The 2014 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election took place on 22 May 2014. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections.
Bradford City Council Election Result 2014 [2] | |||||||||||||||
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Candidates | Votes | ||||||||||||||
Party | Stood | Elected | Gained | Unseated | Net | % of total | % | № | Net % | ||||||
Labour | 31 | 16 | 51.6% | 40.5% | 55,210 | ||||||||||
Conservative | 31 | 8 | 25.8% | 20.2% | 27,518 | ||||||||||
Liberal Democrat | 31 | 3 | 9.7% | 11.1% | 15,106 | ||||||||||
Independent | 6 | 2 | 6.4% | 4.8% | 6,495 | ||||||||||
UKIP | 16 | 1 | 3.2% | 12.6% | 17,117 | ||||||||||
Green | 15 | 1 | 3.2% | 5.0% | 6,863 | ||||||||||
Respect | 9 | 0% | 4.3% | 5,818 | |||||||||||
Peace | 1 | 0% | 0.7% | 985 | |||||||||||
British Democratic | 2 | 0% | 0.2% | 267 | |||||||||||
Party | Previous council | New council | |||
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Labour | 45 | 46 | |||
Conservative | 24 | 21 | |||
Liberal Democrat | 8 | 8 | |||
Respect | 5 | 0 | |||
Independent | 5 | 11 | |||
Green | 3 | 3 | |||
UKIP | 0 | 1 | |||
Total | 90 | 90 | |||
Working majority | 0 | 2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Valerie Margaret Townend | 2,258 | 45.8% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Ian James Lyons | 1,473 | 29.9% | ||
Labour | Joseph Thomas Ashton | 842 | 17.1% | ||
Green | Alexander Charles Newsham | 330 | 6.7% | ||
Majority | 785 | 15.9% | |||
Turnout | 4,929 | 41.6% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | David Heseltine | 2,183 | 39.9% | ||
Labour | Andrew David Mawson | 1,307 | 23.9% | ||
UKIP | Lynne Hannam Edgley | 1,295 | 23.7% | ||
Green | Darren James Parkinson | 452 | 8.3% | 2.0% | |
Liberal Democrat | Christine Betty Briggs | 213 | 3.9% | ||
Majority | 876 | 16.0% | |||
Turnout | 5,467 | 38.3% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Michael George Ellis | 2,047 | 40.0% | ||
UKIP | Stephen Henry | 1,485 | 29.0% | ||
Labour | Andrew David McCormick | 935 | 18.3% | ||
Green | Brian Newham | 405 | 7.9% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Kay Kirkham | 240 | 4.7% | ||
Majority | 562 | 11.0% | |||
Turnout | 5,122 | 37.1% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal Democrat | Rachel Emma Sunderland | 1,969 | 50.3% | ||
Labour | Frank Dignan | 1,462 | 37.4% | ||
Conservative | Christopher Michael Clapham | 412 | 10.5% | ||
Majority | 507 | 13.0% | |||
Turnout | 3,911 | 35.1% | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Rizwana Jamil | 2,532 | 55.8% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Michael Andrew Stelling | 863 | 19.0% | ||
Respect | Mohammed Ashraf Miah | 829 | 18.3% | ||
Conservative | Zaf Shah | 249 | 5.5% | ||
Majority | 1,669 | 36.8% | |||
Turnout | 4,534 | 36.4% | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Mohammed Shafiq | 2,671 | 46.7% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Riaz Ahmed | 2,615 | 45.7% | ||
Respect | Arshad Ali | 238 | 4.2% | ||
Conservative | Mohammed Tunveer | 147 | 2.6% | ||
Majority | 56 | 1.0% | |||
Turnout | 5,723 | 48.8% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Mohammed Nazam Azam | 3,510 | 78.0% | ||
Respect | Syed Musuab Ali | 656 | 14.6% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Stacey Yeadon | 156 | 3.5% | ||
Conservative | Shahid Nabi | 142 | 3.2% | ||
Majority | 2,854 | 63.4% | |||
Turnout | 4,502 | 36.9% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Sinead Engel | 1,963 | 51.3% | ||
UKIP | James David Vasey | 1,037 | 27.1% | ||
Conservative | Andrea Louise Taylor | 674 | 17.6% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Nicola Pollard | 145 | 3.8% | ||
Majority | 926 | 24.2% | |||
Turnout | 3,829 | 33.9% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
A second seat (won by Christopher Atkinson) was contested following the death in office of Councillor Michael Kelly. [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Andrew Charles Mallinson | 1864 | |||
Independent | Christopher Michael Atkinson | 1852 | |||
Independent | Catherine Jane Coates | 1478 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Charles Rowley | 1091 | |||
Labour | Valerie Judith Carroll | 1073 | |||
Independent | David Michael Mullen | 652 | |||
Labour | Luke Edward Antony Joseph Maunsell | 626 | |||
Green | Margaret Kathryn Forrest | 449 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Samuel Edwin Harris | 179 | |||
Liberal Democrat | Michael Robert Thomas Powell | 128 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal Democrat | Geoff Reid | 1,541 | 35.0% | ||
Labour | Stephen James Davison | 1,324 | 30.1% | ||
Conservative | Terrance John Pearson | 514 | 11.7% | ||
Green | Robert Minter Nicholls | 391 | 8.9% | ||
Majority | 217 | 4.9% | |||
Turnout | 4,402 | 36.5% | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Joanne Margaret Dodds | 2,696 | 63.2% | ||
UKIP | James Scott Beech | 694 | 16.3% | ||
Conservative | Abdul Samed Zaman | 548 | 63.2% | ||
Respect | Joseph Nael Hayat | 196 | 4.6% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Mary Slingsby | 115 | 2.7% | ||
Majority | 2,002 | 46.9% | |||
Turnout | 4,266 | 38.2% | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Nussrat Mohammed | 1,784 | 36.3% | ||
Peace | Imdad Hussain | 985 | 20.1% | ||
Green | David Michael Ford | 893 | 18.2% | ||
Conservative | Sajid Mahmood | 665 | 13.5% | ||
Respect | Peter William John Davis | 408 | 8.3% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Mike McNally | 131 | 2.7% | ||
Majority | 799 | 16.3% | |||
Turnout | 4,909 | 44.8% | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
The incumbent was Imdad Hussain who had been elected for the Labour party but was suspended from the Labour Party for two years in 2012 when he failed to declare being banned as a company director. He subsequently joined the Peace Party becoming their only councillor and standing under that banner for re-election. [4] . Imdad was punched and his windscreen smashed in two separate incidents while canvassing for this election. He called for calm and said that tensions were really high. [5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Liberal Democrat | Dominic Fear | 2,334 | 57.5% | ||
Labour | Angela Tait | 889 | 21.9% | ||
Conservative | Peter Andrew Robert Mills | 838 | 20.6% | ||
Majority | 1,445 | 35.6% | |||
Turnout | 4,061 | 33.0% | |||
Liberal Democrat hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Michael Peter Gibbons | 2,705 | 51.7% | ||
Labour | Alexander James MacPherson | 1,303 | 24.9% | ||
Green | Brian Richard Ford | 508 | 9.7% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Peter Alan Ferguson | 359 | 6.9% | ||
UKIP | Paul John Latham | 348 | 6.7% | ||
Majority | 1,402 | 26.8% | |||
Turnout | 5,231 | 44.5% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Abid Hussain | 3,418 | 63.5% | ||
Conservative | Akbar Ali | 745 | 13.8% | ||
UKIP | George Michael Firth | 722 | 13.4% | ||
Green | Rohman Ali | 236 | 4.4% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Pauline Rogan | 222 | 4.1% | ||
Majority | 2,673 | 49.7% | |||
Turnout | 5,381 | 46.0% | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Stephen Pullen | 1,881 | 39.0% | ||
UKIP | Ian Bannister | 1,192 | 24.7% | ||
Conservative | Allan Joseph Doherty | 968 | 20.1% | ||
Respect | Shazad Murtaza | 492 | 10.2% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Judith Brooksbank | 263 | 5.5% | ||
Majority | 689 | 14.3% | |||
Turnout | 4,825 | 40.1% | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
In October 2016 Brian Morris quit UKIP and became an independent councillor. [6]
The UK Independence Party is a hard Eurosceptic, right-wing political party in the United Kingdom. It currently has one representative in the House of Lords and seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). It has four Assembly Members (AMs) in the National Assembly for Wales and one member in the London Assembly. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two Members of Parliament and was the largest UK party in the European Parliament.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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UKIP | Brian Morris | 1,418 | 39.8% | ||
Labour | Keith Edward Dredge* | 1,252 | 35.1% | ||
Conservative | Ryan Thomas Andrew Brown | 613 | 17.2% | ||
Green | Barbara Elizabeth Archer | 208 | 5.8% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Jack Taylor | 63 | |||
Majority | 166 | 4.7% | |||
Turnout | 3,566 | 31.1% | |||
UKIP gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Naveeda Ikram* | 3,297 | 74.9% | ||
Respect | Shamsher Malik Yasin | 722 | 16.4% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Shabir Ahmed Butt | 181 | 4.1% | ||
Conservative | Altaf Hussain | 137 | 3.1% | ||
Majority | 2,575 | 58.5% | |||
Turnout | 4,402 | 38.2% | 25.9% | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Shabir Hussain* | 3,218 | 61.3% | ||
Respect | Naweed Hussain | 1,617 | 30.8% | ||
Green | John Edward Robinson | 170 | 3.2% | ||
Conservative | Hassan Nadim | 120 | 2.3% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Margaret Isobel Chadwick | 92 | 1.8% | ||
Majority | 1,601 | 30.5% | |||
Turnout | 5,246 | 46.1% | |||
Labour hold | Swing |
Paul Cromie was elected to represent the British National Party in 2010 but then left the party in 2011 standing as The Queensbury Ward Independents with his wife Jane Cromie who won another of the Queensbury councillor seats in 2011. [7]
The British National Party (BNP) is a far-right, fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is headquartered in Wigton, Cumbria, and its current leader is Adam Walker. A minor party, it has no elected representatives at any level of UK government. Founded in 1982, the party reached its greatest level of success in the 2000s, when it had over fifty seats in local government, one seat on the London Assembly, and two Members of the European Parliament.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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The Queensbury Ward Independents | Paul Gregory Smith Cromie* | 1,377 | 35.7% | ||
UKIP | Jason Paul Smith | 1,262 | 32.7% | ||
Labour | Rosemary Watson | 628 | 16.3% | ||
Conservative | John Antony Robertshaw | 489 | 12.7% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Ruth Mary Sharples Weston | 89 | 2.3% | ||
Majority | 115 | 3.0% | |||
Turnout | 3,855 | 32.1% | |||
Independent hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Valerie Slater* | 1,389 | 40.5% | ||
UKIP | John James Worsley | 1,232 | 35.9% | ||
Conservative | David John Servant | 464 | 13.5% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Shauna Ann Devonshire | 177 | 5.2% | ||
British Democratic | James Graham Lewthwaite | 152 | 4.4% | ||
Majority | 157 | 4.6% | |||
Turnout | 3,431 | 28.6% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Green | Hawarun Nessa Hussain* | 2,037 | 43.7% | ||
Labour | Aidan Paul Enright | 1,048 | 22.5% | ||
Conservative | Thomas William Banks | 805 | 17.3% | ||
UKIP | Philip Edward Bird | 647 | 13.9% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Liam James Preston | 118 | 2.5% | ||
Majority | 989 | 21.2% | |||
Turnout | 4,665 | 41.2% | |||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard Lee Dunbar | 1,737 | 45.5% | ||
Conservative | Clive Thomas Richardson | 1,685 | 44.1% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Susan Anne Elliott | 298 | 7.8% | ||
Majority | 52 | 1.4% | |||
Turnout | 3,818 | 33.1% | |||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Imran Hussain* | 4,850 | 80.3% | ||
Respect | Bilal Ali | 660 | 10.9% | ||
Green | James Alistair Kirkcaldy | 209 | 3.5% | ||
Conservative | Hashim Mohammad Al-Kohan | 205 | 3.4% | ||
Liberal Democrat | David Leeming | 93 | 1.5% | ||
Majority | 4,190 | 69.3% | |||
Turnout | 6,043 | 50.8% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alan Frederick Wainwright* | 1,156 | 42.4% | ||
UKIP | Bernard Francis Pringle | 945 | 34.7% | ||
Conservative | Edward Christopher Ward | 339 | 12.4% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Kirsty Louise Yeadon | 159 | 5.8% | ||
British Democratic | Liam Andrew Kernaghan | 115 | 4.2% | ||
Majority | 211 | 7.7% | |||
Turnout | 2,725 | 23.4% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
The percentage change for the British Democratic Party (2013) candidate is compared to the British National Party candidate in the 2010 election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Conservative | Gerald Anthony Granville Barker | 1,737 | 42.2% | ||
Independent | Stephen David Ellams | 1,017 | 24.7% | ||
Labour | Niccola Swan | 737 | 17.9% | ||
Green | Janet Souyave | 393 | 9.5% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Paul James Treadwell | 220 | 5.3% | ||
Majority | 720 | 17.5% | |||
Turnout | 4,119 | 44.0% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Chris Graves was the incumbent, who stood down at this election.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Lynne Eleanor Smith* | 1,467 | 41.7% | ||
UKIP | James Andrew Illingworth | 1,355 | 38.5% | ||
Conservative | Richard Ian Sheard | 499 | 14.2% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Brian James Boulton | 191 | 5.4% | ||
Majority | 112 | 3.2% | |||
Turnout | 3,520 | 33.3% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
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Labour | Vanda Greenwood* | 1,799 | 47.1% | ||
UKIP | Hong Vi La | 1,089 | 28.5% | ||
Conservative | Claire-Marie Elizabeth Parr | 467 | 12.2% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Gillian Thorne | 282 | 7.4% | ||
Green | Helen Love | 169 | 4.4% | ||
Majority | 710 | 18.6% | |||
Turnout | 3,817 | 34.6% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Glen William Miller* | 1,384 | 34.2% | ||
UKIP | Peter Allan Gilchrist Corkindale | 1,169 | 28.9% | ||
Labour | Mark Bernard Curtis | 1,067 | 26.4% | ||
Green | Celia Ruth Hickson | 310 | 7.7% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Alan Sykes | 104 | 2.6% | ||
Majority | 215 | 5.3% | |||
Turnout | 4,043 | 37.8% | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Warburton* | 1,349 | 40.6% | ||
UKIP | Lois Wood | 1,227 | 37.0% | ||
Conservative | Richard Milczanowski | 524 | 15.8% | ||
Independent | Neil Craig | 119 | 3.6% | ||
Liberal Democrat | Kevin Anthony Hall | 93 | 2.8% | ||
Majority | 122 | 3.7% | |||
Turnout | 3,319 | 32.0% | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
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