2024 Pendle Borough Council election

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2024 Pendle Borough Council election
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12 of 33 seats on Pendle Borough Council
17 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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LeaderNadeem AhmedDavid Whipp
Party Conservative Independent Liberal Democrats
Last election14 seats, 40.2%1 seat, 0%7 seats, 15.9%
Seats before13127
Seats won453
Seats after13128
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1Increase2.svg7Increase2.svg1
Popular vote7,7037,4483,356
Percentage34.5%33.4%15.0%
SwingDecrease2.svg5.7%Increase2.svg33.4%Decrease2.svg0.9%
 Fourth partyFifth party
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Party Labour Green
Last election11 seats, 39.7%0 seats, 0%
Seats before00
Seats won00
Seats after00
Seat changeDecrease2.svg11Steady2.svg
Popular vote3,285508
Percentage14.7%2.2%
SwingDecrease2.svg25.0%Decrease2.svg1.8%
2024 Pendle Borough Council Election Results Map.png
Leader before election

Asjad Mahmood
Independent
No overall control

Leader after election

Asjad Mahmood
Independent
No overall control

The 2024 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect a third of the council for the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, on the same day as other local elections in England.

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The council was under no overall control prior to the election. It had been governed by a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats until the entire Labour caucus left the party in April 2024. [1]

Labour lost all their seats they were defending to Independents. [2] Following the election the Independent Group (being the former Labour councillors) and the Liberal Democrats continued to run the council. [3]

Results by ward

Incumbent councillors denoted by an asterisk (*). These seats were last up for election when new ward boundaries were introduced in 2021 - percentage changes are calculated based on the mean party result in 2021. [4]

Barnoldswick

Barnoldswick
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Tom Whipp* 1,009 58.3 +7.5
Conservative Carol Ann Goulthorp37721.8−9.4
Labour Euan Coulston26015.0−0.3
Green Sylvia Joyce Godfrey844.9N/A
Majority63236.5
Turnout 1,73026.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Barnoldswick in 2021.

Barrowford and Pendleside

Barrowford and Pendleside
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Nadeem Ahmed* 1,099 51.4 −14.0
Labour Susan Frances Nike88841.5+17.4
Liberal Democrats Philip Alfred Berry1537.1+0.1
Majority211211
Turnout 2,14036.2
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Barrowford and Pendleside in 2022.

Boulsworth and Foulridge

Boulsworth and Foulridge
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Sarah Elizabeth Cockburn-Price* 1,254 63.0 −0.4
Labour Wayne Blackburn45722.9+7.5
Liberal Democrats Robin Hargreaves1587.9−17.7
Green Lyndsey Taylor1236.2N/A
Majority79740.1
Turnout 1,99231.6
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Boulsworth and Foulridge in 2021.

Bradley

Bradley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
No LabelMohammed Iqbal* 1665 55.2 +4.9
Conservative Hassan Mahmood135144.8+3.3
Majority31410.4
Turnout 3,01648.3
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Bradley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield East and Clover Hill

Brierfield East and Clover Hill
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
IndependentNaeem Hussain Ashraf* 1789 75.3 +20.6
Conservative Adam Jake Brierley58624.7−14.1
Majority120350.6
Turnout 237538.1
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield East and Clover Hill in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield West and Reedley

Brierfield West and Reedley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
No LabelMohammed Hanif* 1365 62.0 -4.2
Conservative Pauline Anne McCormick36216.4−12.5
No LabelSajjad Akbar30013.6−8.2
Labour Isaac Shafi Iqbal1768.0−58.2
Majority100345.6
Turnout 220348.2
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield West and Reedley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Earby and Coates

Earby and Coates
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David Hartley 892 44.8 +13.4
Conservative Richard Rutherford63732.0−16.0
Labour David Philip Johns35317.7+3.3
Green Jane Veronica Bailes Wood1115.6N/A
Majority25512.8
Turnout 199331.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Fence and Higham

Fence and Higham
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Brian Newman* 442 53.9 +2.4
Conservative Howard Hartley37846.1−2.4
Majority647.8
Turnout 82041.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Fence and Higham in 2021..

Marsden and Southfield

Marsden and Southfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
No LabelMohammad Adnan* 962 45.8 -5.9
IndependentNeil McGowan†44121.0−17.7
Conservative Marie Stone37617.9−33.8
Labour Elliot Christian Gribble26112.4−24.0
No LabelAzim Akhtar Khan442.1N/A
No LabelCraig Ian McBeth160.8N/A
Majority52124.8
Turnout 210035.0
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, defected to Labour, and then the Independent Group.
† Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, stood down in 2023.

Vivary Bridge

Vivary Bridge
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard O’Connor 458 38.9 −9.7
Liberal Democrats Andy Bell37031.4−1.2
Labour Patricia Josephine Hannah-Wood26922.8+4.8
Green Benjamin Harrop816.9N/A
Majority887.5
Turnout 1,17821.9
Conservative hold Swing

Waterside and Horsfield

Waterside and Horsfield
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Ash Sutcliffe* 581 40.2 −6.0
Labour Graham Roach42429.3+11.2
Liberal Democrats Craig Anthony Edwards33223.0−14.5
Green David Richard John Penney1097.5N/A
Majority15710.9
Turnout 1,44625.7
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Waterside and Horsfield in 2021.

Whitefield and Walverden

Whitefield and Walverden
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
No LabelAsjad Mahmood* 1,307 64.8 +2.3
Labour Manzar Iqbal46623.1−39.4
Conservative Mohamad Irfan Ayub24412.1−13.2
Majority84110.4
Turnout 2,01741.7
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Whitefield and Walverden in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

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