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The 2010 Leeds City Council election took place on Thursday 6 May 2010 to elect members of Leeds City Council in England. It was held on the same day as the 2010 general election and other local elections across the UK.
As per the election cycle, one third of the council's seats were up for election. The subsequently elected councillors replaced those elected when their individual seats were previously contested in 2006.
The result of the election saw the Labour Party gain five council seats and take minority control of the council. They held 48 of the 99 total seats and negotiated a confidence-and-supply agreement with the two Green Party councillors to achieve a majority. It replaced a six-year coalition between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, which had also been supported by the three Green councillors before the election.[1][2][3]
Election result
[edit]Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 20 | 5 | 0 | ![]() |
60.6 | 35.7 | 124,847 | +6.9 | |
Conservative | 6 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
18.2 | 26.6 | 92,987 | -4.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | 5 | 0 | 3 | ![]() |
15.1 | 24.5 | 85,905 | +5.4 | |
BNP | 0 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
0.0 | 6.8 | 23,759 | -4.6 | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 1 | ![]() |
0.0 | 2.4 | 8,525 | -1.4 | |
Morley Borough Independent | 2 | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
6.1 | 2.0 | 6,900 | -1.3 | |
UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.9 | 2,993 | -0.0 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.7 | 2,550 | -0.3 | |
Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0.4 | 1,465 | -0.4 |
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:[1]
Party | 2008 election | May 2009 | Prior to election | New council | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 43 | 42[a] | 43 | 48 | |
Conservative | 22 | 23 | 23 | 22 | |
Liberal Democrat | 24 | 25[b] | 24[c] | 21 | |
Morley Borough Independent | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | |
Green | 3 | 3[d] | 3 | 2 | |
BNP | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total | 99 | 99 | 99 | 99 | |
Working majority | -13 | -14 | -13 | -2 |
Councillors who did not stand for re-election
[edit]Councillor | Ward | First elected | Party | Reason | Successor | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Bale[6] | Guiseley & Rawdon | 2004 | Conservative | stood down | Pat Latty (Conservative) | ||
Linda Rhodes-Clayton[7] | Hyde Park & Woodhouse | 2004 | Liberal Democrats | stood down | Javaid Akhtar (Labour) | ||
Debra Coupar[8] | Middleton Park | 2003, 2006[e] | Labour | stood down | Kim Groves (Labour) | ||
Roger Harington[9] | Gipton & Harehills | 2002[f] | Labour | stood down | Kamila Maqsood (Labour) | ||
Frank Robinson[10] | Calverley & Farsley | 1998 | Conservative | stood down | Rod Wood (Conservative) | ||
Alec Shelbrooke[11] | Harewood | 2004 | Conservative | stood down | Matthew Robinson (Conservative) |
Ward results
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Clive Fox* | 5,292 | 43.2 | −14.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Christina Shaw | 4,508 | 36.8 | +10.2 | |
Labour | Nigel Gill | 1,822 | 14.9 | +5.3 | |
BNP | Doreen Dawson | 332 | 2.7 | −0.8 | |
Green | Paul Marchant | 291 | 2.4 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 784 | 6.4 | −24.6 | ||
Turnout | 12,245 | 77.2 | +29.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -12.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Peter Harrand* | 6,225 | 49.4 | −7.4 | |
Labour | Rosie Pickard | 3,426 | 27.2 | +7.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Sue Knights | 2,207 | 17.5 | +2.9 | |
UKIP | Warren Hendon | 343 | 2.7 | −0.8 | |
BNP | Wayne Taylor | 246 | 2.0 | −1.2 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Brian Jackson | 152 | 1.2 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 2,799 | 22.2 | −15.2 | ||
Turnout | 12,599 | 72.1 | +31.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Lisa Mulherin* | 4,437 | 41.2 | +11.4 | |
Conservative | Stewart McArdle | 2,671 | 24.8 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Katherine Bavage | 1,742 | 16.2 | +9.2 | |
BNP | Joanna Beverley | 1,490 | 13.8 | −15.7 | |
UKIP | David Daniel | 424 | 3.9 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 1,766 | 16.4 | +16.2 | ||
Turnout | 10,764 | 63.2 | +27.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.7 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Janet Harper* | 4,475 | 46.2 | +3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Arnott | 2,186 | 22.5 | +12.1 | |
Conservative | Gregory Rodwell | 1,478 | 15.2 | −3.4 | |
BNP | 921 | 9.5 | −5.9 | ||
Green | Robert Simpson | 635 | 6.5 | −6.0 | |
Majority | 2,289 | 23.6 | −0.7 | ||
Turnout | 9,695 | 57.1 | +29.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -4.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Congreve* | 3,934 | 47.4 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Robert Winfield | 1,632 | 19.7 | −3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Alex Tyson | 1,283 | 15.5 | +5.0 | |
BNP | Dean Taylor | 902 | 10.9 | −4.2 | |
UKIP | Wilfred Woodhouse | 355 | 4.3 | −0.4 | |
Green | Colin Johnston | 192 | 2.3 | −3.1 | |
Majority | 2,302 | 27.7 | +8.7 | ||
Turnout | 8,298 | 57.0 | +28.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Neil Taggart* | 3,846 | 41.0 | −1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Bee | 2,242 | 23.9 | +12.6 | |
Conservative | Philip Smith | 1,790 | 19.1 | −3.3 | |
BNP | Sharon Knight | 812 | 8.7 | −4.5 | |
UKIP | Jeff Miles | 379 | 4.0 | +4.0 | |
Green | Kate Bisson | 302 | 3.2 | −2.0 | |
Majority | 1,604 | 17.1 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 9,371 | 56.8 | +27.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -6.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ron Grahame | 3,375 | 43.8 | +13.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | David Hollingsworth* | 2,605 | 33.8 | −7.9 | |
BNP | Jason Harland | 888 | 11.5 | −9.2 | |
Conservative | Michael Wheeler | 640 | 8.3 | +2.9 | |
Green | Peter Exley | 191 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 770 | 10.0 | −1.8 | ||
Turnout | 7,699 | 53.1 | +23.7 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +10.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rod Wood | 4,964 | 39.8 | −20.4 | |
Labour | Andrew Jarosz | 4,318 | 34.6 | +16.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Kate Arbuckle | 2,403 | 19.3 | +7.5 | |
BNP | Robert Leary | 790 | 6.3 | −3.0 | |
Majority | 646 | 5.2 | −36.4 | ||
Turnout | 12,475 | 71.2 | +34.2 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -18.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jane Dowson* | 5,796 | 55.3 | +11.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Adam Slack | 2,154 | 20.6 | −1.8 | |
Conservative | Daniel Paterson | 1,471 | 14.0 | −0.5 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | John Frankland | 825 | 7.9 | −1.2 | |
BNP | Dean Marshall | 230 | 2.2 | −1.0 | |
Majority | 3,642 | 34.8 | +13.0 | ||
Turnout | 10,476 | 62.9 | +31.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +6.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mohammed Iqbal* | 3,879 | 41.5 | −5.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jahangir Aziz | 2,717 | 29.1 | +15.6 | |
Conservative | Nina Rosen | 1,621 | 17.3 | +2.5 | |
BNP | Laura Meeson | 638 | 6.8 | −5.2 | |
Green | Melanie Welsh | 493 | 5.3 | −0.1 | |
Majority | 1,162 | 12.4 | −19.6 | ||
Turnout | 9,348 | 49.1 | +29.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | -10.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Gruen* | 4,921 | 46.1 | +9.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline Anderson | 2,955 | 27.7 | −7.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith Norman | 1,915 | 17.9 | +9.0 | |
BNP | Michael Mee | 895 | 8.4 | −6.8 | |
Majority | 1,966 | 18.4 | +16.3 | ||
Turnout | 10,686 | 62.1 | +24.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +8.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Hardy | 3,488 | 33.1 | +11.0 | |
Green | Andy Parnham* | 2,563 | 24.3 | −20.3 | |
Conservative | Michael Best | 1,817 | 17.2 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Moore | 1,590 | 15.1 | +11.0 | |
BNP | Helen Foster | 1,084 | 10.3 | −3.5 | |
Majority | 925 | 8.8 | −13.7 | ||
Turnout | 10,542 | 58.7 | +26.2 | ||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +15.6 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Thomas Murray* | 5,007 | 43.8 | +1.2 | |
Conservative | Ryan Stephenson | 3,955 | 34.6 | −4.6 | |
Liberal Democrats | Simon Dowling | 1,811 | 15.8 | +8.3 | |
BNP | Graham Misson | 668 | 5.8 | −4.8 | |
Majority | 1,052 | 9.2 | +5.9 | ||
Turnout | 11,441 | 71.8 | +27.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kamila Maqsood | 5,179 | 60.3 | +18.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tasadaq Hussain | 2,105 | 24.5 | −18.3 | |
Conservative | Beatrice Greenwood | 642 | 7.5 | +3.9 | |
BNP | Anthony Wall | 503 | 5.9 | −0.6 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Azar Iqbal | 153 | 1.8 | +0.4 | |
Majority | 3,074 | 35.8 | +35.3 | ||
Turnout | 8,582 | 57.5 | +19.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +18.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Pat Latty | 5,090 | 40.2 | −10.6 | |
Labour | Mike King | 3,574 | 28.2 | +3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cindy Cleasby | 2,921 | 23.1 | +10.8 | |
BNP | Andrew Gallagher | 647 | 5.1 | −1.3 | |
Green | Colin Avison | 432 | 3.4 | −1.7 | |
Majority | 1,516 | 12.0 | −14.4 | ||
Turnout | 12,664 | 72.4 | +32.1 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -7.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Matthew Robinson | 6,910 | 59.6 | −13.7 | |
Labour | Stuart McKenna | 2,038 | 17.6 | +6.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Pearcey | 1,990 | 17.2 | +10.8 | |
BNP | Martin Gibson | 382 | 3.3 | −2.3 | |
Green | Patricia Capstick | 275 | 2.4 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 4,872 | 42.0 | −20.4 | ||
Turnout | 11,595 | 78.4 | +32.5 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -10.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Martin Hamilton* | 3,993 | 50.9 | +9.7 | |
Labour | Asghar Khan | 2,066 | 26.4 | −3.1 | |
Conservative | Andrea Taylor | 981 | 12.5 | −0.3 | |
Green | Christopher Foren | 710 | 9.1 | −4.8 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Declan Normaschild | 89 | 1.1 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 1,927 | 24.6 | +12.9 | ||
Turnout | 7,839 | 53.0 | +33.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +6.4 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Brian Cleasby* | 5,959 | 47.9 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | Dawn Collins | 3,138 | 25.2 | −12.7 | |
Labour | Rebecca Brady | 2,356 | 18.9 | +11.1 | |
BNP | Ian Asquith | 358 | 2.9 | −1.8 | |
UKIP | Paul Hellyer | 326 | 2.6 | +2.6 | |
Green | Andrea Binns | 316 | 2.5 | −1.2 | |
Majority | 2,821 | 22.7 | +14.8 | ||
Turnout | 12,453 | 71.2 | +29.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +7.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Javaid Akhtar | 2,901 | 39.8 | +1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Mick Taylor | 2,779 | 38.1 | −2.5 | |
Conservative | Yasser Khalid | 751 | 10.3 | +2.9 | |
Green | Eliot Hollier | 574 | 7.9 | −2.2 | |
Independent | Andrew Coley | 155 | 2.1 | +2.1 | |
Independent | Adele Beeson | 132 | 1.8 | +1.8 | |
Majority | 122 | 1.7 | −0.5 | ||
Turnout | 7,292 | 48.8 | +28.9 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +1.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian Selby* | 4,711 | 54.0 | +4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Joanne Binns | 1,459 | 16.7 | +6.5 | |
Conservative | Billy Flynn | 1,450 | 16.6 | +1.8 | |
BNP | Bernard Allen | 962 | 11.0 | −3.0 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Simon Fearn | 147 | 1.7 | −0.7 | |
Majority | 3,252 | 37.3 | +2.3 | ||
Turnout | 8,729 | 52.8 | +21.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Keith Wakefield* | 5,748 | 51.3 | +0.7 | |
Conservative | Tina Phillips | 2,782 | 24.8 | −3.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matthew Coleman | 1,487 | 13.3 | +4.9 | |
BNP | Shaun Fitzpatrick | 624 | 5.6 | −6.9 | |
UKIP | Paul Spivey | 571 | 5.1 | +5.1 | |
Majority | 2,966 | 26.5 | +4.5 | ||
Turnout | 11,212 | 68.9 | +31.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +2.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Bernard Atha* | 4,012 | 42.4 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ruth Coleman | 3,125 | 33.0 | −3.6 | |
Conservative | Matthew Wharton | 1,420 | 15.0 | +5.2 | |
Green | Morgan Tatchell-Evans | 469 | 5.0 | −1.7 | |
BNP | Keven Nicholson | 447 | 4.7 | −2.8 | |
Majority | 887 | 9.4 | +6.7 | ||
Turnout | 9,473 | 60.0 | +29.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +3.3 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Kim Groves | 4,477 | 49.2 | +10.9 | |
BNP | Kevin Meeson | 1,875 | 20.6 | −16.8 | |
Conservative | James McFarland | 1,292 | 14.2 | +0.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Beth Fisher | 1,222 | 13.4 | +3.3 | |
Green | James Fell | 231 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
Majority | 2,602 | 28.6 | +27.6 | ||
Turnout | 9,097 | 50.9 | +21.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +13.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sharon Hamilton | 4,362 | 35.3 | +9.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Richard Harker* | 4,247 | 34.3 | −7.0 | |
Conservative | Dan Cohen | 3,133 | 25.3 | +1.9 | |
BNP | Leslie Howells | 327 | 2.6 | −1.3 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Michael Davies | 301 | 2.4 | −1.1 | |
Majority | 115 | 0.9 | −14.6 | ||
Turnout | 12,370 | 72.3 | +32.7 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | +8.2 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Morley Borough Independent | Thomas Leadley* | 4,063 | 33.4 | −18.3 | |
Labour | David Nagle | 2,767 | 22.7 | +9.3 | |
Conservative | Robin Ghosh | 2,571 | 21.1 | +9.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Lovell | 1,397 | 11.5 | +8.3 | |
BNP | Tom Redmond | 1,378 | 11.3 | −8.3 | |
Majority | 1,296 | 10.6 | −21.5 | ||
Turnout | 12,176 | 68.2 | +28.0 | ||
Morley Borough Independent hold | Swing | -13.8 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Morley Borough Independent | Shirley Varley | 2,837 | 26.7 | −17.0 | |
Labour | Rob Wilkinson | 2,497 | 23.5 | +10.1 | |
BNP | Chris Beverley* | 2,246 | 21.2 | −7.5 | |
Conservative | Andrew Haigh | 1,880 | 17.7 | +9.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rowena Skinner | 1,149 | 10.8 | +7.6 | |
Majority | 340 | 3.2 | −11.9 | ||
Turnout | 10,609 | 64.2 | +26.5 | ||
Morley Borough Independent gain from BNP | Swing | -13.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Ryk Downes* | 5,647 | 44.9 | +6.1 | |
Conservative | Nigel Francis | 3,159 | 25.1 | −3.0 | |
Labour | John Eveleigh | 3,011 | 23.9 | +1.4 | |
BNP | Geoffrey Bulmer | 527 | 4.2 | −0.8 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Francis Denning | 233 | 1.9 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 2,488 | 19.8 | +9.1 | ||
Turnout | 12,577 | 72.0 | +27.8 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +4.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mick Coulson* | 4,861 | 42.3 | +3.3 | |
Conservative | Jason Aldiss | 3,356 | 29.2 | −5.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brendan Stubbs | 2,081 | 18.1 | +9.2 | |
BNP | Winifred Misson | 901 | 7.8 | −5.4 | |
Green | Irene Dracup | 292 | 2.5 | −2.1 | |
Majority | 1,505 | 13.1 | +8.3 | ||
Turnout | 11,491 | 66.6 | +28.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Stewart Golton* | 3,938 | 37.7 | −5.9 | |
Labour | Alec Hudson | 3,756 | 35.9 | +2.4 | |
Conservative | Caroline Oldfield | 2,018 | 19.3 | +7.2 | |
BNP | Robert Peel | 736 | 7.0 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 182 | 1.7 | −8.3 | ||
Turnout | 10,448 | 67.1 | +29.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | -4.1 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ghulam Hussain | 4,769 | 38.7 | +8.5 | |
Conservative | Paul Wadsworth* | 4,134 | 33.6 | −13.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Adam Douglas | 2,647 | 21.5 | +10.0 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Malcolm Christie | 446 | 3.6 | −0.3 | |
BNP | Bernadette Herbert | 320 | 2.6 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 635 | 5.2 | −11.6 | ||
Turnout | 12,316 | 72.3 | +30.9 | ||
Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | +10.9 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mick Lyons* | 4,098 | 37.6 | +8.0 | |
Conservative | Elizabeth Hayes | 3,032 | 27.8 | −6.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ian Dowling | 1,538 | 14.1 | +6.7 | |
Independent | David Gale | 1,072 | 9.8 | +2.9 | |
BNP | Ian Gibson | 1,041 | 9.5 | −12.6 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Gareth Christie | 126 | 1.2 | +1.2 | |
Majority | 1,066 | 9.8 | +5.5 | ||
Turnout | 10,907 | 67.9 | +23.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +7.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Judith Chapman* | 4,716 | 43.2 | +2.0 | |
Conservative | Matt Baker | 2,622 | 24.0 | −5.0 | |
Labour | Carol Hughes | 2,537 | 23.3 | +7.1 | |
Green | Martin Hemingway | 559 | 5.1 | −0.1 | |
BNP | Peter Askins | 287 | 2.6 | −2.5 | |
Independent | Alan Procter | 106 | 1.0 | −0.1 | |
Alliance for Green Socialism | Keith Nathan | 78 | 0.7 | −1.1 | |
Majority | 2,094 | 19.2 | +7.0 | ||
Turnout | 10,905 | 64.5 | +29.6 | ||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | +3.5 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | John Procter* | 6,115 | 52.9 | −11.7 | |
Labour | Ashley Walsh | 2,403 | 20.8 | +4.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jonathan Bentley | 2,142 | 18.5 | +8.8 | |
UKIP | David Macey | 595 | 5.1 | +0.7 | |
BNP | Sam Clayton | 302 | 2.6 | −2.2 | |
Majority | 3,712 | 32.1 | −16.1 | ||
Turnout | 11,557 | 75.0 | +32.8 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -8.0 |
By-elections between 2010 and 2011
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Paul Wadsworth | 2,075 | 45.1 | +4.9 | |
Labour | Mike King | 1,708 | 37.1 | +8.9 | |
Liberal Democrats | Cindy Cleasby | 818 | 17.8 | −5.3 | |
Majority | 367 | 8.0 | −4.0 | ||
Turnout | 4,601 | 25.0 | −47.4 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing | -2.0 |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Temple Newsam ward councillor, Jacqueline Langdale, resigned for personal reasons and triggered an April 2009 by-election. The Conservative candidate, former councillor David Schofield, had lost his council seat to Langdale in 2007. In October 2008, the Daily Express had reported Langdale had been involved in an extramarital affair with the 2008 Labour candidate for Temple Newsam, Jeff Coupar. Coupar was also married to Langdale's colleague and Middleton Park councillor Debra Coupar.[4]
- ^ Kabeer Hussain (Hyde Park and Woodhouse) re-joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2009. He had previously defected to the Labour Party in October 2007, before leaving less than six months later to sit as an independent.
- ^ Hyde Park and Woodhouse councillor Kabeer Hussain died in office on 29 December 2009 and the Labour candidate, former University ward councillor Gerry Harper, won the subsequent February 2010 by-election.[5]
- ^ Green Party councillor, Luke Russell, resigned and triggered a September 2008 by-election. The party retained his Farnley and Wortley council seat.
- ^ Coupar was later elected as a councillor for Cross Gates and Whinmoor in a 2013 by-election and Temple Newsam in 2016.
- ^ Harington was later elected again for Gipton and Harehills in 2012.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Leeds City Council under minority Labour leadership". BBC News Online. 27 May 2010.
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