Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council elections

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is elected in full every four years.^[1] The next election is due to be held in May 2022.

Before 2018, one-third of the council was elected each year for three years, followed by one year without election.

Ward boundaries changed with the May 2018 election, reducing the number of wards from 24 to 21.^[2]

Political control[]

Since the foundation of the council in 1973 political control of the council has been held by the following parties:^[3]

Party in control	Years
No overall control	1973 - 1979
Labour	1979 - 2002
No overall control	2002 - 2004
Labour	2004 - 2006
No overall control	2006 - 2012
Labour	2012 - December 2017
No overall control	December 2017 – November 2021
Conservatives	November 2021 – present

Council elections[]

• (New ward boundaries)^[4]
• (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same.)^[5][6]
• 1998 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 1999 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2000 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2002 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election (New ward boundaries increased the number of seats by four.)^[7][8]
• 2003 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2004 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2006 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2007 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2012 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2014 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2015 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2016 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election
• 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election (New ward boundaries and move to whole-council, "all-out" elections.)^[1][2]

Borough result maps[]

• 

  2012 results map

By-election results[]

2001-2005[]

Thistleberry By-Election 13 June 2002 (3)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats		942
	Liberal Democrats		906
	Liberal Democrats		896
	Labour		473
	Labour		424
	Labour		420
	Conservative		414
	Conservative		412
	Conservative		376
	Independent		57
	Independent		51
Turnout			5,371	40.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Chesterton By-Election 15 August 2002^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Dolman	575	66.7	+7.7
	Liberal Democrats		178	20.6	+1.4
	Conservative		109	12.6	-9.1
Majority			397	46.1
Turnout			862	17.2
	Labour hold		Swing

2005-2009[]

Westlands By-Election 12 July 2007^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda Hailstones	696	60.9	+1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Shenton	229	20.0	+5.2
	Labour	Nicolas Butler	126	11.0	-2.9
	UKIP	Daniel Sutton	92	8.0	-3.5
Majority			467	40.9
Turnout			1,143	24.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Butt Lane By-Election 7 February 2008^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John MacMillan	295	35.2	+7.9
	Liberal Democrats	Dennis Richards	264	31.5	-8.0
	Conservative	Sarah Myatt	161	19.2	+10.5
	UKIP	Roger Ruddle	117	14.0	-2.3
Majority			31	3.7
Turnout			837	20
	Labour hold		Swing

Ravenscliffe By-Election 5 March 2009^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Blair	229	25.4	-14.5
	Labour	Gill Burnett	213	23.6	+1.2
	BNP	Sarah Barnes	180	20.0	+20.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Parsons	149	16.5	-2.4
	UKIP	Geoff Locke	131	14.5	-4.4
Majority			16	1.8
Turnout			902	26.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

2009-2013[]

Seabridge By-Election 4 June 2009^[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Gilmore	602	38.4	-10.2
	UKIP	Paul Gregory	352	22.5	+5.7
	Labour	David Beardmore	310	19.8	-0.2
	Liberal Democrats	Mavis Brown	302	19.3	+4.8
Majority			250	15.9
Turnout			1,566
	Conservative hold		Swing

Wolstanton By-Election 4 June 2009^[13][14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	David Woolley	475	31.7	+2.2
	Labour	Mark Olszewski	393	26.2	-3.4
	Conservative	Nicola Davies	345	23.0	-6.9
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Johnson	285	19.0	+8.2
Majority			82	5.5
Turnout			1,498
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Newchapel By-Election 4 February 2010^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Susan Short	208	33.5	-10.6
	UKIP	Carol Lovatt	148	23.8	+10.4
	Labour	Kyle Robinson	138	22.2	-1.1
	Liberal Democrats	Adrian Rhodes	127	20.5	+1.4
Majority			60	9.7
Turnout			621
	Conservative hold		Swing

2013-present[]

Silverdale & Parksite by-election 4 August 2016^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gareth Snell	399	56.4	+19.5
	UKIP	Lynn Dean	174	24.6	-21.2
	Conservative	James Vernon	80	11.3	-0.4
	Independent	Gary White	54	7.6	N/A
Majority			225	31.8
Turnout				22.62
	Labour gain from UKIP		Swing

The by-election was triggered by the death of Councillor Eileen Braithwaite.

Holditch and Chesterton by-election 21 March 2019^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Kenneth Owen	282	40.3	+23.2
	Labour	Peter Radford	268	38.3	-13.9
	UKIP	Mark Barlow	86	12.3	+2.6
	Conservative	Lawrence Whitworth	49	7.0	-8.3
	SDP	Carol Lovatt	14	2.0	N/A
Majority			14	2.0
Turnout				17.1
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Labour Knutton councillor Brian Johnson.

Knutton By-Election 25 November 2021^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derrick Huckfield	188	51.1	+25.8
	Labour	Steph Talbot	180	48.9	-25.8
Majority			8	2.2
Turnout			371	18.34
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References[]

• By-election results

External links[]

• Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council