Charnwood Borough Council elections

Charnwood Borough Council elections are held every four years. Charnwood Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Charnwood in Leicestershire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2023 the council has comprised 52 councillors, representing 24 wards, with each ward electing one, two or three councillors.[1]

Council elections

Charnwood Borough Council wards by party control 2023.

• 1973 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 1976 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 1979 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 1983 Charnwood Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[2]
• 1987 Charnwood Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)[3]
• 1991 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 1995 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 1999 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 2003 Charnwood Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[4][5]
• 2007 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 2011 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 2015 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 2019 Charnwood Borough Council election
• 2023 Charnwood Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)[1]

Election results

	Overall control		Conservative		Labour		Lib Dem[a]		BNP		Independent		Green
2023	NOC	23		20		-		-		1		8
2019	Conservative	37		13		-		-		1		1
2015	Conservative	41		9		1		-		1		-
2011	Conservative	33		16		1		1		1		-
2007	Conservative	32		13		5		1		1		-
2003	NOC	24		22		6		-		-		-
1999	NOC	24		21		6		-		1		-
1995	Labour	15		30		5		-		2		-
1991	Conservative	34		15		2		-		1		-
1987	Conservative	39		10		3		-		-		-
1983	Conservative	38		14		-		-		-		-
1979	Conservative	42		12		3		-		1		-
1976	Conservative	40		12		2		-		4		-
1973	NOC	29		13		5		-		11		-

1. Liberal in 1973, 1976, and 1979, SDP–Liberal Alliance in 1983 and 1987.

Source:[6]

A dash indicates that the results for a particular election are not available, or that a party did not stand in an election.

Results maps

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  2023 results map

By-election results

1995-1999

Sileby By-Election, 26 June 1997

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		874	68.3	+1.8
	Conservative		338	26.4	−7.1
	Liberal Democrats		68	5.3	N/A
Majority			536	41.9
Turnout			1,280	24.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.5

1999-2003

Barrow Upon Soar Quordon By-Election, 28 June 2001

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative		956	57.1	+4.7
	Labour		462	27.6	−1.1
	Liberal Democrats		257	15.3	−3.6
Majority			494	29.5
Turnout			1,675
	Conservative hold		Swing	+2.9

Hathern By-Election, 10 October 2002[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		736	64.7	+10.6
	Conservative		243	21.4	−11.1
	Liberal Democrats		83	7.3	−6.2
	UKIP		75	6.6	+6.6
Majority			493	43.3
Turnout			1,137	20.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+10.9

Sileby By-Election, 12 December 2002

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative		557	53.3	+14.5
	Labour		397	38.0	−13.2
	UKIP		92	8.8	N/A
Majority			160	15.3
Turnout			1,046	19.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+13.9

2003-2007

Loughborough Shelthorpe By-Election, 5 October 2006[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neville Stork	643	38.7	−17.0
	BNP	Andrew Holders	478	28.8	N/A
	Conservative	James Poland	386	23.2	−21.1
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Tyler	155	9.3	N/A
Majority			165	9.9
Turnout			1,662	33.5
	Labour hold		Swing	−22.9

Loughborough Dishley and Hathern By-Election, 23 October 2008[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mary Newton	838	49.7	+5.0
	Conservative	Robert Shields	490	29.1	−9.7
	BNP	Julia Green	234	13.9	−2.6
	Liberal Democrats	Diane Horn	107	6.4	N/A
	National Front	Andrew Holders	16	0.9	N/A
Majority			348	20.6
Turnout			1,685	35.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.4

2007-2011

Birstall Watermead By-Election, 18 February 2010[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Iain Bentley	674	47.7	+2.8
	Labour	Hayley Winrow	452	32.0	N/A
	BNP	Maurice Oatley	288	20.4	N/A
Majority			222	15.7
Turnout			1,414	26.9
	Conservative hold		Swing	−17.4

2011-2015

Loughborough Southfields By-Election, September 13 2012[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ted Parton	538	48.5	+11.3
	Labour	Mary Draycott	516	46.6	−3.4
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Brass	54	4.9	−7.9
Majority			22	1.9
Turnout			1,111	18.4	−15.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	+7.4

Loughborough Hastings Ward by-election, 24 October 2013[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sarah Dawn Maynard Smith	554	61.4
	Conservative	Judith Margaret Spence	127	14.1
	UKIP	Andy McWilliam	111	12.3
	British Democrats	Kevan Christopher Stafford	85	9.4
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Atkins	26	2.9
Majority			427	47.28
Turnout			903

Shepshed West Ward by-election, 24 October 2013[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Diane Jayne Horne
	Labour	Jane Lennie
	Conservative	Joan Tassell
Majority
Turnout

Death of Conservative Cllr Stuart Jones.

Birstall Wanlip By-Election, 20 February 2014[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Sansome	508	39.4	+15.2
	Conservative	Mary Allen	419	32.4	−15.0
	Labour	Marilyn Cowles	355	27.5	−0.1
Majority			89	7
Turnout			1290	24.9
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing	+15

Thurmaston By-Election, 31 July 2014[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ralph Raven	783	42.6	−4.4
	UKIP	Tom Prior	496	27.0	+27.0
	Conservative	Hanif Asmal	404	22.0	−31.0
	British Democrats	Chris Canham	95	5.2	+5.2
	BNP	Stephen Denham	58	3.2	+3.2
Majority			287	15.6
Turnout			1,836
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

2015-2019

Birstall Wanlip by-election, 4 May 2017[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Roy Rollings	772	41.3	+2.2
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Sansome	603	32.3	−2.2
	Labour	Sanjay Gogia	425	22.7	−3.7
	Independent	Norman Cutting	69	3.7	+3.7
Majority			169	9.0
Turnout			1,869
	Conservative hold		Swing

Loughborough Shelthorpe by-election, 3 August 2017[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard Huddlestone	595	45.5	+5.8
	Conservative	Russell Ford	591	45.2	+0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Alex Guerrero	93	7.1	+7.1
	UKIP	Andy McWilliam	29	2.2	+2.2
Majority			4	0.3
Turnout			1,308
	Labour hold		Swing

Loughborough Hastings Ward by-election, 26 October 2017[18]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Colin Hamilton	676
	Labour	Mary Draycott	648
	Conservative	Jane Hunt	228
	UKIP	Simon Murray	95
	UKIP	Andy McWilliam	79
	Green	Lewis Wright	73
	Green	Mia Woolley	58
Majority			535
Turnout			1859	22.32%
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Quorn and Mountsorrel by-election, 21 June 2018[19]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jane Hunt	719	51.5	−7.7
	Labour	Chris Hughes	305	21.9	−5.1
	Liberal Democrats	Marianne Gilbert	232	16.6	+16.6
	UKIP	Andy McWilliam	139	10.0	−3.8
Majority			414	29.7
Turnout			1,395
	Conservative hold		Swing

Birstall Wanlip by-election, 13 September 2018[20]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Shona Rattray	492	47.1	+9.0
	Labour	Abe Khayer	340	32.6	+6.2
	Liberal Democrats	Carolyn Thornborrow	128	12.3	−20.0
	UKIP	Norman Cutting	50	4.8	+4.8
	Green	Charlotte Clancy	34	3.3	+3.3
Majority			152	14.6
Turnout			1,044
	Conservative hold		Swing

Anstey by-election, 20 December 2018[21]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Baines	523	50.8	+17.1
	Labour	Glyn McAllister	507	49.2	+33.6
Majority			16	1.6
Turnout			1,030
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

2019-2023

Syston West by-election, 3 October 2019[22]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Gerrard	406	44.7	−6.4
	Green	Matthew Wise	389	42.8	+19.4
	Labour	Sharon Brown	114	12.5	−13.0
Majority			17	1.9
Turnout			909
	Conservative hold		Swing

Shepshed West by-election, 23 September 2021[23]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ian Williams	511	43.6	+2.2
	Labour	Myriam Roberts	316	26.9	+0.8
	Green	John Hounsome	302	25.7	+14.3
	Liberal Democrats	Katy Brookes-Duncan	44	3.8	−3.9
Majority			195	16.6
Turnout			1,173
	Conservative hold		Swing

Loughborough Shelthorpe by-election, 20 January 2022[24]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Beverley Gray	709
	Labour	Catherine Gray	654
	Conservative	Christopher Stewart	311
	Independent	David Hayes	149
	Liberal Democrats	Alejandro Guerrero	136
	Green	Rachel Baker	108
	Liberal Democrats	Emmanuel Fantaisie	104
	Green	Faye Forde	81
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2023-2027

Loughborough East by-election, 2 May 2024[25]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Louise Taylor-Durrant	1,489	62.1
	Green	Daisy Taylor	510	21.3
	Conservative	Pauline Ranson	398	16.6
Majority			979	40.8
Turnout			2,397
	Labour hold		Swing

Sileby and Seagrave by-election, 31 October 2024[26]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Steve Bellamy	752	52.9
	Reform UK	Pete Morris	297	20.9
	Conservative	Sue Gerrard	302	18.4
	Labour	Kaisra Khan	70	4.9
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Duffy	40	2.8
Majority			455	32.0
Turnout			1,461
	Green hold		Swing

References

1. "The Charnwood (Electoral Changes) Order 2022", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2022/809, retrieved 29 October 2023
2. The Borough of Charnwood (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980
3. The Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire (County and District Boundaries) Order 1985
4. "Local elections". BBC News Online. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
5. legislation.gov.uk - The Borough of Charnwood (Electoral Changes) Order 2002. Retrieved on 4 October 2015.
6. Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Charnwood Borough Council Election Results 1973-2011" (PDF). Elections Centre. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
7. "Tories take Watlington". guardian.co.uk. 11 October 2002. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
8. "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
9. "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2010.
10. "Conservatives celebrate victory in Birstall by-election". Leicester Mercury. 19 February 2010. Archived from the original on 20 February 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2010.
11. "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). Charnwood Borough Council. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
12. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of a Borough Councillor" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
13. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of a Borough Councillor for Shepshed West Ward" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015.
14. "Declaration of Result of Poll - Election of a Borough Councillor for Birstall Wanlip" (PDF).
15. "Local Elections Archive Project — Thurmaston Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
16. "Local Elections Archive Project — Birstall Wanlip Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
17. "Local Elections Archive Project — Loughborough Shelthorpe Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
18. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Election of Borough Councillors for Loughborough Hastings Ward" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2018.
19. "Local Elections Archive Project — Quorn and Mountsorrel Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
20. "Local Elections Archive Project — Birstall Wanlip Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
21. "Local Elections Archive Project — Anstey Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
22. "Local Elections Archive Project — Syston West Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
23. "Local Elections Archive Project — Shepshed West Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
24. "Local Elections Archive Project — Loughborough Shelthorpe Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
25. "Local Elections Archive Project — Loughborough East Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
26. "Local Elections Archive Project — Sileby and Seagrave Ward". www.andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 17 November 2024.

• By-election results Archived 2010-03-29 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Charnwood Borough Council