2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election

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2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
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All 44 seats to Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
23 seats needed for a majority
 First partySecond partyThird party
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LeaderTony KearonSimon TaggMarion Reddish
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader's seatKeeleWestlandsThistleberry
Last election27 seats21 seats3 seats
Seats won20183
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 7Decrease2.svg 3Steady2.svg
Popular vote25,46927,3813,516
Percentage39.7%42.7%5.5%
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Party Independent UKIP Green
Last election2 seats1 seat
Seats won300
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2Decrease2.svg 1
Popular vote5,859991917
Percentage9.1%1.5%1.4%
Leader before election

Simon Tagg
Conservative
No overall control

Leader after election

Simon Tagg
Conservative
No overall control

The 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in England. [1] It was held on the same day as other local elections.

Contents

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council decided in November 2015 to move to whole council elections, starting from this election. [2]

Election summary

PartyLeaderCandidatesSeatsVotes
Labour Tony Kearon442025,46939.7
Conservative Simon Tagg441827,37142.7
Liberal Democrat Marion Reddish1533,5165.5
UKIP 709911.5
Green 609171.4
Independent 1335,8599.1

Candidates

Audley

Audley (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Bert Proctor 986 44.0
Labour Sue Moffatt 818 36.5
Liberal Democrats Ian Wilkes 773 34.5
Labour Tom Heavey71431.8
Labour Ian Ashbolt57425.6
Conservative Linda Hailstones52923.6
Conservative Peter Hailstones50122.3
Conservative Lawrence Whitworth35715.9
Liberal Democrats Ben Ireland2089.3
Liberal Democrats Kay Mitchell1838.2

Bradwell

Bradwell (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Annabel Driver 974 50.3
Labour Andrew Fox-Hewitt 882 45.6
Conservative Jennifer Cooper 879 45.4
Conservative Dorinda Bailey85444.1
Conservative Chloe Mancey81041.9
Labour Robert Moss81041.9
Green Anthony Morris1467.5
Liberal Democrats Richard Virr924.8

Clayton

Clayton (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Stephen Sweeney 441 48.0
Labour Michael Shenton39442.9
UKIP Gary Fedtschyschak525.7
Liberal Democrats Morgan-Ross Inwood323.5

Crackley and Red Street

Crackley and Red Street (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Allison Gardner 566 49.3
Labour Sarah Pickup 491 42.8
Conservative Gail Benbow47641.5
Conservative David Cooper44839.1
UKIP Mark Barlow14012.2

Cross Heath

Cross Heath (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Gillian Williams 693 61.2
Labour John Williams 685 60.5
Conservative Rita Gilmore30126.6
Conservative John Heesom24321.4
UKIP Lynn Dean15013.2

Holditch and Chesterton

Holditch and Chesterton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Emily Horsfall 566 57.0
Labour Co-op Christopher Spence 528 53.2
Independent Kenneth Owen18618.7
Conservative David Cooper16616.7
Conservative Thomas Cooper14414.5
UKIP Paul Daniels10510.6
UKIP Gordon Davies757.6
Liberal Democrats Chris Moore616.1
Liberal Democrats Arthur Richards474.7

Keele

Keele (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Tony Kearon 291 58.9
Liberal Democrats James Borg9819.8
Conservative Dan Grice7815.8
Green Paul Usher275.5

Kidsgrove and Ravenscliffe

Kidsgrove and Ravenscliffe (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gill Burnett 817 39.0
Labour Silvia Burgess 717 34.2
Conservative Helena Maxfield 700 33.4
Labour Laura Dillon69433.1
Conservative Kevin Johnson68832.8
Labour David Allport67532.2
Independent Simon Jones42320.2
Independent Darren Dawson40519.3
UKIP Geoffrey Locke40219.2
Independent Reg Bailey32715.6

Knutton

Knutton (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Brian Johnson 355 74.7
Conservative Joseph Swift12025.3

Loggerheads

Loggerheads (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Paul Northcott 962 77.6
Conservative Barry Panter 740 59.7
Labour Deborah Faulks22618.2
Labour Deborah Fuller18615.0
Liberal Democrats David Beckett13110.6

Madeley and Betley

Madeley and Betley (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Simon White 936 57.0
Independent Gary White 842 51.3
Conservative Graham Hutton50030.5
Conservative Nathan White32319.7
Labour Liam Searle25215.3
Labour Thomas Wilson20112.2
Liberal Democrats Andrew Wemyss1006.1

Maer and Whitmore

Maer and Whitmore (1)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David Harrison 654 89.7
Labour David Lee7510.3

May Bank

May Bank (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Tagg 1,244 56.8
Conservative Trevor Johnson 1,232 56.2
Conservative John Cooper 1,218 55.6
Labour Colin Eastwood72933.3
Labour Jacqueline Olszewski71832.8
Labour Lesley Richards65629.9
Green Sean Adam25311.5

Newchapel and Mow Cop

Newchapel and Mow Cop (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jill Waring 573 43.0
Conservative Paul Waring 521 39.1
Labour Angela Cooper43032.3
Labour Lynn Jackson42331.7
Independent Vic Jukes35526.6
Independent Nigel Morgan30422.8

Silverdale

Silverdale (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Amelia Rout 569 49.1
Labour Co-op David Jones 549 47.4
Conservative Derrick Huckfield50443.5
Conservative James Vernon35130.3
UKIP Thomas Spokes675.8

Talke and Butt Lane

Talke and Butt Lane (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Co-op Kyle Robinson 1,226 59.6
Labour Co-op Sylvia Dymond 1,154 56.1
Labour Co-op Michael Stubbs 1,001 48.7
Conservative Nicholas Jellyman43221.0
Conservative Ben Lack42120.5
Conservative Graham Lovell41720.3
Independent Ray Williams41019.9
Independent Alexander Wright40719.8

Thistleberry

Thistleberry (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Marion Reddish 713 48.6
Liberal Democrats June Walklate 616 42.0
Conservative Pamela Jellyman45531.0
Conservative Rachel Mundy38826.4
Labour Susan Forrester-O'Neill34123.2
Labour Roger Wilkes27118.5
Green Gordon Pearson684.6

Town

Town (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Ruth Wright 659 55.6
Labour Elizabeth Shenton 654 55.2
Conservative Martin Johnson24820.9
Conservative Luke Mason21918.5
Independent Christopher Malkin1815.3
Liberal Democrats Hilary Jones12810.8
Independent Wenslie Naylon978.2
Liberal Democrats Salwa El-Raheb-Booth958.0

Westbury Park and Northwood

Westbury Park and Northwood (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Andrew Parker 892 65.1
Conservative Andrew Fear 857 62.6
Labour David Beardmore45933.5
Labour Wendy Brockie41630.4

Westlands

Westlands (3)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Simon Tagg 1,534 65.0
Conservative Gillian Heesom 1,460 61.9
Conservative Mark Holland 1,448 61.4
Labour Thomas Brayford58224.7
Labour Imogen Wilkes55823.7
Labour Solomon Gibson49420.9
Green Jade Taylor27011.4
Liberal Democrats Richard Whelan23910.1

Wolstanton

Wolstanton (2)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Julie Cooper 644 45.1
Labour Mark Olszewski 639 44.7
Conservative David Woolley62243.6
Labour Joan Winfield57440.2
Green Ann Beirne15310.7

Changes 2018–2022

By-elections

Holditch & Chesterton, 21 March 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Kenneth Owen 282 40.3 +21.6
Labour Peter Radford26838.3-14.9
UKIP Mark Barlow8612.3+1.7
Conservative Lawrence Whitworth497.0-9.7
SDP Lawrence Whitworth142.0N/A
Majority
Turnout 69917.1
Independent gain from Labour Swing
Maer & Whitmore, 2 May 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Graham Hutton 629 86.6 -3.1
Liberal Democrats Salwa El-Raheb Booth9713.4N/A
Majority
Turnout 72637.0
Conservative hold Swing
Holditch & Chesterton, 12 December 2019
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour David Grocott 902 42.7 -14.3
Conservative Peter Hailstones76236.1+19.4
Independent Lilian Barker37617.8N/A
Liberal Democrats Aidan Jenkins723.4-2.7
Majority
Turnout 2,11250.1
Labour hold Swing
Knutton, 25 November 2021
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Derrick Huckfield 188 51.1 +25.8
Labour Stephanie Talbot18048.9-25.8
Majority
Turnout 36818.3
Conservative gain from Labour Swing

Changes of allegiance

Ian Wilkes, elected as a Liberal Democrat, joined the Conservatives in February 2020. [3]

Four councillors elected as independents (Ken Owen, Bert Proctor, Gary White and Simon White) joined the Conservatives in November 2021, giving the party an overall majority on the council. [4]

John Cooper, elected as a Conservative, left the party in January 2022 to sit as an independent. [5]

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  2. ↑ "Moving to all-out elections" (PDF). Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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  4. ↑ Corrigan, Phil (2 November 2021). "Tories take overall control of Newcastle Borough Council for first time in decades". Stoke-on-Trent Live. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
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