2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election

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Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election, 2018
← 2016 3 May 2018 2022 →
All 44 seats to Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council
23 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Leader Tony Kearon Simon Tagg Marion Reddish
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Keele Westlands Thistleberry
Last election 27 seats 21 seats 3 seats
Seats won 20 18 3
Seat change Decrease 7 Decrease 3 Steady
Popular vote 25,469 27,381 3,516
Percentage 39.7% 42.7% 5.5%
  Fourth party Fifth party
  Blank Blank
Party UKIP Green
Last election 2 seats 1 seat
Seats won 0 0
Seat change Decrease 2 Decrease 1
Popular vote 991 917
Percentage 1.5% 1.4%
Leader before election

Simon Tagg
Conservative

Leader after election

TBD

The 2018 Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council election takes place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council in England.[1] This will be on the same day as other local elections.

Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council decided in November 2015 to move to whole council elections, starting from this election.[2]

Election summary

Party Leader Candidates Seats Votes
style="background:Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color; width:5px;" | Labour Tony Kearon 44 20 25,469 39.7%
style="background:Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color; width:5px;" | Conservative Simon Tagg 44 18 27,371 42.7%
style="background:Template:Liberal Democrats (UK)/meta/color; width:5px;" | Liberal Democrat Marion Reddish 15 3 3,516 5.5%
style="background:Template:UK Independence Party/meta/color; width:5px;" | UKIP 7 0 991 1.5%
style="background:Template:Green Party of England and Wales/meta/color; width:5px;" | Green 6 0 917 1.4%
style="background:Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color; width:5px;" | Independent 13 3 5,859 9.1%

Candidates

Audley

Audley (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Bert Proctor 986 17.5%
Labour Sue Moffatt 818 14.5%
Liberal Democrats Ian Wilkes 773 13.7%
Labour Tom Heavey 714 12.7%
Labour Ian Ashbolt 574 10.2%
Conservative Linda Hailstones 529 9.4%
Conservative Peter Hailstones 501 8.9%
Conservative Lawrence Whitworth 357 6.3%
Liberal Democrats Ben Ireland 208 3.7%
Liberal Democrats Kay Mitchell 183 3.2%

Bradwell

Bradwell (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Annabel Driver 974 17.9%
Labour Andrew Fox-Hewitt 882 16.2%
Conservative Jennifer Cooper 879 16.1%
Conservative Dorinda Bailey 854 15.7%
Conservative Chloe Mancey 810 14.9%
Labour Robert Moss 810 14.9%
Green Anthony Morris 146 2.7%
Liberal Democrats Richard Virr 92 1.7%

Clayton

Clayton (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Stephen Sweeney 441 48.0%
Labour Michael Shenton 394 42.9%
UKIP Gary Fedtschyschak 52 5.7%
Liberal Democrats Morgan-Ross Inwood 32 3.5%

Crackley and Red Street

Crackley and Red Street (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Allison Gardner 566 26.7%
Labour Sarah Pickup 491 23.1%
Conservative Gail Benbow 476 22.4%
Conservative David Cooper 448 21.1%
UKIP Mark Barlow 140 6.6%

Cross Heath

Cross Heath (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gillian Williams 693 33.4%
Labour John Williams 685 33.1%
Conservative Rita Gilmore 301 14.5%
Conservative John Heesom 243 11.7%
UKIP Lynn Dean 150 7.2%

Holditch and Chesterton

Holditch and Chesterton (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Emily Horsfall 566 30.1%
Labour Co-op Christopher Spence 528 28.1%
Independent Kenneth Owen 186 9.9%
Conservative David Cooper 166 8.8%
Conservative Thomas Cooper 144 7.7%
UKIP Paul Daniels 105 5.6%
UKIP Gordon Davies 75 4.0%
Liberal Democrats Chris Moore 61 3.2%
Liberal Democrats Arthur Richards 47 2.5%

Keele

Keele (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Tony Kearon 291 58.9%
Liberal Democrats James Borg 98 19.8%
Conservative Dan Grice 78 15.8%
Green Paul Usher 27 5.5%

Kidsgrove and Ravenscliffe

Kidsgrove and Ravenscliffe (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gill Burnett 817 14.0%
Labour Silvia Burgess 717 12.3%
Conservative Helena Maxfield 700 12.0%
Labour Laura Dillon 694 11.9%
Conservative Kevin Johnson 688 11.8%
Labour David Allport 675 11.5%
Independent Simon Jones 423 7.2%
Independent Darren Dawson 405 6.9%
UKIP Geoffrey Locke 402 6.9%
Independent Reg Bailey 327 5.6%

Knutton

Knutton (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Brian Johnson 355 74.7%
Conservative Joseph Swift 120 15.3%

Loggerheads

Loggerheads (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Northcott 962 42.9%
Conservative Barry Panter 740 33.0%
Labour Deborah Faulks 226 10.1%
Labour Deborah Fuller 186 8.3%
Liberal Democrats David Beckett 131 5.8%

Madeley and Betley

Madeley and Betley (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Simon White 936 29.7%
Independent Gary White 842 26.7%
Conservative Graham Hutton 500 15.9%
Conservative Nathan White 323 10.2%
Labour Liam Searle 252 8.0%
Labour Thomas Wilson 201 6.4%
Liberal Democrats Andrew Wemyss 100 3.2%

Maer and Whitmore

Maer and Whitmore (1)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Harrison 654 89.7%
Labour David Lee 75 10.3%

May Bank

May Bank (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative John Tagg 1,244 20.6%
Conservative Trevor Johnson 1,232 20.4%
Conservative John Cooper 1,218 20.1%
Labour Colin Eastwood 729 12.0%
Labour Jacqueline Olszewski 718 11.9%
Labour Lesley Richards 656 10.8%
Green Sean Adam 253 4.2%

Newchapel and Mow Cop

Newchapel and Mow Cop (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jill Waring 573 22.0%
Conservative Paul Waring 521 20.0%
Labour Angela Cooper 430 16.5%
Labour Lynn Jackson 423 16.2%
Independent Vic Jukes 355 13.6%
Independent Nigel Morgan 304 11.7%

Silverdale

Silverdale (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Amelia Rout 569 27.9%
Labour Co-op David Jones 549 26.9%
Conservative Derrick Huckfield 504 24.7%
Conservative James Vernon 351 17.2%
UKIP Thomas Spokes 67 3.3%

Talke and Butt Lane

Talke and Butt Lane (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Co-op Kyle Robinson 1,226 22.4%
Labour Co-op Sylvia Dymond 1,154 21.1%
Labour Co-op Michael Stubbs 1,001 18.3%
Conservative Nicholas Jellyman 432 7.9%
Conservative Ben Lack 421 7.7%
Conservative Graham Lovell 417 7.6%
Independent Ray Williams 410 7.5%
Independent Alexander Wright 407 7.4%

Thistleberry

Thistleberry (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Marion Reddish 713 25.0%
Liberal Democrats June Walklate 616 21.6%
Conservative Pamela Jellyman 455 16.0%
Conservative Rachel Mundy 388 13.6%
Labour Susan Forrester-O'Neill 341 12.0%
Labour Roger Wilkes 271 9.5%
Green Gordon Pearson 68 2.4%

Town

Town (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ruth Wright 659 28.9%
Labour Elizabeth Shenton 654 28.7%
Conservative Martin Johnson 248 10.9%
Conservative Luke Mason 219 9.6%
Independent Christopher Malkin 181 7.9%
Liberal Democrats Hilary Jones 128 5.6%
Independent Wenslie Naylon 97 4.3%
Liberal Democrats Salwa El-Raheb-Booth 95 4.2%

Westbury Park and Northwood

Westbury Park and Northwood (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Parker 892 34.0%
Conservative Andrew Fear 857 32.7%
Labour David Beardmore 459 17.5%
Labour Wendy Brockie 416 15.9%

Westlands

Westlands (3)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Simon Tagg 1,534 23.3%
Conservative Gillian Heesom 1,460 22.2%
Conservative Mark Holland 1,448 22.0%
Labour Thomas Brayford 582 8.8%
Labour Imogen Wilkes 558 8.5%
Labour Solomon Gibson 494 7.5%
Green Jade Taylor 270 4.1%
Liberal Democrats Richard Whelan 239 3.6%

Wolstanton

Wolstanton (2)
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Julie Cooper 644 24.5%
Labour Mark Olszewski 639 24.3%
Conservative David Woolley 622 23.6%
Labour Joan Winfield 574 21.8%
Green Ann Beirne 153 5.8%

References

  1. ^ "Elections 2018". Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Moving to all-out elections" (PDF). Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
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