2011 Lancaster City Council election
Appearance
Elections to Lancaster City Council were held on 5 May 2011. Lancaster City Council is a secondary-level district council in Lancashire. The whole council was up for election and, following the result, remains in No Overall Control.
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England reviewed the electoral wards of Lancaster City Council in 2014 with the new electoral map to be elected for the first time at the 2015 Lancaster City Council election.
Following the election in 2011 the composition of the council was as follows:
Party | Seats | +/- | |
---|---|---|---|
Labour | 24 | +11 | |
Conservative | 16 | +5 | |
Green | 8 | -4 | |
Morecambe Bay Independents | 8 | -3 | |
Independent | 4 | -4 | |
Liberal Democrat | 0 | -5 |
Election results
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 24 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 41.38 | 32.92 | 28,711 | +7.01 | |
Conservative | 16 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 25.86 | 26.28 | 22,920 | -3.68 | |
Green | 8 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 13.79 | 15.98 | 13,932 | -2.49 | |
MB Independent | 8 | 1 | 6 | -4 | 13.79 | 13.68 | 11,927 | +0.89 | |
Independent | 4 | 1 | 1 | ±0 | 6.90 | 5.69 | 4,965 | +1.71 | |
Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 5 | -5 | 0.00 | 5.45 | 4,752 | -2.53 |
Ward results
[edit]Bare Ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MB Independent | June Irene Ashworth* | 847 | 31.85 | +13.32 | |
MB Independent | Tony Anderson* | 752 | 28.28 | +13.39 | |
Conservative | Susan Elisabeth Bray | 621 | 23.35 | +2.87 | |
Conservative | Alison Bernadette Tyson | 439 | 16.51 | −0.44 | |
Turnout | |||||
MB Independent hold | Swing | +6.93 | |||
MB Independent gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.52 |
Bolton-Le-Sands ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Keith Budden* | 958 | 48.60 | +20.70 | |
Conservative | Val Histed* | 713 | 36.17 | +9.73 | |
Green | Sue Holden | 300 | 15.22 | +6.06 | |
Turnout | |||||
Independent hold | Swing | +22.87 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | +5.63 |
Bulk ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Tim Hamilton-Cox | 900 | 16.24 | −3.28 | |
Green | Ceri Mumford | 881 | 15.89 | −1.20 | |
Green | Andrew Kay* | 875 | 15.79 | −1.18 | |
Labour | Bob Clark | 804 | 14.50 | +0.52 | |
Labour | Sue Clark | 789 | 14.23 | +1.06 | |
Labour | Aidan Williams | 654 | 11.80 | +0.59 | |
Conservative | Claire Paula Dunn | 219 | 3.95 | −0.18 | |
Conservative | Howard Byers | 218 | 3.93 | −0.01 | |
Conservative | James Jenkins-Yates | 203 | 3.66 | +3.66 | |
Turnout | |||||
Green hold | Swing | -3.80 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -2.36 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -1.77 |
Carnforth ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tony Johnson* | 543 | 23.03 | −4.82 | |
Labour | Paul Malcolm Gardener | 515 | 21.84 | +3.86 | |
Conservative | Chris Leadbetter | 448 | 19.00 | +19.00 | |
Labour | Fran Hanna | 418 | 17.73 | −1.19 | |
Independent | Bob Roe* | 360 | 15.27 | −7.26 | |
Independent | Amanda Louise Davies | 74 | 3.14 | +3.14 | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -3.63 | |||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing | +7.39 |
Castle ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Jon Barry* | 1,492 | 23.31 | −0.03 | |
Green | Melanie Forrest* | 1,204 | 18.81 | −1.05 | |
Green | Tracey Kennedy | 1,142 | 17.84 | −0.77 | |
Labour | James Groves | 589 | 9.20 | +2.65 | |
Labour | Peter Rivet | 585 | 9.14 | +2.98 | |
Labour | Joe Wright | 512 | 8.00 | +2.11 | |
Conservative | Kyle Patterson | 366 | 5.72 | +0.13 | |
Conservative | Natalia Karolina Anastacia Weglarz | 247 | 3.86 | −1.17 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Hardingham Bramhall | 117 | 1.83 | −1.31 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rebecca Joan Parris | 108 | 1.69 | +1.69 | |
Conservative | Aaron Spence | 38 | 0.60 | −3.80 | |
Turnout | |||||
Green hold | Swing | -2.68 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -4.13 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -2.88 |
Dukes ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Dave Brookes | 385 | 45.51 | −21.51 | |
Labour | Michael John Gibson | 283 | 33.45 | +13.59 | |
Conservative | Richard Sykes | 125 | 14.78 | −3.66 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stephen Maxwell | 53 | 6.26 | +6.26 | |
Majority | 102 | 12.06 | −29.78 | ||
Turnout | 846 | ||||
Green hold | Swing | -35.10 |
Ellel ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Helen Helme* | 1,110 | 28.54 | −4.49 | |
Conservative | Susie Charles* | 1,009 | 25.94 | −4.36 | |
Labour | Jane Binnion | 609 | 15.66 | +6.23 | |
Labour | David Hill | 562 | 14.45 | +6.25 | |
Green | Rebecca Marsden | 261 | 6.71 | −2.69 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Hindley | 174 | 4.47 | −5.16 | |
Liberal Democrats | Anabelle Lyons | 164 | 4.22 | −5.18 | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.52 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -9.38 |
Halton-with-Aughton ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Paul Woodruff* | 795 | 85.67 | +30.74 | |
Green | Cat Gilles | 133 | 14.33 | +8.55 | |
Majority | 662 | 71.34 | +55.71 | ||
Turnout | 928 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | +55.70 |
Harbour ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Janice Hanson* | 688 | 20.21 | +6.08 | |
Labour | David Whittaker | 599 | 17.59 | +5.03 | |
Labour | Ian Pattison | 579 | 17.00 | +3.91 | |
MB Independent | Geoff Walker* | 434 | 12.75 | −0.68 | |
MB Independent | Terry Ingle | 365 | 10.72 | −1.60 | |
MB Independent | Rita Margaret Walker | 348 | 10.22 | −1.19 | |
Conservative | Elliot Layfield | 295 | 8.66 | +0.79 | |
Green | Christopher John Hart | 97 | 2.85 | +0.48 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.65 | |||
Labour gain from MB Independent | Swing | +7.74 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.10 |
Heysham Central ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Joyce Taylor* | 633 | 31.68 | −4.06 | |
MB Independent | Geoff Knight* | 599 | 29.98 | +6.27 | |
Labour | Dilys Greenhalgh | 438 | 21.92 | +5.73 | |
Independent | Pat Hibbins | 226 | 11.31 | −7.45 | |
Green | Rosemary Susan Jennifer Betterton | 102 | 5.11 | −0.49 | |
Independent hold | Swing | -7.22 | |||
MB Independent hold | Swing | +11.15 | |||
Turnout |
Heysham North ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Margaret Pattison | 504 | 27.13 | +7.65 | |
Labour | Ron Sands* | 464 | 24.97 | +4.72 | |
MB Independent | Nicholas Baxter | 352 | 18.95 | +1.68 | |
MB Independent | Geoffrey Wilson | 266 | 14.32 | −2.90 | |
Independent | Peter Robinson | 202 | 10.87 | +10.87 | |
Green | Matthew James Wilson | 70 | 3.77 | −1.69 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +5.92 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.67 |
Heysham South ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Emma Louise Smith | 740 | 16.74 | −5.77 | |
MB Independent | Mike Greenall* | '715 | 16.18 | −2.35 | |
Conservative | Richard William Rollins | 626 | 14.16 | +14.16 | |
MB Independent | Kyra Physick | 606 | 13.71 | +0.55 | |
Labour | Charlotte Louise Pattison | 530 | 11.99 | −0.24 | |
Labour | Stephen Charles Wheeler | 525 | 11.88 | +0.35 | |
MB Independent | Keran Farrow* | 514 | 11.63 | −2.06 | |
Green | Charalampos Kaloudis | 154 | 3.48 | +3.48 | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.32 | |||
MB Independent hold | Swing | -2.21 | |||
Conservative gain from MB Independent | Swing | +15.86 |
John O'Gaunt ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Eileen Blamire* | 1,131 | 17.60 | +3.73 | |
Labour | Elizabeth Scott | 1,085 | 16.88 | +2.09 | |
Labour | Richard Newman-Thompson | 931 | 14.49 | +2.90 | |
Green | Caroline Jackson | 731 | 11.38 | −2.38 | |
Green | Nicky Sharkey | 522 | 8.12 | −4.17 | |
Conservative | Wes Cosgriff | 467 | 7.27 | −1.08 | |
Green | Dan Tierney | 419 | 6.52 | −3.71 | |
Conservative | Mary Elizabeth Holloway | 407 | 6.33 | −1.62 | |
Conservative | Ally Whittam | 303 | 4.72 | −2.46 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gareth Allan Baker | 202 | 3.14 | +3.14 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lyndz Pitchford | 130 | 2.02 | +2.02 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ashley Samson | 98 | 1.53 | +1.53 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.58 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.26 | |||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +9.39 |
Kellet ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Roger Mace* | 708 | 76.79 | −2.29 | |
Labour | Lawrence James Bradwell | 148 | 16.05 | +6.15 | |
Green | Dave Horton | 66 | 7.16 | −3.86 | |
Majority | 560 | 60.74 | −7.31 | ||
Turnout | 922 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.32 |
Lower Lune Valley ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joan Parkinson Jackson | 929 | 24.99 | +3.43 | |
Conservative | Jane Parkinson | 800 | 21.52 | +2.19 | |
Liberal Democrats | Stuart Langhorn* | 672 | 18.08 | −4.98 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joyce Pritchard* | 650 | 17.49 | −4.72 | |
Labour | Charlotte Hill | 263 | 7.08 | +3.74 | |
Labour | Becky Hodgson | 242 | 6.51 | +3.88 | |
Green | Mark Miles Wescombe | 161 | 4.33 | +0.57 | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +7.56 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +7.76 |
Overton ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Keith Sowden* | 485 | 67.17 | +29.85 | |
Labour | Alan Biddulph | 237 | 32.82 | +9.02 | |
Majority | 248 | 34.35 | +30.27 | ||
Turnout | 722 | ||||
Independent hold | Swing | +30.27 |
Poulton ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MB Independent | Shirley Burns* | 562 | 13.40 | −2.23 | |
Labour | Mark Bevan | 538 | 12.83 | +0.93 | |
Labour | Terrie Metcalfe | 514 | 12.26 | +2.59 | |
Labour | Darren Keith Clifford | 506 | 12.07 | +3.28 | |
Independent | Evelyn Archer* | 490 | 11.69 | +3.94 | |
MB Independent | Tricia Heath | 446 | 10.64 | −4.99 | |
MB Independent | Linda Page | 395 | 9.42 | −1.69 | |
Independent | David Lord | 273 | 6.51 | +6.51 | |
Conservative | David Tyson | 271 | 6.46 | −2.30 | |
Conservative | Paul Kutschmarski | 198 | 4.72 | −4.00 | |
Turnout | |||||
MB Independent hold | Swing | -4.63 | |||
Labour gain from MB Independent | Swing | +7.10 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.83 |
Scotforth East ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Pam Pickles | 647 | 19.49 | +9.24 | |
Conservative | Billy Hill | 571 | 17.20 | +1.27 | |
Labour | Jean Taylor | 570 | 17.17 | +8.13 | |
Conservative | Janet Walton | 506 | 15.25 | +0.21 | |
Liberal Democrats | Janie Kirkham* | 402 | 12.11 | −10.65 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Dunster | 289 | 8.71 | −12.33 | |
Green | Emily Heath | 185 | 5.57 | +5.57 | |
Green | Abi Mills | 149 | 4.49 | −1.44 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +16.75 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +5.14 |
Scotforth West ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sheila Denwood* | 1,157 | 16.85 | +2.91 | |
Green | Chris Coates | 794 | 11.56 | −5.03 | |
Labour | Josh Bancroft | 788 | 11.48 | +3.07 | |
Labour | Colin Hartley | 766 | 11.16 | +3.26 | |
Green | Zoe Jones | 687 | 10.01 | −2.84 | |
Conservative | Becca Rollinson | 571 | 8.32 | −1.92 | |
Conservative | James Calder | 570 | 8.30 | −1.29 | |
Green | Andy Yuille | 533 | 7.76 | −3.29 | |
Conservative | Matthew Sinclair | 490 | 7.14 | −1.27 | |
Liberal Democrats | John William Allen | 229 | 3.34 | +3.34 | |
Independent | Robert Alan Chard | 142 | 2.07 | +2.07 | |
Liberal Democrats | Arthur Henry Livesley | 139 | 2.02 | +2.02 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.95 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -5.95 | |||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +7.60 |
Silverdale ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Kathleen Valerie Graham | 678 | 63.13 | −9.88 | |
Green | Amanda Faith Bingley | 215 | 20.02 | +3.10 | |
Labour | Ruth Warren | 181 | 16.85 | +6.79 | |
Majority | 463 | 43.11 | −12.97 | ||
Turnout | 1074 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -12.98 |
Skerton East ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Janet Tracy Hall | 816 | 24.46 | +7.58 | |
Labour | Robert Michael Redfern* | 791 | 23.71 | +8.89 | |
Labour | Abbott Bryning* | 787 | 23.59 | +8.47 | |
Conservative | Stuart James Alexander Bateson | 383 | 11.48 | +3.07 | |
Independent | Mick Varey | 327 | 9.80 | +3.05 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Giles Gonard | 232 | 6.95 | +6.95 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.51 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.96 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +9.76 |
Skerton West ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Karen Leytham* | 859 | 28.04 | +3.69 | |
Labour | John Harrison | 829 | 27.06 | +4.94 | |
Labour | Roger Sherlock* | 584 | 19.06 | −3.06 | |
Conservative | Graham Charles Agnew | 457 | 14.92 | +3.10 | |
Green | Keri Melinda Alston | 335 | 10.93 | +1.71 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour hold | Swing | +0.59 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.65 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | -2.17 |
Slyne-with-Hest ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sylvia Rogerson* | 1,121 | 35.86 | −3.74 | |
Conservative | Malcolm Thomas* | 1,065 | 34.07 | −5.12 | |
Labour | Suzi Dunning | 429 | 13.72 | +3.53 | |
Labour | Cari Wood | 321 | 10.27 | +10.27 | |
Green | Barry Gwyn Hankin | 190 | 6.08 | −4.93 | |
Turnout | |||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -6.45 | |||
Conservative hold | Swing | -5.20 |
Torrisholme ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MB Independent | Roger Dennison* | 811 | 13.49 | +2.30 | |
MB Independent | Geoff Marsland* | 750 | 12.48 | +2.11 | |
Conservative | Susan Gail Sykes | 737 | 12.26 | +2.87 | |
Conservative | Dorothy Mingins | 680 | 11.31 | +1.74 | |
MB Independent | Brian Binfield | 671 | 11.16 | +0.98 | |
Labour | Jon-Paul Blundell | 607 | 10.10 | +4.59 | |
Conservative | John Wild | 557 | 9.27 | +0.24 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Clift | 352 | 5.86 | −3.53 | |
Liberal Democrats | Michael Gradwell | 342 | 5.69 | +8.42 | |
Liberal Democrats | Bill Jackson | 274 | 4.56 | −3.13 | |
Green | Catriona Stamp | 230 | 3.83 | +0.28 | |
Turnout | |||||
MB Independent hold | Swing | +0.38 | |||
MB Independent hold | Swing | +1.40 | |||
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +10.33 |
University ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Aitchison | 369 | 27.43 | +16.72 | |
Labour | Jonathan Dixon | 314 | 23.35 | +14.39 | |
Green | Ian McCulloch* | 170 | 12.64 | −6.27 | |
Green | Rick Seymour | 152 | 11.30 | −5.20 | |
Conservative | Jordan Thomas Shandley | 113 | 8.40 | −2.20 | |
Conservative | Samuel Vince Thurgood | 102 | 7.58 | −1.82 | |
Liberal Democrats | Myles Anthony Clapham | 67 | 4.98 | −7.15 | |
Liberal Democrats | Leo Mead | 58 | 4.31 | −7.27 | |
Turnout | |||||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +22.99 | |||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +19.59 |
Upper Lune Valley ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Thomas Williamson* | 829 | 74.95 | −3.75 | |
Green | Gisela Christine Renolds | 277 | 25.05 | +3.75 | |
Majority | 552 | 49.91 | −7.49 | ||
Turnout | 1106 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.50 |
Warton ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alycia James | 465 | 50.54 | +10.06 | |
Labour | Janette Gardner | 335 | 36.41 | +36.41 | |
Green | Mike Wright | 120 | 13.04 | +13.04 | |
Majority | 130 | 14.13 | +33.22 | ||
Turnout | 920 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | +33.21 |
Westgate ward
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MB Independent | David Kerr* | 676 | 16.24 | +1.16 | |
Labour | Vikki Price | 660 | 15.86 | +6.46 | |
Labour | David Smith | 659 | 15.83 | +6.77 | |
MB Independent | Roger Henry Plumb* | 609 | 14.63 | +0.56 | |
MB Independent | Anthony Michael Bernard Wade* | 576 | 13.84 | −0.60 | |
Conservative | Leo Croombs | 352 | 8.46 | +1.75 | |
Conservative | John Geoff Marsden | 320 | 7.69 | +1.44 | |
Conservative | Michael Donald Huet | 310 | 7.45 | +1.40 | |
Turnout | |||||
MB Independent hold | Swing | +2.10 | |||
Labour gain from MB Independent | Swing | +6.27 | |||
Labour gain from MB Independent | Swing | +13.15 |