Elections to Rochdale Council in Greater Manchester, England were held on 6 May 2010, the same day as the general election, with one-third of the council facing the voters. The Liberal Democrats lost control of the council.
After the election, the composition of the council was:
| Healey ward[1] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Hilary Josephine Rogers | 1718 | 19.3 | ||
| Conservative | Andrew Neilson | 1546 | 17.3 | ||
| Labour | Jim Moran | 1529 | 17.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Alan Taylor | 1355 | 15.2 | ||
| Conservative | Keith Taylor | 1046 | 11.7 | ||
| Labour | Margret Taylor | 1001 | 11.2 | ||
| Green | Ian Andrews | 467 | 5.2 | ||
| Green | Samir Chatterjee | 260 | 2.9 | ||
| Turnout | 8934 | 89 | |||
| Liberal Democrat hold | Swing | ||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | ||||
| Kingsway ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Daalat Ali | 2,245 | 49.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Doreen Morton | 1,690 | 37.0 | ||
| Conservative | Phil Grantham | 314 | 13.7 | +2.0 | |
| Majority | 98 | 3.7 | 15.6 | ||
| Turnout | 2,675 | 34.1% | 2.4% | ||
| Milkstone and Deeplish ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Shah Wazir | 1774 | 37.2 | ||
| Labour | Mohammed Zaman | 1704 | 35.7 | ||
| Respect | Javed Iqbal | 999 | 20.9 | ||
| Conservative | John Kershaw | 293 | 6.1 | ||
| Balderstone and Kirkholt ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Dale Mulgrew | 1400 | 37% | ||
| Labour | Stefan Cholewka | 1094 | 29% | ||
| Conservative | Michael Butler | 755 | 20% | ||
| Independent | Darren Pedley | 515 | 14% | ||
| Majority | 61 | 2.7% | -45.0% | ||
| Turnout | 2,239 | 30.1% | 8.8% | ||
| Castleton ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter John Davison | 1360 | 30% | ||
| Labour | Jean Hornby | 1305 | 29% | ||
| Independent | Francis Wilford Salt | 763 | 17% | ||
| Conservative | Ronnie Crossley | 737 | 16% | ||
| BNP | Allan Howard Jones | 400 | 9% | ||
| Spotland and Falinge ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Surinder Biant | 1883 | 41% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Clegg | 1483 | 32% | ||
| Conservative | Steven Scholes | 718 | 15% | ||
| Independent | Carl Faulkner | 561 | 12% | ||
| Central Rochdale ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Sultan Ali | 2334 | 51% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Khalid Mahmood | 1676 | 37% | ||
| Conservative | Roger Howarth | 550 | 12% | ||
| Bamford ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Jane Gartside | 1766 | +27% | ||
| Labour | Ben "Timmy Howard" Robertson | 388 | +29% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Mohammed Shafiq | 988 | -28% | ||
| Smallbridge and Firgrove ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Bernard Martin Burke | 1702 | 42% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Christine Akram | 1381 | 34% | ||
| Conservative | Len Branton | 934 | 23% | ||
| Norden ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Wera Hobhouse | 2240 | 42% | ||
| Conservative | Maureen Patricia Sullivan | 1927 | 36% | ||
| Labour | Ann Marie Courtney | 839 | 16% | ||
| BNP | Arthur Hughes | 319 | 6% | ||
| West Heywood ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Alan Michael McCarthy | 2203 | 50% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Simon Paul Steward | 1109 | 25% | ||
| Conservative | Darren Philip Bayman | 1069 | 24% | ||
| North Heywood ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Rush | 2028 | 52% | ||
| Labour | Mervyn Clive Simpson | 1328 | 34% | ||
| Conservative | David Garnett | 568 | 14% | ||
| Hopwood Hall ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Carol Elizabeth Wardle | 2301 | 49% | ||
| Conservative | Peter Burt | 1130 | 24% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | James Anthony MacSparran | 744 | 16% | ||
| BNP | Donald Ford | 496 | 11% | ||
| East Middleton ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | June West | 2180 | 47% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Terrance William Smith | 1298 | 28% | ||
| Conservative | David Harris | 1166 | 25% | ||
| South Middleton ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Michael Charles Holly | 2103 | 41% | ||
| Labour | Michael Gary Burke | 1977 | 39% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Jane Al-Attar | 995 | 20% | ||
| West Middleton ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Neil Patrick Emmott | 2232 | 55% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Neil Proctor | 712 | 17% | ||
| Conservative | Robert Alexander Herd | 630 | 15% | ||
| BNP | Peter Greenwood | 508 | 12% | ||
| North Middleton ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Labour | Jonathan Paul Burns | 2237 | 51% | ||
| Conservative | Bernard Thomas Braiden | 1069 | 25% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Frank Cooper | 1040 | 24% | ||
| Littleborough Lakeside ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Peter Evans | 1086 | |||
| Labour | John Hartley | 335 | |||
| Conservative | Andrew Jones | 1001 | |||
| Milnrow and Newhey ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal Democrat | Andrew John Kelly | 1905 | 38% | ||
| Labour | Martin Eric Rodgers | 1557 | 31% | ||
| Conservative | Catherine Marie Merrick | 1364 | 27% | ||
| Respect | Joyce Kathleen Burden | 153 | 3% | ||
| Wardle and West Littleborough ward | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Conservative | Robert Clegg | 2545 | 54% | ||
| Liberal Democrat | Reginald James Lane | 1074 | 23% | ||
| Labour | David Finlay | 1067 | 23% | ||
| Preceded by Rochdale Council election, 2008 |
Rochdale local elections | Succeeded by Rochdale Council election, 2011 |
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