2016 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election

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

Overview[]

Party	Seats won at Election	Total Seats on Council^[2]	±
Labour Party	18	65	1
Conservative Party	3	5	2
Independents	3	5	3

Number of Candidates fielded per party
Party	Number
Labour Party (UK)	25
Conservative Party (UK)	25
UK Independence Party	18
Independent politician	10
Green Party of England and Wales	9
Liberal Democrats (UK)	7
TUSC	1

Results[]

Bolton West constituency[]

Atherton ward[]

Atherton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent Network	Jamie Hodgkinson	1838	51.2
	Labour	Elnur Yusifzade	969	27
	UKIP	Quinton John Smith	567	15.8
	Conservative	Brian Howard Lobell	209	5.82
Rejected ballots			8	0.18
Majority			869	24.2
Turnout			3590	34.19

Makerfield constituency[]

Abram ward[]

Abram
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Martyn Smethurst	1495	58.2
	UKIP	Jim Carmichael	868	33.8
	Conservative	Claire Houlton	201	7.82
Rejected ballots			5	0.19
Majority			627	24.4
Turnout			2569	25.5

Ashton ward[]

Ashton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bill Clarke	1204	46.45
	Independent	Richard Charles Aylett	616	23.77
	UKIP	Stuart Thomas Plimley	426	16.44
	Conservative	Marie Winstanley	253	9.76
	Liberal Democrats	Lesley Barbara Brothwood	89	3.43
Rejected ballots			4	0.15
Majority			588	22.68
Turnout			2592	29.57

Bryn ward[]

Bryn
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Steve Jones	1200	40.94
	Labour	David Hurst	1123	38.31
	UKIP	Thomas Keith Miller	438	14.94
	Conservative	Margaret Mary Winstanley	161	5.49
Rejected ballots			9	0.3
Majority			77	2.63
Turnout			2931	33.56

Hindley ward[]

Hindley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Paul John Blay	1413	51.01
	Independent	Jim Ellis	1040	37.55
	Conservative	David Marcus John Ollerton	153	5.52
	Green	Paul Ravenall	79	2.85
	Liberal Democrats	John Skipworth	76	2.74
Rejected ballots			9	0.32
Majority			373	13.47
Turnout			2770	29.38

Hindley Green ward[]

Hindley Green
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Bob Brierley	1480	57.08
	Labour	Eileen Winifred Rigby	820	31.62
	Liberal Democrats	John Thomason	159	6.13
	Conservative	Gerard Joseph Houlton	126	4.86
Rejected ballots			8	0.3
Majority			660	25.45
Turnout			2593	27.35

Orrell ward[]

Orrell
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Michael William Winstanley	1410	43
	Labour	Joy Susan Bradley	1333	40.65
	Orrell Independents	Paula Lynn Boyham	221	6.74
	Green	Denise Capstick	190	5.8
	Liberal Democrats	Louise Catherine Bowe	110	3.35
Rejected ballots			15	0.46
Majority			77	2.35
Turnout			3279	34.85

Winstanley ward[]

Winstanley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Paul Terence Kenny	1350	48
	UKIP	Andrew Francis Collinson	890	31.7
	Conservative	Jean Margaret Peet	334	11.9
	Green	Steven Charles Heyes	229	8.16
Rejected ballots			5	0.18
Majority			460	16.4
Turnout			2808	31.5

Worsley Mesnes ward[]

Worsley Mesnes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Philip Myles Kelly	1449	59.8
	UKIP	Maureen McCoy	699	28.84
	Conservative	Susan Atherton	221	9.12
Rejected ballots			5	0.2
Majority			800	33
Turnout			2424	27.65

Leigh constituency[]

Astley Mosley Common ward[]

Astley Mosley Common
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joanne Marie Platt	1548	51.3
	Conservative	Richard Allan Short	739	24.5
	UKIP	Steve Mills	731	24.2
Rejected ballots			0	0
Majority			809	26.8
Turnout			3018	32.95

Atherleigh ward[]

Atherleigh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Harding	1067	46.17
	Independent (politician)	Stuart Andrew Gerrard	533	23.1
	UKIP	Luke Greenhalgh	446	19.3
	Conservative	Paul Lambert Fairhurst	207	8.96
	Liberal Democrats	Lorraine Gillon	49	2.12
Rejected ballots			9	0.4
Majority			534	23.12
Turnout			2311	28.15

Golborne Lowton West ward[]

Golborne Lowton West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Yvonne Marie Klieve	1675	70
	UKIP	Peter Graham Kearns	540	22.5
	Conservative	Toby Joseph Hewitt	170	7.1
Rejected ballots			11	0.46
Majority			1135	47.4
Turnout			2396	27.78

Leigh East ward[]

Leigh East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Keith Cunliffe	1513	67.18
	Conservative	Richard Byrom Houlton	446	19.8
	Liberal Democrats	John Dowsett	275	12.2
Rejected ballots			18	0.8
Majority			1067	47.4
Turnout			2252	25.53

Leigh South ward[]

Leigh South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Charles Rigby	1773	55.48
	UKIP	Russell Eddison	913	28.6
	Conservative	Denise Alison Young	503	15.74
Rejected ballots			7	0.22
Majority			860	26.91
Turnout			3196	31.61

Leigh West ward[]

Leigh West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sue Greensmith	1610	60
	UKIP	Jayson Lomax-Hargreaves	738	27.5
	Conservative	Andrew John Oxley	205	7.64
	Green	Neil Hancox	129	4.8
Rejected ballots			2	0.08
Majority			872	30.09
Turnout			2684	26.84

Lowton East ward[]

Lowton East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	James Nelson Grundy	2327	60.84
	Labour	Garry Lloyd	1110	29
	UKIP	Stephen Thomas Darragh	278	7.27
	Green	Harry John Alderson Snape	104	2.7
Rejected ballots			6	0.16
Majority			1217	31.82
Turnout			3825	40.28

Tyldesley ward[]

Tyldesley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Nazia Rehman	1235	38.4
	UKIP	Matthew Robert James	978	30.37
	Independent	Norman Alec Bradbury	572	17.8
	Conservative	David John Stirzaker	421	13.1
Rejected ballots			14	0.43
Majority			257	8
Turnout			3220	31.71

Wigan constituency[]

Aspull, New Springs and Whelley ward[]

Aspull, New Springs and Whelley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Hilton	1,805	52.8
	UKIP	Mark Andrew Bradley	985	28.8
	Conservative	Allan Atherton	456	13.3
	Liberal Democrats	Freda Janet Graham	175	5.1
Majority			820	24.0
Turnout			3,421	35.1
	Labour hold		Swing

Douglas ward[]

Douglas
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Patricia Draper	1,803	84.1
	Conservative	Margaret Atherton	340	15.9
Majority			1,463	68.3
Turnout			2,143	23.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Ince ward[]

Ince
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Trevor Molyneux	1,545	65.8
	UKIP	Stephen Winstanley	671	28.6
	Conservative	Judith Atherton	132	5.6
Majority			874	37.2
Turnout			2,348	27.3
	Labour hold		Swing

Pemberton ward[]

Pemberton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jeanette Prescott	1,631	69.0
	UKIP	Peter Owen Wheatley-Smith	502	21.2
	Conservative	Daniel Andrew Whitehouse	137	5.8
	Green	Norma Stout	93	3.9
Majority			1,129	47.7
Turnout			2,363	24.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Shevington with Lower Ground ward[]

Shevington with Lower Ground
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Damian Edwardson	1,239	40.0
	Shevington Independents	Janet Brown	813	26.3
	UKIP	Arnold Jefferson Foster	584	18.9
	Conservative	Jack Joseph Vickery	349	11.3
	Green	Joseph Robert Rylance	112	3.6
Majority			426	13.8
Turnout			3,097	34.2
	Labour hold		Swing

Standish with Langtree ward[]

Standish with Langtree
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Raymond Whittingham	1,276	32.4
	Standish Independents	Gareth William Fairhurst	1,063	27.0
	Labour	Debbie Parkinson	968	24.6
	UKIP	Ian Adamczyk	579	14.7
	TUSC	Sharon Holden	54	1.4
Majority			213	5.4
Turnout			3,940	41.4
	Conservative gain from		Swing

Wigan Central ward[]

Wigan Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lawrence Hunt	1,745	55.9
	Conservative	Susan Vickery	845	27.1
	Green	William John Patterson	311	10.0
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart David Thomas	221	7.0
Majority			900	28.8
Turnout			3,122	34.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Wigan West ward[]

Wigan West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Terence William Halliwell	2,090	80.8
	Conservative	Jamie Vickery	497	19.2
Majority			1,593	61.6
Turnout			2,587	27.9
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections between 2016 and 2018[]

Astley Mosley Common ward[]

Astley Mosley Common, 19th October 2017^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Paula Anne Wakefield	773	45.9
	Conservative	David John Stirzaker	604	35.9
	UKIP	Allan Hogg	185	11.0
	Liberal Democrats	Stuart David Thomas	73	4.3
	Green	Andy Prentice	46	2.7
Majority			169	10.0
Turnout			1,684	17.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Shevington with Lower Ground ward[]

Shevington with Lower Ground, 14 December 2017^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Marlaine Teresa Whitham	765	43.4
	Independent	Janet Brown	552	31.3
	Conservative	Callum David Owen Chadwick	402	22.8
	Green	Joseph Robert Rylance	30	1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Joshua Michael Hindle	15	0.9
Majority			213	12.1
Turnout			1,764	18.7
	Labour hold		Swing

References[]

^ "Guide to May 2016 elections in Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland". BBC News. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
^ Cox, Charlotte (6 May 2016). "Wigan local election results 2016 - who won in Wigan?". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
^ "Elections result 19 October 2017" (PDF). Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
^ "Elections result 14 December 2017" (PDF). Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

External links[]

Election results by ward

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

[2] Cox, Charlotte (6 May 2016). "Wigan local election results 2016 - who won in Wigan?". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 22 October 2018.

[Astley-3] "Elections result 19 October 2017" (PDF). Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

[ByElectionResults-4] "Elections result 14 December 2017" (PDF). Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

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