User:HLE/Harper Green (ward)

Harper Green
Electoral ward
Country	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North West
County	Greater Manchester
Metropolitan borough	Bolton
Created	1980
Named for	Harper Green
Government
• Type	Metropolitan borough
• Body	Bolton Council
• Leadership	Leader and Cabinet
• Executive	No overall control
Area
• Total	1.21 sq mi (3.13 km2)
Population  (2011 census)
• Total	14,478.
UK Parliament constituency	Bolton South East
Website	Harper Green

Harper Green is an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It elects three Councillors to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one Councillor every year without election on the fourth.

Together with Farnworth, Great Lever, Hulton, Kearsley, Little Lever and Darcy Lever, and Rumworth wards it makes up the Bolton South East Parliamentary Constituency.

Election results

Elections in the 2010s

Harper Green By-Election 16 October 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Susan Haworth	1,176	50.7%	−6.3%
	UKIP	Jeff Armstrong	777	33.5%	+9.3%
	Conservative	Robert Tyler	282	12.2%	−
	Greens	James Tomkinson	38	1.6%	−2.2%
	Liberal Democrats	Rebekah Fairhurst	28	1.2%	−1.7%
	Independent	Joseph Holt	19	0.8%	n/a

Harper Green By-Election 20 December 2013

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Asha Ali Ismail	744
	Conservative	Robert Tyler	325
	UKIP	Peter McGeehan	252
	Green	Kathy Sykes	60
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Connor	53
Majority			419
Turnout			1,450
	Labour hold		Swing

References

• Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results 1973–2012" (PDF). The Elections Centre. The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 12 July 2016.