashfaq | ||||
| Conservative | Stephen Baines | ||||
| Freedom Alliance | Martin Davies | ||||
| Liberal Democrats | Ashley Evans* | ||||
| Labour | Ben Jancovich | ||||
| Green | Katie Witham | ||||
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Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 3 May 2007 with the exception of the Warley ward which was postponed until 14 June 2007 due to the sudden death of one of the candidates. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control with a minority Conservative administration. The total turnout of the election was 38.01%. The winning candidate in each ward is highlighted in bold.
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