Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2016

Map of Hyndburn, Lancashire, UK showing the results of the 2012 local election. Labour in red and Conservatives in blue. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2012.

A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election will take place on 5 May 2016. Approximately one-third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day. The fallow year (one year out of four) sees Lancashire County Council elections for all residents of this borough.

Result

The majority grouping of councillors was as the headline result of the election reinforced by one, with Conservatives having lost one of their seats to Labour, and became:

• Labour 26
• Conservative 7
• UKIP 2

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2016 - electorate TBC (over just 12 wards)
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	10	1	0	1	83.33	51.14	8,592	-759
	Conservative	2	0	1	-1	16.67	33.05	5,553	-332
	UKIP	0	0	0	0	0.0	14.71	2,471	1841
	Green	0	0	0	0	0.0	1.11	186	N/A

The four (out of 16) Hyndburn Local Borough Council ward seats that are NOT up for re-election in 2016 include the following wards - Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanual in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. NB: ALL Residents have the chance to vote in the Lancashire PCC elections.

The CHURCH-Ward seat, formerly held by Labour Councillor Joan Smith since 2012 and following her resignation back in October-2015, was left Vacated without a by-election called in the meantime. LABOUR veteran Jean Battle will stand for CHURCH-Ward in May’s local elections. Five other Labour councillors are also standing down and will not be defending their existing seats in May’s local elections; including Chris Fisher in Altham-Ward, Wendy Dwyer in Peel-Ward, Bill Pinder in St Andrew’s-Ward, Kerry Molyneaux in Overton-Ward, and Harry Grayson in Rishton-Ward who moved to Ireland in July-2015.

Ward by ward

Altham - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Steve BUTTON	551	46.46	-15.66
	Conservative	John Frank BARGH	278	23.24	1.97
	UKIP	Janet BROWN	245	20.48	N/A
	Green	Patrick BOLAM	115	9.62	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	7	...
Majority			273	22.83	N/A
Turnout			1,196	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Barnfield - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony DOBSON	635	46.93	-9.95
	Labour	Jodie TRAVIS	588	43.46	0.05
	UKIP	John Errol TAYLOR	126	9.31	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	4	...
Majority			47	3.47	N/A
Turnout			1,353	TBC
	Conservative hold		Swing

Baxenden - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Terence Keith HURN	654	50.74	-13.68
	Labour	David HARTLEY	407	31.57	-4.01
	UKIP	Stewart Ian SCOTT	226	17.53	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	2	...
Majority			247	19.16	N/A
Turnout			1,289	TBC
	Conservative hold		Swing

Central - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Abdul Ghafar KHAN	1157	59.73	1.90
	Conservative	Kazi SIDDIQUE	753	38.87	-3.30
	...	spoilt votes	27	...
Majority			404	20.86	N/A
Turnout			1,937	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Church - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean BATTLE	777	80.02	21.44
	Conservative	Marion RAYNOR	176	18.13	-8.69
	...	spoilt votes	18	...
Majority			601	61.89	N/A
Turnout			971	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Netherton - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Noordad AZIZ	698	50.95	-14.31
	Conservative	Liz McGINLEY	388	28.32	-6.42
	UKIP	Tom LINKLATER	273	19.93	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	11	...
Majority			310	22.63	N/A
Turnout			1,370	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Overton - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stephanie HAWORTH	771	39.48	-6.32
	Conservative	Patrick John McGINLEY	702	35.94	15.52
	UKIP	Ian ROBINSON	403	20.63	8.81
	Green	Joan Elizabeth WEST	71	3.64	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	6	...
Majority			69	3.53	N/A
Turnout			1,953	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Peel - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paddy SHORT	593	69.19	1.49
	UKIP	Liam Finbar CLARK	259	30.22	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	5	...
Majority			334	38.97	N/A
Turnout			857	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Rishton - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeff SCALES	766	41.56	-29.74
	Conservative	Ann SCAIFE	632	34.29	5.59
	UKIP	David George DOWLING	439	23.82	N/A
	...	spoilt votes	6	...
Majority			134	7.27	N/A
Turnout			1,843	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

Spring Hill - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Munsif DAD	998	76.48	16.26
	Conservative	Abdul QAYYUM	271	20.77	-4.85
	...	spoilt votes	36	...
Majority			727	55.71	N/A
Turnout			1,305	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Andrew's - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stewart Thurston EAVES	573	53.90	1.28
	Conservative	Josh Blayne ALLEN	476	44.78	-2.60
	...	spoilt votes	14	...
Majority			97	9.13	N/A
Turnout			1,063	TBC
	Labour hold		Swing

St Oswald's - electorate TBC

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Glen Kevin HARRISON	713	39.48	3.92
	Conservative	Marlene Heather HAWORTH	588	32.56	-8.05
	UKIP	Christopher Bret MATTHEW	500	27.69	3.86
	...	spoilt votes	5	...
Majority			125	6.92	N/A
Turnout			1,806	TBC
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing