Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2010

Map of Hyndburn, Lancashire, UK showing the results of the 2010 local election. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue and independent in light grey. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2010.

Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 6 May 2010. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council with the help of at least one Independent councillor. Since there was also the General Election being held on the same day, voter turnout was much higher than usual local election turnouts.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Hyndburn Local Election

Result 2010

Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 7 3 1 2 63.6 41.2 11,047
  Conservative 3 1 4 -3 27.3 39.8 10,579
  Independent 1 1 0 1 9.1 16.8 4,480
  Liberal Democrat 0 0 0.0 0.0 281
  British National Party 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 192
Turnout 26,579

NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2014 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.

Ward results

Clayton-le-Moors
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Tim O'Kane 800 33.77
Conservative Jennie Anderson 722 30.48
Independent Nick Collingridge 655 27.65
British National Party Andrew Eccles 192 8.10
Turnout 2,369 67.2
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Huncoat
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Nick Whittaker 797 35.50
Labour Martyn Isherwood 779 34.70
Independent Paul Gott 669 29.80
Turnout 2,245 65.5
Conservative gain from Labour Swing
Immanuel
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Co-op Colette McCormack 1163 50.46
Conservative Simon James Taylor 1142 49.54
Turnout 2,305 67.5
Labour hold Swing
Milnshaw
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Clare Pritchard 1230 57.40
Conservative Roger Jepson 913 42.60
Turnout 2,143 64.8
Labour hold Swing
Netherton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Co-op Ciaran Wells 1137 56.18
Conservative Dennis Baron 540 26.68
Independent Stephen Aspin 347 17.14
Turnout 2,024 65.9
Labour hold Swing
Overton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Independent Ian Robinson 1614 51.78
Conservative Roy Atkinson 1503 48.22
Turnout 3,117 67.0
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
Peel
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Bernard Dawson 1168 71.31
Conservative Danny Cassidy 470 28.69
Turnout 1,638 56.0
Labour hold Swing
Rishton
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Ken Moss 1,535 46.53
Conservative Ross Sourbutts 1384 41.95
Independent Chris Fisher 380 11.52
Turnout 3,299 68.3
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Spring Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Labour Pam Barton 1291 63.94
Conservative Mohammed Safdar 447 22.14
Liberal Democrat Akhtar Hussain 281 13.92
Turnout 2,019 59.1
Labour hold Swing
St. Andrew's
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Peter Britcliffe 1060 51.78
Labour Co-op John McCormack 744 36.35
Independent Tony Hindley 243 11.87
Turnout 2,047 63.4
Conservative hold Swing
St Oswald's
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Doug Hayes 1584 47.20
Labour Stewart Eaves 1200 35.76
Independent Brian Andrew Smith 572 17.04
Turnout 3,356 66.6
Conservative hold Swing

References

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/council/html/3707.stm http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/elections/electionresults.php?electionid=1

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