WHERE DID OUR VOTE COME FROM
The tables below show the 2014 Local Election results.
The % + or - in the right hand column shows the change from 2012 for each party in that Ward
Astley Bridge ward
Astley
Bridge ward [1]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
John Walsh
|
1,481
|
36.33%
|
-
10.17
|
|
|
Stuart William Murray
|
1,279
|
31.38%
|
-
9.42
|
|
|
Harry Lamb
|
1,039
|
25.49%
|
+
24.59
|
|
|
Ben Deed
|
182
|
4.47%
|
+
4.47
|
|
|
Clive Richard Atty
|
85
|
2.09%
|
-
1.24
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
10
|
0.25%
|
|
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Majority
|
202
|
|
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4,076
|
40.44%
|
+
5.04
|
|||
|
Conservative hold
|
|
|
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Bradshaw ward
Bradshaw ward [2]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Mudasir Dean
|
1,585
|
43.72%
|
-
13.28
|
|
|
Arthur Norris
|
932
|
25.71%
|
+
25.71
|
|
|
Paul Fitzpatrick
|
786
|
21.68%
|
-
9.22
|
|
|
Gaby McDowall
|
172
|
4.74%
|
-
7.26
|
|
|
Daniel Bolton
|
150
|
4.14%
|
+
4.14
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
0
|
0.00%
|
|
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Majority
|
653
|
|
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3,625
|
40.95%
|
???
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|
Conservative hold
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|
|
|
Breightmet ward
Breightmet ward [3]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Lynda Jean Byrne
|
1,490
|
43.03%
|
-
16.77
|
|
|
Kathleen Mary Kavanagh
|
1,217
|
35.14%
|
+
35.14
|
|
|
Clara Heyes
|
577
|
16.66%
|
-
13.14
|
|
|
Laura Diggle
|
115
|
3.32%
|
-
3.58
|
|
|
Stephen Frederick Howarth
|
51
|
1.47%
|
-
2.03
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
13
|
0.38%
|
|
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Majority
|
273
|
|
|
||
3,463
|
37.01%
|
+
4.51
|
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|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Bromley Cross ward
Bromley Cross
ward [4]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
David Wells Greenhalgh
|
2,312
|
53.57%
|
-
5.43
|
|
|
Collette Harkin
|
957
|
22.17%
|
-
10.33
|
|
|
Lynda Rosewell
|
878
|
20.34%
|
+
20.34
|
|
|
Chris Atty
|
169
|
3.92%
|
-
4.58
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
0
|
0.00%
|
|
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Majority
|
1,355
|
|
|
||
4,316
|
40.75%
|
+
5.15
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|
Conservative hold
|
|
|
|
Crompton ward
Crompton ward [5]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Sufrana Bashir-Ismail
|
2,363
|
60.02%
|
-
14.88
|
|
|
George Stanley Bown
|
826
|
20.98%
|
+
20.98
|
|
|
Ryan Patrick Haslam
|
456
|
11.58%
|
-
4.92
|
|
|
Anne Sanders Warren
|
148
|
3.76%
|
-
4.84
|
|
|
Pam Humphreys
|
121
|
3.07%
|
+
3.07
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
23
|
0.58%
|
|
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Majority
|
1,537
|
|
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3,937
|
39.31%
|
+
7.41
|
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|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Farnworth ward
Farnworth ward [6]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Noel Spencer
|
1,454
|
48.91%
|
-
18.29
|
|
|
Jeff Armstrong
|
1,108
|
37.27%
|
+
37.27
|
|
|
Aidan Meagan
|
211
|
7.10%
|
-
6.7
|
|
|
Trevor Bonfield
|
115
|
3.87%
|
-
7.49
|
|
|
Doug Bagnall
|
73
|
2.46%
|
-
5.24
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
12
|
0.40%
|
|
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Majority
|
346
|
|
|
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2,973
|
28.14%
|
+
6.24
|
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|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Great Lever ward
Great Lever ward
[7]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Mohammed Ayub
|
2,420
|
68.57%
|
-
5.43
|
|
|
Dot Sexton
|
505
|
14.31%
|
+
14.31
|
|
|
Jay Patel
|
338
|
9.58%
|
-
0.82
|
|
|
David William Collins
|
127
|
3.60%
|
-
7.1
|
|
|
Rebekah Fairhurst
|
64
|
1.81%
|
-
2.99
|
|
|
Joseph Thomas Holt
|
54
|
1.53%
|
+
1.53
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
21
|
0.60%
|
|
||
Majority
|
1,915
|
|
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3,529
|
36.59%
|
+
5.89
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Halliwell ward
Halliwell ward [8]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Akhtar Zaman
|
2,260
|
66.14%
|
-
12.26
|
|
|
Leo Taylor
|
607
|
17.76%
|
+17.76
|
|
|
Jolyon Horton Coombs
|
223
|
6.53%
|
-
2.87
|
|
|
Ian David McHugh
|
173
|
5.06%
|
-
3.34
|
|
|
Francine Godfrey
|
95
|
2.78%
|
-
1.02
|
|
|
Andrew Mckenzie
|
42
|
1.23%
|
+
1.23
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
17
|
0.50%
|
|
||
Majority
|
1,653
|
|
|
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3,417
|
38.32%
|
+
7.82
|
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|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Harper Green ward
Harper Green
ward [9]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Mike Francis
|
1,713
|
56.74%
|
-
16.26
|
|
|
Geoff Hamlett
|
726
|
24.05%
|
+
24.05
|
|
|
Rob Tyler
|
366
|
12.12%
|
-
4.98
|
|
|
Kathy Sykes
|
115
|
3.81%
|
+
3.81
|
|
|
Wendy Connor
|
86
|
2.85%
|
-
7.05
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
13
|
0.43%
|
|
||
Majority
|
987
|
|
|
||
3,019
|
31.40%
|
+7.7
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Heaton and Lostock ward
Heaton and
Lostock ward [10]
|
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Colin Shaw
|
2,237
|
47.46%
|
-
12.04
|
|
|
John William Gillatt
|
1,154
|
24.49%
|
-
4.31
|
|
|
Stephen Thomas
|
933
|
19.80%
|
+
19.8
|
|
|
Christine Joyce Macpherson
|
196
|
4.16%
|
-
0.94
|
|
|
Hannah Louise Middleshaw
|
179
|
3.80%
|
-
2.8
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
14
|
0.30%
|
|
||
Majority
|
1,083
|
|
|
||
4,713
|
44.58%
|
+
5.48
|
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|
Conservative hold
|
|
|
|
Horwich and Blackrod ward
Two seats were up for election. Stephen Pickup will have to stand again for election in 2016 and Alan Bury in 2018.
Horwich and
Blackrod ward [11]
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Alan Bury
|
1,313
|
21.54%
|
-
14.37
|
|
|
Stephen Pickup
|
1,310
|
21.49%
|
|
|
|
Bob Horsefield
|
1,147
|
18.81%
|
+
18.81
|
|
|
Carol Ann Forshaw
|
850
|
13.94%
|
- 2.75
|
|
|
Daniel Clifford Haslam
|
708
|
11.61%
|
|
|
|
Keith Michael Cocker
|
401
|
6.58%
|
-
1.32
|
|
|
Lynne McCartin
|
201
|
3.30%
|
-
0.39
|
|
|
Lynn Natalie Rock
|
159
|
2.61%
|
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
8
|
0.13%
|
|
||
Majority
|
3
|
|
|
||
3,048
|
31.39%
|
+
0.89
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Horwich North East ward
Horwich North
East ward [12]
|
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Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Kevin Peter McKeon
|
1,324
|
35.40%
|
-
8.2
|
|
|
Peter McGeehan
|
888
|
23.74%
|
+
23.74
|
|
|
Anne Barbara Galloway
|
743
|
19.87%
|
+
1.17
|
|
|
Stephen Michael Rock
|
573
|
15.32%
|
-
3.98
|
|
|
Rod Riesco
|
203
|
5.43%
|
-
4.47
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
9
|
0.24%
|
|
||
Majority
|
436
|
|
|
||
3,740
|
37.93%
|
+
3.03
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Hulton ward
Hulton ward [13]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Diane Parkinson
|
1,291
|
33.73%
|
+33.73
|
|
|
Andy Morgan
|
1,150
|
30.05%
|
-
14.55
|
|
|
Shafaqat Shaikh
|
1,140
|
29.79%
|
-
12.71
|
|
|
James Tomkinson
|
162
|
4.23%
|
-
6.57
|
|
|
David Charles Cooper
|
69
|
1.80%
|
-
0.2
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
15
|
0.39%
|
|
||
Majority
|
141
|
|
|
||
3,827
|
39.24%
|
+
8.54
|
|||
|
UKIP
gain from Conservative
|
|
|
|
Kearsley ward
Kearsley ward [14]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Derek Burrows
|
1,139
|
35.73%
|
-
19.27
|
|
|
Mark Joseph Cunningham
|
1,096
|
34.38%
|
+34.38
|
|
|
Margaret Patricia Rothwell
|
348
|
10.92%
|
-
22.98
|
|
|
Simon Paul Colley
|
309
|
9.69%
|
+
9.69
|
|
|
Sandra Macneill
|
278
|
8.72%
|
-
2.28
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
18
|
0.56%
|
|
||
Majority
|
43
|
|
|
||
3,188
|
30.68%
|
+
4.68
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Little Lever and Darcy Lever ward
Little Lever and
Darcy Lever ward [15]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Paul Richardson
|
1,255
|
33.22%
|
+
33.22
|
|
|
Maureen Connell
|
1,051
|
27.82%
|
-
16.48
|
|
|
Eric John Hyde
|
661
|
17.50%
|
-
3.5
|
|
|
Rees Gibbon
|
657
|
17.39%
|
-
8.81
|
|
|
Alwynne Cartmell
|
147
|
3.89%
|
-
4.31
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
7
|
0.19%
|
|
||
Majority
|
204
|
|
|
||
3,778
|
39.51%
|
+
3.51
|
|||
|
|
|
|
Rumworth ward
Rumworth ward [16]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Ismail Ibrahim
|
2,876
|
72.50%
|
-
6.00
|
|
|
Geoffrey David Kay
|
492
|
12.40%
|
+
12.4
|
|
|
Jack Heyes
|
317
|
7.99%
|
-
1.61
|
|
|
Alan Johnson
|
200
|
5.04%
|
-
3.96
|
|
|
Jaleh Salari
|
66
|
1.66%
|
-
1.24
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
16
|
0.40%
|
|
||
Majority
|
2,384
|
|
|
||
3,967
|
39.77%
|
+
9.07
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Smithills ward
Smithills ward [17]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Andrew Martin
|
1,674
|
37.51%
|
-
3.69
|
|
|
Kevin Patrick Morris
|
1,329
|
29.78%
|
-
10.22
|
|
|
Aaron Hepworth
|
876
|
19.63%
|
+
19.63
|
|
|
Christine Flanigan
|
429
|
9.61%
|
-
4.29
|
|
|
Richard Alexander Middleshaw
|
139
|
3.11%
|
-
1.89
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
16
|
0.36%
|
|
||
Majority
|
345
|
|
|
||
4,463
|
45.44%
|
+
6.04
|
|||
|
Liberal Democrat hold
|
|
|
|
Tonge with the Haulgh ward
Tonge with the
Haulgh ward [18]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Nick Peel
|
1,399
|
43.34%
|
-
19.66
|
|
|
Derek Fisher
|
1,053
|
32.62%
|
+
32.62
|
|
|
Zoe Jennifer Catherine Kirk-Robinson
|
486
|
15.06%
|
-
8.14
|
|
|
Dorothee Sayers
|
109
|
3.38%
|
-
6.32
|
|
|
Hafsa Patel
|
91
|
2.82%
|
+
2.82
|
|
|
Paul Anthony Harasiwka
|
66
|
2.04%
|
-
1.96
|
|
|
Eric Thomas Hyland
|
14
|
0.43%
|
+
0.43
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
10
|
0.31%
|
|
||
Majority
|
346
|
|
|
||
3,228
|
36.30%
|
+
6.2
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward
Westhoughton
North and Chew Moor ward [19]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Martyn Andrew Cox
|
1,424
|
34.01%
|
-
0.99
|
|
|
Anne Graham
|
1,278
|
30.52%
|
-
15.88
|
|
|
Joan Johnson
|
984
|
23.50%
|
+
23.50
|
|
|
Jack Speight
|
203
|
4.85%
|
-
6.75
|
|
|
Derek John Gradwell
|
163
|
3.89%
|
-
3.01
|
|
|
Heather Rylance
|
127
|
3.03%
|
+
3.03
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
8
|
0.19%
|
|
||
Majority
|
146
|
|
|
||
4,187
|
38.24%
|
+
5.24
|
|||
|
Conservative hold
|
|
|
|
Westhoughton South ward
Westhoughton
South ward [20]
|
|||||
Party
|
Candidate
|
Votes
|
%
|
±%
|
|
|
Kevin Jones
|
1,268
|
39.33%
|
-
3.07
|
|
|
Les Wareing
|
917
|
28.44%
|
+
28.44
|
|
|
Stephen Wallen
|
562
|
17.43%
|
+
4.83
|
|
|
David Arthur Wilkinson
|
361
|
11.20%
|
-
23.6
|
|
|
Derek John Bullock
|
97
|
3.01%
|
-
7.09
|
|
Rejected
ballots
|
19
|
0.59%
|
|
||
Majority
|
351
|
|
|
||
3,224
|
33.60%
|
+
2.8
|
|||
|
Labour hold
|
|
|
|
AVERAGE CHANGES OVER ALL 20 WARDS
UKIP average
% change from 2012 = + 25.021
Labour average
% change from 2012 = - 12.1515
Conservative average % change from 2012 = - 5.588
Lib Dem average
% change from 2012 = - 4.89
Green average
% change from 2012 = - 1.428
(Difference in totals due to independents and odds and sods.)
So :-
48.56% of our vote came from Labour.
22.33% of our vote came from the Conservatives
19.54% of our vote came from Lib Dems
5.7% of our vote came from Greens