2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

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2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
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  2023 2 May 20242026 

25 of 75 seats to Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
38 seats needed for a majority
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Leader David Molyneux [1] Ray Whittingham
Party Labour Independent Conservative
Last election6492

The 2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election will take place on 2 May 2024 to elect one third of the members of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council in England. The election will be held on the same day as other local elections.

Contents

Overview

After 2023 election Before 2024 electionAfter 2024 election
PartySeatsPartySeatsPartySeats
Labour 64 Labour 64 Labour
Conservative 2 Conservative 2 Conservative
Independent 9 Independent 9 Independent
Number of Candidates fielded per party [2]
PartyNumber of Candidates
Labour Party 25
Conservative Party 25
Independents 16
Liberal Democrats 15
Green Party 8
Leigh and Atherton Independents5
Reform UK 5
Standish Independents1
Wigan Independents1
Workers Party 1

Results summary

2024 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Labour 436485.3
  Conservative 122.7
  Independent 6912.0
  Liberal Democrats 000
  Green 000
 Leigh and Atherton Independents000
  Reform UK 000
 Standish Independents000
 Wigan Independents000
  Workers Party 000

Results

Incumbent councillors seeking re-election in their ward are marked with an asterisk (*). Vote Share changes for non-incumbent parties or Councillors are relative to their top non-winning result in 2023.

Abram ward

Local Elections 2024: Abram
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent David William Bowker
Labour Nazia Tabussam Rehman*
Liberal Democrats Graham Trevor Suddick
Conservative Janet Elizabeth Walch
Majority
Turnout

Ashton-in-Makerfield South ward

Local Elections 2024: Ashton-in-Makerfield South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Andrew John Bullen*
Conservative Paul Martin
Liberal Democrats Geoffrey Stephen Matthews
Independent Gary Wilkes
Majority
Turnout

Aspull, New Springs & Whelley ward

Local Elections 2024: Aspull, New Springs & Whelley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Laura Jean Flynn*
Green Peter George Edmund Kitts
Conservative Marie Winstanley
Majority
Turnout

Astley ward

Local Elections 2024: Astley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Sandra Elizabeth Robinson
Conservative Eileen Patricia Strathearn
Labour Barry John Taylor*
Majority
Turnout

Atherton North ward

Local Elections 2024: Atherton North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Paul Blinkhorn
Atherton North IndependentQuinton John Smith
Conservative David John Stirzaker
Independent James Paul Watson*
Majority
Turnout

Atherton South & Lilford ward

Local Elections 2024: Atherton South & Lilford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin James Farrimond
Independent Rachael Flaszczak
Labour Lee Robert McStein*
Majority
Turnout

Bryn with Ashton-in-Makerfield North ward

Local Elections 2024: Bryn with Ashton-in-Makerfield North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Judith Atherton
Labour Margaret Therese Gaffney
Independent Scarlett Myler*
Majority
Turnout

Douglas ward

Local Elections 2024: Douglas
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret Atherton
Labour Matt Dawber*
Green Peter Ernest Jacobs
Majority
Turnout

Golborne & Lowton West ward

Local Elections 2024: Golborne & Lowton West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Susan Gambles*
Liberal Democrats Andrew Julian Lee Holland
Conservative Edward Noel Houlton
Leigh and Atherton IndependentRichard Andrew Scott
Majority
Turnout

Hindley ward

Local Elections 2024: Hindley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Oliver Peter Clark
Independent Dave Culshaw
Independent Jim Ellis
Independent Jordan James Gaskell
Conservative Gerard Joseph Houlton
Liberal Democrats John Charles Skipworth
Reform UK James Swift
Labour James Talbot*
Majority
Turnout

Hindley Green ward

Local Elections 2024: Hindley Green
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Susan Atherton
Labour James Thomas Palmer*
Reform UK Ray Peters
Independent Mark Prescott
Liberal Democrats Gary Skipworth
Majority
Turnout

Ince ward

Local Elections 2024: Ince
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Allan Atherton
Labour Janice Sharratt*
Independent Tony Whyte
Independent Zoran C. Zok
Majority
Turnout

Leigh Central & Higher Folds ward

Local Elections 2024: Leigh Central & Higher Folds
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jean Dickinson
Leigh Central IndependentJames Edward Morley
Green Peter Mulleady
Labour Fred Walker*
Liberal Democrats Stuart John Worthington
Majority
Turnout

Leigh South ward

Local Elections 2024: Leigh South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Leigh South IndependentJayson Allan Hargreaves
Conservative Avril Ruth Murphy
Liberal Democrats Christopher John Noon
Green Brodie Andrew Prescott
Labour Charles Rigby*
Majority
Turnout

Leigh West ward

Local Elections 2024: Leigh West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Marie Elizabeth Cooper
Leigh West IndependentDavid John Evans
Labour Sue Greensmith*
Green Rachel Harrop
Majority
Turnout

Lowton East ward

Local Elections 2024: Lowton East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kathleen Houlton*
Labour Mike Smith
Majority
Turnout

Orrell ward

Local Elections 2024: Orrell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Anne Collins*
Reform UK Robert F. Kenyon
Liberal Democrats Neil Duncan Stevenson
Conservative Michael William Winstanley
Majority
Turnout

Pemberton ward

Local Elections 2024: Pemberton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats David John Burley
Conservative Jean Margaret Peet
Independent Tony Porter
Labour Eileen Winifred Rigby*
Majority
Turnout

Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor ward

Local Elections 2024: Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Peter Burley
Shevington Independents Part of Wigan IndependentsDebbie Fairhurst
Labour Vicky Galligan*
Conservative Michael Colin Owens
Workers Party Peter Seddon
Majority
Turnout

Standish with Langtree ward

Local Elections 2024: Standish with Langtree
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Standish IndependentsGareth William Fairhurst
Liberal Democrats Donald John Macnamara
Labour Terry Mugan*
Conservative Gary Robinson
Majority
Turnout

Tyldesley & Mosley Common ward

Local Elections 2024: Tyldesley & Mosley Common
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent James Anthony Fish*
Conservative Ashley Mccarrick
Labour Farai Nhakaniso
Majority
Turnout

Wigan Central ward

Local Elections 2024: Wigan Central
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul John Chapman
Liberal Democrats Brian Craig Duff Crombie-Fisher
Independent Catherine Mary Croston
Green Lisa Diaz
Labour Michael McLoughlin*
Majority
Turnout

Wigan West ward

Local Elections 2024: Wigan West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Marjorie Clayton
Labour Sheila Rosaleen Ramsdale*
Liberal Democrats Stuart David Thomas
Majority
Turnout

Winstanley ward

Local Elections 2024: Winstanley
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Reform UK John Carroll
Green John Christopher Logan
Labour Clive William Morgan*
Liberal Democrats Robert Duncan Stevenson
Conservative Margaret Mary Winstanley
Majority
Turnout

Worsley Mesnes ward

Local Elections 2024: Worsley Mesnes
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Danny Cooke
Liberal Democrats Vincent Dean Holgate
Conservative Adam James Marsh
Labour Paul David James Molyneux*
Reform UK Keith Andrew Whalley
Majority
Turnout

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References

    1. "Your councillors". Wigan Council. 9 May 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
    2. "Statement of Persons Nominated for Local Election" (PDF). Wigan Council. Retrieved 5 April 2024.