2022 Bury Metropolitan Borough Council election

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2022 Bury Metropolitan Borough Council election
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All 51 seats to Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
26 seats needed for a majority
Turnout39.3%
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Leader Eamonn O'Brien Nicholas Jones Unknown
Party Labour Conservative Radcliffe First
Last election 27 seats, 41.8% 15 seats, 41.1% 4 seats, 5.5%
Seats before 28 16 2
Seats won 29 12 8
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 3 Increase 4
Popular vote 69,271 53,527 11,972
Percentage 44.6% 34.4% 7.7%
Swing Increase 2.9% Decrease 6.7% Increase 2.2%
  Fourth party Fifth party
  Blank Blank
Leader Michael Powell Unknown
Party Liberal Democrats Independent
Last election 4 seats, 8.1% 1 seat, 0.3%
Seats before 4 1
Seats won 1 1
Seat change Decrease 3 Steady
Popular vote 10,790 2,375
Percentage 6.9% 1.5%
Swing Decrease 1.2% Increase 1.2%
Winner of each seat at the 2022 Bury Metropolitan Borough Council election
Council control before election


Labour

Council control after election


Labour

The 2022 Bury Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. Due to boundary changes, all 51 councillors were elected at the same time. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom.

In the previous council election in 2021, Labour maintained its control of the council, holding 27 seats after the election. The Conservatives formed the main opposition with fifteen seats, with the Liberal Democrats and Radcliffe First both on four councillors and a single independent.

Background[edit]

Result of the 2021 council election

The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Bury was a district of the Greater Manchester metropolitan county.[1] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority was created in 2011 and began electing the mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017, which was given strategic powers covering a region coterminous with the former Greater Manchester metropolitan county.[2]

Since its formation, Bury has variously been under Labour control, Conservative control and no overall control. Councillors have predominantly been elected from the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, with some Liberal Democrat and independent councillors also serving. The council has had an overall Labour majority since the 2011 election, in which Labour made six gains to hold 29 of the 51 seats. The Conservatives held 17 and the Liberal Democrats held five. Labour continued to make gains until 2015, after which the party has gradually lost seats whilst maintaining its majority. In the most recent election in 2021, Labour won nine seats with 41.7% of the vote, the Conservatives won seven seats with 41.1% of the vote, Radcliffe First won two seats with 5.5% of the vote and the Liberal Democrats won one with 8.1% of the vote.[3]

The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bury South, Christian Wakeford, defected to the Labour Party in January 2022.[4] On the same day, Gareth Staples-Jones, an independent councillor who had been elected as Radcliffe First, also joined the Labour Party.[5]

Bury Council underwent boundary changes ahead of this election. The Local Government Boundary Commission for England determined that the council should continue to elect 51 councillors and designed new election boundaries to reflect population change. The new boundaries include seventeen three-member wards.[6]

Electoral process[edit]

The council generally elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year.[7][8] However, due to a boundary review, all fifty-one councillors were elected at the same time. The election used plurality block voting, with each ward electing three councillors. Electors were able to vote for up to three candidates, and the three candidates with the most votes in each ward were elected.

All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Bury aged 18 or over were entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, were entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations took place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Previous council composition[edit]

After 2021 election Before 2022 election
Party Seats Party Seats
Labour 27 Labour 28
Conservative 15 Conservative 16
Liberal Democrats 4 Liberal Democrats 4
Radcliffe First 4 Radcliffe First 2
Independent 1 Independent 1

Results summary[edit]

2022 Bury Metropolitan Borough Council election
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 29 Increase 1 56.9 44.6 69,271 +2.9
  Conservative 12 Decrease 4 23.5 34.4 53,527 -6.7
  Radcliffe First 8 Increase 4 15.7 7.7 11,972 +2.2
  Liberal Democrats 1 Decrease 3 2.0 6.9 10,790 -1.2
  Independent 1 Increase 1 2.0 1.5 2,375 +1.2
  Green 0 Steady 0.0 4.6 7,089 +1.6
  Reform UK 0 Steady 0.0 0.2 236 N/A
  English Democrat 0 Steady 0.0 0.1 166 -0.1
  Communist 0 Steady 0.0 0.1 59 N/A

Results[edit]

Statements of persons nominated were published on 6 April.[9] Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk (*).

Besses[edit]

Besses (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Noel Bayley 1,505 61.4
Labour Co-op Mary Whitby* 1,435 58.5
Labour Co-op Lucy Smith* 1,397 57.0
Conservative Gregory Keeley 548 22.3
Conservative David Silbiger 486 19.8
Conservative Tahira Shaffi 420 17.1
Green Cameron Fay 354 14.4
Independent Martyn West 317 12.9
Liberal Democrats Mike Williams 176 7.2
English Democrat Stephen Morris 166 6.8
Communist Dan Ross 59 2.4
Turnout 2,452 30.7
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Bury East[edit]

Bury East (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ayesha Arif 1,285 46.4
Labour Gavin McGill* 1,266 45.7
Labour Ummrana Farooq* 1,157 41.8
Conservative Christopher Baron 1,045 37.8
Conservative Raja Sharif 1,043 37.7
Conservative Abdul Tahir 885 32.0
Green Lauren Hutchinson 331 12.0
Reform UK Kevin Cadwallader 236 8.5
Liberal Democrats Elizabeth Powell 218 7.9
Turnout 2,768 31.8
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Bury West[edit]

Bury West (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jackie Harris* 2,023 57.3
Conservative Dene Vernon* 1,926 54.6
Conservative Shahbaz Arif 1,636 46.4
Labour Andrew McAnulty 1,203 34.1
Labour Helen Varnom 1,153 32.7
Labour Samuel Turner 1,118 31.7
Green Jacqui Connor 485 13.7
Liberal Democrats Jacob Royde 274 7.8
Turnout 3,529 41.7
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Elton[edit]

Elton (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jack Rydeheard* 1,752 48.5
Labour Martin Hayes* 1,715 47.5
Labour Charlotte Morris* 1,689 46.7
Conservative Andrew Luxton 1,671 46.2
Labour Kyle Finnegan 1,541 42.6
Conservative Muhammad Warraich 1,391 38.5
Liberal Democrats Lynda Arthur 416 11.5
Turnout 3,614 41.5
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Holyrood[edit]

Holyrood (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Elliot Moss 1,660 45.4
Labour Imran Rizvi 1,644 44.9
Liberal Democrats Maria Tegolo* 1,558 42.6
Liberal Democrats Steve Wright* 1,554 42.5
Labour Richard Jamieson 1,497 40.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Hankey 1,310 35.8
Conservative Geoffrey Baron 354 9.7
Conservative Anthony Hall 349 9.5
Green Peter Curati 340 9.3
Conservative Haider Raja 259 7.1
Turnout 3,660 43.4
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Liberal Democrats win (new seat)

Moorside[edit]

Moorside (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Walmsley* 1,588 52.6
Labour Ciaron Boles* 1,518 50.3
Labour Kevin Peel* 1,482 49.1
Conservative Samia Farid 1,106 36.7
Conservative Marie Holder 1,026 34.0
Conservative Mahzar Latif 907 30.1
Green Mary Heath 321 10.6
Independent Victor Hagan 259 8.6
Turnout 3,017 35.6
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

North Manor[edit]

North Manor (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Roger Brown* 2,008 51.1
Conservative Liam Dean* 1,963 50.0
Conservative Khalid Hussain* 1,775 45.2
Labour John Southworth 1,568 39.9
Green Michelle Sampson 973 24.8
Green Charlie Allen 913 23.2
Liberal Democrats Ewan Arthur 758 19.3
Green Gary Kirkley 574 14.6
Turnout 3,927 49.3
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Pilkington Park[edit]

Pilkington Park (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Russell Bernstein* 1,409 46.5
Labour Elizabeth Fitzgerald 1,405 46.4
Conservative Nicholas Jones* 1,344 44.3
Labour Christopher Malkin 1,314 43.4
Labour Michael Rubinstein 1,296 42.8
Conservative Anton Slawycz 1,214 40.1
Green Elizabeth Lomax 452 14.9
Turnout 3,031 40.6
Conservative win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Radcliffe East[edit]

Radcliffe East (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radcliffe First Carol Birchmore* 1,504 58.2
Radcliffe First James Mason* 1,449 56.0
Radcliffe First Mary Walsh 1,332 51.5
Labour Tricia Cathcart 762 29.5
Labour Michael Broster 730 28.2
Labour Rhyse Cathcart 728 28.2
Conservative Mark Gregory 306 11.8
Conservative Azhar Mehboob 274 10.6
Conservative Iona Worthington 224 8.7
Green Heather Sharples 143 5.5
Turnout 2,586 32.4
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Radcliffe First win (new seat)

Radcliffe North & Ainsworth[edit]

Radcliffe North & Ainsworth (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radcliffe First Donald Berry 1,436 40.2
Radcliffe First Andrea Booth 1,325 37.1
Conservative Jo Lancaster* 1,278 35.7
Conservative Paul Cropper* 1,278 35.7
Conservative Carol Bernstein 1,205 33.7
Radcliffe First Ken Simpson 1,201 33.6
Labour Lee Patterson 856 23.9
Labour Gill Campbell 847 23.7
Labour Paddy Heneghan 736 20.6
Green Laura Thomas 108 3.0
Turnout 3,576 38.5
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Radcliffe West[edit]

Radcliffe West (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Radcliffe First Glyn Marsden 1,292 49.6
Radcliffe First Des Duncalfe 1,263 48.5
Radcliffe First Mike Smith* 1,170 44.9
Labour Gareth Staples-Jones* 973 37.4
Labour Charlie Whelan 873 33.5
Labour Sally McGill 852 32.7
Conservative David Lewis 362 13.9
Conservative Mark Imeson 289 11.1
Conservative Muhammad Khan 179 6.9
Green Chlöe Thomas 128 4.9
Liberal Democrats Kamran Islam 70 2.7
Turnout 2,603 31.9
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Radcliffe First win (new seat)
Radcliffe First win (new seat)

Ramsbottom[edit]

Ramsbottom (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare Cummins* 2,178 53.4
Labour Tom Pilkington* 2,083 51.0
Labour Spencer Donnelly 1,948 47.7
Conservative James Cunliffe 1,641 40.2
Conservative Ian Schofield 1,573 38.5
Conservative Jihyun Park 1,284 31.5
Liberal Democrats Martyn Bristow 447 11.0
Green Mark Slocombe 402 9.9
Turnout 4,081 45.6
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Redvales[edit]

Redvales (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Nikki Frith 1,647 49.5
Labour Tamoor Tariq* 1,646 49.4
Labour Shaheena Haroon* 1,498 45.0
Conservative Aamer Yasin 1,365 41.0
Conservative Raja Aijaz 1,344 40.4
Conservative Shafqat Mahmood 1,249 37.5
Green Paul Johnstone 375 11.3
Liberal Democrats David Foss 340 10.2
Turnout 3,329 39.7
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

St. Marys[edit]

St. Marys (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Eamonn O’Brien* 1,941 56.7
Labour Debra Green 1,676 49.0
Labour Sean Thorpe 1,478 43.2
Liberal Democrats Michael Powell* 1,382 40.4
Liberal Democrats Stephen Lewis 976 28.5
Liberal Democrats Ugonna Edegoa 966 28.2
Conservative Stefano Zuri 358 10.5
Green Nick Hubble 345 10.1
Conservative Antonello Riu 332 9.7
Conservative Touseef Saghir 292 8.5
Turnout 3,421 40.8
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Sedgley[edit]

Sedgley (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Richard Gold* 1,902 65.2
Labour Alan Quinn* 1,863 63.9
Labour Debbie Quinn* 1,811 62.1
Conservative Bernie Vincent 746 25.6
Conservative Mazhar Aslam 568 19.5
Conservative Sham Raja Akhtar 511 17.5
Green Glyn Heath 346 11.9
Liberal Democrats Michael Heaton 345 11.8
Turnout 2,916 34.7
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

Tottington[edit]

Tottington (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Yvonne Wright* 1,799 51.1
Conservative Luis McBriar* 1,687 47.9
Conservative Iain Gartside* 1,541 43.8
Conservative Ian Strachan 1,081 30.7
Labour Julie Southworth 903 25.7
Labour Evelyn Holt 878 24.9
Labour David Hills 808 23.0
Green Angela Graham 499 14.2
Turnout 3,520 45.5
Independent win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)
Conservative win (new seat)

Unsworth[edit]

Unsworth (3 seats)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joan Grimshaw* 2,157 58.7
Labour Nathan Boroda* 2,123 57.8
Labour Tahir Rafiq* 1,938 52.8
Conservative Shirley Balfour 1,451 39.5
Conservative Sohail Raja 1,431 39.0
Conservative Gibson Walker 1,215 33.1
Turnout 3,672 44.0
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)
Labour win (new seat)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Local Government in England and Wales: A Guide to the New System. London: HMSO. 1974. p. 7. ISBN 0-11-750847-0.
  2. ^ "The Greater Manchester Combined Authority Order 2011". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  3. ^ "Local Elections 2021 Live: Bury Council Elections". Bury Times. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Bury South MP defects to Labour, saying PM is 'incapable of offering leadership' | TheBusinessDesk.com". North West. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  5. ^ Gee, Chris (19 January 2022). "ANOTHER Bury politician defects to join the Labour Party". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  6. ^ "LGBCE | Bury | LGBCE Site". www.lgbce.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Local government structure and elections". GOV.UK. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
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  9. ^ "Local elections Statement of Persons Nominated". Bury Council. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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