Preston City Council election, 2016

Elections to Preston City Council took place on 5 May 2016, the same day as other local elections. The council is elected in thirds, which means one councillor from each three-member ward and selected councillors from a number of two-member wards are elected each year, followed by one year free from any elections to ensure all councillors serve a full term.

Due to the "in thirds" system, the 2016 election results below are directly compared with the corresponding elections in 2012, with the change in vote share calculated on this basis.

Summary

Council Composition

Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

↓
32	20	5	1
Labour	Conservative	Lib Dem	Ind

Ward results

Ashton

Preston City Council Elections: Ashton ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Angela Vodden	533	44.6	-10.7
	Conservative	Michael Balshaw	394	32.97	-5.93
	Liberal Democrat	Mark Jewell	97	8.12	+2.32
	UKIP	Graeme Moitie	95	7.95	N/A
	Green	Alasdair Bremner	76	6.36	N/A
Majority			139	11.63
Turnout			1195

Brookfield

Preston City Council Elections: Brookfield ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Corker	793	61.14	-14.46
	UKIP	Neil Graham	319	24.6	N/A
	Conservative	Daryl Bamber	185	14.26	-10.14
Majority			474	36.55
Turnout			1297	−3.85

Cadley

Preston City Council Elections: Cadley ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Royston Banks	143	8.37	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	John Potter	1023	59.86	+9.66
	Labour	Suleman Sarwar	312	18.26	-6.54
	Conservative	Jim Witherington	231	13.52	-11.48
Majority			711	41.6
Turnout			1709	3.74

Deepdale

Preston City Council Elections: Deepdale ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Campbell	122	8.90	+7.4
	UKIP	Derek Killen	99	7.22	N/A
	Labour	Lynne Wallace	1,150	83.88	+38.78
Majority			1,028	74.98
Turnout			1,371

Fishwick

Preston City Council Elections: Fishwick ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emma Fielding	149	15.19	-0.51
	Labour	Martyn Rawlinson	832	84.81	+0.51
Majority			683	69.62
Turnout			981

Garrison

Preston City Council Elections: Garrison ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stuart Greenhalgh	902	50.39	+0.19
	Labour	Nweeda Khan	688	38.44	+4.14
	Liberal Democrat	Hans Voges	200	11.17	+4.57
Majority			214	11.96
Turnout			1,790

Greyfriars

Preston City Council Elections: Greyfriars ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Claire Craven	401	17.82	+1.02
	Conservative	Damien Moore	1,319	58.62	+3.52
	Labour	John Wilson	530	23.55	-4.55
Majority			789	35.06
Turnout			2,250

Ingol

Preston City Council Elections: Ingol ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	UKIP	Kieran Aspden	288	16.47	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Pauline Brown	860	49.17	+5.87
	Labour	John Rochford	372	21.27	-14.23
	Conservative	Anthony Smith	229	13.09	-8.11
Majority			488	27.90
Turnout			1,749

Larches

Preston City Council Elections: Larches ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Alice Buchanan	256	15.38	+4.38
	Liberal Democrat	David Callaghan	332	19.94	-20.86
	UKIP	David Dawson	284	17.06	N/A
	Labour	Mark Yates	793	47.63	-0.57
Majority			461	27.69
Turnout			1,665

Lea

Preston City Council Elections: Lea ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Trevor Hart	683	43.73	-6.27
	UKIP	Mark Kingsley	229	14.66	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	Rebecca Potter	374	23.94	-0.04
	Labour	Samir Vohra	276	17.67	-8.43
Majority			309	19.78
Turnout			1,562

Rural East

Preston City Council Elections: Preston Rural East ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Thomas Davies
	Labour	Stephen Smith
Majority
Turnout

Rural North

Preston City Council Elections: Preston Rural North ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Cross
	Conservative	Lona Smith
	Liberal Democrat	Alex Warren

Ribbleton

Preston City Council Elections: Ribbleton ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Ash
	UKIP	Anthony Helps
	Conservative	Stephen Kay
	Labour	Nicholas Pomfret
Majority
Turnout

Riversway

Preston City Council Elections: Riversway ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Victoria Bamber
	Labour	Linda Crompton
	Green	Alex Walker
	UKIP	Maureen Watt
Majority
Turnout

Sharoe Green

Preston City Council Elections: Sharoe Green ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Green	Helen Disley
	Labour	Jonathan Grisdale
	Liberal Democrat	Greg Vickers
	Conservative	David Walker
Majority
Turnout

St George's

There will be no election in St George's ward because of an uncontested poll.^[1]

St Matthew's

Preston City Council Elections: St Matthews ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Labour	Jade Morgan
	Conservative	James Shuttleworth
Majority
Turnout

Town Centre

Preston City Council Elections: Town Centre ward 2016
Party		Candidate
	Labour	Drew Gale
	Conservative	Matthew Hargreaves
Majority
Turnout

Tulketh

Preston City Council Elections: Tulketh ward 2016
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Labour	Matthew Brown	831
	Liberal Democrat	Edward Craven	89
	Conservative	Bowen Perryman	211
	UKIP	Andrew Watt	224
Majority
Turnout

External links

Local Elections 2016 Preston City Council

References

↑ Labour candidate wins St Georges ward after NO ONE stands against him Blog Preston

[1] Labour candidate wins St Georges ward after NO ONE stands against him Blog Preston

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