2015 Middlesbrough Borough Council election
The 2015 Middlesbrough Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Middlesbrough Borough Council in England.[1] It took place on the same day as the election for the Mayor of Middlesbrough, as well as the UK general election, and other local elections across England.[2]
Overall results
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A total of valid votes were cast and there were rejected ballots.
The turnout was %.
Council Composition
Prior to the election the composition of the council was:
30 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Labour | Independent | Con | MI | L | G |
After the election the composition of the council was:
TBC | ||
Labour |
MI - Marton Independents
L - Liberal Democrats
G - Green Party
Ward Results
An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor.
Acklam
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Shelia Dean | 1,260 | 30.71 | N/A | |
Labour | Shyamal Biswas* | 1,017 | 24.79 | −3.16 | |
Conservative | Ken Hall | 971 | 23.67 | +4.29 | |
Independent | Victor Paul Walkington | 527 | 12.84 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mohammed Aslam Hanif | 328 | 7.99 | N/A | |
Majority | 46 | 1.12 | |||
Turnout | 4,103 | 63.7 | +16.73 | ||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Ayresome
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bernard Edward Taylor* | 996 | 31.94 | +4.04 | |
Labour | Denise Rooney | 751 | 24.09 | +0.50 | |
UKIP | Martin Neil | 452 | 14.50 | N/A | |
Independent | William Henry Hawthorne | 435 | 13.95 | −9.88 | |
Conservative | Eric Lawrence | 282 | 9.04 | +5.10 | |
Independent | Brian Robert Taylor | 202 | 6.48 | N/A | |
Majority | 299 | 9.59 | |||
Turnout | 3,118 | 53.38 | +20.42 | ||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Berwick Hills and Pallister
This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mick Thompson | 1,221 | 29.56 | ||
Labour | Eddie Dryden* | 1,152 | 27.89 | ||
Labour | Julie McGee | 841 | 20.36 | ||
Independent | Derek Loughborough | 700 | 16.94 | ||
Conservative | Doris Lawrence | 217 | 5.25 | ||
Majority | 311 | 7.53 | |||
Turnout | 4,131 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Dryden previously served as a councillor for the Pallister ward from 2011-2015.
Brambles and Thorntree
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Geraldine Purvis | 1,006 | 21.29 | ||
Labour | Thurston Peter Purvis | 1,004 | 21.24 | ||
Labour | Terence Henry Lawton | 921 | 19.49 | ||
Independent | Len Junier | 480 | 10.16 | ||
UKIP | Anthony Birtle | 475 | 10.05 | ||
Independent | Angela Marie Brodie | 342 | 7.23 | ||
Independent | John Knowles | 327 | 6.92 | ||
Conservative | David Smith | 171 | 3.62 | ||
Majority | 441 | 9.33 | |||
Turnout | 4,726 | 36.87 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.
Cllrs G Purvis and T Purvis were both previously councillors for the Thorntree ward.
Len Junier was previously the Labour cllr for North Ormesby & Brambles Farm.
Central
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Linda Lewis | 1,387 | 24.08 | ||
Labour | Ansab Ali Shan | 946 | 16.49 | ||
Labour | Mirja Mohammed Zafar Uddin | 944 | 16.45 | ||
Independent | John McPartland | 713 | 12.43 | ||
Independent | Mohammed Pervaz Khan | 680 | 11.85 | ||
Independent | Zafiar Khan | 678 | 11.82 | ||
UKIP | Alan Wedlake | 395 | 6.88 | ||
Majority | 231 | 4.02 | |||
Turnout | 5,738 | 43.45 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Coulby Newham
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Geoffrey Cole* | 1,464 | 18.85 | ||
Labour | Janice Brunton* | 1,291 | 16.62 | ||
Labour | Joe William Culley | 1,079 | 13.89 | ||
Conservative | Leslie Charles Myers | 996 | 12.82 | ||
Independent | Michael Hudson* | 893 | 11.50 | ||
Independent | Alison Mary Huggan | 762 | 9.81 | ||
Independent | Steven Antony Maynard | 758 | 9.76 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ben Gibson | 524 | 6.75 | ||
Majority | 83 | 1.07 | |||
Turnout | 7,767 | 52.87 | |||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Hemlington
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jeanette Ann Walker* | 1,474 | 36.26 | −10.14 | |
Labour | Nicola Joy Walker* | 1,377 | 33.87 | −10.73 | |
UKIP | David Crosby | 489 | 12.03 | N/A | |
Independent | Ian Steven Hamilton | 378 | 9.30 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Gunn Beasley | 347 | 8.54 | −0.46 | |
Majority | 888 | 21.84 | |||
Turnout | 4,065 | 54.00 | +18.47 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Kader
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ronald Arundale* | 1,165 | 25.03 | −1.01 | |
Labour | Jordan Peter Blyth | 896 | 19.25 | +4.30 | |
Labour | Jennifer Susan Dowsett | 835 | 17.94 | +1.34 | |
Conservative | Ronald Darby | 826 | 17.75 | −13.38 | |
UKIP | David Cottrell | 556 | 11.95 | N/A | |
UKIP | John Andrew Christopher Hogg | 376 | 8.08 | N/A | |
Majority | 61 | 1.31 | |||
Turnout | 4,654 | 65.29 | +15.47 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Ladgate
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Carr* | 1,070 | 31.86 | −5.32 | |
Labour | June Goodchild | 976 | 28.17 | −8.34 | |
Conservative | Ron W Armstrong | 516 | 15.37 | N/A | |
UKIP | Janis William-Landess | 427 | 12.72 | N/A | |
Conservative | Sam Edwards Griffiths | 399 | 11.88 | N/A | |
Majority | 430 | 12.80 | |||
Turnout | 3,358 | 54.82 | +17.98 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Linthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Steve Edward Bloundelle* | 1,467 | 35.26 | ||
Labour | Naweed Hussain | 1,014 | 24.38 | ||
Conservative | Thomas Wilkinson | 761 | 18.29 | ||
Green | Darren Robert Moore | 473 | 11.37 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Ian Godfrey Llewellyn Jones | 445 | 10.70 | ||
Majority | 253 | 6.09 | |||
Turnout | 4,160 | 63.38 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
This ward has changed from having 3 seats to 2 seats as a result of recent boundary changes, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.
Longlands and Beechwood
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Teresa Higgins | 1,372 | |||
Independent | Joan McTigue | 1,110 | |||
Labour | Charles Rooney | 1,046 | |||
Labour | Jacinta Catherine Skipp | 884 | |||
UKIP | Nigel Patrick Connor | 752 | |||
Independent | Edward Brian Rooney | 411 | |||
Conservative | Timothy Edward Goodrick | 272 |
Marton East
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UKIP | Stephen Burrows | ||||
Conservative | Archie Currie | ||||
Independent | Dorothy Davison | ||||
Labour | John Kabuye | ||||
Independent | Tom Mawston |
Marton West
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Chris Hobson | 1,661 | |||
Conservative | John Hobson | 1,557 | |||
Labour | David John Branson | 816 | |||
Labour | Stephen Cass | 443 | |||
UKIP | Terry O'Brien | 388 |
Newport
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bob Brady | ||||
Labour | Tracy Harvey | ||||
Independent | Pauline Hawthorne | ||||
Labour | Alma Hellaoui | ||||
UKIP | Darren Thomas Hogg | ||||
Independent | Sajaad Khan |
North Ormesby
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Peter David Hall | ||||
Conservative | Mark Owen Warman | ||||
Labour | Lewis Young |
Nunthorpe
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dennis Burns | ||||
Independent | Lesley McGloin | ||||
Independent | Jon Rathmell | ||||
Conservative | Andrew Simmons | ||||
Conservative | Jackie Simmons |
Park
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales | Martin Bulman | ||||
Independent | Jackie Elder | ||||
Conservative | John Henzell Hemy | ||||
Labour | Frances McIntyre | ||||
Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales | Joe Michna | ||||
Labour | Julia Rostron | ||||
Labour | Margaret Walters |
Park End and Beckfield
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ian Blades | ||||
Independent | Peter Cox | ||||
Conservative | Janet Angela Hobson | ||||
Independent | Brian Hubbard | ||||
Labour | Chris McIntyre | ||||
Independent | Mick Saunders | ||||
Labour | Janet Thompson |
Stainton and Thornton
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | David Philip Coupe | ||||
Labour | Philippa Storey |
Trimdon
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Maria Cairns | ||||
Independent | Stephen Dee | ||||
Independent | Dennis McCabe | ||||
Conservative | Kelvin Mirfin | ||||
UKIP | George William Rogers | ||||
Labour | Jean Sharrocks | ||||
Labour | Peter Sharrocks | ||||
UKIP | Jamie Webb |
References
- ^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
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