2010 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council election

2010 UK local government election March 2025 November 2013 thumb|300px|right|Map of the results of the 2010 Barrow-in-Furness council election. Labour in red and Conservative in blue. Wards in grey were not contested in 2010. The 2010 Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council in Cumbria, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control. https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/council/html/3652.stm Barrow-In-Furness 2010-05-11 BBC News 19 April 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20100511164612/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/council/html/3652.stm 11 May 2010 live After the election, the composition of the council was: Labour 16 Conservative 13 Independent 5 Socialist People's Party 2http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/independents-swing-mayor-vote-to-tories-1.709768?referrerPath=football_2_933 Independents swing mayor vote to Tories 19 May 2010 North-West Evening Mail 24 June 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121008183812/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/independents-swing-mayor-vote-to-tories-1.709768?referrerPath=football_2_933 8 October 2012 Background The 2010 election was the last where only a third of the council was contested.http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/dawn-of-a-new-era-for-barrow-borough-council-1.694603?referrerPath=home Dawn of a new era for Barrow Borough Council Dixon Graham 12 April 2010 North-West Evening Mail 24 June 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20121008182554/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/dawn-of-a-new-era-for-barrow-borough-council-1.694603?referrerPath=home 8 October 2012 This meant 12 seats were up for election, with only Barrow Island ward not having an election. From the 2011 election Barrow-in-Furness moved to having full council elections every 4 years. Before the election the Conservative party had 16 councillors, compared to 8 for Labour, 7 independents, 4 Socialist People's Party and 1 Liberal Democrat. However, in the lead up to election independent councillor John Millar joined the Conservatives and defended Dalton South as a Conservative in the election. The Conservatives hoped to win a majority on the council, defending their record as the council administration by pointing to a list of achievements and saying they had kept council tax levels low. However Labour were only defending 2 seats and attacked the Conservative record, while calling for more council apprenticeships and the return of a scheme of lower bus fares for pensioners. Election result The results saw Labour gain 8 seats to double the number of councillors the party held on the council to 16.http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/labour-gain-eight-barrow-borough-council-seats-1.705400?referrerPath=home Labour gain eight Barrow Borough Council seats 7 May 2010 North-West Evening Mail 24 June 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100523221048/http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/labour-gain-eight-barrow-borough-council-seats-1.705400?referrerPath=home 23 May 2010 The gains came at the expense of all the other groups on the council, with only the Conservatives holding 2 seats in Hawcoat and Roosecote. Following the election the Conservative leader of the council, Jack Richardson, was re-elected and Conservative Rory McClure became mayor. This came after all 5 independents backed the Conservatives in the vote and the 2 Socialist Peoples Party councillors abstained. Barrow-in-Furness local election result 2010http://www.barrowbc.gov.uk/pdf/BEDeclarationofResultbill10.pdf Borough Council Election 6th May, 2010 2010-05-10 Barrow Borough Council dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110927093253/http://www.barrowbc.gov.uk/pdf/BEDeclarationofResultbill10.pdf 27 September 2011 Labour Party (UK) 10 8 0 +8 83.3 55.1 17,250 +20.7% Conservative Party (UK) 2 0 4 -4 16.7 37.3 11,686 -5.3% Socialist People's Party (Furness) 0 0 2 -2 0 4.2 1,304 -0.7% Independent (politician) 0 0 1 -1 0 1.6 490 -12.5% Liberal Democrats (UK) 0 0 1 -1 0 1.5 472 -1.7% British National Party 0 0 0 0 0 0.4 113 -0.5% Ward results Central Labour Party (UK) Trevor Biggins 836 62.2 Socialist People's Party (Furness) Rosemarie Hamezeian 258 19.2 Conservative Party (UK) Elaine Burley 251 18.7 578 43.0 1,345 Labour Party (UK) Socialist People's Party (Furness) Dalton North Labour Party (UK) Barry Doughty 1,699 54.1 Conservative Party (UK) Bill Bleasdale 1,441 45.9 258 8.2 3,140 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Dalton South Labour Party (UK) Wendy Maddox 1,613 53.0 Conservative Party (UK) John Millar 1,430 47.0 183 6.0 3,043 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Hawcoat Conservative Party (UK) Jack Richardson 1,847 61.9 Labour Party (UK) Rebecca Melling 1,138 38.1 709 23.8 2,985 Conservative Party (UK) Hindpool Labour Party (UK) Margaret Thomson 1,368 61.9 Conservative Party (UK) Mark Burley 514 23.3 Socialist People's Party (Furness) Helen Robinson 328 14.8 854 38.6 2,210 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Newbarns Labour Party (UK) John Murphy 1,218 44.8 Conservative Party (UK) Wendy McClure 1,011 37.2 Independent (politician) Phil Solloway 490 18.0 207 7.6 2,719 Labour Party (UK) Independent (politician) Ormsgill Labour Party (UK) Robert Pointer 1,384 57.0 Conservative Party (UK) Teri-Ann Gibney 580 23.9 Socialist People's Party (Furness) Sheila Begley 466 19.2 804 33.1 2,430 Labour Party (UK) Socialist People's Party (Furness) Parkside Labour Party (UK) Michael Sweeney 1,411 51.5 Conservative Party (UK) Linda Last 746 27.2 Liberal Democrats (UK) Dominic McCavish 472 17.2 British National Party Mike Ashburner 113 4.1 665 24.3 2,742 Labour Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) Risedale Labour Party (UK) Jeffrey Garnett 1,647 65.9 Conservative Party (UK) Levi Gill 599 24.0 Socialist People's Party (Furness) Daniel Tyson 252 10.1 1,048 42.0 2,498 Labour Party (UK) Roosecote Conservative Party (UK) Rory McClure 1,483 53.5 Labour Party (UK) Kenneth Beeres 1,289 46.5 194 7.0 2,772 Conservative Party (UK) Walney North Labour Party (UK) Anthony Callister 1,828 68.9 Conservative Party (UK) Stephen Smart 825 31.1 1,003 37.8 2,653 Labour Party (UK) Walney South Labour Party (UK) Colin Thomson 1,819 65.5 Conservative Party (UK) Alan Pemberton 959 34.5 860 31.0 2,778 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) References Barrow-in-Furness Category:Barrow-in-Furness Borough Council elections Category:2010s in Cumbria