Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, 2010

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:

• Liberal Democrat 26
• Labour 22
• Conservative 11

Candidates

Healey ward

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

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

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

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

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

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

Central Rochdale ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sultan Ali	2334	51%
	Liberal Democrat	Khalid Mahmood	1676	37%
	Conservative	Roger Howarth	550	12%

Bamford ward

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Littleborough Lakeside ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Evans	1086
	Labour	John Hartley	335
	Conservative	Andrew Jones	1001

Milnrow and Newhey ward

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

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%

References

• BBC 2008 Rochdale election result
• Rochdale Council election, 2008 - nominations
• Rochdale Councillor information
• 2008 - local election results
• Rochdale Borough Local Election 2008
• Night of joy for Lib Dems

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