2016 Warrington Borough Council election

2016 Warrington Borough Council election
All 58 seats to Warrington Borough Council; 30 seats needed for a majority
Council control before election; Labour Party (UK);	Council control after election ; Labour Party (UK);

The 2016 Warrington Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Warrington Borough Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

Following a boundary review, all Warrington Borough Council seats were up for election, for a term of four years. The number of seats rose from 57 to 58.

The Labour Party retained overall control of Warrington Borough Council after taking 45 of the 58 seats.^[2]

Results Summary[]

Warrington Borough Council election, 2016
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	45	3	77.59	48.80	59,031
Liberal Democrats	11	2	18.96	20.63	24,953
Conservative	2	3	3.45	22.99	27,816
UKIP	0		0	3.02	3,652
Independent	0		0	1.85	2,245
TUSC	0	1	0	1.42	1,719
Green	0		0	1.29	1,559

A total of 442 ballots were rejected, and the overall turnout was 32.87%.

Council Composition[]

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓
42	9	5	1
Labour	Lib Dem	Con	T

After the election the composition of the council was:

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45	11	2
Labour	Lib Dem	Con

Lib Dem - Liberal Democrats
Con - Conservative Party
T - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

Ward Results[]

Appleton[]

Appleton (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Axcell	2,191	62.9
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Carol Wheeler	2,034	58.5
	Liberal Democrats	Sharon Harris	1,640	47.1
	Conservative	Basil Mitchell	1,075	30.9
	Conservative	Barbara Price	891	25.6
	Conservative	Ian Houghton	731	21.0
	Labour	Nick Bent	556	16.0
	Green	David Edward Bilton	447	12.8
Majority			565	16.2
Turnout			9,565	42
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win

Bewsey and Whitecross[]

Bewsey and Whitecross (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sarah Edith Hall	1,142	66.3
	Labour	Steve Wright	1,080	62.7
	Labour	Tom Jennings	1,061	61.6
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Timmis	319	18.5
	Conservative	Rowland Blackstock	235	13.6
	Conservative	Pat Smith	210	12.2
	Liberal Democrats	Irina Axcell	151	8.8
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Walker	135	7.8
	TUSC	Shelley Bennett	129	7.5
Majority			742	43.1
Turnout			4,462	22
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Birchwood[]

Birchwood (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Russ Bowden	1,719	59.6
	Labour	Pauline Nelson	1,578	54.8
	Labour	Chris Fitzsimmons	1,475	51.2
	Conservative	Nigel Balding	782	27.1
	Conservative	Peter Linton	618	21.4
	Independent	Amy Elizabeth Linton	529	18.4
	Liberal Democrats	John Davies	302	10.5
Majority			693	24.1
Turnout			7,003	35
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Burtonwood and Winwick[]

Burtonwood and Winwick (3 Seats
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Cathy Mitchell	1,083	63.7
	Labour	Terry O'Neill	1,065	62.7
	Conservative	Robin Sloan	399	23.5
	Liberal Democrats	Timothy James Muttock	265	15.6
Majority			666	39.2
Turnout			2,812	34
	Labour win
	Labour win

Chapelford and Old Hall[]

Chapelford and Old Hall (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Faisal Rashid	1,489	56.1
	Labour	Steve Parish	1,161	43.7
	Labour	Rebecca Knowles	1,011	38.1
	Liberal Democrats	Allan Keith Bird	698	26.3
	Conservative	Phil Hayward	593	22.3
	Liberal Democrats	David Leonard Knapp	463	17.4
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Alfred Smith	397	15.0
	Conservative	Anthony John Kerrigan	364	13.7
	Conservative	Anna Jane Sharkey	332	12.5
	UKIP	Ian Anthony Wilson	332	12.5
	Green	Mike Wass	204	7.7
Majority			313	11.8
Turnout			7,044	31
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft[]

Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Matt Smith	1,788	52.5
	Labour	Joan Grime	1,609	47.3
	Labour	Jan Davidson	1,401	41.1
	Conservative	Frank Richard Allen	1,359	39.9
	Conservative	Sue Bland	1,318	38.7
	Conservative	Valerie Margaret Allen	1,263	37.1
	Liberal Democrats	Eddie Sloane	432	12.7
Majority			42	1.2
Turnout			9,170	40
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Fairfield and Howley[]

Fairfield and Howley (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jean Flaherty	1,234	57.2
	Labour	Tony Higgins	1,008	46.7
	Labour	Peter Carey	997	46.2
	TUSC	Kevin Bennett	921	42.7
	Green	Lyndsay McAteer	344	15.9
	Conservative	Simone Johnson	332	15.4
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Oldbury	240	11.1
Majority			76	3.5
Turnout			5,076	27
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Grappenhall[]

Grappenhall (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Biggin	1,306	61.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ryan Stephen Robert Bate	1,119	52.4
	Conservative	Olivia Reilly	565	26.5
	Conservative	Iona Gillis	421	19.7
	Labour	Andy Heaver	380	17.8
Majority			554	25.9
Turnout			3,791	35
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win

Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall[]

Dan Price resigned from the Labour Party in February 2019 in protest to Labour’s inaction on antisemitism and Brexit. He sits on the Council as an Independent.

Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jan Hart	1,321	54.2
	Labour	Dan Price	1,265	51.9
	Labour	Tony Williams	1,217	50.0
	Conservative	Mike Foxall	698	28.7
	Conservative	Christine Booth	668	27.4
	Conservative	Arthur Booth	660	27.1
	Green	Stephanie Davies	332	13.6
	Liberal Democrats	Cliff Taylor	330	13.5
Majority			519	21.3
Turnout			6,491	35
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Great Sankey South[]

Great Sankey South (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Amanda King	1,432	62.9
	Labour	Hitesh Patel	1,193	52.4
	Labour	Jean Carter	1,154	50.7
	Conservative	Sue Jenkin	546	24.0
	Conservative	Peter Elton	494	21.7
	Conservative	Sonia Wendy Boggan	403	17.7
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Harwood	227	10.0
	TUSC	Andrew Ford	138	6.1
Majority			608	26.7
Turnout			5,587	28
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Latchford East[]

Latchford East (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Hans Josef Mundry	929	66.8
	Labour	Karen Mundry	822	59.1
	Conservative	Julian Craddock	192	13.8
	Conservative	Ken Scates	145	10.4
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Price	140	10.1
	Liberal Democrats	Rupert Budgen	123	8.8
	Green	John Kennedy Lappin	85	6.1
	TUSC	Sue Hayes	83	6.0
Majority			630	45.3
Turnout			2,519	23
	Labour win
	Labour win

Latchford West[]

Latchford West (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Les Morgan	1,068	57.9
	Labour	Maureen McLaughlin	991	53.7
	Conservative	Michael Haworth	321	17.4
	Conservative	David Woodyatt	317	17.2
	Liberal Democrats	Ann Raymond	283	15.3
	Liberal Democrats	Celia Jordan	272	14.7
	TUSC	Dave Cundy	88	4.8
Majority			670	36.3
Turnout			3,340	32
	Labour win
	Labour win

Lymm North and Thelwall[]

Lymm North and Thelwall (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Barr	2,027	54.9
	Liberal Democrats	Ian George Marks	1,943	52.6
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Johnson	1,685	45.6
	Labour	Chris Zastawny	895	24.2
	Conservative	Jonathan Michael Smith	857	23.2
	Conservative	Kevin Yates	735	19.9
	Conservative	Harish Chander Sharma	679	18.4
	UKIP	Derek Clark	530	14.3
Majority			790	21.4
Turnout			9,351	41
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win

Lymm South[]

Lymm South (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sheila Woodyatt	925	41.7
	Conservative	Kath Buckley	879	39.6
	Liberal Democrats	Ed Gough	780	35.1
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Farrington Gowland	668	30.1
	Labour	David John Cockayne	466	21.0
	UKIP	James Ashington	233	10.5
Majority			99	4.5
Turnout			3,951	44
	Conservative win
	Conservative win

Orford[]

Orford (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mike Hannon	1,493	68.1
	Labour	Kerri Louise Morris	1,374	62.7
	Labour	Morgan Tarr	1,234	56.3
	UKIP	Ian Andrew Richards	420	19.2
	UKIP	Dion Eric Challinor	392	17.9
	UKIP	Sid Simmons	392	17.9
	Conservative	Jan Woning	154	7.0
	Liberal Democrats	Pam Marks	137	6.3
	Independent	Clive Lawrinson	117	5.3
Majority			814	37.1
Turnout			5,713	25
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Penketh and Cuerdley[]

Penketh and Cuerdley (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Keane	1,622	53.2
	Labour	Linda Susan Dirir	1,511	49.6
	Labour	Allin Dirir	1,486	48.7
	Conservative	Sam Baxter	1,317	43.2
	Conservative	Kevin Morton	1,087	35.7
	Conservative	Matt Jones	1,030	33.8
	Liberal Democrats	Denis Patrick McAllister	254	8.3
Majority			169	5.5
Turnout			8,307	37
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Poplars and Hulme[]

Poplars and Hulme (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Kerr-Brown	1,196	61.6
	Labour	Hilary Cooksey	1,103	56.9
	Labour	Brian Maher	1,090	56.2
	UKIP	Mike Byrne	463	23.9
	UKIP	Trevor Nicholls	450	23.2
	UKIP	Mal Lingley	440	22.7
	Conservative	Francine Leslie	222	11.4
	Liberal Democrats	Pam Todd	142	7.3
Majority			627	32.3
Turnout			5,106	23
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Poulton North[]

Poulton North (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Diana Bennett	1,413	56.7
	Labour	Graham Friend	1,411	56.7
	Labour	Russell Purnell	1,222	49.1
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Oliver	726	29.2
	Conservative	Philip Eastty	696	28.0
Majority			496	19.9
Turnout			5,468	32
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Poulton South[]

Poulton South (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Colin Froggatt	882	61.9
	Labour	Maureen Creaghan	678	47.5
	TUSC	Bob Taylor	360	25.2
	Conservative	Emma Sloan	324	22.7
	Liberal Democrats	Dave Hockenhull	167	11.7
Majority			318	22.3
Turnout			2,411	30
	Labour win
	Labour win

Rixton and Woolston[]

Rixton and Woolston (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Tony McCarthy	1,314	51.1
	Labour	Andrew Hill	1,214	47.2
	Labour	Pat Wright	979	38.1
	Independent	Bill Brinksman	882	34.3
	Independent	Paul Francis Bretherton	717	27.9
	Conservative	Mark Chapman	560	21.8
	Conservative	Howard Klein	460	17.9
	Conservative	Isaac Tweedale	411	16.0
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Wenlock	168	6.5
Majority			97	3.8
Turnout			6,705	34
	Labour win
	Labour win
	Labour win

Stockton Heath[]

Stockton Heath (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Walker	1,089	47.3
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Welborn	813	35.3
	Conservative	Stephen Howard Taylor	675	29.3
	Labour	Laurence Murphy	614	26.7
	Conservative	Jonathan Matthew Levy	581	25.2
	Labour	Sandra Eaves	522	22.7
	Green	Harry Gibbins	147	6.4
Majority			138	6.0
Turnout			4,441	41
	Liberal Democrats win
	Liberal Democrats win

Westbrook[]

Westbrook (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Stefan Krizanac	827	53.4
	Labour	Judith Marie Guthrie	606	39.1
	Labour	John Joyce	477	30.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jeff Butler	460	29.7
	Conservative	Alex Leslie	292	18.8
Majority			129	8.3
Turnout			2,662	32
	Liberal Democrats win
	Labour win

References[]

^ "Guide to May 2016 elections in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
^ Warrington Borough Council. "Borough council election results, May 2016". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

[BBC-1] "Guide to May 2016 elections in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

[2] Warrington Borough Council. "Borough council election results, May 2016". Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.

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