2016 Salford City Council election
Appearance
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The 2016 Salford City Council election took place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of Salford City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections and the Salford Mayoral election.[1] In April 2016, it was revealed that the Liberal Democrats would not be fielding any candidates in Salford.[2]
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:[3][4]
Party | Previous council | New council | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 50 | 50 | |||
Conservative | 9 | 9 | |||
Independent | 1 | 1 | |||
Total | 60 | 60 | |||
Working majority | 40 | 40 |
Ward results
[edit]Asterisks denote incumbent Councillors seeking re-election.
Barton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Anthony Mullen* | 1,398 | 60.3 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Glyn Alan Wright | 445 | 19.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Hilary Brunyee | 287 | 12.4 | −9.4 | |
Green | Daniel Towers | 124 | 5.4 | −4.0 | |
TUSC | Susan Katrina Wright | 46 | 2.0 | −2.9 | |
British Resistance | Wayne Tomlinson | 17 | 0.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 953 | 41.1 | +5.8 | ||
Turnout | 2317 | 26.8 | −26.5 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Boothstown and Ellenbrook
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Bob Clarke | 1,389 | 50.6 | −7.2 | |
Labour | Lee Colin Rowbotham | 739 | 26.9 | −4.3 | |
UKIP | Joseph William Evans | 386 | 14.1 | N/A | |
Green | Lauren Amy Barnes | 192 | 7.0 | −1.1 | |
TUSC | Kit Watson | 23 | 0.8 | −1.4 | |
Majority | 650 | 23.7 | −2.8 | ||
Turnout | 2744 | 36.8 | −30.7 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
Broughton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Jim King* | 1,580 | 64.4 | −2.1 | |
UKIP | Shneur Zalman | 368 | 15.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Yonie Saunders | 280 | 11.4 | −5.0 | |
Green | David Jones | 159 | 6.5 | −3.6 | |
TUSC | Andrew Sherratt | 39 | 1.6 | −3.6 | |
Majority | 1212 | 49.4 | −0.7 | ||
Turnout | 2452 | 26.1 | −21.0 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Cadishead
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John David Walsh | 1,220 | 55.2 | −0.4 | |
UKIP | Stephen Ferrer | 409 | 18.5 | N/A | |
Conservative | Dorothy Chapman | 367 | 16.6 | −12.6 | |
Green | Diane Cawood | 158 | 7.2 | −1.8 | |
TUSC | Melissa Andrews | 38 | 1.7 | −3.7 | |
Majority | 811 | 36.7 | +10.3 | ||
Turnout | 2209 | 27.6 | −27.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Claremont
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Barbara Anne Bentham | 1,294 | 47.7 | +2.6 | |
UKIP | Mary Ferrer | 666 | 24.6 | +2.9 | |
Conservative | Bob Goodall | 489 | 18.0 | −1.6 | |
Green | Dane Alexander Yates | 245 | 9.0 | +3.1 | |
Majority | 628 | 23.2 | −0.2 | ||
Turnout | 2712 | 33.4 | −29.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Eccles
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Wheeler* | 1,873 | 61.7 | +13.4 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Alan Boot | 707 | 23.3 | −1.6 | |
Green | Helen Margaret Alker | 284 | 9.4 | +3.3 | |
TUSC | Sally Griffiths | 173 | 5.7 | +3.4 | |
Majority | 1166 | 38.4 | +15 | ||
Turnout | 3037 | 34.9 | −27.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Irlam
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Tracy Jane Kelly* | 1,118 | 58.3 | +8.3 | |
UKIP | Brian Norman Robinson | 435 | 22.7 | −0.8 | |
Conservative | Noel Gaskell | 248 | 12.9 | −5.9 | |
Green | Barry Woodling | 58 | 3.0 | −2.6 | |
TUSC | Michelle Joy O'Mahoney | 43 | 2.2 | +1.0 | |
Majority | 683 | 35.6 | +4.4 | ||
Turnout | 1917 | 27.8 | −27.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Irwell Riverside
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Coen* | 1,055 | 58.0 | +3.2 | |
UKIP | Katherine Alder | 316 | 17.4 | +1.5 | |
Green | Wendy Kay Olsen | 233 | 12.8 | −1.0 | |
Conservative | Thomas Richard Chambers | 180 | 9.9 | −2.3 | |
TUSC | Benjamin Wilkes | 35 | 1.9 | −0.5 | |
Majority | 739 | 40.6 | +1.7 | ||
Turnout | 1819 | 25.5 | −13.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Kersal
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Peter Connor* | 1,219 | 46.7 | −1.8 | |
Conservative | Arnold Saunders | 942 | 36.1 | −6.9 | |
UKIP | Seamus Martin | 283 | 10.8 | N/A | |
Green | Jason Peter Reading | 113 | 4.3 | −1.4 | |
TUSC | Alan Metcalfe | 31 | 1.2 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 277 | 10.6 | +5.1 | ||
Turnout | 2611 | 31.5 | −20.1 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
There was a by-election held on 2 March 2017 following the resignation of the incumbent councillor. The ward was gained by the Conservative Party candidate, a local rabbi.[5]
Langworthy
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paul Anthony Longshaw | 1,142 | 48.5 | −6.4 | |
UKIP | Christopher Barnes | 586 | 24.9 | +0.8 | |
Independent | Mark Breeze | 264 | 11.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Ian Macdoland | 151 | 6.4 | −4.0 | |
Green | Ian Pattinson | 139 | 5.9 | −1.8 | |
TUSC | Andrew Carss | 45 | 1.9 | −0.3 | |
Majority | 556 | 23.6 | −7.2 | ||
Turnout | 2353 | 27.6 | −24.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Little Hulton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Robert Andrew Sharpe | 1,171 | 30.6 | ||
Labour | Colette Weir | 837 | 21.7 | ||
UKIP | Phil Bridge | 648 | 16.9 | ||
UKIP | Bod Skoczypec | 416 | 10.9 | ||
Conservative | Nathan Ian James | 317 | 8.3 | ||
Conservative | Matthew William Lightfoot | 229 | 6.0 | ||
Green | Frederick Roy Battersby | 210 | 5.5 | ||
Turnout | 3828 | 21.0 | −25.9 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | ||||
Labour hold | Swing |
Ordsall
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Ray Mashiter* | 1,521 | 58.9 | +6.0 | |
Conservative | Adam Robert Carney | 370 | 14.3 | −6.7 | |
Green | Emma Sarah Louise Van Dyke | 331 | 12.8 | −1.3 | |
UKIP | Owen Martin Hammond | 280 | 10.8 | −0.6 | |
TUSC | Ashley Jade Taylor | 48 | 1.9 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 1151 | 44.6 | +15.0 | ||
Turnout | 2583 | 24.6 | −28.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Pendlebury
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Barry Warner* | 1,287 | 48.4 | −0.1 | |
UKIP | Andy Olsen | 728 | 27.4 | +2.3 | |
Conservative | Jonathan Grosskopf | 373 | 14.0 | −5.9 | |
Green | Paul Brighouse | 161 | 6.1 | +1.5 | |
TUSC | Sean Warren | 77 | 2.9 | +1.4 | |
Republic Party | Stuart Cremins | 21 | 0.8 | N/A | |
Majority | 559 | 21.0 | −2.4 | ||
Turnout | 2660 | 29.9 | −27.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Swinton North
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour Co-op | Derek Antrobus* | 1,340 | 61.6 | +7.3 | |
UKIP | Stacey Olsen | 619 | 23.2 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | Sharon Bulmer | 500 | 18.8 | −1.9 | |
Green | Steven John Willett | 137 | 5.1 | N/A | |
TUSC | Norma Frances Parkinson-Green | 67 | 2.5 | −0.8 | |
Majority | 721 | 27.1 | −5.9 | ||
Turnout | 2663 | 31.8 | −27.5 | ||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing |
Swinton South
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Heather Fletcher | 1,105 | 46.3 | −0.4 | |
UKIP | Joe O'Neill | 579 | 24.2 | +1.4 | |
Conservative | Nicky Turner | 443 | 18.5 | −3.6 | |
Green | Nicola Smith | 161 | 6.7 | +1.2 | |
TUSC | Matt Kilsby | 49 | 2.1 | −0.2 | |
English Democrat | Craig Holmes | 43 | 1.8 | N/A | |
British Resistance | Eddy O'Sullivan | 9 | 0.4 | N/A | |
Majority | 526 | 22.0 | −2.0 | ||
Turnout | 2389 | 29.3 | −28.3 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Walkden North
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brendan Patrick Ryan* | 1,146 | 54.1 | +4.4 | |
UKIP | Bernard Gill | 526 | 24.8 | +0.8 | |
Conservative | Shazia Qayyum | 243 | 11.5 | −7.5 | |
Green | Diana Joy Battersby | 130 | 6.1 | +1.9 | |
TUSC | Terry Simmons | 60 | 2.8 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 620 | 29.3 | +3.6 | ||
Turnout | 2118 | 25.2 | −28.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Walkden South
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Richard John Critchley* | 1,421 | 43.4 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Anne Susan Broomhead | 1266 | 38.6 | −2.8 | |
UKIP | Ann Lord | 390 | 11.9 | −2.5 | |
Green | Thomas Matthew Dylan | 149 | 4.5 | +0.1 | |
TUSC | Jamie Carr | 29 | 0.9 | −0.6 | |
Majority | 155 | 4.7 | |||
Turnout | 3276 | 41.8 | −23.4 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Weaste & Seedley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Stephen Hesling* | 1,268 | 51.5 | +5.5 | |
UKIP | Barrie Michael Fallows | 591 | 24.0 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | Adam Charles Edward Kennaugh | 342 | 13.9 | −2.5 | |
Green | Rob Stephenson | 172 | 7.0 | −0.1 | |
TUSC | Becci Heagney | 65 | 2.6 | +0.1 | |
Majority | 677 | 27.5 | +3.3 | ||
Turnout | 2460 | 28.2 | −27.6 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Winton
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Anthony Lancaster* | 1,381 | 58.3 | +2.2 | |
Conservative | George Andrew Darlington | 404 | 17.0 | −4.2 | |
Independent | Paul Michael Doyle | 271 | 11.4 | +0.3 | |
Green | Susan Mary O'Shea | 171 | 7.2 | +0.3 | |
TUSC | Rob Royle | 143 | +6.0 | +2.2 | |
Majority | 977 | 41.2 | +6.4 | ||
Turnout | 2370 | 27.3 | −28.2 | ||
Labour hold | Swing |
Worsley
[edit]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Karen Garrido* | 1,833 | 56.0 | +3.5 | |
Labour | Stuart James Dickman | 846 | 25.8 | −0.6 | |
UKIP | Andrew Townsend | 372 | 11.4 | −1.8 | |
Green | Christopher Bertenshaw | 179 | 5.5 | −1.0 | |
TUSC | Thomas James Alexander Thurman | 26 | 0.8 | 0.0 | |
Majority | 987 | 30.1 | +3.9 | ||
Turnout | 3274 | 40.5 | −30.6 | ||
Conservative hold | Swing |
References
[edit]- ^ "Local election - Thursday 5 May 2016". Salford City Council. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Liberal Democrats will not field any candidates in Salford's local elections". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "Political composition of the council". Salford City Council. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- ^ "2016 election results, Salford". Salford Council. Archived from the original on 6 May 2016.
- ^ "Rabbi wins surprise victory for Tories in Salford by-election". Manchester Evening News. 3 March 2017.