Charnwood Borough Council elections

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Charnwood Borough Council elections are held every four years. Charnwood Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2023 the council has comprised 52 councillors, representing 24 wards, with each ward electing one, two or three councillors.[1]

Council elections[edit]

Charnwood Borough Council wards by party control 2023.

Election results[edit]

Overall control Conservative Labour Lib Dem[a] BNP Independent Green
2023 NOC 23 20 - - 1 8
2019 Conservative 37 13 - - 1 1
2015 Conservative 41 9 1 - 1 -
2011 Conservative 33 16 1 1 1 -
2007 Conservative 32 13 5 1 1 -
2003 NOC 24 22 6 - - -
1999 NOC 24 21 6 - 1 -
1995 Labour 15 30 5 - 2 -
1991 Conservative 34 15 2 - 1 -
1987 Conservative 39 10 3 - - -
1983 Conservative 38 14 - - - -
1979 Conservative 42 12 3 - 1 -
1976 Conservative 40 12 2 - 4 -
1973 NOC 29 13 5 - 11 -
  1. ^ Liberal in 1973, 1976, and 1979, SDP–Liberal Alliance in 1983 and 1987.

Source:[6]

A dash indicates that the results for a particular election are not available, or that a party did not stand in an election.

Results maps[edit]

  • 2023 results map
    2023 results map

By-election results[edit]

1995-1999[edit]

Sileby By-Election, 26 June 1997
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour 874 68.3 +1.8
Conservative 338 26.4 −7.1
Liberal Democrats 68 5.3 N/A
Majority 536 41.9
Turnout 1,280 24.3
Labour hold Swing +4.5

1999-2003[edit]

Barrow Upon Soar Quordon By-Election, 28 June 2001
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative 956 57.1 +4.7
Labour 462 27.6 −1.1
Liberal Democrats 257 15.3 −3.6
Majority 494 29.5
Turnout 1,675
Conservative hold Swing +2.9
Hathern By-Election, 10 October 2002[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour 736 64.7 +10.6
Conservative 243 21.4 −11.1
Liberal Democrats 83 7.3 −6.2
UKIP 75 6.6 +6.6
Majority 493 43.3
Turnout 1,137 20.2
Labour hold Swing +10.9
Sileby By-Election, 12 December 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative 557 53.3 +14.5
Labour 397 38.0 −13.2
UKIP 92 8.8 N/A
Majority 160 15.3
Turnout 1,046 19.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +13.9

2003-2007[edit]

Loughborough Shelthorpe By-Election, 5 October 2006[8]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Neville Stork 643 38.7 −17.0
BNP Andrew Holders 478 28.8 N/A
Conservative James Poland 386 23.2 −21.1
Liberal Democrats Paul Tyler 155 9.3 N/A
Majority 165 9.9
Turnout 1,662 33.5
Labour hold Swing −22.9
Loughborough Dishley and Hathern By-Election, 23 October 2008[9]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mary Newton 838 49.7 +5.0
Conservative Robert Shields 490 29.1 −9.7
BNP Julia Green 234 13.9 −2.6
Liberal Democrats Diane Horn 107 6.4 N/A
National Front Andrew Holders 16 0.9 N/A
Majority 348 20.6
Turnout 1,685 35.5
Labour hold Swing +7.4

2007-2011[edit]

Birstall Watermead By-Election, 18 February 2010[10]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Iain Bentley 674 47.7 +2.8
Labour Hayley Winrow 452 32.0 N/A
BNP Maurice Oatley 288 20.4 N/A
Majority 222 15.7
Turnout 1,414 26.9
Conservative hold Swing −17.4

2011-2015[edit]

Loughborough Southfields By-Election, September 13 2012[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ted Parton 538 48.5 +11.3
Labour Mary Draycott 516 46.6 −3.4
Liberal Democrats Diana Brass 54 4.9 −7.9
Majority 22 1.9
Turnout 1,111 18.4 −15.0
Conservative gain from Labour Swing +7.4
Loughborough Hastings Ward by-election, 24 October 2013[12]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sarah Dawn Maynard Smith 554 61.4
Conservative Judith Margaret Spence 127 14.1
UKIP Andy McWilliam 111 12.3
British Democratic Kevan Christopher Stafford 85 9.4
Liberal Democrats Simon Atkins 26 2.9
Majority 427 47.28
Turnout 903
Shepshed West Ward by-election, 24 October 2013[13]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Diane Jayne Horne
Labour Jane Lennie
Conservative Joan Tassell
Majority
Turnout

Death of Conservative Cllr Stuart Jones.

Birstall Wanlip By-Election, 20 February 2014[14]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Simon Sansome 508 39.4 +15.2
Conservative Mary Allen 419 32.4 -15.0
Labour Marilyn Cowles 355 27.5 -0.1
Majority 89 7
Turnout 1290 24.9
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing +15
Thurmaston By-Election, 31 July 2014[15]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ralph Raven 783 42.6 -4.4
UKIP Tom Prior 496 27.0 +27.0
Conservative Hanif Asmal 404 22.0 -31.0
British Democratic Chris Canham 95 5.2 +5.2
BNP Stephen Denham 58 3.2 +3.2
Majority 287 15.6
Turnout 1,836
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

2015-2019[edit]

Birstall Wanlip by-election, 4 May 2017[16]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roy Rollings 772 41.3 +2.2
Liberal Democrats Simon Sansome 603 32.3 -2.2
Labour Sanjay Gogia 425 22.7 -3.7
Independent Norman Cutting 69 3.7 +3.7
Majority 169 9.0
Turnout 1,869
Conservative hold Swing
Loughborough Shelthorpe by-election, 3 August 2017[17]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Huddlestone 595 45.5 +5.8
Conservative Russell Ford 591 45.2 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Alex Guerrero 93 7.1 +7.1
UKIP Andy McWilliam 29 2.2 +2.2
Majority 4 0.3
Turnout 1,308
Labour hold Swing
Loughborough Hastings Ward by-election, 26 October 2017[18]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Colin Hamilton 676
Labour Mary Draycott 648
Conservative Jane Hunt 228
UKIP Simon Murray 95
UKIP Andy McWilliam 79
Green Lewis Wright 73
Green Mia Woolley 58
Majority 535
Turnout 1859 22.32%
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing
Quorn and Mountsorrel by-election, 21 June 2018[19]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jane Hunt 719 51.5 -7.7
Labour Chris Hughes 305 21.9 -5.1
Liberal Democrats Marianne Gilbert 232 16.6 +16.6
UKIP Andy McWilliam 139 10.0 -3.8
Majority 414 29.7
Turnout 1,395
Conservative hold Swing
Birstall Wanlip by-election, 13 September 2018[20]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Shona Rattray 492 47.1 +9.0
Labour Abe Khayer 340 32.6 +6.2
Liberal Democrats Carolyn Thornborrow 128 12.3 -20.0
UKIP Norman Cutting 50 4.8 +4.8
Green Charlotte Clancy 34 3.3 +3.3
Majority 152 14.6
Turnout 1,044
Conservative hold Swing
Anstey by-election, 20 December 2018[21]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Baines 523 50.8 +17.1
Labour Glyn McAllister 507 49.2 +33.6
Majority 16 1.6
Turnout 1,030
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats Swing

2019-2023[edit]

Syston West by-election, 3 October 2019[22]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sue Gerrard 406 44.7 -6.4
Green Matthew Wise 389 42.8 +19.4
Labour Sharon Brown 114 12.5 -13.0
Majority 17 1.9
Turnout 909
Conservative hold Swing
Shepshed West by-election, 23 September 2021[23]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ian Williams 511 43.6 +2.2
Labour Myriam Roberts 316 26.9 +0.8
Green John Hounsome 302 25.7 +14.3
Liberal Democrats Katy Brookes-Duncan 44 3.8 -3.9
Majority 195 16.6
Turnout 1,173
Conservative hold Swing
Loughborough Shelthorpe by-election, 20 January 2022[24]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Beverley Gray 709
Labour Catherine Gray 654
Conservative Christopher Stewart 311
Independent David Hayes 149
Liberal Democrats Alejandro Guerrero 136
Green Rachel Baker 108
Liberal Democrats Emmanuel Fantaisie 104
Green Faye Forde 81
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "The Charnwood (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/809, retrieved 29 October 2023
  2. ^ The Borough of Charnwood (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980
  3. ^ The Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire (County and District Boundaries) Order 1985
  4. ^ "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  5. ^ legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Charnwood (Electoral Changes) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
  6. ^ Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Charnwood Borough Council Election Results 1973-2011" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Tories take Watlington". guardian.co.uk. 11 October 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  8. ^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  9. ^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
  10. ^ "Conservatives celebrate victory in Birstall by-election". Leicester Mercury. 19 February 2010. Archived from the original on 20 February 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
  11. ^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  12. ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of a Borough Councillor" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  13. ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of a Borough Councillor for Shepshed West Ward" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
  14. ^ "Declaration of Result of Poll - Election of a Borough Councillor for Birstall Wanlip" (PDF).
  15. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Thurmaston Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  16. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Birstall Wanlip Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  17. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Loughborough Shelthorpe Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  18. ^ "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of Borough Councillors for Loughborough Hastings Ward" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2018.
  19. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Quorn and Mountsorrel Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  20. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Birstall Wanlip Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  21. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Anstey Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  22. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Syston West Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  23. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Shepshed West Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  24. ^ "Local Elections Archive Project — Loughborough Shelthorpe Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.

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