2015 Middlesbrough Borough Council election

The 2015 Middlesbrough Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Middlesbrough Borough Council in England.^[1] It took place on the same day as the election for the Mayor of Middlesbrough, as well as the UK general election, and other local elections across England.^[2] Since the 2011 election, there had been boundary reviews, which resulted in two fewer seats on the council, many old wards being discontinued and new wards being formed.^[3]

Overall results

There are two fewer seats on the council as a result of a boundary review.

Middlesbrough Borough Council Election Result 2015
	Seats	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes
Labour	33	+3	71.74	49.51	44,114
Independent	9	-1	19.56	23.16	20,631
Conservative	4	0	8.70	16.89	15,045
UKIP	0		0	6.86	6,111
Green	0	-1	0	2,218	969
Liberal Democrats	0	-1	0	1.09	969

A total of 89,088 valid votes were cast and there were 645 rejected ballots.
The turnout was 55.62%.

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓
25	15	4	2	1	1
Labour	Independent	Con	MI	L	G

After the election the composition of the council was:

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33	9	4
Labour	Independent	Con

Con
MI - Marton Independents
L - Liberal Democrats
G - Green Party

Ward Results

An asterisk denotes an incumbent councillor.

Acklam

Acklam (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Shelia Dean	1,260	30.71	N/A
	Labour	Shyamal Biswas*	1,017	24.79	−3.16
	Conservative	Ken Hall	971	23.67	+4.29
	Independent	Victor Paul Walkington	527	12.84	N/A
	Conservative	Mohammed Aslam Hanif	328	7.99	N/A
Majority			46	1.12
Turnout			4,103	63.7	+16.73
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Ayresome

Ayresome (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bernard Edward Taylor*	996	31.94	+4.04
	Labour	Denise Rooney	751	24.09	+0.50
	UKIP	Martin Neil	452	14.50	N/A
	Independent	William Henry Hawthorne	435	13.95	−9.88
	Conservative	Eric Lawrence	282	9.04	+5.10
	Independent	Brian Robert Taylor	202	6.48	N/A
Majority			299	9.59
Turnout			3,118	53.38	+20.42
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Berwick Hills and Pallister

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Berwick Hills and Pallister (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mick Thompson	1,221	29.56
	Labour	Eddie Dryden*	1,152	27.89
	Labour	Julie McGee	841	20.36
	Independent	Derek Loughborough	700	16.94
	Conservative	Doris Lawrence	217	5.25
Majority			311	7.53
Turnout			4,131
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Dryden previously served as a councillor for the Pallister ward from 2011-2015.

Brambles and Thorntree

Brambles and Thorntree (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Geraldine Purvis	1,006	21.29
	Labour	Thurston Peter Purvis	1,004	21.24
	Labour	Terence Henry Lawton	921	19.49
	Independent	Len Junier	480	10.16
	UKIP	Anthony Birtle	475	10.05
	Independent	Angela Marie Brodie	342	7.23
	Independent	John Knowles	327	6.92
	Conservative	David Smith	171	3.62
Majority			441	9.33
Turnout			4,726	36.87
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.
Cllrs G Purvis and T Purvis were both previously councillors for the Thorntree ward.
Len Junier was previously the Labour cllr for North Ormesby & Brambles Farm.

Central

Central (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Linda Lewis	1,387	24.08
	Labour	Ansab Ali Shan	946	16.49
	Labour	Mirja Mohammed Zafar Uddin	944	16.45
	Independent	John McPartland	713	12.43
	Independent	Mohammed Pervaz Khan	680	11.85
	Independent	Zafiar Khan	678	11.82
	UKIP	Alan Wedlake	395	6.88
Majority			231	4.02
Turnout			5,738	43.45
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Coulby Newham

Coulby Newham (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Geoffrey Cole*	1,464	18.85
	Labour	Janice Brunton*	1,291	16.62
	Labour	Joe William Culley	1,079	13.89
	Conservative	Leslie Charles Myers	996	12.82
	Independent	Michael Hudson*	893	11.50
	Independent	Alison Mary Huggan	762	9.81
	Independent	Steven Antony Maynard	758	9.76
	Liberal Democrats	Ben Gibson	524	6.75
Majority			83	1.07
Turnout			7,767	52.87
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hemlington

Hemlington (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeanette Ann Walker*	1,474	36.26	−10.14
	Labour	Nicola Joy Walker*	1,377	33.87	−10.73
	UKIP	David Crosby	489	12.03	N/A
	Independent	Ian Steven Hamilton	378	9.30	N/A
	Conservative	George Gunn Beasley	347	8.54	−0.46
Majority			888	21.84
Turnout			4,065	54.00	+18.47
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Kader

Kader (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Ronald Arundale*	1,165	25.03	−1.01
	Labour	Jordan Peter Blyth	896	19.25	+4.30
	Labour	Jennifer Susan Dowsett	835	17.94	+1.34
	Conservative	Ronald Darby	826	17.75	−13.38
	UKIP	David Cottrell	556	11.95	N/A
	UKIP	John Andrew Christopher Hogg	376	8.08	N/A
Majority			61	1.31
Turnout			4,654	65.29	+15.47
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ladgate

Ladgate (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michael Carr*	1,070	31.86	−5.32
	Labour	June Goodchild	976	28.17	−8.34
	Conservative	Ron W Armstrong	516	15.37	N/A
	UKIP	Janis William-Landess	427	12.72	N/A
	Conservative	Sam Edwards Griffiths	399	11.88	N/A
Majority			430	12.80
Turnout			3,358	54.82	+17.98
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Linthorpe

Linthorpe (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Steve Edward Bloundele*	1,467	35.26
	Labour	Naweed Hussain	1,014	24.38
	Conservative	Thomas Wilkinson	761	18.29
	Green	Darren Robert Moore	473	11.37
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Godfrey Llewellyn Jones	445	10.70
Majority			253	6.09
Turnout			4,160	63.38
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

This ward has changed from having 3 seats to 2 seats as a result of recent boundary changes, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Longlands and Beechwood

Longlands and Beechwood (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Teresa Higgins	1,372	23.47
	Independent	Joan McTigue*	1,110	18.98
	Labour	Charles Michael Rooney*	1,046	17.89
	Labour	Jacinta Catherine Skipp	884	15.12
	UKIP	Nigel Patrick Connor	752	12.86
	Independent	Edward Brian Rooney	411	7.03
	Conservative	Timothy Edward Goodrick	272	4.65
Majority			162	2.77
Turnout			5,847	47.11
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Cllrs McTigue and Rooney previously served as councillors from 2011-2015 in the Beachwood and Clairville wards respectively.

Marton East

Marton East (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Thomas William Mawston*	1,212	28.74
	Independent	Dorothy Davison*	1,165	27.62
	Labour	John Baptist Kabuye	693	16.43
	Conservative	Archibald Stephenson Currie	675	16.00
	UKIP	Stephen John Arthur Burrows	473	11.21
Majority			472	11.19
Turnout			4,218	66.67
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Both Cllrs Mawston and Davison were previously councillors for Marton Ward from 2011-2015.

Marton West

Marton West (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Christine Hobson*	1,661	34.14
	Conservative	John Eric Hobson	1,557	32.00
	Labour	David John Branson	816	16.77
	Labour	Stephen Cass	443	9.11
	UKIP	Terry O'Brien	388	7.98
Majority			741	15.23
Turnout			4,865	67.79
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Newport

Newport (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert Brady*	1,325	26.11
	Labour	Tracy Harvey*	1,108	21.84
	Labour	Alma Hellaoui	918	18.09
	Independent	Sajaad Khan*	607	11.96
	UKIP	Darren Thomas Hogg	601	11.85
	Independent	Pauline Hawthorne	515	10.15
Majority			311	6.13
Turnout			5,074	42.23
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Cllrs Brady and Harvey previously served as councillors for the Gresham ward from 2011-2015.

Sajaad Khan previously served as a Labour councillor in the Gresham ward from 2011-2015.

North Ormesby

North Ormesby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Lewis Young	389	50.07
	Independent	Peter David Hall	314	40.41
	Conservative	Mark Owen Warman	74	9.52
Majority			75	9.66
Turnout			777	43.38
	Labour hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Nunthorpe

Nunthorpe (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Theresa Lesley McGloin	1,216	29.00
	Independent	Jon Rathmell	918	21.89
	Conservative	Andrew Gordon Simmonds	817	19.49
	Conservative	Jacqueline Anne Simmonds	704	16.79
	Labour	Dennis Burns	538	12.83
Majority			101	2.40
Turnout			4,193	67.05
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Park

Park (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Julia Rostron*	1,669	21.71
	Labour	Frances McIntyre*	1,416	18.42
	Labour	Margaret Walters	1,234	16.06
	Green	Joseph Michna*	1,134	14.75
	Independent	Barbara Jacqueline Elder	1,011	13.15
	Conservative	John Henzell Hemy	612	7.96
	Green	Martin Bulman	611	7.95
Majority			100	1.31
Turnout			7,687	56.92
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Cllr Rostron previously served as councillor for Linthorpe from 2011-2015.

Park End and Beckfield

Park End and Beckfield (3 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Brian Anthony Hubbard*	1,177	20.32
	Independent	Michael Saunders*	1,082	18.68
	Independent	Peter Alexander Cox*	1,043	18.00
	Labour	Ian Daniel Blades	989	17.07
	Labour	Christopher Patrick McIntyre	716	12.36
	Labour	Janet Elizabeth Thompson	608	10.50
	Conservative	Janet Angela Hobson	178	3.07
Majority			54	0.93
Turnout			5,793	44.81
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Cllrs Hubbard and Cox previously served as councillors in Beckfield, whilst Cllr Saunders served as a councillor for Park End.

Stainton and Thornton

Stainton and Thornton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Philip Coupe	756	63.11
	Labour	Philippa Nancy Storey	442	36.89
Majority			314	26.2
Turnout			1,198	65.80
	Conservative hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Trimdon

Trimdon (2 Seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jean Sharrocks*	619	17.12
	Independent	Dennis McCabe	553	15.29
	Labour	Peter Vincent Sharrocks*	535	14.80
	Conservative	Maria Cairns	455	12.58
	UKIP	George William Rogers	442	12.22
	Independent	Stephen Dee	422	11.67
	Conservative	Kelvin Mirfin	305	8.44
	UKIP	Jamie Webb	285	7.88
Majority			18	0.49
Turnout			3,616	63.87
	Labour hold		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

This is a newly created ward, therefore there are no previous figures to compare the 2015 result to.

Cllr J Sharrocks previously served as a councillor for the Brookfield ward from 2011-2015.

Peter Sharrocks previously served as a councillor for the Brookfield ward from 2011-2015.

References

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
^ "Middlesbrough Council - Elections". Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
^ "Middlesbrough Council - Middlesbrough - New Ward Maps". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.

[2] "Middlesbrough Council - Elections". Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2015.

[3] "Middlesbrough Council - Middlesbrough - New Ward Maps". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

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