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2024 Pendle Borough Council election

The 2024 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect a third of the council for the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, on the same day as other local elections in England.

2024 Pendle Borough Council election
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12 of 33 seats on Pendle Borough Council
17 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Nadeem Ahmed David Whipp
Party Conservative Independent Liberal Democrats
Last election 14 seats, 40.2% 1 seat, 0% 7 seats, 15.9%
Seats before 13 12 7
Seats won 4 5 3
Seats after 13 12 8
Seat change Decrease1 Increase7 Increase1
Popular vote 7,703 7,448 3,356
Percentage 34.5% 33.4% 15.0%
Swing Decrease5.7% Increase33.4% Decrease0.9%
  Fourth party Fifth party
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Party Labour Green
Last election 11 seats, 39.7% 0 seats, 0%
Seats before 0 0
Seats won 0 0
Seats after 0 0
Seat change Decrease11 Steady
Popular vote 3,285 508
Percentage 14.7% 2.2%
Swing Decrease25.0% Decrease1.8%
Leader before election

Asjad Mahmood
Independent
No overall control

Leader after election

Asjad Mahmood
Independent
No overall control

The council was under no overall control prior to the election. It had been governed by a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats until the entire Labour caucus left the party in April 2024.[1]

Labour lost all their seats they were defending to Independents.[2] Following the election the Independent Group (being the former Labour councillors) and the Liberal Democrats continued to run the council.[3]

Results by ward

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Incumbent councillors denoted by an asterisk (*). These seats were last up for election when new ward boundaries were introduced in 2021 - percentage changes are calculated based on the mean party result in 2021.[4]

Barnoldswick

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Barnoldswick
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Tom Whipp* 1,009 58.3 +7.5
Conservative Carol Ann Goulthorp 377 21.8 −9.4
Labour Euan Coulston 260 15.0 −0.3
Green Sylvia Joyce Godfrey 84 4.9 N/A
Majority 632 36.5
Turnout 1,730 26.4
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Barnoldswick in 2021.

Barrowford and Pendleside

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Barrowford and Pendleside
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Nadeem Ahmed* 1,099 51.4 −14.0
Labour Susan Frances Nike 888 41.5 +17.4
Liberal Democrats Philip Alfred Berry 153 7.1 +0.1
Majority 211 211
Turnout 2,140 36.2
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Barrowford and Pendleside in 2022.

Boulsworth and Foulridge

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Boulsworth and Foulridge
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sarah Elizabeth Cockburn-Price* 1,254 63.0 −0.4
Labour Wayne Blackburn 457 22.9 +7.5
Liberal Democrats Robin Hargreaves 158 7.9 −17.7
Green Lyndsey Taylor 123 6.2 N/A
Majority 797 40.1
Turnout 1,992 31.6
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Boulsworth and Foulridge in 2021.

Bradley

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Bradley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
No Label Mohammed Iqbal* 1665 55.2 +4.9
Conservative Hassan Mahmood 1351 44.8 +3.3
Majority 314 10.4
Turnout 3,016 48.3
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Bradley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield East and Clover Hill

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Brierfield East and Clover Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Naeem Hussain Ashraf* 1789 75.3 +20.6
Conservative Adam Jake Brierley 586 24.7 −14.1
Majority 1203 50.6
Turnout 2375 38.1
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield East and Clover Hill in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield West and Reedley

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Brierfield West and Reedley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
No Label Mohammed Hanif* 1365 62.0 -4.2
Conservative Pauline Anne McCormick 362 16.4 −12.5
No Label Sajjad Akbar 300 13.6 −8.2
Labour Isaac Shafi Iqbal 176 8.0 −58.2
Majority 1003 45.6
Turnout 2203 48.2
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield West and Reedley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Earby and Coates

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Earby and Coates
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Hartley 892 44.8 +13.4
Conservative Richard Rutherford 637 32.0 −16.0
Labour David Philip Johns 353 17.7 +3.3
Green Jane Veronica Bailes Wood 111 5.6 N/A
Majority 255 12.8
Turnout 1993 31.1
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative Swing

Fence and Higham

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Fence and Higham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Brian Newman* 442 53.9 +2.4
Conservative Howard Hartley 378 46.1 −2.4
Majority 64 7.8
Turnout 820 41.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing
* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Fence and Higham in 2021..

Marsden and Southfield

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Marsden and Southfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
No Label Mohammad Adnan* 962 45.8 -5.9
Independent Neil McGowan† 441 21.0 −17.7
Conservative Marie Stone 376 17.9 −33.8
Labour Elliot Christian Gribble 261 12.4 −24.0
No Label Azim Akhtar Khan 44 2.1 N/A
No Label Craig Ian McBeth 16 0.8 N/A
Majority 521 24.8
Turnout 2100 35.0
Independent gain from Conservative Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, defected to Labour, and then the Independent Group.
† Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, stood down in 2023.

Vivary Bridge

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Vivary Bridge
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Richard O’Connor 458 38.9 −9.7
Liberal Democrats Andy Bell 370 31.4 −1.2
Labour Patricia Josephine Hannah-Wood 269 22.8 +4.8
Green Benjamin Harrop 81 6.9 N/A
Majority 88 7.5
Turnout 1,178 21.9
Conservative hold Swing

Waterside and Horsfield

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Waterside and Horsfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ash Sutcliffe* 581 40.2 −6.0
Labour Graham Roach 424 29.3 +11.2
Liberal Democrats Craig Anthony Edwards 332 23.0 −14.5
Green David Richard John Penney 109 7.5 N/A
Majority 157 10.9
Turnout 1,446 25.7
Conservative hold Swing
* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Waterside and Horsfield in 2021.

Whitefield and Walverden

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Whitefield and Walverden
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
No Label Asjad Mahmood* 1,307 64.8 +2.3
Labour Manzar Iqbal 466 23.1 −39.4
Conservative Mohamad Irfan Ayub 244 12.1 −13.2
Majority 841 10.4
Turnout 2,017 41.7
Independent gain from Labour Swing
* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Whitefield and Walverden in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

References

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  1. ^ "Labour and Lib Dems to run 'hung' Pendle Council". BBC News. 17 May 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Is Labour's stance on Gaza behind the party's failure to win any council seats in Pendle?". Channel 4 News. 2024-05-03. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
  3. ^ Macdonald, Robert (22 May 2024). "Pendle appoints new mayor and political leaders after elections and mass Labour resignation". Lancs Live. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Election results - 2024 - Borough Election 2 May". www.pendle.gov.uk. 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-04.
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