2024 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election

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17 of 51 seats on Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council 26 seats needed for a majority
Leader Jane Scullion Steven Leigh Paul Bellenger Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats Leader's seat Luddendenfoot Ryburn Greetland and Stainland Last election 28 seats, 44.1% 15 seats, 29.3% 6 seats, 12.6% Current seats 27 14 6 Seats needed 12 20   Leader Unknown None Party Green Independent Last election 2 seats, 12.1% 0 seats, 0.6% Current seats 2 1 Seats needed 24 25
Incumbent Leader Jane Scullion Labour

The 2024 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election is scheduled to be held on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections across the United Kingdom being held on the same day.

Background[edit]

The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Calderdale was a district of the West Yorkshire metropolitan county.^[1] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority was established in 2014 and began electing the mayor of West Yorkshire in 2021.^[2]

Calderdale Council was under no overall control with Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour leaders until the Labour Party achieved a majority of seats in the 2019 election, when they gained four seats to hold 28 of the council's 51 seats. In the most recent election in 2023, seventeen seats were up for election. Labour won ten seats, the Conservatives won four seats, Liberal Democrats won two seats and the Greens won one seat.^[3]

Seats up for election in 2024 were last elected in 2021. These elections were originally scheduled for 2020, but were delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[4] In that election, the Conservatives won nine seats, Labour won eight, and the Liberal Democrats won two. Labour retained its majority on the council at this election.^[5]

Electoral process[edit]

The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election for three consecutive years and no election in the fourth year.^[6][7] The election used first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Calderdale aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Previous composition[edit]

After 2023 election			Before 2024 election
Party		Seats	Party		Seats
	Labour	28		Labour	27
	Conservative	15		Conservative	14
	Liberal Democrats	6		Liberal Democrats	6
	Green	2		Green	2
	Independent	0		Independent	1

Changes:

• November 2023: Guy Beech (Conservative) resigns; seat will remain vacant until the regularly schedule May 2024 elections.^[8]
• February 2024: Rahat Khan resigns from the Labour Party and sits as an independent.^[9]

Results[edit]

Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk.

Brighouse[edit]

Brighouse (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Kim Atkinson
	Conservative	Geraldine Carter
	Labour	Frank Darnley
	Liberal Democrats	Jennie Rigg
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Calder[edit]

Calder (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Josh Fenton-Glynn*
	Conservative	Christopher Lee
	Green	Mark Stanley
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Wadsworth
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Elland[edit]

Elland (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Barry Crossland
	Conservative	Peter Hunt
	Labour	Khuram Majid
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Phillips
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Greetland and Stainland[edit]

Greetland and Stainland (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Bellenger*
	Conservative	Alex Greenwood
	Green	Jacquelyn Haigh
	Labour	Mark Pitkethly
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe[edit]

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sam Ackroyd
	Green	Catherine Graham
	Conservative	George Robinson*
	Liberal Democrats	Nikki Stocks
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Ilingworth and Mixenden[edit]

Illingworth and Mixenden (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Laura Beesley
	Independent	Sara Gaunt
	Independent	Seán Loftus
	Conservative	Stephen Padgett
	Liberal Democrats	Nicholas Proctor
	Labour	Shane Taylor
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Luddendenfoot[edit]

Luddendenfoot (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Bampton-Smith
	Labour	Jane Scullion*
	Conservative	Jill Smith-Moorhouse
	Green	Kate Sweeny
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Northowram and Shelf[edit]

Northowram and Shelf (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Elaine Hey
	Labour	Allen Slingsby
	Conservative	John Vaughan
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Ovenden[edit]

Ovenden (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Baines
	Liberal Democrats	Sean Bamforth
	Labour Co-op	Danielle Durrans*
	Green	Finn Jensen
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Park[edit]

Park (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Sabir Hussain
	Liberal Democrats	Samuel Jackson
	Conservative	Naveed Khan
	Workers Party	Shakir Saghir
	Labour	Sadia Zaman
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Rastrick[edit]

Rastrick (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Andrew Bramley
	Labour Co-op	Alan Judge
	Conservative	Joseph Matthews
	Liberal Democrats	Bernardette Stancliffe
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Ryburn[edit]

Ryburn (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Cordelia Prescott
	Liberal Democrats	Rosemary Tatchell
	Conservative	Robert Thornber*
	Labour	Leah Webster
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Skircoat[edit]

Skircoat (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Oliver Gibson
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Holdsworth
	Labour Co-op	Ann Kingstone*
	Green	Robert Orange
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Sowerby Bridge[edit]

Sowerby Bridge (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	David Booth
	Conservative	Mark Edwards
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Harris
	Labour	Adam Wilkinson*
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Todmorden[edit]

Todmorden (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Kye
	Conservative	Brian Carter
	Labour Co-op	Diana Tremayne*
	Green	Kieran Turner
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Town[edit]

Town (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Vishal Gupta
	Green	Elliot Hey
	Liberal Democrats	Garry Prashad
	Labour Co-op	Kelly Thornham
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

Warley[edit]

Warley (1)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Sohail Ashfaq
	Conservative	Stephen Baines
	Freedom Alliance	Martin Davies
	Liberal Democrats	Ashley Evans*
	Labour	Ben Jancovich
	Green	Katie Witham
Majority
Rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered electors

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