2011 Blackpool Borough Council election

English local election March 2025 November 2013 2011 Blackpool Council election United Kingdom parliamentary no Labour Party (UK) 2007 Blackpool Council election 2007 2015 Blackpool Borough Council election 2015 All 42 council seats 5 May 2011 37.41% Simon Blackburn 2009 Labour Party (UK) 12 seats, 34.4% 27 15 38,828 50.2% 15.8% Peter Callow Conservative Party (UK) 27 seats, 47.3% 14 13 32,024 41.4% 5.9% Leader of Largest Party Subsequent Leader of Largest Party Peter Callow Conservative Party (UK) Simon Blackburn Labour Party (UK)thumb|Map of results of 2011 election The 2011 Blackpool Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of the unitary Blackpool Borough Council in England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party gained overall control of the council from the Conservative Party.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/election2011/council/html/ey.stm England council elections BBC News 7 May 2011 Election result The results saw Blackpool Labour gain 15 seats to take control from the Conservatives.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-13275288 Labour gains as Tories lose three Lancashire councils 6 May 2011 BBC News 7 May 2011 Conservative councillors who lost seats included the deputy leader of the party Ian Fowler and the cabinet member for education, Peter Collins.http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/local/labour_take_control_of_blackpool_1_3357951 Labour take control of Blackpool 6 May 2011 Blackpool Gazette 7 May 2011 Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats were reduced to just one councillor, Douglas Green. Overall turnout at the election was 37.41%.http://www.blackpool.gov.uk/news/electionresultsannouncedtoday.htm Election results finalised Blackpool Council 16 September 2011 The Conservative leader of the council Peter Callow said the Labour result was "well-earned" and that cuts made by the national government were to blame for the Conservative losses. Meanwhile, the Labour leader Simon Blackburn called the result "very pleasing, but not unexpected". Blackpool local election result 2011http://www2.blackpool.gov.uk/InstantAtlas/atlas.html Local Election Results Blackpool Council 7 May 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111003054106/http://www2.blackpool.gov.uk/InstantAtlas/atlas.html 3 October 2011 Labour Party (UK) 27 15 0 +15 64.3 50.2 38,828 +15.8 Conservative Party (UK) 14 1 14 -13 33.3 41.4 32,024 -5.9 Liberal Democrats (UK) 1 0 2 -2 2.4 5.2 4,010 -8.7 United Kingdom Independence Party 0 0 0 0 0.0 2.0 1,511 +1.5 Independent (politician) 0 0 0 0 0.0 1.1 861 +0.8 Green Party of England and Wales 0 0 0 0 0.0 0.1 112 +0.1 Ward results Anchorsholme Anchorsholme (2) Conservative Party (UK) Tony Williams 1,202 25.49% +6.18% Conservative Party (UK) Paul Galley 1,107 23.47% +4.95% Labour Party (UK) Danny Bradford 970 20.57% +7.05% Labour Party (UK) Rosemary Southern 883 18.72% +4.49% Liberal Democrats (UK) Jon Bamborough 318 6.74% -11.37% Liberal Democrats (UK) Gill Jackson 236 5.00% -11.30% 47.7 -2.0% Conservative Party (UK) +8.8% Conservative Party (UK) +8.2% Bispham Bispham (2) Conservative Party (UK) Don Clapham 1,187 30.53% -1.40% Conservative Party (UK) Henry Mitchell 1,065 27.40% -3.21% Labour Party (UK) Kathryn Benson 743 19.11% +7.05% Labour Party (UK) Bob Harrison 681 17.52% +7.45% Liberal Democrats (UK) Anne Heyworth 211 5.43% -1.11% 41.7 -3.0% Conservative Party (UK) -4.2% Conservative Party (UK) -5.4% Bloomfield Bloomfield (2) Labour Party (UK) Graham Cain 849 32.79% +16.85% Labour Party (UK) Mary Smith 777 30.01% +12.84% Conservative Party (UK) Irene James 322 12.44% +1.59% Conservative Party (UK) Michael Ruane 282 10.89% +1.52% United Kingdom Independence Party Hamish Howitt 159 6.14% -0.46% United Kingdom Independence Party Len Booth 146 5.64% +5.64% Liberal Democrats (UK) Michael Hodkinson 54 2.09% -16.90% 26.5 -3.4% Labour Party (UK) +7.5% Labour Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) +16.9% Brunswick Brunswick (2) Labour Party (UK) Gary Coleman 1,059 31.73% +4.90% Labour Party (UK) Simon Blackburn 1,049 31.43% +5.31% Conservative Party (UK) Timothy Cox 472 14.14% -6.15% Conservative Party (UK) Geoff Hodson 435 13.03% -5.88% United Kingdom Independence Party Robert McDowell 176 5.27% +5.27% United Kingdom Independence Party Colin Porter 147 4.40% -3.45% 33.8 +3.4% Labour Party (UK) +5.5% Labour Party (UK) +5.6% Claremont Claremont (2) Labour Party (UK) Ivan Taylor 1,031 34.18% +7.9% Labour Party (UK) Sylvia Taylor 965 32.00% +8.6% Conservative Party (UK) Brian Bell 450 14.92% -2.7% Conservative Party (UK) Ian Benson 419 13.89% -2.2% Liberal Democrats (UK) David Charles-Cully 151 5.01% -4.5% 28.3 +0.5% Labour Party (UK) +5.3% Labour Party (UK) +5.4% Clifton Clifton (2) Labour Party (UK) Joan Greenhalgh 1,090 33.39% +8.69% Labour Party (UK) Adrian Hutton 911 27.91% +6.23% Conservative Party (UK) Joe Best 567 17.37% -5.73% Conservative Party (UK) Marlene Ruane 475 14.55% -7.13% Independent (politician) Michael Carr 221 6.77% -14.91% 34.9 +0.2% Labour Party (UK) +7.2% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +6.7% Greenlands Greenlands (2) Labour Party (UK) Christine Wright 861 21.6% +1.9% Labour Party (UK) Chris Ryan 851 21.4% +4.2% Conservative Party (UK) Steve Houghton 816 20.5% -3.3% Conservative Party (UK) Angela Brown 758 19.0% -3.2% Independent (politician) Julian Mineur 295 7.4% +7.4% United Kingdom Independence Party John Bebbington 258 6.5% +6.5% Liberal Democrats (UK) Carole Bate 142 3.6% -1.7% 3,981 40.4 -0.1% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +2.6% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +3.2% Hawes Side Hawes Side (2) Labour Party (UK) Norman Hardy 1,244 34.6% +12.8% Labour Party (UK) Val Haynes 1,177 32.7% +11.8% Conservative Party (UK) Pam Knight 616 17.1% -1.5% Conservative Party (UK) Bev Warren 563 14.4% -0.9% 3,600 35.4 -0.1% Labour Party (UK) +7.2% Labour Party (UK) +6.4% Highfield Highfield (2) Conservative Party (UK) Lily Henderson 868 23.9% -4.4% Labour Party (UK) Chris Maughan 849 23.3% +9.2% Conservative Party (UK) Susan Fowler 777 21.4% -6.7% Labour Party (UK) James Sorah 701 19.3% +5.3% Independent (politician) Robert Mottershead 345 9.5% +9.5% Liberal Democrats (UK) Robert Osinski 99 2.7% -4.0% 3,639 38.6 -5.8% Conservative Party (UK) -4.9% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +8.0% Ingthorpe Ingthorpe (2) Labour Party (UK) Kath Rowson 1,135 27.6% +3.9% Labour Party (UK) Amy Cross 1,013 24.7% +2.9% Conservative Party (UK) Sheila Haskett 633 15.4% -8.7% Conservative Party (UK) Tony Normington 633 15.4% -7.3% Liberal Democrats (UK) Steven Bate 477 11.6% +3.9% Liberal Democrats (UK) Geoffrey Newman 215 5.2% +5.2% 4,106 42.4 -1.5% Labour Party (UK) +5.6% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.8% Layton Layton (2) Labour Party (UK) John Boughton 1,091 28.7% +7.2% Labour Party (UK) Martin Mitchell 921 24.2% +2.8% Conservative Party (UK) Sue Ridyard 837 22.0% -3.6% Conservative Party (UK) Roy Haskett 817 21.5% -2.1% Liberal Democrats (UK) Steven Farley 141 3.7% -4.3% 3,807 39.0 -2.5% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.4% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +2.5% Marton Marton (2) Conservative Party (UK) Jim Houldsworth 997 25.7% -0.5% Labour Party (UK) Debbie Coleman 984 25.4% +12.7% Labour Party (UK) Jim Elmes 932 24.0% +12.9% Conservative Party (UK) David Christy 816 21.0% -5.3% Liberal Democrats (UK) Betty Newman 151 3.9% -0.6% 3,880 38.7 -9.3% Conservative Party (UK) -6.6% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +9.0% Norbreck Norbreck (2) Conservative Party (UK) Maxine Callow 1,467 31.5% -6.0% Conservative Party (UK) Peter Callow 1,465 31.5% -5.2% Labour Party (UK) Betty Bradford 886 19.0% +8.7% Labour Party (UK) Roy Lewis 840 18.0% +8.6% 4,658 48.0 -0.2% Conservative Party (UK) -7.4% Conservative Party (UK) -6.9% Park Park (2) Labour Party (UK) Gillian Campbell 1,084 30.3% +9.2% Labour Party (UK) Brian Doherty 1,083 30.3% +10.2% Conservative Party (UK) Peter Collins 784 21.9% +4.8% Conservative Party (UK) Kevin Wilson 632 17.6% +1.1% 3,583 37.3 +4.8% Labour Party (UK) +7.0% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.6% Squires Gate Squires Gate (2) Conservative Party (UK) Christian Cox 821 21.1% +7.4% Liberal Democrats (UK) Douglas Green 698 17.9% -10.1% Conservative Party (UK) Richard Brodowski 653 16.8% +2.9% Labour Party (UK) Pat Carson 636 16.4% +9.1% Labour Party (UK) Robert Wood 624 16.0% +10.0% Liberal Democrats (UK) Susan Close 457 11.8% -18.4% 3,889 40.3 -5.0% Conservative Party (UK) Liberal Democrats (UK) +12.9% Liberal Democrats (UK) -6.5% Stanley Stanley (2) Conservative Party (UK) Peter Evans 1,082 24.6% -9.3% Conservative Party (UK) Andrew Stansfield 974 22.2% -9.4% Labour Party (UK) Pamela Jackson 943 21.5% +7.1% Labour Party (UK) John Jones 869 19.8% +7.0% United Kingdom Independence Party Jacqueline Bleeker 227 5.2% +5.2% United Kingdom Independence Party Martin Bleeker 213 4.8% +4.8% Liberal Democrats (UK) Eric Close 88 2.0% -5.3% 4,396 43.4 +2.6% Conservative Party (UK) -8.2% Conservative Party (UK) -8.2% Talbot Talbot (2) Labour Party (UK) Sarah Riding 892 29.0% +8.2% Labour Party (UK) Mark Smith 854 27.8% +8.1% Conservative Party (UK) Charlie Docherty 697 22.7% -2.9% Conservative Party (UK) Mike Warren 629 20.5% -4.4% 3,072 29.9 +0.3% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.6% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +6.3% Tyldesley Tyldesley (2) Labour Party (UK) Allan Matthews 1,137 31.6% +9.4% Labour Party (UK) Eddie Collett 1,105 30.7% +9.2% Conservative Party (UK) Jim Price 689 19.1% -4.8% Conservative Party (UK) Roger Stansfield 667 18.5% -4.5% 3,598 35.6 +1.1% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +7.1% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) + 6.9% Victoria Victoria (2) Labour Party (UK) Fred Jackson 1,221 37.1% +10.7% Labour Party (UK) David Owen 1,088 33.1% +10.8% Conservative Party (UK) Sharon Sanderson-Robert 519 15.8% -2.0% Conservative Party (UK) Pat Francioni 461 14.0% -3.7% 3,289 33.7 +3.4% Labour Party (UK) +6.4% Labour Party (UK) +7.3% Warbreck Warbreck (2) Conservative Party (UK) Joyce Delves 938 25.6% -1.3% Conservative Party (UK) Tony Brown 911 24.9% -1.3% Labour Party (UK) Steven Hemingway 621 17.0% +5.8% Labour Party (UK) Doreen Peters 582 15.9% +5.6% Liberal Democrats (UK) Kevan Benfold 185 5.1% -3.8% United Kingdom Independence Party Alex Ewan 185 5.1% +5.1% Liberal Democrats (UK) Joleen Rixon 124 3.4% -5.3% Green Party of England and Wales Philip Mitchell 112 3.1% +3.1% 3,658 37.4 -3.8% Conservative Party (UK) -3.6% Conservative Party (UK) -3.5% Waterloo Waterloo (2) Labour Party (UK) David O'Hara 937 27.7% +7.1% Conservative Party (UK) Tony Lee 793 23.5% -3.9% Conservative Party (UK) Ian Fowler 728 21.5% -5.0% Labour Party (UK) Tasurraf Shah 659 19.5% +2.4% Liberal Democrats (UK) Alma Rollinson 263 7.8% -0.6% 3,380 34.6 -1.7% Labour Party (UK) Conservative Party (UK) +5.5% Conservative Party (UK) -3.7% References Blackpool 2011 Category:2010s in Lancashire