2024 Hyndburn Borough Council election

Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2024

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13 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Marlene Haworth	Munsif Dad
Party	Conservative	Labour
Leader's seat	St Oswald's	Spring Hill
Seats before	16	16
Seats won	16	16
Seat change

2021 local election results in Hyndburn

Labour

Conservative

Not contested

A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.^[1]

The Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Elections will also take place on that same day, across all polling stations.^[2]

Background

Before the election the Conservatives had 16 councillors, with 1 Independent councillor and 2 Green Party of England and Wales councillors (all three, formerly Labour party members) supporting the Conservatives, and where Labour had only a minority of 16 councillors. Where 18 or more seats are needed for Overall-Control of the council.

In this election, Labour would be defending 4 of their previously won 6-ward-seats (where 2 of those seats [Barnfield & Peel], were formerly won by Labour councillors Caroline Montague & Paddy Short, who both later switched to the Green Party following the May 2022 election), and the Conservatives would be defending 6-ward-seats.

All previously winning ward-candidates had only served out the last 3-years of a standard 4-year term in office, since the covid-postponed election in May 2021, which should normally have been held 12-months earlier, back in May 2020.

As a result of the Elections Act 2022 electors will again be required to present photographic identification to polling staff in order to cast their vote. Postal voters are not affected.

Council composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

Where the 16 Conservatives, with the support of the 2 Greens and the 1 Independent, had overall control of the council, over the previous year.

Conservatives are defending 6-seats whilst Labour are defending 4-seats and where 2-seats were both held by Greens (formerly Labour) and where those councillors are both stepping down this year. In addition, this year there are one Reform UK and one Workers Party GB candidates in addition to two Independent candidates standing in various wards. There are also an additional four new Green Party Candidates, standing in Central, Church, Overton, Spring-Hill wards this year, making six Green candidates in total, including the Barnfield and Peel wards.

The local Labour and Conservative party's will both run candidates in each of the 12 wards.

Local Election result

The majority grouping of councillors as the headline result of the election, was unchanged; with Conservatives retaining an overall 19-seat majority.

After the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2024 - electorate TBC (over just 12 wards) - with TBC% turnout
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %
Labour	4
Conservative	6
Green	2
Reform UK	0
Workers Party GB	0
Independent	0
Spoilt Ballots	...	...	...	...	0.0

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election

NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats are NOT up for re-election in 2024, include the following wards – Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. Although, as the Lancashire PCC Elections are also taking place on the same day, all polling stations will be open, across every ward.

Previous Councillors who are looking to Stand-Down in May 2024 include – Dominik Allen (Conservatives - Altham), Caroline Montague (Green - Barnfield), Abdul Khan (Labour - Central), Colin McKenzie (Labour - Overton), Paddy Short (Green - Peel) and Susan Hayes^[3] (Conservatives - St. Oswalds). Former Conservative councillor Michael Miller will be standing this year for the Green party in Peel ward.

Ward results

The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk(*) indicating a sitting councillor standing for re-election.

Altham

Altham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David HEAP	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Vanessa ALEXANDER	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Barnfield

Barnfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Joan WEST	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Clare McKENNA	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Foyzun NUR	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Baxenden

Baxenden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terence Keith HURN*	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Edward BLAKE	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central

Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ijaz AHMED	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Allah DAD	0	0.0	0.0
	Green	Shabir FAZAL	0	0.0	0.0
	Workers Party GB	Mohammed IRFAN	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour hold		Swing

Church

Church
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sajid MAHMOOD*	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Stewart EAVES	0	0.0	0.0
	Green	Sohail ASGHAR	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Netherton

Netherton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Noordad AZIZ*	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Mohammed RIAZ	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour hold		Swing

Overton

Overton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Clare YATES	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Judith McKELVEY	0	0.0	0.0
	Green	Julie STUBBINS	0	0.0	0.0
	No Description	Paul KNIGHTON	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour hold		Swing

Peel

Peel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Michael MILLER	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Clare PRITCHARD	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Jean HURN	0	0.0	0.0
	Independent	Nav AFZAL	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour hold		Swing

Rishton

Rishton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE*	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Ethan RAWCLIFFE	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Spring Hill

Spring Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Munsif DAD*	0	0.0	0.0
	Conservative	Saeed ULLAH	0	0.0	0.0
	Green	Wayne FITZHARRIS	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter BRITCLIFFE*	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Andrew GILBERT	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative hold		Swing

St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tina WALKER	0	0.0	0.0
	Reform UK	Richard OAKLEY	0	0.0	0.0
	Labour	Andy TATCHELL	0	0.0	0.0
Majority			0	0.0	N/A
Rejected ballots			0	0
Turnout			0	0.0	0.0
Registered electors			0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References

^ "Elections in your area". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
^ "Elections & Referendums – what we do". Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election Information. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
^ "Labour call for Tory councillor who has moved to other side of county to quit". Lancashire Telegraph. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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