The 2023 Newark and Sherwood District Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 39 members of Newark and Sherwood District Council in Nottinghamshire, England.
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Prior to the election the council had been under Conservative majority control, being led by David Lloyd. Following the results, the Conservatives lost the council to no overall control, and David Lloyd lost his seat.[1][2] The Labour group leader, Paul Peacock, was appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 23 May 2023 with support from the Liberal Democrats and many of the independent councillors.[3]
Overall results
editThe overall results were as follows:[4]
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 14 | 2 | 15 | 13 | 35.9 | 39.0 | 13,008 | -8.9 | |
Labour | 11 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 28.2 | 26.5 | 8,852 | -0.4 | |
Independent | 11 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 28.2 | 19.3 | 6,436 | +11.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7.7 | 10.8 | 3,609 | -5.1 | |
Reform UK | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 69 | n/a | ||
TUSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 40 | n/a |
Ward results
editThe results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating an incumbent councillor standing for re-election.[5][6][7]
Balderton North and Coddington
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Johno Lee* | 809 | 53.9 | +2.0 | |
Independent | Emma Louise Oldham | 792 | 52.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Betty Margaret Brooks* | 715 | 47.6 | −2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Klaus Becher | 514 | 34.2 | +22.4 | |
Labour | Lucy Olivia Spoors | 414 | 27.6 | +10.9 | |
Turnout | 1,501 | 34.21 | |||
Registered electors | 5,268 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Balderton South
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Simon Nicholas Forde | 658 | 61.4 | N/A | |
Independent | Jean Hazel Hall | 628 | 58.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Lydia Hazel Hurst* | 461 | 43.0 | −24.9 | |
Conservative | Ronnie White* | 397 | 37.0 | −26.2 | |
Turnout | 1,072 | 26.74 | |||
Registered electors | 4,353 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Beacon
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Susan Crosby | 1,213 | 67.8 | N/A | |
Independent | Rowan Sally Cozens | 1,180 | 66.0 | N/A | |
Independent | David Michael Moore | 906 | 50.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Rita Crowe* | 709 | 39.6 | −3.2 | |
Conservative | David James Lloyd* | 694 | 38.8 | −3.2 | |
Conservative | Matthew James Skinner* | 666 | 37.2 | −2.8 | |
Turnout | 1,789 | 30.01 | |||
Registered electors | 6,831 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Bilsthorpe
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Rhona Holloway* | 412 | 52.2 | −9.8 | |
Labour | Matt Kerry | 377 | 47.8 | +9.8 | |
Turnout | 789 | 28.62 | |||
Registered electors | 2,785 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Boughton
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Wildgust* | 376 | 52.4 | ±0.0 | |
Labour | Marc Steele | 342 | 47.6 | ±0.0 | |
Turnout | 718 | 30.93 | |||
Registered electors | 2,341 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Bridge
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Debbie Darby | 500 | 52.2 | −5.2 | |
Independent | Irene Brown | 381 | 39.8 | −15.5 | |
Labour | Lisa June Geary | 317 | 33.1 | +7.5 | |
Independent | Mick Darby | 249 | 26.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Tony Roberts | 224 | 23.4 | +0.4 | |
Conservative | Andrew Christoper Rainbow | 175 | 18.3 | −1.4 | |
Reform UK | Robert Guy Michael Palmer | 69 | 7.2 | N/A | |
Turnout | 958 | 22.05 | |||
Registered electors | 4,934 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Independent hold |
Bridge ward had been held by Conservative councillors Simon Haynes and Jack Kellas immediately prior to the election. They both won their seats in by-elections in 2021 following the resignations of the two independent councillors elected in 2019, one of whom was Irene Brown, who was re-elected to the seat in 2023.[8] Seats shown as independent hold to allow comparison with 2019 results. Simon Haynes and Jack Kellas both stood in Farndon and Fernwood ward in 2023 rather than Bridge ward.
Castle
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Adrian Charles Amer | 261 | 34.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Glenn William Barker | 253 | 33.8 | +3.5 | |
Conservative | Jenni Oliver | 235 | 31.4 | −11.2 | |
Turnout | 749 | 28.85 | |||
Registered electors | 2,627 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Collingham
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Linda Elaine Dales* | 1,049 | 59.2 | +16.7 | |
Conservative | Phil Farmer | 847 | 47.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Marylyn Rayner | 683 | 38.5 | +16.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Phil Barron | 662 | 37.4 | N/A | |
Green | Martin James Lynn | 303 | 17.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,772 | 40.07 | |||
Registered electors | 4,784 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative gain from Independent |
Both Collingham seats were held by Conservatives immediately prior to the election, with Conservative councillor Emma Davis having won her seat in a by-election in 2022 following the death of the independent councillor elected in 2019.[9] Emma Davis did not stand for re-election in 2023. Seat shown as a Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 results.
Devon
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Neil Ross | 910 | 72.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Matthew Joseph Thompson Spoors | 671 | 53.5 | +19.1 | |
Labour | Paul Taylor | 640 | 51.0 | +20.5 | |
Conservative | Bob Crowe* | 530 | 42.2 | +4.7 | |
Conservative | Max Cope* | 514 | 41.0 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Keith Frank Girling* | 501 | 39.9 | +9.5 | |
Turnout | 1,255 | 24.89 | |||
Registered electors | 6,598 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Keith Girling was the sitting councillor for Castle ward prior to the election.
Dover Beck
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Roger James Jackson* | 668 | 71.2 | −5.6 | |
Labour | Joseph Maurice Spoors | 270 | 28.8 | +5.6 | |
Turnout | 938 | 38.57 | |||
Registered electors | 2,450 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Edwinstowe and Clipstone
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Stephen Peacock* | 1,330 | 60.2 | +15.3 | |
Labour | Andrew Freeman* | 1,248 | 56.4 | +13.9 | |
Labour | Anne Celia Brooks | 1,172 | 53.0 | +9.8 | |
Conservative | Scott Carlton* | 1,081 | 48.9 | +3.8 | |
Conservative | Rebecca Spademan | 938 | 42.4 | −1.8 | |
Conservative | Nigel Jeremy Booth | 864 | 39.1 | −4.2 | |
Turnout | 2,211 | 27.55 | |||
Registered electors | 8,918 | ||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Andrew Freeman had won his seat in a by-election in 2022 following the death of a Conservative elected in 2019.[10] Seat shown as Labour gain from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 election.
Farndon and Fernwood
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Simon Edward Haynes* | 834 | 50.0 | −4.1 | |
Conservative | Neil Allen | 829 | 49.7 | +0.2 | |
Conservative | Jack Logan Kellas* | 823 | 49.3 | +1.3 | |
Independent | Declan Patrick Logue | 627 | 37.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Jane Elizabeth Olson | 593 | 35.6 | +16.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Chris Adams | 511 | 30.6 | −0.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Ryan Thomas Cullen | 419 | 25.1 | +1.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Tom Geraghty | 369 | 22.1 | −5.1 | |
Turnout | 1,668 | 34.13 | |||
Registered electors | 5,837 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Conservative hold |
Simon Haynes and Jack Kellas were both sitting councillors for Bridge ward prior to the election.
Farnsfield
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maurice Arthur Shakeshaft | 604 | 51.4 | +32.5 | |
Conservative | Robert Bruce Laughton* (Bruce Laughton) |
572 | 48.6 | −5.7 | |
Turnout | 1,176 | 47.72 | |||
Registered electors | 2,517 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Lowdham
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Tim Wendels* | 594 | 61.7 | +4.0 | |
Labour | Kevin Treverton Scoles | 369 | 38.3 | +26.6 | |
Turnout | 963 | 42.72 | |||
Registered electors | 2,266 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Muskham
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sue Saddington* | 618 | 55.5 | −16.8 | |
Green | Jude Andrews | 268 | 24.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Adrian James Loftus | 228 | 20.5 | +8.5 | |
Turnout | 1,114 | 45.8 | |||
Registered electors | 2,428 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Ollerton
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Mike Pringle* | 1,198 | 77.9 | +23.3 | |
Labour | Alice Brazier | 963 | 62.6 | +13.1 | |
Labour | Lee Robert Brazier* | 953 | 62.0 | +2.7 | |
Conservative | Kelly Fordham | 501 | 32.6 | −0.3 | |
Turnout | 1,538 | 22.95 | |||
Registered electors | 7,345 | ||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold | |||||
Labour hold |
Rainworth North and Rufford
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Linda Mary Tift | 632 | 48.9 | +7.6 | |
Labour | Claire Penny | 549 | 42.5 | +9.5 | |
Conservative | Lois Kirsten Fisher | 482 | 37.3 | −18.7 | |
Conservative | Petra Harvey-Barker | 460 | 35.6 | −18.3 | |
Independent | Carrie Young | 258 | 20.0 | N/A | |
Green | Sheila Greatrex-White | 163 | 12.6 | N/A | |
TUSC | Kirsty Denman | 40 | 3.1 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,292 | 27.53 | |||
Registered electors | 5,110 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Rainworth South and Blidworth
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Tina Thompson* | 516 | 41.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Tom Smith* | 448 | 35.9 | +6.3 | |
Conservative | Gary Frazer Fisher | 419 | 33.6 | +8.3 | |
Labour | Bill Bates | 376 | 30.1 | −8.9 | |
Independent | Martin Gary Atherton | 347 | 27.8 | −1.2 | |
Labour | Callam Walsh | 266 | 21.3 | −13.5 | |
Independent | Edward Litchfield | 124 | 9.9 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,248 | 29.45 | |||
Registered electors | 4,469 | ||||
Independent gain from Labour | |||||
Conservative gain from Labour |
Tina Thompson had won her seat in a by-election in 2021 following the death of the Labour councillor elected in 2019.[11] Seat shown as an independent gain from Labour to allow comparison with 2019 results. Tom Smith was the sitting councillor for Rainworth North and Rufford ward prior to the election.
Southwell
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Penny Rainbow* | 1,355 | 47.2 | +1.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Richard Bloomfield Harris* | 1,346 | 46.9 | +0.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Karen Roberts | 1,314 | 45.8 | +6.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jeremy Michael Berridge | 1,039 | 36.2 | −3.1 | |
Conservative | Curtis Marshall | 1,000 | 34.8 | −4.1 | |
Conservative | Michael John Jeffrey | 955 | 33.3 | −4.5 | |
Labour | Jamie Oliver William Bostock | 878 | 30.6 | +17.3 | |
Green | Steven Patrick Morris | 540 | 18.8 | N/A | |
Independent | Jools Cosgrove | 186 | 6.5 | N/A | |
Turnout | 2,871 | 45.3 | |||
Registered electors | 7,038 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
Liberal Democrats hold |
Sutton-on-Trent
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Sylvia Mary Michael* | 544 | 51.4 | +51.4 | |
Independent | Roger John Bell | 515 | 48.6 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,059 | 42.3 | |||
Registered electors | 2,539 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Trent
editParty | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Keith Myers Melton | 555 | 47.7 | +18.0 | |
Conservative | Malcolm Yates | 506 | 43.5 | −9.8 | |
Green | Eric Bignell | 102 | 8.8 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,163 | 49.35 | |||
Registered electors | 2,369 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative |
References
edit- ^ Whittaker, Anna (5 May 2023). "Conservatives lose overall control of Newark and Sherwood District Council". Notts TV.
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- ^ Burrows, Fionn (24 May 2023). "Labour's Paul Peacock appointed new leader of Newark and Sherwood District Council". Newark Advertiser. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ "Newark & Sherwood result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
- ^ "Election results by wards". Newark and Sherwood District Council. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ Pridmore, Oliver; Beck, Laycie (5 May 2023). "Full Newark and Sherwood District Council 2023 results as Conservatives lose full control". Nottinghamshire Live. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ "Your councillors". Newark and Sherwood District Council. Archived from the original on 29 January 2023. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
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- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Collingham Ward". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ^ Teale, Andrew. "Edwinstowe and Clipstone Ward". Local Elections Archive Project. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
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