2013 Lincolnshire County Council election

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2013 Lincolnshire County Council election
Lincolnshire flag.svg
  2009 2 May 2013 2017  

All 77 seats to Lincolnshire County Council
39 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
Party Conservative UKIP Labour
Seats won361612
Seat changeDecrease2.svg24Increase2.svg16Increase2.svg8

 Fourth partyFifth party
 
Party Lincolnshire Independent Liberal Democrats
Seats won83
Seat changeIncrease2.svg4Decrease2.svg2

Lincolnshire UK local election 2013 map.svg
Map showing the results of the 2013 Lincolnshire County Council elections.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

No Overall Control

An election to Lincolnshire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the 2013 United Kingdom local elections. 77 electoral divisions returned one county councillor each by first-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The electoral divisions were the same as those used at the previous election in 2009. No elections were held in North Lincolnshire or North East Lincolnshire, which are unitary authorities outside the area covered by the County Council.

Contents

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, [1] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election. [2]

Summary

The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council. The party previously enjoyed a sizable majority, holding around three quarters of the seats. After the election, the Conservatives found themselves 6 seats short of an overall majority; the UK Independence Party was the council's second biggest party, with 16 seats. [3] [4] The Conservative group negotiated a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats, whereby there was one Liberal Democrat cabinet member. UKIP replaced the Liberal Democrats as the council's official opposition. [5]

UKIP lost six of its councillors to defections shortly after the election, and as a result Labour became the official opposition.

Results

Lincolnshire County Council election, 2013
PartySeatsGainsLossesNet gain/lossSeats %Votes %Votes+/−
  Conservative 36126−2546.7535.7558,119−29,645
  UKIP 16160+1620.7824.1739,289+33,681
  Labour 1270+715.5818.4029,919+9,720
  Lincolnshire Independent 850+510.3911.3418,428+794
  Liberal Democrats 302−23.904.367,093−29,392
  Independent 210+12.605.438,831−1,110
  BNP 000000.27435−6,109
  TUSC 000000.20323New
  Green 000000.08136−974
 English People's Party0000

Results by electoral division

Boston

Boston Coastal

Boston Coastal
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Felicity Ransome82645.720.5
Conservative Peter Bedford73040.4-14.6
Labour Paul Gleeson24913.84.1
Turnout 1,80831.2
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Boston East

Boston East
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Sue Ransom67540.940.9
Labour Paul Kenny33620.4-3.5
Conservative Mike Gilbert31319.0-18.8
Independent Anne Dorrian1649.99.9
Lincolnshire Independent Richard Dungworth1569.59.5
Turnout 1,64924.7
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Boston Fishtoft

Boston Fishtoft
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Elizabeth Ransome83735.135.1
Independent Ossy Snell73630.930.9
Conservative Raymond Singleton-McGuire60625.4-25.5
Labour Mike Sheridan-Shinn1978.3-1.5
Turnout 2,38331.1
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Boston North West

Boston North West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Tiggs Keywood-Wainwright70843.643.6
Conservative Andrea Jenkyns 37823.3-2.2
Labour Paul Goodale28517.56.2
Independent Carol Ann Taylor24815.315.3
Turnout 1,62423.3
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Boston Rural

Boston Rural
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Michael Brookes1,16345.510.6
UKIP Jodie Sutton1,05041.119.0
Labour Norman Hart33613.25.2
Turnout 2,55427.9
Conservative hold Swing

Boston South

Boston South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Lincolnshire Independent Alison Austin88942.742.7
UKIP Don Ransome78637.715.8
Conservative Paul Skinner31014.9-21.8
Labour Jan Finch924.4-2.8
Turnout 2,08333.3
Lincolnshire Independent gain from Conservative Swing

Boston West

Boston West
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Bob McAuley80644.626.2
Conservative Yvonne Gunter34419.0-7.7
Lincolnshire Independent Robert Lauberts33818.718.7
Labour Pam Kenny31017.217.2
Turnout 1,80630.2
UKIP gain from Boston Bypass Independents Swing

East Lindsey

Alford and Sutton

Alford and Sutton
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Lincolnshire Independent Steve Palmer87234.934.9
Conservative Graham Marsh81332.6-11.4
UKIP Luke Thompson49820.020.0
Labour Fiona Brown30112.13.7
Turnout 2,49534
Lincolnshire Independent gain from Conservative Swing

Horncastle and Tetford

Horncastle and Tetford
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Lincolnshire Independent Aron Bill1,37844.38.6
Conservative William Grover69022.2-13.4
UKIP Neil Parnham64220.620.6
Labour Janet Lister2086.7-0.1
Independent Richard Barker1886.06.0
Turnout 3,10938
Lincolnshire Independent hold Swing

Ingoldmells Rural

Ingoldmells Rural
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Colin Davie1,36452.03.4
Labour Graham Archer77929.716.2
Independent Giles Crust45917.5-9.5
Turnout 2,62235
Conservative hold Swing

Louth Marsh

Louth Marsh
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Daniel McNally97638.238.2
Conservative Robert Palmer78430.7-34.5
Independent Terry Knowles51920.320.3
Labour Stuart Jameson26910.50.3
Turnout 2,55538
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Louth North

Louth North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sarah Dodds85746.732.3
Conservative Pauline Watson53429.1-22.8
UKIP Mike Beecham27815.115.1
Lincolnshire Independent Daniel Simpson1186.46.4
Liberal Democrats Dave Dobbie422.3-18.3
Turnout 1,83534
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Louth Rural North

Louth Rural North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Tony Bridges78340.8-22.7
Lincolnshire Independent Edward Mossop55528.928.9
Labour Laura Stephenson29815.54.7
Independent Jean Johnson27314.214.2
Turnout 1,91930
Conservative hold Swing

Louth South

Louth South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour John Hough1,00240.54.5
Independent Jill Makinson-Sanders65126.326.3
UKIP David Axton42417.117.1
Conservative Daniel Turner39015.8-12.0
Turnout 2,47334
Labour hold Swing

Louth Wolds

Louth Wolds
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Hugo Marfleet1,19353.45.7
Lincolnshire Independent Brian Burnett58626.20.1
Labour Michael Preen27312.27.0
BNP John Atty1767.92.9
Turnout 2,23636
Conservative hold Swing

Mablethorpe

Mablethorpe
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Anne Reynolds80233.633.6
Labour Tony Howard76732.15.5
Lincolnshire Independent Terence Brown41417.3-13.5
Conservative Graham Gooding40116.8-16.0
Turnout 2,38838
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Skegness North

Skegness North
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Dean Hunter-Clark 84341.318.6
Labour Brenda Futers63231.02.2
Conservative Mark Smith56127.5-7.3
Turnout 2,04229
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

Skegness South

Skegness South
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Robin Hunter-Clarke 63335.515.2
Conservative Ken Milner58332.7-4.3
Labour Danny Brookes48327.19.6
BNP Robert Ashton774.34.3
Turnout 1,78228
UKIP gain from Conservative Swing

West Lindsey

Ancholme Cliff

Ancholme Cliff
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Charles Strange1,14255.0
UKIP Nigel Wright58228.0
Liberal Democrats Carol Skye1808.7
Labour Thornton Moore1748.4
Turnout 2,07832
Conservative hold Swing {{{swing}}}

Lincoln

North Kesteven

South Kesteven

South Holland

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