Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2010

Map of Hyndburn, Lancashire, UK showing the results of the 2010 local election. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue and independent in light grey. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2010.

Elections to Hyndburn Borough Council were held on 6 May 2010. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council with the help of at least one Independent councillor. Since there was also the General Election being held on the same day, voter turnout was much higher than usual local election turnouts.

After the election, the composition of the council was

Election result

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2010
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	7	3	1	2	63.6	41.2	11,047
	Conservative	3	1	4	-3	27.3	39.8	10,579
	Independent	1	1	0	1	9.1	16.8	4,480
	Liberal Democrat	0			0	0.0	0.0	281
	British National Party	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	192
Turnout			26,579

NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2014 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.

Ward results

Clayton-le-Moors
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Tim O'Kane	800	33.77
	Conservative	Jennie Anderson	722	30.48
	Independent	Nick Collingridge	655	27.65
	British National Party	Andrew Eccles	192	8.10
Turnout			2,369	67.2
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Huncoat
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Nick Whittaker	797	35.50
	Labour	Martyn Isherwood	779	34.70
	Independent	Paul Gott	669	29.80
Turnout			2,245	65.5
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Immanuel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Colette McCormack	1163	50.46
	Conservative	Simon James Taylor	1142	49.54
Turnout			2,305	67.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Milnshaw
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Clare Pritchard	1230	57.40
	Conservative	Roger Jepson	913	42.60
Turnout			2,143	64.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Netherton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour Co-op	Ciaran Wells	1137	56.18
	Conservative	Dennis Baron	540	26.68
	Independent	Stephen Aspin	347	17.14
Turnout			2,024	65.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Overton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Ian Robinson	1614	51.78
	Conservative	Roy Atkinson	1503	48.22
Turnout			3,117	67.0
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Peel
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bernard Dawson	1168	71.31
	Conservative	Danny Cassidy	470	28.69
Turnout			1,638	56.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Rishton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ken Moss	1,535	46.53
	Conservative	Ross Sourbutts	1384	41.95
	Independent	Chris Fisher	380	11.52
Turnout			3,299	68.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Spring Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Pam Barton	1291	63.94
	Conservative	Mohammed Safdar	447	22.14
	Liberal Democrat	Akhtar Hussain	281	13.92
Turnout			2,019	59.1
	Labour hold		Swing

St. Andrew's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Britcliffe	1060	51.78
	Labour Co-op	John McCormack	744	36.35
	Independent	Tony Hindley	243	11.87
Turnout			2,047	63.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

St Oswald's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Doug Hayes	1584	47.20
	Labour	Stewart Eaves	1200	35.76
	Independent	Brian Andrew Smith	572	17.04
Turnout			3,356	66.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

References

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/council/html/3707.stm http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/elections/electionresults.php?electionid=1

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