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Map of the 2015 Sunderland City Council election results. Labour in red and Conservatives in blue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2015 Sunderland City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Sunderland City Council in England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections, and the 2015 General Election.
Sunderland City Council is the local authority of the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a metropolitan district council, one of five in Tyne and Wear and one of 36 in the metropolitan counties of England, and provides the majority of local government services in Sunderland.
There had been one by-election held in the period since the previous local elections in 2014 which saw Labour hold the Washington East ward in November 2014 following the resignation of their incumbent councillor in October. [2]
The election saw Labour gain three seats, increasing the party's majority on the Council. Labour gained from the Conservatives in Barnes and Fulwell, and from an Independent, Colin Wakefield, in Houghton. [3]
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom which has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The party's platform emphasises greater state intervention, social justice and strengthening workers' rights. Labour is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and holds observer status in the Socialist International. As of 2017, the party was considered the "largest party in Western Europe" in terms of party membership, with more than half a million members.
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. Presently led by Theresa May, it has been the governing party since 2010. It presently has 314 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, 249 members of the House of Lords, and 18 members of the European Parliament. It also has 31 Members of the Scottish Parliament, 12 members of the Welsh Assembly, eight members of the London Assembly and 9,008 local councillors. One of the major parties of UK politics, it has formed the government on 45 occasions, more than any other party.
An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent.
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Labour | 24 | 3 | 0 | 96 | 49.6 | 57,544 | |||
Conservative | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20.8 | 24,079 | |||
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.5 | 22,580 | |||
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | 4,089 | |||
Liberal Democrat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.1 | 3,617 | |||
Independent | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3.1 | 3,582 | |||
Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 448 | |||
North East Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 101 | |||
After the election, the composition of the council was:
Party | Previous Council | New Council | |
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Labour | 63 | 66 | |
Conservatives | 8 | 6 | |
Independent | 4 | 3 | |
Total | 75 | 75 | |
Working majority | 51 | 57 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Laura Bruton | 302 | |||
Labour | Ian Galbraith | 2336 | |||
UKIP | Jamie Nast | 889 | |||
Conservative | Peter O'Connor | 1580 | |||
Green | Lucky Pemu | 219 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Martin Anderson | ||||
TUSC | Gary Duncan | ||||
Labour | Stephen Foster | ||||
UKIP | Keith Samme | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Pat Francis | ||||
Green | Daniel Olaman | ||||
Labour | Mary Turton | ||||
Independent | Colin Wakefield | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alex Douglas | ||||
Labour | Colin English | ||||
Green | Alan Robinson | ||||
UKIP | Kay Rowham | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Margaret Beck | ||||
UKIP | Sheila Samme | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Diana Talbott-Matthew | ||||
Conservative | John Wiper | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Pauline Featonby-Warren | ||||
Green | David Lawson | ||||
Conservative | Deborah Lorraine | ||||
Labour Co-op | Victoria O'Neil | ||||
TUSC | Owen Taylor | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | John Defty | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Philip Dowell | ||||
Conservative | Douglas Middlemiss | ||||
Labour | Doris Turner | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | George Brown | ||||
Independent | John Ellis | ||||
UKIP | Terrence Henderson | ||||
Labour | Juliana Heron | ||||
Liberal Democrat | David Snowball | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | David Geddis | ||||
Conservative | Gwennyth Gibson | ||||
Green | Helmut Izaks | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Stephen O'Brien | ||||
Labour Co-op | Lynda Scanlan | ||||
TUSC | Karen Sinclair | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Sylvia Dorward | ||||
Green | Rachel Featherstone | ||||
UKIP | Ian Pallace | ||||
Labour Co-op | Paul Watson | ||||
Conservative | Philip Young | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Richard Bell | ||||
Conservative | Shaun Cudworth | ||||
North East Party | Heather Fagan | ||||
UKIP | Lynn Kelly | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Steve Thomas | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Ellen Ball | ||||
Green | Paul Burwood | ||||
UKIP | Bryan Foster | ||||
Conservative | Harry Todd | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Aileen Casey | ||||
Conservative | Tony Morrissey | ||||
Green | Caroline Robinson | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Anthony Usher | ||||
Labour | Karen Waters | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Margaret Crosby | 171 | |||
Conservative | Dominic McDonough | 1462 | |||
Labour | John Porthouse | 2046 | |||
Green | Gavin Taylor | 143 | |||
UKIP | Linda Welsh | 773 | |||
Majority | 584 | ||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Tim Brennan | ||||
UKIP | Vince Costello | ||||
Labour | Zaf Iqbal | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Andrew Wood | ||||
Conservative | Peter Wood | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
TUSC | Douglas Beavers | ||||
Labour | Barry Curran | ||||
Liberal Democrat | John Lennox | ||||
UKIP | Ronald McQuillan | ||||
Green | Saied Satei | ||||
Conservative | Geoffrey Scott | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jacqui Gallagher | ||||
UKIP | Tony Morrow | ||||
Conservative | Christine Reed | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Susan Wilson | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Rebecca Cowell | ||||
UKIP | Richard Elvin | ||||
Conservative | Sally Oliver | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Jo Thomas | ||||
Labour | Geoffrey Walker | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Chris Crozier | ||||
UKIP | William Davies | ||||
Labour | Peter Gibson | ||||
Conservative | Bryan Reynolds | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Kate Dowell | ||||
Labour | Miles Elliott | ||||
Conservative | Michael Leadbitter | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Callum Littlemore | ||||
UKIP | Alexander Taylor | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Anne Griffin | ||||
Labour | Len Lauchlan | ||||
Green | Paul Leonard | ||||
Conservative | Marjorie Matthews | ||||
UKIP | Erland Polden | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Malcolm Bannister | ||||
Conservative | Hilary Johnson | ||||
TUSC | Wilf Laws | ||||
Labour Co-op | Fiona Miller | ||||
Green | Anthony Murphy | ||||
UKIP | Lynn O'Neil | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | June Bradley | ||||
Liberal Democrat | Kevin Morris | ||||
Conservative | Norman Oliver | ||||
UKIP | Tony Ormond | ||||
Labour | Peter Walker | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Dominic Armstrong | ||||
UKIP | Alistair Baxter | ||||
Liberal Democrat | David Griffin | ||||
Labour | Paul Middleton | ||||
Conservative | Martin Talbot | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrat | Irene Bannister | ||||
Conservative | Olwyn Bird | ||||
Green | Ben Rathbone-Wells | ||||
UKIP | Kevin Sheppard | ||||
Labour | Harry Trueman | ||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
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Preceded by Sunderland City Council election, 2014 | Sunderland City Council elections | Succeeded by Sunderland City Council election, 2016 |