2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election

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2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
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22 out of 66 seats to Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
34 seats needed for a majority
TurnoutTBD
 First partySecond partyThird party
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LeaderMarion Atkinson John Pugh Mike Prendergast
Party Labour Liberal Democrats Conservative
Last election51 seats, 52.9%9 seats, 16.4%5 seats, 16.3%
Seats before4895
Seats after4994
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Steady2.svgDecrease2.svg 1
Popular vote33,38510,3329,098
Percentage54.216.814.8
SwingIncrease2.svg 1.3Increase2.svg 0.4Decrease2.svg 1.5
 Fourth partyFifth partySixth party
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LeaderNeil DoolinN/AN/A
Party Green Independent Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents
Last election0 seat, 6.8%1 seat, 2.3%1 seat, 2.5%
Seats before021
Seats after1TBDTBD
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1TBDTBD
Popular vote5,445TBDTBD
Percentage8.8TBDTBD
SwingIncrease2.svg 2.0TBDTBD
Sefton UK ward map 2024 (2).svg
Winner of each seat at the 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
Leader before election

Marion Atkinson
Labour

Leader after election

Marion Atkinson
Labour

The 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England. [1] This was on the same day as other local elections across England, Liverpool's City Region mayoral election and Merseyside's Police and Crime Commissioner election.

Contents

As is typical for Sefton's local elections, twenty-two seats of the sixty-six total were contested. The Labour party have controlled the council since the 2012 elections, and prior to the election had a comfortable working majority of 13. Shortly before the election, this was reduced from their majority of 18 they had had following the previous year's election; in early March Labour Councillor Trish Hardy resigned from her Litherland ward seat leaving a vacancy, and less than a month before polling day Councillors Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall left Labour in protest of the party's policy direction and stance on the war in Gaza. [2]

The majority of the seats contested were held by Labour, who defended fifteen of the twenty-two seats. The Liberal Democrats defended three seats, and the Conservatives defended two seats. [3] The then-vacant Litherland seat was also contested alongside two seats held by independent councillors.

Labour and the Conservatives contested all seats up for election, while the Green Party contested every seat except 1 (Linacre). As a result of administrative confusion some of the Green Party candidates had the description “Green Party” and the party’s logo (16 candidates) next to their name on the voting ballots while others only had the logo (5 candidates). Additionally the Liberal Democrats contested close to all seats, with candidates representing Reform UK, TUSC, Freedom Alliance, localist groups, also stood a small number of candidates alongside 2 independents.

Amongst other results, the Green party gained their first seat ever on the council, narrowly winning in Church ward by just over a hundred votes. [4]

Previous council composition

After 2023 election Before 2024 election [5]
PartySeatsPartySeats
Labour 51 Labour 48
Liberal Democrats 9 Liberal Democrats 9
Conservative 5 Conservative 5
Independent 0 Independent 2
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents1Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents1
Vacant 1

Changes:

Election results

2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
PartyThis electionFull councilThis election
SeatsNetSeats %OtherTotalTotal %VotesVotes %+/−
  Labour 27
  Liberal Democrats 6
  Conservative 3
 Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents1
  Freedom Alliance 0
 Formby Residents Action Group0
  Green 0
  Reform UK 0
  TUSC 0
  Independent 0

Ward Results

The Statements of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, were released by Sefton Council on 8 April 2024 following the close of nominations. [1] Councillors that were standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*). The results for each ward were announced the day after the election. [7]

Ainsdale Ward

Ainsdale [8]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Lynne Thompson* 1,978 51.5 Increase2.svg 16.3
Labour Frank Hanley1,19331.0Decrease2.svg 4.5
Conservative Ryan Abbott52713.7Decrease2.svg 11.1
Green Laurence Rankin1453.8Decrease2.svg 0.6
Majority78521.4Increase2.svg 21.1
Registered electors 10,061
Turnout 3,84338.2
Rejected ballots27
Liberal Democrats hold Swing Increase2.svg 10.4

Birkdale Ward

Birkdale [9]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Sonya Kelly* 1,435 41.6 Increase2.svg 3.3
Liberal Democrats Erin Harvey1,35739.3Decrease2.svg 1.2
Conservative Sam Harris48914.2Decrease2.svg 0.1
Green Jeff Bee1684.9Increase2.svg 1.2
Majority78
Registered electors 10,018
Turnout 3,44934.4Decrease2.svg 1.0
Rejected ballots26
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg 2.3

Blundellsands Ward

Blundellsands [10]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Diane Roscoe* 2,249 68.3 Increase2.svg 1.4
Conservative Katie Burgess54816.7Decrease2.svg 1.9
Green Kieran Dams2708.2Increase2.svg 1.1
Liberal Democrats Brian Dunning2246.8Decrease2.svg 0.6
Majority1,70151.6
Registered electors 9,159
Turnout 3,29135.9
Rejected ballots25
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg 1.7

Cambridge Ward

Cambridge [11]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Mike Sammon 1,161 36.5 Decrease2.svg 6.2
Conservative Gary Haran Doyle1,00231.5Decrease2.svg 2.6
Labour Callum Naylor81625.6Increase2.svg 6.5
Green Stephen Hesketh2046.4Increase2.svg 2.3
Majority159
Registered electors 9,716
Turnout 3,44132.8Decrease2.svg 2.7
Rejected ballots28
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing Decrease2.svg 1.8

Church Ward

Church [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Neil Doolin 1,412 50.6 Increase2.svg 10.6
Labour Co-op Paul Cummins*1,30746.5Decrease2.svg 7.1
Conservative Dorothy Brown913.2Decrease2.svg 1.0
Majority105
Registered electors 9,091
Turnout 2,81030.9Increase2.svg 0.9
Rejected ballots18
Green gain from Labour Swing Increase2.svg 8.9

Derby Ward

Derby [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Maria Porter 1,580 78.9 Decrease2.svg 2.0
Reform UK Leighton Sealeaf1226.1New
Green Kate Robinson1145.7Decrease2.svg 1.6
Conservative Iain Beckett914.5Decrease2.svg 2.3
TUSC Dean Young552.7Decrease2.svg 2.3
Liberal Democrats Rowenna Gibson412.0New
Majority1,458
Registered electors 9,002
Turnout 2,00322.3
Rejected ballots20
Labour hold Swing Decrease2.svg 4.1

Dukes Ward

Dukes [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Mike Prendergast* 1,379 41.7 Increase2.svg 7.5
Liberal Democrats Damian Bond96729.3Decrease2.svg 12.8
Labour Helen Duerden76423.1Increase2.svg 4.1
Green David Newman1955.9Increase2.svg 1.3
Rejected ballots29
Majority412
Registered electors 10,442
Turnout 31.7
Conservative hold Swing Increase2.svg 10.2

Ford Ward

Ford [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Paulette Lappin* 1,541 80.9 Increase2.svg 0.1
Green Lyndsey Doolin1879.8Decrease2.svg 0.3
Conservative Michael Shaw1206.3Steady2.svg
Liberal Democrats Adarsh Makdani562.9Increase2.svg 0.2
Rejected ballots17
Majority1,35471.8
Turnout 1,90420.6
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg 0.2

Harington Ward

Harington
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Karen Cavanagh
Liberal Democrats Annie Gorski
Formby Residents Action GroupDave Irving
Conservative Joe Riley*
Green Michael Walsh
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Kew Ward

Kew [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Jen Corcoran* 1,358 43.8 Decrease2.svg 8.7
Liberal Democrats Daniel Lewis1,11836.1Increase2.svg 15.7
Conservative Owen Phillips44014.2Decrease2.svg 5.3
Green Rob Wesley1845.9Decrease2.svg 1.6
Majority240
Registered electors 10,720
Turnout 3,10028.9Increase2.svg 0.1
Rejected ballots33
Labour hold Swing Decrease2.svg 12.2

Linacre Ward

Linacre
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative John Campbell
Liberal Democrats David Mellalieu
Labour Joanne Williams
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Litherland Ward

Litherland
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Colin Appleton
Liberal Democrats Roy Connell
Green Amber-Page Moss
Labour Paula Murphy
Independent Ian Smith
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Manor Ward

Manor
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martyn Barber
Liberal Democrats John Gibson
Labour Dominic McNabb
Green James O’Keeffe
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Meols Ward

Meols [17]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats John Dodd* 1,452 46.3 Increase2.svg 1.6
Labour Steve Jowett86327.5Increase2.svg 4.0
Conservative Bob Teesdale61319.5Decrease2.svg 6.7
Green Pauline Anne Hesketh2086.6Increase2.svg 1.0
Majority589
Registered electors 10,016
Turnout 3,13631.3Decrease2.svg 2.7
Rejected ballots21
Liberal Democrats hold Swing Decrease2.svg 1.2

Molyneux Ward

Molyneux
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Marcus Bleasdale
Green David Collins
Labour Sam Hinde
Liberal Democrats Paul Young
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Netherton and Orrell Ward

Netherton and Orrell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Green Simon Baron
TUSC Owen Croft
Liberal Democrats Vic Foulds
Conservative Adam Marsden
Labour Tom Spring*
Freedom Alliance Maria Walsh
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Norward Ward

Norwood [18]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dave Neary 1,487 55.3 Decrease2.svg 4.0
Conservative Margaret Middleton46117.2Increase2.svg 1.5
Liberal Democrats Lesley Delves43316.1Decrease2.svg 2.6
Green David McIntosh30611.4Increase2.svg 5.0
Rejected ballots40
Majority1,026
Turnout 2,68726.3Decrease2.svg 2.7
Labour hold Swing Decrease2.svg 2.8

Park Ward

Park
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Democrats Keith Cawdron
Green Roy Greason
Lydiate and Maghull Community IndependentsPaul McCord
Labour Chloe Parker
Conservative Craig Titherington
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Ravenmeols Ward

Ravenmeols
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Formby Residents Action GroupMaria Bennett
Green Alison Gibbon
Liberal Democrats Lisa Nicolson-Smith
Labour Catie Page*
Conservative Angelica Sadrieva
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

St. Oswald Ward

St. Oswald [19]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Joe Johnson 1,270 78.6 -3.5
TUSC Conor O’Neill1277.9-1.2
Green Rupert Shoebridge1197.4New
Conservative Henry Bliss1006.2-2.9
Majority1,143
Registered electors 8,028
Turnout 1,61620.1-0.4
Rejected ballots11
Labour hold Swing Decrease2.svg 2.3

Sudell Ward

Sudell
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Marie Blease
Green Paul Dunbar
Labour James Hansen*
Conservative Daniel Kirk
Lydiate and Maghull Community IndependentsJoanne McCall
Liberal Democrats James Tattersall
Rejected ballots
Majority
Turnout

Victoria Ward

Victoria [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Michael Roche* 2,386 68.7 +7.3
Liberal Democrats Hannah Gee45213.0-7.2
Green Samantha Cook38010.9+1.0
Conservative Paul Barber2537.3-1.3
Rejected ballots25
Majority1,93455.7
Registered electors 10,505
Turnout 3,471
Labour hold Swing Increase2.svg 7.25

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