2021 Hyndburn Borough Council election

Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2021
	6 May 2021
	6 May 2021
12 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council; 18 seats needed for a majority
	2016 local election results in Hyndburn Labour Conservative Not contested

A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election (postponed since March 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak), should be held on Thursday 6 May 2021. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.[1]

This election, postponed for 12-months since 2020,[2] should be taking place at the same time as the regularly-scheduled 2021 Lancashire County Council elections and the rescheduled Police & Crime Commissioner elections.

Background

Before the election Labour had a majority of 26 councillors, Conservatives had 9 councillors[3]

Labour will be defending 10-seats and Conservatives will be defending 2-seats.

Local Election result

The majority grouping of councillors as the headline result of the election.

After the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -

Labour 26
Conservative 8

Hyndburn Local Election Result 2021
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	10
	Conservative	2
	UKIP	0
	Green	0
	Spoilt Ballots

NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats were NOT be up for re-election in 2021, included the following wards - Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. However, as there was ALSO an election for Lancashire's next Police and Crime Commissioner, polling stations in those Four wards would ALSO have been OPEN.

Previous Councillors who were looking to Stand-Down in May 2021 included - Stephanie Haworth (Lab) (Overton), Jean Battle (Lab) (Church) and Jeff Scales (Lab) (Rishton)

As well as this the Barnfield seat became vacant in March 2020 as Councillor Tony Dobson died.

Ward results

Altham

Altham – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Steve BUTTON
	Conservative
	UKIP
	Green
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Barnfield

Barnfield – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Conservative	Timothy FENTON
	Labour	Caroline MONTAGUE
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Baxenden

Baxenden – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Conservative	Terence Keith HURN
	Labour	Kimberley Jane WHITEHEAD
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Central

Central – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Abdul Ghafar KHAN
	Conservative
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Church

Church – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Clare PRITCHARD
	Conservative
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Netherton

Netherton – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Noordad AZIZ
	Conservative
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Overton

Overton – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Michael HINDLEY
	Conservative
	UKIP
	Green
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Peel

Peel – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Paddy SHORT
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Rishton

Rishton – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Jodi CLEMENTS
	Conservative
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

Spring Hill

Spring Hill – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Munsif DAD
	Conservative
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Stewart Thurston EAVES
	Conservative
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's – Electorate TBC
Party		Candidate	±
	Labour	Glen Kevin HARRISON
	Conservative
	UKIP
		spoilt votes
Majority			N/A
Turnout

References

"Elections & Referendums - what we do". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
"Previously postponed Hyndburn Borough Council election". Retrieved 1 April 2020.
"Hyndburn Borough Council - Your councillors by political party". The Hyndburn Borough Council. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

External links

Hyndburn Borough Council - elections

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[TEC-Notice-1] "Elections & Referendums - what we do". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

[Previously-postponed-HBC-election-2] "Previously postponed Hyndburn Borough Council election". Retrieved 1 April 2020.

[HBC-Councillors-3] "Hyndburn Borough Council - Your councillors by political party". The Hyndburn Borough Council. Retrieved 21 March 2020.

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