2016 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election

2016 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election

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All 63 seats to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council 32 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Labour UKIP Seats won 48 14 Seat change 2
Majority party before election Labour Majority party after election Labour

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2016, alongside nationwide local elections. All 63 seats were up for election, 3 seats from each of the 21 wards.^[1]

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Election Result 2016

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	48	4	4	0	76.2	51.0	77,016	6.7
	UKIP	14	3	1	2	22.2	29.5	44,563	5.8
	Conservative	0	0	1	1	0	7.9	11,871	7.4
	Independent	1	0	1	1	1.6	5.2	7,885	3.1
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	3.6	5,426	1.9
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	1.4	2,178	0.4
	Yorkshire First	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	1,095	0.7
	TUSC	0	0	0	0	0	0.6	960	0.2

This result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	New council	+/-
	Labour	48	48	0
	UKIP	12	14	2
	Independent	2	1	1
	Conservatives	1	0	1
Total		63	63
Working majority		16	16

Ward results[]

Incumbent*

Anston and Woodsetts[]

Anston and Woodsetts 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Clive Robert Jepson*	1,240	15.6
	Labour	Jonathan Charles Ireland	1,183	14.9
	Labour	Katherine Wilson	1,038	13.1
	UKIP	Bernard Froggatt	1,003	12.6
	UKIP	Phillip John Clarke	974	12.2
	Labour	Lauren Amy Edith Astbury*	827	10.4
	Independent	Christine Sadler	724	9.1
	Conservative	Anthony John Kavanagh	582	7.3
	Green	Charles David Foulstone	382	4.8
Majority
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Boston Castle[]

Boston Castle 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rose McNeely*	1,843	24.1
	Labour	Saghir Alam*	1,662	21.7
	Labour	Taiba Yasseen*	1,626	21.2
	UKIP	Lisa Michelle Raby	1,201	15.7
	Conservative	Christian Carl Backer Kramer	844	11.0
	TUSC	Christopher James Edward Bingham	477	6.2
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Brinsworth and Catcliffe[]

Brinsworth and Catcliffe 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Buckley*	1,764	27.4
	Labour	Andrew Scott Roddison*	1,288	20.0
	UKIP	Nigel Gary Simpson	1,190	18.5
	Labour	Shabana Ahmed*	1,070	16.6
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Jonathon Carter	637	9.9
	Conservative	Ruth Pauline Marsh	480	7.5
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Dinnington[]

Dinnington 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Andrew Tweed*	1,012	15.1
	UKIP	Ian Kenneth Finnie*	954	14.3
	Labour	Jeanette Martin Mallinder*	913	13.6
	UKIP	Shaun Grice	871	13.0
	Independent	Dave Smith	795	11.9
	Independent	Jean Hart	657	9.8
	Independent	Les Clarke	620	9.3
	Conservative	Thomas Joseph Angel	492	7.3
	Green	Wendy Hamilton	380	5.7
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Hellaby[]

Hellaby 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	John Turner*	1,406	16.7
	UKIP	Brian Cutts	1,324	15.7
	Labour	Jenny Andrews	1,233	14.6
	UKIP	Richard Fleming*	1,178	14.0
	Labour	Janet Law	1,147	13.6
	Labour	Andrew James Fenwick-Green	855	10.1
	Conservative	Anne Middleton	779	9.2
	Green	Rebecca Louise Whyman	520	6.2
Majority
	UKIP hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Holderness[]

Holderness 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lyndsay Pitchley*	1,679	21.8
	Labour	Robert Paul Taylor*	1,382	17.9
	UKIP	Michael Elliott	1,208	15.7
	UKIP	John Jenkins	1,188	15.4
	Labour	Darren Jason Louis Hughes*	1,177	15.3
	Conservative	Michael James Naughton	628	8.1
	Green	Ian Barkley	453	5.9
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Hoober[]

Hoober 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Denise Lelliott*	1,363	23.8
	Labour	David John Roche*	1,204	21.0
	Labour	Brian Steele*	1,185	20.7
	UKIP	Amanda Cowles	992	17.3
	Conservative	Tyrrell Jane Bingham	547	9.5
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Scutt	445	7.8
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Keppel[]

Keppel 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maggi Clark*	1,270	15.6
	UKIP	David Cutts*	1,227	15.1
	UKIP	Paul Hague*	1,153	14.2
	Labour	John Foden	1,110	13.7
	UKIP	Christine Houghton	1,082	13.3
	Labour	Jo Baker-Rogers	883	10.9
	Liberal Democrats	Janice Middleton	366	4.5
	Conservative	Kenneth Rodney Marshall	357	4.4
	Yorkshire First	Peter Robert Key	268	3.3
	Green	Thomas Walter Hill	266	3.3
	TUSC	Neil Adshead	135	1.7
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Maltby[]

Maltby 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christine Beaumont*	1,181	18.1
	Labour	Amy Rushforth*	1,037	15.9
	Labour	Richard Price*	984	15.0
	UKIP	Roger Jarvis	948	14.5
	Independent	Jon Carratt	750	11.5
	Independent	Shaz Biggin	555	8.5
	Independent	Simon Ashley Ball	452	6.9
	Independent	Joy Bradford	444	6.8
	Conservative	Jane Rosemary Salt	188	2.9
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Rawmarsh[]

Rawmarsh 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bob Bird	1,387	21.0
	Labour	David Roy Sheppard	1,234	18.7
	UKIP	Sandra Marriott	1,100	16.7
	UKIP	Caven Vines*	1,063	16.1
	Labour	Emma Wallis*	1,036	15.7
	Green	Emily West	442	6.7
	Conservative	Josephine Margaret Taylor	343	5.2
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Rother Vale[]

Rother Vale 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Amy Caroline Brookes	1,240	18.2
	Labour	Bob Walsh	1,146	16.9
	Labour	Leon Allcock	996	14.6
	UKIP	Robert Donald Webster	919	13.5
	UKIP	Matthew Eyre	916	13.5
	UKIP	Greg Reynolds*	855	12.6
	Conservative	William Salt	419	6.2
	Green	Martin Brown	308	4.5
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from UKIP		Swing

Rotherham East[]

Rotherham East 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Wendy Cooksey	1,336	23.0
	Labour	Tajamal Khan*	1,301	22.4
	Labour	Deborah Fenwick-Green	1,053	18.1
	UKIP	Courtney Lea Webster	999	17.2
	Independent	Barry Dodson	463	8.0
	Green	Richard William Penycate	420	7.2
	Conservative	Marilyn Marshall	241	4.1
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Rotherham West[]

Rotherham West 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Paul Jones*	1,589	24.3
	Labour	Pat Jarvis	1,552	23.8
	Labour	Eve Rose Keenan*	1,387	21.2
	UKIP	Maureen Vines*	1,232	18.9
	Conservative	Keith Hunter	423	6.5
	TUSC	Pat McLaughlin	348	5.3
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from UKIP		Swing

Silverwood[]

Silverwood 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ann Russell*	1,200	15.8
	UKIP	Alan Derek Napper	1,170	15.4
	Labour	Steve Marles	1,157	15.2
	UKIP	David Fleming	1,095	14.4
	UKIP	John Wilkinson	1,041	13.7
	Labour	Fakhary Saleh	817	10.7
	Conservative	Denise Helen Hall	423	5.6
	Independent	Martyn Lawton Parker*	371	4.9
	Green	Grant Thomas Morement	327	4.3
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Independent		Swing

Sitwell[]

Sitwell 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Allen Cowles*	1,466	15.0
	UKIP	Peter Short	1,304	13.3
	UKIP	Julie Turner*	1,277	13.0
	Conservative	Christopher Norman Middleton*	1,128	11.5
	Labour	Jacquie Falvey	1,024	10.5
	Conservative	John Lester Oliver	1,000	10.2
	Labour	Neil Rushforth	988	10.1
	Yorkshire First	Mick Bower	827	8.4
	Labour	Abdul Rashid	779	8.0
Majority
	UKIP hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Swinton[]

Swinton 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victoria Cusworth	1,621	23.4
	Labour	Ken Wyatt*	1,619	23.4
	Labour	Stuart James Sansome*	1,510	21.8
	UKIP	Ruby Collins	997	14.4
	UKIP	Cassie Collins	740	10.7
	Conservative	Stephen Handel Jones	426	6.2
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Valley[]

Valley 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kerry Albiston	1,227	18.0
	Labour	Jayne Senior	1,115	16.3
	UKIP	Kath Reeder*	1,087	15.9
	Labour	Haroon Rashid	878	12.8
	UKIP	Leah Dawn Webster	776	11.4
	UKIP	Steven Benjamin Webster	714	10.4
	Independent	Dave Pickering*	449	6.6
	Independent	Simon Currie*	365	5.3
	Conservative	Omar Mehban	222	3.2
Majority
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

Wales[]

Wales 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dominic Edward Beck*	1,584	22.3
	Labour	Jenny Whysall*	1,450	20.4
	Labour	Gordon Watson*	1,189	16.8
	UKIP	Dennis Flynn	1,065	15.0
	Conservative	John Cox	904	12.7
	Green	Paul Neville Martin	493	7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Vincent Marshall	408	5.8
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Wath[]

Wath 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Atkin*	1,639	23.2
	Labour	Jayne Elliot*	1,496	21.2
	Labour	Simon Evans*	1,182	16.7
	UKIP	Brian Albert Bailey	1,095	15.5
	UKIP	Jeffrey Cowles	975	13.8
	Green	Mykel Hedge	364	5.1
	Liberal Democrats	Abe Staples-McCall	322	4.6
	Conservative	Lissa Higgins	316	4.5
	Conservative	Beryl Brown	307	4.3
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Wickersley[]

Wickersley 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Ellis*	1,814	22.0
	Labour	Chris Read*	1,426	17.3
	Labour	Emma Hoddinott*	1,424	17.2
	UKIP	Dennis Harry Hardwick	1,305	15.8
	UKIP	Leslie James Hince	1,224	14.8
	Conservative	Peter Michael Higgins	536	6.5
	Green	Jo Baker	531	6.4
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Wingfield[]

Wingfield 2016

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Robert William Elliott	1,361	23.6
	Labour	Sarah Ann Allen	1,162	20.1
	Labour	John Williams	898	15.5
	UKIP	Lee James Hunter*	888	15.4
	Labour	Mahroof Rashid	644	11.1
	Green	Keith Cooper	540	9.3
	Conservative	Barrie Marsh	286	4.9
Majority
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	UKIP hold		Swing

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