2024 Pendle Borough Council election
2024 English local election
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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.
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2 May 2024
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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]
Ward results
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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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.
By-elections
Vivary Bridge (March 2025)
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Andy Bell | 388 | 34.9 | +3.5 | |
| Reform | Nathan McCollum | 358 | 32.2 | +32.2 | |
| Conservative | Sean Kelly | 244 | 22.0 | −16.9 | |
| Labour | Philip Heyworth | 121 | 10.9 | −11.9 | |
| Majority | 30 | 2.7 | |||
| Turnout | 20.7 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Vivary Bridge (May 2025)
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reform | Marion Atkinson | 689 | 43.9 | +43.9 | |
| Liberal Democrats | David Clegg | 468 | 29.8 | −1.6 | |
| Conservative | Julie Green | 258 | 22.0 | −22.5 | |
| Labour | Philip Heyworth | 106 | 6.7 | −16.1 | |
| Green | Benjamin Harrop | 50 | 3.2 | −3.7 | |
| Majority | 221 | 14.1 | |||
| Turnout | 1,571 | ||||
| Reform gain from Conservative | Swing | ||||
Barnoldswick
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Bryony Hartley | 1,008 | 59.8 | +1.5 | |
| Reform | Mick Waddington | 441 | 26.2 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Jane Pratt | 170 | 10.1 | –11.7 | |
| Labour | Euan Clouston | 66 | 3.9 | –11.1 | |
| Majority | 567 | 33.6 | –2.9 | ||
| Turnout | 1,685 | 25.8 | –0.6 | ||
| Registered electors | 6,546 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats hold | |||||