2023 Melton Borough Council election
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The 2023 Melton Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 28 members of Melton Borough Council in Leicestershire, England.
Summary[edit]
Following the results, the Conservatives lost the council to no overall control.[2] A Labour and independent coalition took control of the council, with Labour councillor Pip Allnatt being appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 24 May 2023.[3]
Overall results[edit]
The overall results were:[4]
| Results[5] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Party | Seats | Change |
| Conservative Party | 11 |  11
|
| Independents and Others | 10 |  5
|
| Labour Party | 5 | 5
|
| Green Party | 1 | 
|
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | 1
|
Ward results[edit]
The results for each ward were as follows. Sitting councillors standing for re-election are indicated with an asterisk (*).[6]
Asfordby[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Steven John Carter* | 454 | 63.2 | ||
| Green | Charlotte Mary Pitt Miller | 299 | 41.6 | ||
| Conservative | Ronald Anthony de Burle* | 239 | 33.3 | ||
| Conservative | Nicholas Arthur Putname | 218 | 30.4 | ||
| Turnout | 718 | 24.89 | |||
| Registered electors | 2,885 | ||||
| Independent hold | |||||
| Green gain from Conservative | |||||
Bottesford[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Donald James Pritchett* | 602 | 57.5 | +57.5 | |
| Labour | James Miles Mason | 506 | 48.3 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Morgan Lawrence Platts Kilburn | 447 | 42.7 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 1,047 | 32.29 | |||
| Registered electors | 3,255 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Independent | |||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Donald Pritchett had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in September 2021. Seat recorded here as a Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 result.[7]
Croxton Kerrial[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Alan Henry Hewson* | 289 | 55.6 | -6.6 | |
| Conservative | Jack William Smith | 231 | 44.4 | +6.6 | |
| Turnout | 520 | 33.85 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,551 | ||||
| Independent hold | |||||
Frisby on the Wreake[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ronan William Joseph Browne* | 465 | 65.8 | +65.8 | |
| Labour | Gwyneth Margaret Clay | 139 | 19.7 | N/A | |
| Independent | Eric Gordon John Brown | 103 | 14.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 707 | 44.53 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,599 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Gaddesby[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Robert Howard Child* | 431 | 74.7 | +74.7 | |
| Labour | Adrienne Myfanwy Holland | 146 | 25.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 577 | 39.20 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,477 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Long Clawson and Stathern[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Christopher John Evans* | 565 | 42.7 | ||
| Conservative | Simon Gordon Theobald Orson | 512 | 38.7 | ||
| Labour | Michael McQuillan | 492 | 37.2 | ||
| Independent | Nicholas James Hall | 469 | 35.4 | ||
| Independent | Dawn Michelle Thompson-Birch | 116 | 8.8 | ||
| Independent | Leigh Tracy Birch | 73 | 5.5 | ||
| Turnout | 1,323 | 38.19 | |||
| Registered electors | 3,490 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Independent | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Christopher Evans had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in November 2022. Seat recorded here as a Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 result.[8] The other seat in Long Clawson is shown as a Conservative hold, although it had been vacant since August 2022 following the death of the previous holder, Mel Steadman.[1]
Melton Craven[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Sharon Elizabeth Butcher | 277 | 39.7 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Atherton | 250 | 35.8 | ||
| Independent | Lee Thomas Freer | 239 | 34.2 | ||
| Conservative | Jeanne-Marie Douglas* | 237 | 34.0 | ||
| Labour | Timothy John Litt | 229 | 32.8 | ||
| Turnout | 698 | 24.43 | |||
| Registered electors | 2,869 | ||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Melton Dorian[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sarah Anne Cox | 402 | 40.1 | ||
| Independent | Marilyn Mary Gordon | 305 | 30.4 | ||
| Independent | Patricia Cumbers* | 300 | 29.9 | ||
| Conservative | Christopher Paul Gray | 283 | 28.2 | ||
| Independent | Tracy Lorraine Beaken | 277 | 27.6 | ||
| Green | Alastair James McQuillan | 255 | 25.4 | ||
| Conservative | Julian Tarquin Lockwood | 239 | 23.8 | ||
| Conservative | Simon James Thompson | 234 | 23.3 | ||
| Green | Isabelle Jane Taylor | 180 | 17.9 | ||
| Turnout | 1,003 | 22.84 | |||
| Registered electors | 4,418 | ||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
| Independent gain from Green | |||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Pat Cumbers had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party in November 2021 and became an independent. Seat recorded here as independent gain from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[9]
Melton Egerton[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Philip George Allnatt | 278 | 43.2 | ||
| Labour | Michael Dennis Brown | 260 | 40.4 | ||
| Conservative | Jason Lewis Sharman | 179 | 27.8 | ||
| Independent | Peter Faulkner* | 176 | 27.3 | ||
| Independent | Elaine Ann Faulkner | 175 | 27.2 | ||
| Conservative | Jonathan Winters | 172 | 26.7 | ||
| Turnout | 644 | 21.27 | |||
| Registered electors | 3,060 | ||||
| Labour gain from Independent | |||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Melton Newport[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Margaret Glancy* | 629 | 47.1 | ||
| Independent | Simon Roy Lumley* | 609 | 45.6 | ||
| Conservative | Timothy Webster* | 459 | 34.4 | ||
| Conservative | Robert Austen Bindloss* | 425 | 31.8 | ||
| Labour | Vanessa Jackson | 413 | 30.9 | ||
| Conservative | Rebecca Smith* | 404 | 30.2 | ||
| Independent | Bruce Christopher Midgley | 336 | 25.1 | ||
| Turnout | 1,336 | 30.22 | |||
| Registered electors | 4,448 | ||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
| Independent hold | |||||
Simon Lumley and Margaret Glancy had both been elected as Conservatives in 2019 but left the party in June 2020 and March 2023 respectively to become independents. Seats recorded here as independent gains from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[10][11]
Melton Sysonby[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | James Brooker Adcock | 461 | 39.4 | ||
| Labour | Helen Louise Cliff | 457 | 39.1 | ||
| Conservative | Sigrid Atherton* | 438 | 37.4 | ||
| Conservative | John Illingworth* | 423 | 36.2 | ||
| Conservative | Jacob Nathaniel Wilkinson* | 370 | 31.6 | ||
| Independent | Rachel Godber | 261 | 22.3 | ||
| Independent | Craig William Digby | 240 | 20.5 | ||
| Independent | Kenneth John Panter | 177 | 15.1 | ||
| Turnout | 1,170 | 26.89 | |||
| Registered electors | 4,362 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | |||||
| Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Melton Warwick[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Alison Jacqueline Freer* | 360 | 42.1 | ||
| Independent | Allen Thwaites | 345 | 40.4 | ||
| Conservative | Stephen Ellis | 337 | 39.4 | ||
| Labour | Susan Caroline Hammond | 327 | 38.2 | ||
| Turnout | 855 | 30.73 | |||
| Registered electors | 2,792 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Old Dalby[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Joseph Theobold Orson* | 349 | 56.7 | +0.5 | |
| Independent | Elaine Holmes* | 179 | 29.1 | N/A | |
| Independent | Steven James Cliff | 88 | 14.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 616 | 36.81 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,676 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
Somerby[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Leigh Higgins* | 398 | 56.0 | -9.8 | |
| Conservative | Vimbisayi Taruvinga | 200 | 28.1 | -27.7 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Hamish Joseph Cameron McAuley | 113 | 15.9 | -18.3 | |
| Turnout | 711 | 46.79 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,528 | ||||
| Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Leigh Higgins was elected as a Conservative in 2019, was expelled from the party in September 2021, appealed and was readmitted early in 2023, but resigned from the party in April 2023 to become an independent. Seat recorded here as independent gain from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[12]
Waltham on the Wolds[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Richard Stuart Sharp | 323 | 62.2 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Benjamin P. A. Townley | 196 | 37.8 | +7.4 | |
| Turnout | 519 | 34.40 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,526 | ||||
| Independent hold | |||||
Wymondham[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Malise Charles Richard Graham* | 302 | 71.7 | +71.7 | |
| Labour | Graham Bett | 119 | 28.3 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 421 | 31.84 | |||
| Registered electors | 1,341 | ||||
| Conservative hold | |||||
By-elections[edit]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Margaret Clay | 163 | 34.1 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Chris Gray | 123 | 25.7 | -7.6 | |
| Independent | Peter Faulkner | 100 | 20.9 | N/A | |
| Green | Issy Taylor | 92 | 19.2 | –22.4 | |
| Turnout | 478 | 16.8 | |||
| Registered electors | 2,845 | ||||
| Labour gain from Green | |||||
The Asfordby by-election was triggered by the resignation of Green councillor Charlie Pitt Miller.[13][4]
References[edit]
- ^ Includes one vacant seat at Long Clawson and Stathern previously held by Conservative councillor Mel Steadman until her death in August 2022.[1]
- ^ Of the eight independent councillors before the election, three sat with the Green councillor as the "Opposition" group, led by independent Elaine Holmes, the other five did not belong to a group.
- ^ a b Rennie, Nick (22 August 2022). "Tributes for Melton councillor after her death is announced". Melton Times. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Kershaw, Tom (2023-05-04). "Melton Borough Council local election results 2023 in full". LeicestershireLive. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ^ Rennie, Nick (24 May 2023). "Melton Council elects new Labour councillor as leader". Melton Times. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Borough elections 4 May 2023". Melton Borough Council. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Melton result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Melton Borough Council. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Boothroyd, David (24 September 2021). "Many happy returns in Cambridgeshire". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Boothroyd, David (25 November 2022). "Lib Dems back on the Island". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Rennie, Nick (17 November 2021). ""We have been dumped like garbage"". Melton Times. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Rennie, Nick (29 July 2020). "Investigation clears Melton councillor of making racist comments". Melton Times. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Boothroyd, David (24 March 2023). "Tory hold in a rush in Northants". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Rennie, Nick (5 April 2023). "Councillor pledge to stand against former Tory colleagues after bullying claims". Melton Times. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ^ Rennie, Nick (20 September 2023). "Melton's only Green borough councillor resigns". Melton Times. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
