2023 East Lindsey District Council election

2023 East Lindsey District Council election
All 55 seats on East Lindsey District Council; 28 seats needed for a majority
Leader before election; Craig Leyland; Conservative	Leader after election ; Craig Leyland; Conservative; No overall control

The 2023 East Lindsey District Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 55 members of East Lindsey District Council in Lincolnshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

Prior to the election the Conservatives held a majority of the seats on the council. There were thirteen seats (24%) that were elected unopposed in 2023, of which ten were taken by the Conservatives, two by independents and one by the Liberal Democrats.^[2]

The council went under no overall control following the election. The Conservatives remained the largest party but lost their majority. They managed to form a minority administration and their leader, Craig Leyland, kept his position as leader of the council.^[3]^[4]

Results[edit]

The overall results were as follows:^[5]

2023 East Lindsey District Council election
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Conservative	26	3	6	3	47.3	38.4	13,270
Independent	16	5	1	4	29.1	26.2	9,043
Labour	6	1	2	1	10.9	23.0	7,950
Skegness Urban District Society	5	0	1	1	9.1	8.3	2,872
Green	1	1	0	1	1.8	4.0	1,369
Reform UK	0	0	0		0.0	0.2	61
Liberal Democrats	1	0	0		1.8	n/a	n/a

Ward results[edit]

The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating an incumbent councillor standing for re-election.^[6]

Alford[edit]

Alford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Sarah Caroline Devereux*	510	55.0
	Conservative	Graham Anthony Marsh*	365	39.4
	Independent	Alan Vassar	316	34.1
	Labour	Edward John David Green (Ed Green)	219	23.6
	Labour	Cameron Joshua Marnoch	185	20.0
Turnout			927	24.67
Registered electors			3,815
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Binbrook[edit]

Binbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Geoffrey Fry*	415	67.2
	Labour	Jacob Frederick Croft	203	32.8
Turnout			618	31.64
Registered electors			1,988
	Conservative hold

Burgh le Marsh[edit]

Burgh le Marsh
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Skegness Urban District Society	James William Brookes* (Jimmy Brookes)	283	48.3
	Conservative	Susan Anita Jane Blackburn	156	26.6
	Independent	Neil Douglas Luther Cooper	147	25.1
Turnout			586	28.50
Registered electors			2,102
	Skegness Urban District Society hold

Chapel St Leonards[edit]

Chapel St Leonards
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Stephen Anthony Evans*	486	47.1
	Labour	Roger Alan Dawson	443	43.0
	Independent	Graham John Fisher	408	39.6
	Conservative	Dilys Carolyn Jenkinson	356	34.5
Turnout			1,031	26.39
Registered electors			3,918
	Conservative hold
	Labour gain from Conservative

Coningsby and Mareham[edit]

Coningsby and Mareham
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Martin John Foster*	*unopposed*
Conservative	Alex Martin Hall*	*unopposed*
Conservative	James Andrew Knowles	*unopposed*
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Croft[edit]

Croft
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sid Dennis*	*unopposed*
	Conservative hold

Friskney[edit]

Friskney
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Carleen Dickinson*	249	60.0
	Conservative	Carl David Drury	166	40.0
Turnout			415	23.71
Registered electors			1,784
	Independent hold

Fulstow[edit]

Fulstow
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Edward Peel Mossop*	*unopposed*
	Independent hold

Grimoldby[edit]

Grimoldby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Terence John Knowles* (Terry Knowles)	346	73.9
	Labour	David Richard Hoyles	122	26.1
Turnout			468	25.5
Registered electors			1,855
	Independent hold

Hagworthingham[edit]

Hagworthingham
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	William Joseph Grover* (Will Grover)	317	48.7
	Independent	David Vernon Powell	179	27.5
	Green	Paul Fisher	155	23.8
Turnout			651	33.99
Registered electors			1,930
	Conservative hold

Halton Holegate[edit]

Halton Holegate
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terry Taylor*	*unopposed*
	Conservative gain from Independent

Terry Taylor had won the seat in a by-election in 2022; in 2019 the seat had been won by independent councillor Jim Swanson. Seat shown as Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 results.

Holton-le-Clay and North Thoresby[edit]

Holton-le-Clay and North Thoresby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Terence F. Aldridge* (Terry Aldridge)	684	59.4
	Conservative	Stephen Keith Lyons	528	45.9
	Labour	Phillip Martin Smith* (Phyll Smith)	449	39.0
Turnout			1,151	28.45
Registered electors			4,060
	Independent hold
	Conservative gain from Labour

Horncastle[edit]

Horncastle
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Richard Martin Avison*	*unopposed*
Independent	Sandra Campbell-Wardman*	*unopposed*
Liberal Democrats	Fiona Martin*	*unopposed*
Conservative hold
Independent hold
Liberal Democrats hold

Ingoldmells[edit]

Ingoldmells
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Colin John Davie*	242	59.9
	Skegness Urban District Society	Jason Lawrence Boswell-Larkum (Jason Boswell)	162	40.1
Turnout			404	24.61
Registered electors			1,662
	Conservative hold

Legbourne[edit]

Legbourne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Adam Grist*	415	65.9
	Labour	Hannah Filer	215	34.1
Turnout			630	33.81
Registered electors			1,872
	Conservative hold

Mablethorpe[edit]

Mablethorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Graham Edward Cullen*	1,159	62.5
	Labour	Claire Elizabeth Arnold*	909	49.0
	Labour	Kate Marnoch	857	46.2
	Conservative	Martin Victor Clark (Victor Clark)	692	37.3
	Conservative	Carl Ian Tebbutt	631	34.0
Turnout			1,854	28.65
Registered electors			6,566
	Labour hold
	Labour hold
	Labour hold

Marshchapel and Somercotes[edit]

Marshchapel and Somercotes
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Daniel McNally*	717	63.3
	Conservative	Paul John Rickett*	558	49.2
	Labour	Freddie William Mossop	374	33.0
	Independent	Helena Poskitt	185	16.3
	Independent	Patricia Maureen Midgley	64	5.6
Turnout			1,133	31.05
Registered electors			3,665
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

North Holme[edit]

North Holme
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David James Ernest Hall*	239	49.3
	Conservative	Kirsty Corbitt	142	29.3
	Independent	Karen Elizabeth Parsons	104	21.4
Turnout			485	23.21
Registered electors			2,098
	Labour hold

Priory and St James'[edit]

Priory and St James'
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Andrew Leonard*	511	51.0
	Independent	Darren Lee Hobson	464	46.3
	Independent	Lynne Marie Cooney	360	35.9
	Conservative	Pauline Frances Watson	258	25.7
Turnout			1,002	27.68
Registered electors			3,641
	Independent hold
	Independent gain from Labour

The other previous incumbent, Sarah Parkin, had been elected as a Labour councillor in 2019 but left the party later that year and sat as an independent for the rest of her term of office. Seat shown as independent gain from Labour to allow comparison with 2019 results.^[7]

Roughton[edit]

Roughton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Gray*	*unopposed*
	Conservative hold

Scarborough and Seacroft[edit]

Scarborough and Seacroft
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Richard Edginton* (Dick Edginton)	598	43.3
	Conservative	Stephen Russell Kirk* (Steve Kirk)	593	42.9
	Skegness Urban District Society	Billy Brookes*	539	39.0
	Conservative	Julie Day Sadler	510	36.9
	Labour	Paul Collins	462	33.5
	Skegness Urban District Society	Adrian David Findley	394	28.5
	Skegness Urban District Society	Robert Michael Walker (Bob Walker)	355	25.7
Turnout			1,381	20.32
Registered electors			6,817
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold
	Skegness Urban District Society hold

Sibsey and Stickney[edit]

Sibsey and Stickney
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	Tom Ashton*	*unopposed*
Conservative	Neil Jones*	*unopposed*
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Spilsby[edit]

Spilsby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Eleanor Louisa Marsh (Ellie Marsh)	250	52.3
	Conservative	David Michael Mangion*	228	47.7
Turnout			478	21.1
Registered electors			2,289
	Independent hold

David Mangion had been elected in 2019 as an independent, but joined the Conservatives in 2020. Seat shown as an independent hold to allow comparison with 2019 results.^[8]

St Clement's[edit]

St Clement's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Skegness Urban District Society	Mark Vincent Dannatt*	295	36.6
	Skegness Urban District Society	Richard Cunnington*	290	36.0
	Labour	Mark Crawford Anderson	276	34.3
	Labour	Nicholas Gary Bryan Walton (Nick Walton)	238	29.6
	Conservative	Allison Margaret Miller-Ross (Ally Miller-Ross)	229	28.4
	Conservative	Lynn Miller-Ross	218	27.1
Turnout			805	20.2
Registered electors			4,025
	Skegness Urban District Society hold
	Skegness Urban District Society hold

St Margaret's[edit]

St Margaret's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Samuel William Howard Kemp (Sam Kemp)	227	38.1
	Labour	Hannah Leanne Watkins	201	33.7
	Independent	Susan Jean Crew (Sue Crew)	168	28.2
Turnout			596	29.59
Registered electors			2,028
	Conservative hold

St Mary's[edit]

St Mary's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Gillian Mary Makinson-Sanders* (Jill Makinson-Sanders)	581	84.9
	Conservative	Stuart Watson	69	10.1
	Independent	Maurice Bellwood	34	5.0
Turnout			684	36.81
Registered electors			1,861
	Independent hold

St Michael's[edit]

St Michael's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	George Edward Horton*	379	70.2
	Labour	Laura Marie Stephenson	161	29.8
Turnout			540	29.65
Registered electors			1,828
	Independent hold

Sutton on Sea[edit]

Sutton on Sea
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Green	Robert William Watson	1,048	67.3
	Independent	Stefanie Le Ann Bristow (Stef Bristow)	654	42.0
	Conservative	Adrian Victor Benjamin*	403	25.9
	Conservative	Helen Angela Matthews*	399	25.6
Turnout			1,558	40.62
Registered electors			3,845
	Green gain from Conservative
	Independent gain from Conservative

Tetford and Donington[edit]

Tetford and Donington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Daniel Anthony Simpson	395	49.5
	Conservative	David George Andrews*	229	28.7
	Labour	Anthony Charles Cox (Tony Cox)	91	11.4
	Green	Peter Edward Skipworth	83	10.4
Turnout			798	40.11
Registered electors			1,997
	Independent gain from Conservative

Tetney[edit]

Tetney
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Steven John McMillan* (Steve McMillan)	395	75.0
	Labour	Christopher D. Lyons	132	25.0
Turnout			527	25.9
Registered electors			2,062
	Independent hold

Trinity[edit]

Trinity
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Rosalind Alice Jackson* (Ros Jackson)	249	65.5
	Independent	Malcolm David Lamb	131	34.5
Turnout			380	20.99
Registered electors			1,810
	Labour hold

Wainfleet[edit]

Wainfleet
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wendy Bowkett*	*unopposed*
	Conservative hold

Willoughby with Sloothby[edit]

Willoughby with Sloothby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Stephen William Eyre*	508	82.1
	Labour	Isaac George Bailey	111	17.9
Turnout			619	31.44
Registered electors			1,991
	Independent hold

Winthorpe[edit]

Winthorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Carl Stuart Macey	332	40.1
	Skegness Urban District Society	Daniel Brookes* (Danny Brookes)	307	37.1
	Conservative	Stephen James O'Dare (Steve O'Dare)	292	35.3
	Skegness Urban District Society	Trevor Paul Burnham*	247	29.8
	Labour	Kevin Evans	163	19.7
	Labour	Carole Irene Clark	150	18.1
	Green	Philip William Gaskell (Phil Gaskell)	83	10.0
Turnout			828	19.58
Registered electors			4,269
	Conservative gain from Skegness Urban District Society
	Skegness Urban District Society hold

Withern and Theddlethorpe[edit]

Withern and Theddlethorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Travis Stephen Hesketh	461	55.8
	Conservative	Sandra Diane Harrison*	264	32.0
	Labour	Stephen Anthony Holland (Steve Holland)	101	12.2
Turnout			826	39.68
Registered electors			2,094
	Independent gain from Conservative

Woodhall Spa[edit]

Woodhall Spa
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Craig James Leyland*	803	58.9
	Conservative	Thomas James Kemp*	658	48.3
	Independent	John Sanderson	479	35.1
	Independent	Rebecca Louise Shaw (Becky Shaw)	294	21.6
	Labour	Ellen Wright	241	17.7
Turnout			1,363	36.99
Registered electors			3,706
	Conservative hold
	Conservative hold

Wragby[edit]

Wragby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ruchira Asthana Yarsley (Ru Yarsley)	297	47.7
	Conservative	Julie Angela Platt*	264	42.4
	Reform UK	Sean Roger Matthews	61	9.8
Turnout			622	30.32
Registered electors			2,071
	Independent gain from Conservative

References[edit]

^ Of the eleven independent councillors prior to the election, eight sat as the "Independents" group led by Jill Makinson-Sanders, one sat with the Liberal Democrat as the "Liberal Democrat/Independent" group and the other two did not belong to a group.^[1]

^ "Political structure of the council". East Lindsey District Council. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ Jaines, Daniel (7 April 2023). "Local Elections 2023: A Lincolnshire round-up". The Lincolnite. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ "Local election results 2023: Three Tory leaders toppled in Lincolnshire". BBC News. 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
^ Jaines, Daniel (May 2023). "Focus on smaller communities as East Lindsey leader re-elected". My Local Lincolnshire. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ "East Lindsey result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
^ "District Council Elections". East Lindsey District Council. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
^ Boothroyd, David (6 September 2019). "Eden, Heaven and Fudge". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
^ Boothroyd, David (29 May 2020). "Devon knows what happens next". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 24 November 2023.

[2] Of the eleven independent councillors prior to the election, eight sat as the "Independents" group led by Jill Makinson-Sanders, one sat with the Liberal Democrat as the "Liberal Democrat/Independent" group and the other two did not belong to a group.^[1]

[1] "Political structure of the council". East Lindsey District Council. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[3] Jaines, Daniel (7 April 2023). "Local Elections 2023: A Lincolnshire round-up". The Lincolnite. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[4] "Local election results 2023: Three Tory leaders toppled in Lincolnshire". BBC News. 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-07.

[5] Jaines, Daniel (May 2023). "Focus on smaller communities as East Lindsey leader re-elected". My Local Lincolnshire. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[6] "East Lindsey result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.

[7] "District Council Elections". East Lindsey District Council. Retrieved 25 November 2023.

[8] Boothroyd, David (6 September 2019). "Eden, Heaven and Fudge". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 24 November 2023.

[9] Boothroyd, David (29 May 2020). "Devon knows what happens next". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 24 November 2023.

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