2021 Hyndburn Borough Council election
A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election (postponed since March 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak), should be held on Thursday 6 May 2021. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.[1]
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This election, postponed for 12-months since 2020,[2] should be taking place at the same time as the regularly-scheduled 2021 Lancashire County Council elections and the rescheduled Police & Crime Commissioner elections.
Background
Before the election Labour had a majority of 26 councillors, Conservatives had 9 councillors[3]
Labour will be defending 10-seats and Conservatives will be defending 2-seats.
Local Election result
The majority grouping of councillors as the headline result of the election.
After the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -
- Labour 26
- Conservative 8
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
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Labour | 10 | ||||||||
Conservative | 2 | ||||||||
UKIP | 0 | ||||||||
Green | 0 | ||||||||
Spoilt Ballots |
NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats were NOT be up for re-election in 2021, included the following wards - Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. However, as there was ALSO an election for Lancashire's next Police and Crime Commissioner, polling stations in those Four wards would ALSO have been OPEN.
Previous Councillors who were looking to Stand-Down in May 2021 included - Stephanie Haworth (Lab) (Overton), Jean Battle (Lab) (Church) and Jeff Scales (Lab) (Rishton)
As well as this the Barnfield seat became vacant in March 2020 as Councillor Tony Dobson died.
Ward results
Altham
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Steve BUTTON | ||||
Conservative | |||||
UKIP | |||||
Green | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Barnfield
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Timothy FENTON | ||||
Labour | Caroline MONTAGUE | ||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Baxenden
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Terence Keith HURN | ||||
Labour | Kimberley Jane WHITEHEAD | ||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Central
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Abdul Ghafar KHAN | ||||
Conservative | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Church
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Clare PRITCHARD | ||||
Conservative | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Netherton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Noordad AZIZ | ||||
Conservative | |||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Overton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Michael HINDLEY | ||||
Conservative | |||||
UKIP | |||||
Green | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Peel
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Paddy SHORT | ||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Rishton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jodi CLEMENTS | ||||
Conservative | |||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
Spring Hill
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Munsif DAD | ||||
Conservative | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
St. Andrew's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Stewart Thurston EAVES | ||||
Conservative | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
St. Oswald's
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Glen Kevin HARRISON | ||||
Conservative | |||||
UKIP | |||||
spoilt votes | |||||
Majority | N/A | ||||
Turnout |
References
- "Elections & Referendums - what we do". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- "Previously postponed Hyndburn Borough Council election". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- "Hyndburn Borough Council - Your councillors by political party". The Hyndburn Borough Council. Retrieved 21 March 2020.