2015 Leicester City Council election

2015 Leicester City Council election
All 54 seats to Leicester City Council; 27 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; Labour;	Council control ; Labour;

The 2015 Leicester City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Leicester City Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections, the 2015 general election and the election for the directly elected Mayor of Leicester.

Election result[]

The 54 councillors are elected from 27 wards, each electing either 2 or 3 councillors. The results of the election were that 52 Labour councillors were elected, with 1 Conservative and 1 Liberal Democrat. This is unchanged from the 2011 local election.^[2]

Leicester City Council Local Election Result 2015
	Seats	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	1	2	17.6	52,269
English Democrat	0	0	0.0	50
Green	0	0	7.1	21,039
Labour	52	96	55.0	163,374
Liberal Democrats	1	2	6.5	19,407
TUSC	0	0	0.2	476
UKIP	0	0	12.0	35,615
Independent	0	0	1.7	5,002

Ward Results[]

Abbey (3)[]

Abbey
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Annette Dawn Byrne	2,881
	Labour	Harshad Dahyabhai Bhavsar	2,360
	Labour	Vijay Singh Riyait	2,189
	UKIP	Paul Edwards	1,369
	Conservative	Peter John Shandley	1,352
	Conservative	Hiran Patel	1,289
	UKIP	Peter Bryan Stone	1,116
	UKIP	Gregg Young	1000
	Conservative	Khandubhai Patel	977
	Green	Jessie Cooke	618
	Green	Alan John Stocker	421
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Edwin Smith	392
	Liberal Democrats	John Robert Taylor	375
	TUSC	Tessa Alison Warrington	183
	Independence from Europe	Ismail Mohammed Ali Patel	78
Majority
Turnout			16600	53.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Aylestone (2)[]

Aylestone
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Adam Michael Drewitt Clarke	1,516
	Liberal Democrats	Nigel Carl Porter	1,177
	Conservative	Paul David Bremner	1095
	Labour	Tara Jane Harris	1065
	Conservative	Christina Margaret Davison	998
	Liberal Democrats	Andrea Michelle Gee	907
	UKIP	Dutch Veldhuizen	709
	Green	Chris Hughes	703
	UKIP	Anthony Yates	692
	Green	Tim Pearce	649
	Independent	Philip Stuart Middleton	37
Majority
Turnout			9548	64.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Beaumont Leys (3)[]

Beaumont Leys
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Paul Thomas Westley	2,642
	Labour	Sue Waddington	2,444
	Labour	Hemant Rae Bhatia	2,355
	Conservative	Bhavnisha Champaneri	1389
	UKIP	Bernard Garry Fox	1159
	Conservative	Dinesh Pathak	1042
	Conservative	Aarti Solanki	989
	UKIP	Andy Greaves	987
	UKIP	Tracey Ann Greaves	931
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Charles Barnes	808
	Green	Peter Richard Hague	644
	LICC	Steve Score	219
Majority
Turnout			15609	51.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Belgrave (3)[]

Belgrave
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mansukhlal Dharamshi Chohan	5,705
	Labour	Manjula Sood	5,593
	Labour	John William Thomas	4,653
	Conservative	Assoc Faquir	1509
	Conservative	Sathish Maroju	1485
	Conservative	Manish Naresh Teli	1273
	Green	Dinah Gilian Freer	466
	UKIP	Darren Millward	318
	UKIP	Donna Millward	270
	UKIP	Scott Prendergast	263
	LICC	Alexander Morgan	199
Majority
Turnout			21734	67.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Braunstone Park and Rowley Fields (3)[]

Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Steve Corrall	2,358
	Labour	Elaine Christina Halford	2,280
	Labour	Kulwinder Singh Johal	1,836
	UKIP	Sukiy Singh	1628
	UKIP	Karen June Green	1514
	UKIP	Brian Kirkup	1270
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Carmichael Bradwell	992
	Green	Zina Zelter	949
	LICC	Wayne Naylor	461
	LICC	Jumi Hollist	299
Majority
Turnout			13587	47.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Castle (3)[]

Castle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Patrick Joseph Kitterick	2,388
	Labour	Lynn Senior	2,116
	Labour	Deborah Anne Sangster	1,997
	Green	Mags Lewis	1777
	Green	Hannah Rose Wakley	1418
	Green	Chris Williams	1196
	Conservative	Emily Meriel Elizabeth Davison	1117
	Conservative	Leon Hadji-Nikolaou	982
	Conservative	Jamie Williams	851
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Francis Fox	557
	Liberal Democrats	Thomas Neville March Hunnings	381
	UKIP	Zoey Debra Lucas	310
	UKIP	Tina Marie Johnson	304
	Liberal Democrats	Mohan Raghav	280
	LICC	Robert William Fraser Durdin	252
	UKIP	Mandy Wright	232
Majority
Turnout			16158	58.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Evington (3)[]

Evington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Deepak Bajaj	3,990
	Labour	Sue Hunter	3,827
	Labour	Ratilal Bhagwan Govind	3,327
	Conservative	Pratap Jethwa	1874
	Conservative	Sajan Raja Odedra	1737
	Conservative	Vivek Bhima Khistariya	1564
	UKIP	Colin William Brown	690
	Green	Ursula Elisabeth Bilson	660
	UKIP	Chris Lucas	633
	UKIP	Simon Stone	499
	Green	Neil Ben Foley	388
	LICC	Anthony Robert Blower	267
Majority
Turnout			19456	63.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Eyres Monsell (2)[]

Eyres Monsell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Virginia Cleaver	1,439
	Labour	Rory Palmer	1,229
	UKIP	Paul Mark Aldwinckle	874
	UKIP	Daz Lee	778
	Conservative	Aileen Marlow	613
	Conservative	Daniel Neal Quelch	376
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Everitt Garner	253
	Green	Christopher John Davies	203
	Liberal Democrats	Scott Kennedy-Lount	179
Majority
Turnout			5944	46.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Fosse (2)[]

Fosse
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Dawn Victoria Alfonso	1,756
	Labour	Ted Cassidy	1,684
	UKIP	Nicholas Stefen Pridden	886
	UKIP	Stuart Ian Eric Young	869
	Green	Geoff Forse	856
	Green	Benjamin Livingstone	650
	LICC	Brian Rodney Scott	184
Majority
Turnout				49.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Humberstone and Hamilton (3)[]

Humberstone & Hamilton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rashmi Joshi	3,035
	Labour	Gurinder Singh Sandhu	2,759
	Labour	Vi Dempster	2,620
	Conservative	Michael Halford	1983
	Conservative	Dhiren Morjaria	1813
	Conservative	Sudhir Odedra	1624
	UKIP	Victoria Jayne Connor	1021
	UKIP	Stephen Michael Ingall	921
	UKIP	Samantha Clare Willbond	898
	Green	David William Dixey	676
	LICC	Barbie Potter	368
	LICC	Andy Coles	320
	Independent	Kerrie Carnall	205
Majority
Turnout				59
	Labour hold		Swing

Knighton (3)[]

Knighton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lynn Valerie Moore	3,405
	Labour	Inderjit Singh Gugnani	3,052
	Conservative	Ross Ian Grant	3,007
	Labour	Geoff Whittle	2616
	Conservative	Caroline Louise Scuplak	2048
	Conservative	Ty Watson	1887
	Green	Sylvia Ann Reid	1273
	Liberal Democrats	Parmjit Singh Gill	1271
	Liberal Democrats	Joan Garrity	1125
	Liberal Democrats	Juliet Kechouane Gill	1010
	UKIP	Sean Richardson	600
	UKIP	Jitesh Dave	503
	UKIP	Rahaul Paul Sharma	386
	LICC	Kerry Siabhan Brier	253
Majority
Turnout				68.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

North Evington (3)[]

North Evington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Abdul Razak Osman	5,800
	Labour	Luis Jose Jeronimo Bento Da Fonseca	4,942
	Labour	Jean Khote	4,834
	Conservative	Khemraj Gohel	1414
	Conservative	Mamta Natuarlal	1301
	Conservative	Mayur Lakhubhai Sisodia	1199
	Green	Woody Kitson	419
	UKIP	Rambhi Odedra	327
	LICC	Thomas Patrick Barker	291
	UKIP	Shilpa Odedra	291
	UKIP	Ravinder Kathleen Ivy Taylor	280
Majority
Turnout				64.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Rushey Mead (3)[]

Rushey Mead
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rita Patel	4,597
	Labour	Piara Singh Clair	4,584
	Labour	Ross Willmott	4,390
	Conservative	Hemubhai Chandarana	1797
	Conservative	Rashmi Vyas	1702
	Conservative	Sarban Singh	1389
	Liberal Democrats	Hash Chandarana	586
	Green	Nimit Jethwa	513
	UKIP	Keith Agius	472
	UKIP	Adam Barker	399
	UKIP	Kyle Perkins	353
	Liberal Democrats	Nitesh Dave	327
	Liberal Democrats	Jaswinder Kaur	305
	LICC	Leila Khamis	117
Majority
Turnout				66.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Saffron (2)[]

Saffron
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Elly Cutkelvin	1,573
	Labour	Bill Shelton	1,270
	UKIP	Phil Johnson	580
	Green	Tim Grayson	532
	Conservative	Andy Bayford	530
	UKIP	Leee Parker	397
	Conservative	John Orme	307
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Faithfull-Wright	207
	LICC	Peter Bisson	177
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Herbert	163
Majority
Turnout				47
	Labour hold		Swing

Spinney Hills (2)[]

Spinney Hills
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Shofiqul Islam Chowdhury	4,277
	Labour	Ghulam Mustafa Malik	3,727
	Liberal Democrats	Mahomed Siddik Giga	822
	Liberal Democrats	Yakub Mohmed Umar	666
	Green	Sally Lucinda Singer-Fraser	275
	UKIP	Barbara Joan Moxey	209
	UKIP	Anthony Charles Wright	189
	LICC	Andrew John Walton	155
Majority
Turnout				66.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Stoneygate (3)[]

Stoneygate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kirk Master	4,871
	Labour	Mohammed Aminur Thalukdar	4,779
	Labour	Lucy Chaplin	4,334
	Liberal Democrats	Afiea Akhtar	1272
	Conservative	John Michael Grant	1057
	Conservative	Rebecca Helen Mary Lee	838
	Green	Bob Ball	799
	Green	Simon Paul Bates	680
	Liberal Democrats	Ranjit Singh Flora	545
	Green	Michael Jeffrey Sackin	476
	Liberal Democrats	Mukesh Lalitchandra Vaidya	359
	UKIP	Trevor Green	222
	UKIP	Joanne Hassell	218
	LICC	Lauren Grace Kelb-Lancaster	196
	UKIP	Bejai Jay	193
Majority
Turnout				62.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Thurncourt (2)[]

Thurncourt
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Teresa Louise Aldred	1,816
	Labour	Paul Darren Newcombe	1,435
	Conservative	Jack Robert Hickey	1345
	Conservative	Joseph Anthony Peverill	973
	UKIP	Timmy Tony Jacques	744
	UKIP	Adam James O'beirne	645
	Green	Murray Roy Frankland	293
	Green	Anna Broszkiewicz	235
	TUSC	Sally Skyrme	184
	English Democrat	David John Haslett	50
Majority
Turnout				59.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Troon (2)[]

Troon
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Baljit Singh	2,476
	Labour	Diane Linda Cank	1,984
	Conservative	Hemendra Champaklal Modi	1128
	Conservative	Rupa Chatrabhuj Soni	824
	UKIP	Suleman Rahemtulla	528
	UKIP	Rambhaben Dave	498
	Green	Andrew James Reeves	362
	LICC	Darren Baxter	239
Majority
Turnout				58.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Westcotes (2)[]

Westcotes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Andy Connelly	1,859
	Labour	Sarah Christine Russell	1,615
	Green	Ian James Smalley	725
	Conservative	Kirti Doshi	685
	Green	Val Smalley	621
	Conservative	Jitu Gosai	522
	Liberal Democrats	Eduardas Gaulia	353
	UKIP	Carol Young	328
	UKIP	Antony Edmett	313
	Liberal Democrats	Gurjit Singh Gill	256
	TUSC	Damon Peter Gibbons	109
	LICC	Samantha Clare Kirk	99
Majority
Turnout				50.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Western (3)[]

Western
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Susan Barton	2,909
	Labour	Orlanzo George Cole	2,513
	Labour	Malcolm William Unsworth	1,807
	UKIP	Stewart Keith Wittering	1757
	UKIP	Reginald Sidney Moxey	1567
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Coley	1479
	UKIP	Stephanie Murphy	1475
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Jane Henfrey	1083
	Green	Mel Gould	882
	Liberal Democrats	Gary Glendon Hunt	841
	Green	Paul William Eccleshare	680
	LICC	Caroline Louisa Vincent	323
Majority
Turnout				51.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Wycliffe (2)[]

Wycliffe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hanif Aqbany	5,048
	Labour	Mohammed Dawood	4,817
	Conservative	Abdikayf Bashir Farah	384
	LICC	Mohamed Shiine	263
	Liberal Democrats	Mohamed Ahmed	249
	Liberal Democrats	Mohamed Kassim Mohamed	187
Majority
Turnout				69.2
	Labour hold		Swing

References[]

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
^ "Leicester City Council election results 2015". Leicester Mercury. Leicester. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.

[2] "Leicester City Council election results 2015". Leicester Mercury. Leicester. 8 May 2015. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2017.

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