2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election

2010 UK local government election December 2023 November 2013 Hyndburn Borough Council elections 2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election parliamentary no 2008 Hyndburn Borough Council election 2008 2011 Hyndburn Borough Council election 2011 11 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council 6 May 2010 18 Conservative Party (UK) 95x50px|Blank Peter Britcliffe 21 18 3 Labour Party (UK) 95x50px|Blank Graham Jones 13 15 2 Independent politician 95x50px|Blank Ian Robinson 1 2 1 Hyndburn_UK_local_election_2010_map_Revised.svg 2010 local election results in Hyndburn #dc241f Labour #0087dc Conservative #c0c0c0ff Independent #808080 Not contested St Andrew's PeelElections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 6 May 2010. One third of the council was up for election. Since there was also the General Election being held on the same day, overall voter turnout was much higher than usual, for such local elections. 3 Background Before the election Conservatives had a majority of 21 councillors, Labour had 13 councillors, while Independent (politician) had 1 councillor. Conservative candidates contested every ward, Labour candidates contested all wards except Overton-ward. Independents contested seven-wards, not including their one-existing uncontested-seat. LibDem's only single candidate contested in the Spring Hill-ward. BNP's only single candidate contested in the Clayton-le-Moors-ward. Local Election result After the election, the composition of the council was - Conservative 18 Labour 15 Independent 2 Hyndburn local election result 2010 - over just 11 wards Labour Party (UK) 7 3 1 +2 63.6 41.2 11,047 +0.4 Conservative Party (UK) 3 1 4 -3 27.3 39.8 10,579 +9.7 Independent (politician) 1 1 0 +1 9.1 16.8 4,480 +14.0 Liberal Democrats (UK) 0 0 0 0 ... ... 281 British National Party 0 0 0 0 ... ... 192 26,579 Reference: 2006 Hyndburn Borough Council election#Local Election result NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2010 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington. Ward results Clayton-le-Moors Clayton-le-Moors Labour Party (UK) Tim O'Kane 800 33.77 Conservative Party (UK) Jennie Anderson 722 30.48 Independent (politician) Nick Collingridge 655 27.65 British National Party Andrew Eccles 192 8.10 2,369 67.2 Labour Party (UK) Independent (politician) Huncoat Huncoat Conservative Party (UK) Nick Whittaker 797 35.50 Labour Party (UK) Martyn Isherwood 779 34.70 Independent (politician) Paul Gott 669 29.80 2,245 65.5 Conservative Party (UK) Labour Party (UK) Immanuel Immanuel Labour Co-operative Colette McCormack 1163 50.46 Conservative Party (UK) Simon James Taylor 1142 49.54 2,305 67.5 Labour Party (UK) Milnshaw Milnshaw Labour Party (UK) Clare Pritchard 1230 57.40 Conservative Party (UK) Roger Jepson 913 42.60 2,143 64.8 Labour Party (UK) Netherton Netherton Labour Co-operative Ciaran Wells 1137 56.18 Conservative Party (UK) Dennis Baron 540 26.68 Independent (politician) Stephen Aspin 347 17.14 2,024 65.9 Labour Party (UK) Overton Overton Independent (politician) Ian Robinson 1614 51.78 Conservative Party (UK) Roy Atkinson 1503 48.22 3,117 67.0 Independent (politician) Conservative Party (UK) Peel Peel Labour Party (UK) Bernard Dawson 1168 71.31 Conservative Party (UK) Danny Cassidy 470 28.69 1,638 56.0 Labour Party (UK) Rishton Rishton Labour Party (UK) Ken Moss 1,535 46.53 Conservative Party (UK) Ross Sourbutts 1384 41.95 Independent (politician) Chris Fisher 380 11.52 3,299 68.3 Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) Spring Hill Spring Hill Labour Party (UK) Pam Barton 1291 63.94 Conservative Party (UK) Mohammed Safdar 447 22.14 Liberal Democrats (UK) Akhtar Hussain 281 13.92 2,019 59.1 Labour Party (UK) St. Andrew's St. Andrew's Conservative Party (UK) Peter Britcliffe 1060 51.78 Labour Co-operative John McCormack 744 36.35 Independent (politician) Tony Hindley 243 11.87 2,047 63.4 Conservative Party (UK) St. Oswald's St. Oswald's Conservative Party (UK) Doug Hayes 1584 47.20 Labour Party (UK) Stewart Eaves 1200 35.76 Independent (politician) Brian Andrew Smith 572 17.04 3,356 66.6 Conservative Party (UK) References https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/council/html/3707.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20140525200131/http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/elections/electionresults.php?electionid=1 Hyndburn 2010 Category:2010s in Lancashire