Bolton Results in full

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]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Walsh	1,481	36.33%	- 10.17
	Labour	Stuart William Murray	1,279	31.38%	- 9.42
	UKIP	Harry Lamb	1,039	25.49%	+ 24.59
	Green	Ben Deed	182	4.47%	+ 4.47
	Liberal Democrat	Clive Richard Atty	85	2.09%	- 1.24
Rejected ballots			10	0.25%
Majority			202
Turnout			4,076	40.44%	+ 5.04
	Conservative hold

 

Bradshaw ward

Bradshaw ward [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Mudasir Dean	1,585	43.72%	- 13.28
	UKIP	Arthur Norris	932	25.71%	+ 25.71
	Labour	Paul Fitzpatrick	786	21.68%	- 9.22
	Liberal Democrat	Gaby McDowall	172	4.74%	- 7.26
	Green	Daniel Bolton	150	4.14%	+ 4.14
Rejected ballots			0	0.00%
Majority			653
Turnout			3,625	40.95%	???
	Conservative hold

 

Breightmet ward

Breightmet ward [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynda Jean Byrne	1,490	43.03%	- 16.77
	UKIP	Kathleen Mary Kavanagh	1,217	35.14%	+ 35.14
	Conservative	Clara Heyes	577	16.66%	- 13.14
	Green	Laura Diggle	115	3.32%	- 3.58
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Frederick Howarth	51	1.47%	- 2.03
Rejected ballots			13	0.38%
Majority			273
Turnout			3,463	37.01%	+ 4.51
	Labour hold

 

Bromley Cross ward

Bromley Cross ward [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Wells Greenhalgh	2,312	53.57%	- 5.43
	Labour	Collette Harkin	957	22.17%	- 10.33
	UKIP	Lynda Rosewell	878	20.34%	+ 20.34
	Liberal Democrat	Chris Atty	169	3.92%	- 4.58
Rejected ballots			0	0.00%
Majority			1,355
Turnout			4,316	40.75%	+ 5.15
	Conservative hold

 

Crompton ward

Crompton ward [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sufrana Bashir-Ismail	2,363	60.02%	- 14.88
	UKIP	George Stanley Bown	826	20.98%	+ 20.98
	Conservative	Ryan Patrick Haslam	456	11.58%	- 4.92
	Liberal Democrat	Anne Sanders Warren	148	3.76%	- 4.84
	Independent	Pam Humphreys	121	3.07%	+ 3.07
Rejected ballots			23	0.58%
Majority			1,537
Turnout			3,937	39.31%	+ 7.41
	Labour hold

 

Farnworth ward

Farnworth ward [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Noel Spencer	1,454	48.91%	- 18.29
	UKIP	Jeff Armstrong	1,108	37.27%	+ 37.27
	Conservative	Aidan Meagan	211	7.10%	- 6.7
	Green	Trevor Bonfield	115	3.87%	- 7.49
	Liberal Democrat	Doug Bagnall	73	2.46%	- 5.24
Rejected ballots			12	0.40%
Majority			346
Turnout			2,973	28.14%	+ 6.24
	Labour hold

 

Great Lever ward

Great Lever ward [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammed Ayub	2,420	68.57%	- 5.43
	UKIP	Dot Sexton	505	14.31%	+ 14.31
	Conservative	Jay Patel	338	9.58%	- 0.82
	Green	David William Collins	127	3.60%	- 7.1
	Liberal Democrat	Rebekah Fairhurst	64	1.81%	- 2.99
	Independent	Joseph Thomas Holt	54	1.53%	+ 1.53
Rejected ballots			21	0.60%
Majority			1,915
Turnout			3,529	36.59%	+ 5.89
	Labour hold

 

Halliwell ward

Halliwell ward [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Akhtar Zaman	2,260	66.14%	- 12.26
	UKIP	Leo Taylor	607	17.76%	+17.76
	Conservative	Jolyon Horton Coombs	223	6.53%	- 2.87
	Green	Ian David McHugh	173	5.06%	- 3.34
	Liberal Democrat	Francine Godfrey	95	2.78%	- 1.02
	Independent	Andrew Mckenzie	42	1.23%	+ 1.23
Rejected ballots			17	0.50%
Majority			1,653
Turnout			3,417	38.32%	+ 7.82
	Labour hold

 

Harper Green ward

Harper Green ward [9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mike Francis	1,713	56.74%	- 16.26
	UKIP	Geoff Hamlett	726	24.05%	+ 24.05
	Conservative	Rob Tyler	366	12.12%	- 4.98
	Green	Kathy Sykes	115	3.81%	+ 3.81
	Liberal Democrat	Wendy Connor	86	2.85%	- 7.05
Rejected ballots			13	0.43%
Majority			987
Turnout			3,019	31.40%	+7.7
	Labour hold

 

Heaton and Lostock ward

Heaton and Lostock ward [10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Colin Shaw	2,237	47.46%	- 12.04
	Labour Co-op	John William Gillatt	1,154	24.49%	- 4.31
	UKIP	Stephen Thomas	933	19.80%	+ 19.8
	Liberal Democrat	Christine Joyce Macpherson	196	4.16%	- 0.94
	Green	Hannah Louise Middleshaw	179	3.80%	- 2.8
Rejected ballots			14	0.30%
Majority			1,083
Turnout			4,713	44.58%	+ 5.48
	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]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Bury	1,313	21.54%	- 14.37
	Labour	Stephen Pickup	1,310	21.49%
	UKIP	Bob Horsefield	1,147	18.81%	+ 18.81
	Conservative	Carol Ann Forshaw	850	13.94%	- 2.75
	Conservative	Daniel Clifford Haslam	708	11.61%
	Green	Keith Michael Cocker	401	6.58%	- 1.32
	Liberal Democrat	Lynne McCartin	201	3.30%	- 0.39
	Liberal Democrat	Lynn Natalie Rock	159	2.61%
Rejected ballots			8	0.13%
Majority			3
Turnout			3,048	31.39%	+ 0.89
	Labour hold

 

Horwich North East ward

Horwich North East ward [12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Peter McKeon	1,324	35.40%	- 8.2
	UKIP	Peter McGeehan	888	23.74%	+ 23.74
	Conservative	Anne Barbara Galloway	743	19.87%	+ 1.17
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Michael Rock	573	15.32%	- 3.98
	Green	Rod Riesco	203	5.43%	- 4.47
Rejected ballots			9	0.24%
Majority			436
Turnout			3,740	37.93%	+ 3.03
	Labour hold

 

Hulton ward

Hulton ward [13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Diane Parkinson	1,291	33.73%	+33.73
	Conservative	Andy Morgan	1,150	30.05%	- 14.55
	Labour	Shafaqat Shaikh	1,140	29.79%	- 12.71
	Green	James Tomkinson	162	4.23%	- 6.57
	Liberal Democrat	David Charles Cooper	69	1.80%	- 0.2
Rejected ballots			15	0.39%
Majority			141
Turnout			3,827	39.24%	+ 8.54
	UKIP gain from Conservative

 

Kearsley ward

Kearsley ward [14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Burrows	1,139	35.73%	- 19.27
	UKIP	Mark Joseph Cunningham	1,096	34.38%	+34.38
	Liberal Democrat	Margaret Patricia Rothwell	348	10.92%	- 22.98
	Independent	Simon Paul Colley	309	9.69%	+ 9.69
	Conservative	Sandra Macneill	278	8.72%	- 2.28
Rejected ballots			18	0.56%
Majority			43
Turnout			3,188	30.68%	+ 4.68
	Labour hold

 

Little Lever and Darcy Lever ward

Little Lever and Darcy Lever ward [15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Paul Richardson	1,255	33.22%	+ 33.22
	Labour	Maureen Connell	1,051	27.82%	- 16.48
	Liberal Democrat	Eric John Hyde	661	17.50%	- 3.5
	Conservative	Rees Gibbon	657	17.39%	- 8.81
	Green	Alwynne Cartmell	147	3.89%	- 4.31
Rejected ballots			7	0.19%
Majority			204
Turnout			3,778	39.51%	+ 3.51
	UKIP gain from Labour

 

Rumworth ward

Rumworth ward [16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ismail Ibrahim	2,876	72.50%	- 6.00
	UKIP	Geoffrey David Kay	492	12.40%	+ 12.4
	Conservative	Jack Heyes	317	7.99%	- 1.61
	Green	Alan Johnson	200	5.04%	- 3.96
	Liberal Democrat	Jaleh Salari	66	1.66%	- 1.24
Rejected ballots			16	0.40%
Majority			2,384
Turnout			3,967	39.77%	+ 9.07
	Labour hold

 

Smithills ward

Smithills ward [17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Andrew Martin	1,674	37.51%	- 3.69
	Labour	Kevin Patrick Morris	1,329	29.78%	- 10.22
	UKIP	Aaron Hepworth	876	19.63%	+ 19.63
	Conservative	Christine Flanigan	429	9.61%	- 4.29
	Green	Richard Alexander Middleshaw	139	3.11%	- 1.89
Rejected ballots			16	0.36%
Majority			345
Turnout			4,463	45.44%	+ 6.04
	Liberal Democrat hold

 

Tonge with the Haulgh ward

Tonge with the Haulgh ward [18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Nick Peel	1,399	43.34%	- 19.66
	UKIP	Derek Fisher	1,053	32.62%	+ 32.62
	Conservative	Zoe Jennifer Catherine Kirk-Robinson	486	15.06%	- 8.14
	BNP	Dorothee Sayers	109	3.38%	- 6.32
	Green	Hafsa Patel	91	2.82%	+ 2.82
	Liberal Democrat	Paul Anthony Harasiwka	66	2.04%	- 1.96
	Left Unity	Eric Thomas Hyland	14	0.43%	+ 0.43
Rejected ballots			10	0.31%
Majority			346
Turnout			3,228	36.30%	+ 6.2
	Labour hold

 

Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward

Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward [19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martyn Andrew Cox	1,424	34.01%	- 0.99
	Labour	Anne Graham	1,278	30.52%	- 15.88
	UKIP	Joan Johnson	984	23.50%	+ 23.50
	Independent	Jack Speight	203	4.85%	- 6.75
	Liberal Democrat	Derek John Gradwell	163	3.89%	- 3.01
	Green	Heather Rylance	127	3.03%	+ 3.03
Rejected ballots			8	0.19%
Majority			146
Turnout			4,187	38.24%	+ 5.24
	Conservative hold

 

Westhoughton South ward

Westhoughton South ward [20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Jones	1,268	39.33%	- 3.07
	UKIP	Les Wareing	917	28.44%	+ 28.44
	Conservative	Stephen Wallen	562	17.43%	+ 4.83
	Liberal Democrat	David Arthur Wilkinson	361	11.20%	- 23.6
	English Democrats	Derek John Bullock	97	3.01%	- 7.09
Rejected ballots			19	0.59%
Majority			351
Turnout			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

 

 VERY INTERESTING ! LABOUR TAKE NOTE !!