Wyre Borough Council elections

Wyre Borough Council elections are held every four years. Wyre Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Wyre in Lancashire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2015, 50 councillors have been elected from 24 wards.^[1]

Wyre shown within the non-metropolitan county of Lancashire (Unitary authorities excluded)

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	Overall control		Conservative		Labour		UKIP		Lib Dems / Liberal		Independent		Other
2023	Conservative	30		17		-		-		3		-
2019	Conservative	37		9		4		-		-		-
2015	Conservative	36		14		-		-		-		-
2011	Conservative	40		15		-		-		-		-
2007	Conservative	45		9		-		1		-		-
2003	Conservative	33		21		-		1		-		-
1999	Conservative	34		20		-		2		-		-
1995	Labour	19		31		-		4		-		2
1991	Conservative	32		17		-		5		1		1
1987	Conservative	43		8		-		4		-		-
1983	Conservative	46		8		-		2		-		-
1979	Conservative	40		4		-		2		10		-
1976	Conservative	48		-		-		2		4		1
1973	Conservative	46		2		-		-		-		7

Party		Votes	%
	Labour	771	52.7
	Conservative	605	41.3
	Liberal Democrats	88	6.0
Majority		166	11.4
Turnout		1,464	40.4
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	525	59.7	+5.1
	Conservative	354	40.3	+19.2
Majority		171	19.4
Turnout		879	34.5
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%
	Labour	838	20.25
	Labour	821	19.84
	Labour	726	17.54
	Conservative	602	14.54
	Conservative	596	14.40
	Conservative	556	13.43
Turnout			42.2
	Labour hold	Swing
	Labour hold	Swing
	Labour hold	Swing

Party		Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	510	55.4	−3.4
	Labour	410	44.6	+3.4
Majority		100	10.8
Turnout		920	27.0
	Conservative hold	Swing

Wyre Borough Council elections

Council elections

Election results

Borough result maps

By-election results

1995-1999

1999-2003

2003-2007

2007-2011

2011-2015

2015-2019

2019-2023

2023-2027

References

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Top Qs

Fact Checks

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Malcolm Ratcliffe	1,414	54.9	−5.7
	Conservative	Carole Bonham	943	36.6	−2.8
	UKIP	James Orange	219	8.5	+8.5
Majority			471	18.3
Turnout			2,576
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Margaret Birkett	560	55.1	+27.2
	Labour	Julie Grunshaw	456	44.9	−27.2
Majority			104	10.2
Turnout			1,016	32.0
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Patsy Ormrod	769	51.9	−10.1
	Labour	Billy Glasgow	339	22.9	+1.1
	BNP	James Clayton	222	15.0	+15.0
	UKIP	Roy Hopwood	151	10.2	−6.0
Majority			430	29.0
Turnout			1,481
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Catterall	778	67.8	−32.2
	Independent	Jim Proctor	309	26.9	+26.9
	Liberal Democrats	Chandos Elletson	60	5.2	+5.2
Majority			469	40.9
Turnout			1,481	39.9
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Walmsley	492	38.3	+4.2
	UKIP	Roy Hopwood	345	26.9	−4.8
	Labour	Wayne Martin	331	25.8	+0.7
	BNP	James Clayton	116	9.0	+9.0
Majority			147	11.4
Turnout			1,284	37.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Lesley Ann McKay	847	73.4	+0.6
	Labour	Alan Morgan	307	26.6	−0.6
Majority			540	46.79
Turnout			1154	34.91%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Brian Stephenson	502	64.5	+6.5
	Conservative	James McConnachie	276	35.5	−6.5
Majority			226	29.0
Turnout			778
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Evelyn Stephenson	618	64.6	−6.9
	Conservative	Dave Shaw	339	35.4	+6.9
Majority			279	29.2
Turnout			957
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kerry Jones	974	64.8	−3.2
	Labour	Eddie Rawlings	528	35.2	+3.2
Majority			446	29.7
Turnout			1,502
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Colette Birch	828	68.0	−5.1
	Labour	Christopher Frist	390	32.0	+5.1
Majority			438	36.0
Turnout			1,218
	Conservative hold		Swing

Bourne By-Election 4 May 2017^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emma Ellison	788	52.9	+18.3
	Labour	Joanne Cooper	621	41.7	+10.7
	Green	Barbara Mead-Mason	81	5.4	−5.6
Majority			167	11.2
Turnout			1,490
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Bourne By-Election 12 October 2017^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cheryl Raynor	610	50.1	+11.6
	Conservative	Maggie Pattinson	427	35.1	+5.0
	Independent	Brian Crawford	180	14.8	+14.8
Majority			183	15.0
Turnout			1,217
	Labour hold		Swing

Preesall By-Election 11 January 2018^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Cartridge	930	55.3	−9.7
	Labour	Nic Fogg	753	44.7	+9.7
Majority			177	10.5
Turnout			1,683
	Conservative hold		Swing

Preesall By-Election 18 August 2022^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Collette Rushforth	595	39.5	+39.5
	Conservative	Steven Taylor-Royston	495	32.8	−29.9
	Labour	William Jackson	315	20.9	−16.4
	Independent	Garry Wright	102	6.8	+6.8
Majority			100	6.6
Turnout			1,507
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Rendell	721	53.7	−9.0
	Labour	Wayne Martin	621	46.3	+9.0
Majority			100	7.5
Turnout			1,342
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	James Crawford	567	38.6
	Conservative	Howard Ballard	449	30.6
	Labour	James Mason	400	27.2
	Green	Caroline Montague	52	3.5
Majority			118	8.0
Turnout			1,468
	Reform gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Reform	Alice Jones	534	58.1
	Labour	Rachel Wilkinson	229	24.9
	Conservative	JJ Fitzgerald	156	17.0
Majority			305	33.2
Turnout			919
	Reform gain from Labour		Swing