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{{Short description|2024 English local election}}
{{Short description|2024 English local election}}
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| election_name = Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2024
| election_name = Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2024
| type = parliamentary
| type = parliamentary
| country = Lancashire
| previous_election = 2023_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
| ongoing = yes
| previous_election = 2023 Hyndburn Borough Council election
| previous_year = 2023
| previous_year = 2023
| next_election = 2025_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
| next_election = 2026 Hyndburn Borough Council election
| next_year = 2025
| next_year = 2026
| seats_for_election = 13 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
| seats_for_election = 12 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
| election_date = 2 May 2024
| election_date = 2 May 2024
| majority_seats = 18
| majority_seats = 18
| turnout =
| turnout =
| party1 = Conservative Party (UK)
| party1 = Conservative Party (UK)
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| leader1 = Marlene Haworth
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| seats2 = {{nowrap|16}}
| seat_change2 = {{steady}}
| map_image = Hyndburn_UK_local_election_2021_Map.png
| map_caption = 2021 local election results in Hyndburn
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| leader2 = Munsif Dad
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| leaders_seat2 = Spring Hill
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| title = [[Leader of the council|Leader]]
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| before_party = No overall control
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'''A by-thirds [[Hyndburn]] Borough Council local election''' will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.<ref name="TEC-Notice">{{Cite web|url=https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information |title=Elections in your area |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The Electoral Commission}}</ref>
The '''2024 Hyndburn Borough Council election''' will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024 to elect 12 of the 35 members of [[Hyndburn Borough Council]] in [[Lancashire]], England, being the usual approximate third of the council.<ref name="TEC-Notice">{{Cite web|url=https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter/your-election-information |title=Elections in your area |access-date=26 March 2024 |work=The Electoral Commission}}</ref> Prior to the election the council was under [[no overall control]], being led by a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] minority administration.


The Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Elections will also take place on that same day, across all polling stations.<ref name="2024 Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election">{{Cite web|url=https://lancashirepccelections.org/ |title=Elections & Referendums – what we do |access-date=29 March 2024 |work=Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election Information}}</ref>
The [[2024 England and Wales police and crime commissioner elections#Lancashire Constabulary|Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner]] elections will also take place on that same day, across all polling stations.{{efn|Four of the 16 council wards do not have borough council elections in 2024, being Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel and Milnshaw, but as the Lancashire PCC Elections are also taking place on the same day, all polling stations will be open, across every ward.}}<ref name="2024 Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election">{{Cite web|url=https://lancashirepccelections.org/ |title=Elections & Referendums – what we do |access-date=29 March 2024 |work=Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election Information}}</ref>


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==Background==
==Background==
Before the election both the Conservatives and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] had 16 councillors. The Conservatives had formed a minority administration with the informal support of the two [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green]] and one [[Independent (politician)|independent]] councillors ((all three of whom had been elected for Labour but subsequently left the party).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Bill |title=Greens say no formal coalition with Hyndburn Conservatives |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23513511.greens-say-no-formal-coalition-hyndburn-conservatives/ |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=10 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Bill |title=Hyndburn Tories take control of divided council by two votes |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23533453.hyndburn-tories-take-control-divided-council-two-votes/ |access-date=11 October 2023 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=19 May 2023}}</ref>
Before the election the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] had 16 councillors, with 1 [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] councillor supporting the Conservatives and with 2 [[Green Party of England and Wales]] (all three, formerly Labour) councillors also supporting the Conservatives, and where [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] had only a minority of 16 councillors. Where 18 or more seats are needed for Overall-Control of the council.


The seats up for election in 2024 were last contested in 2021; the reduced term of three years rather than the normal four was due to the 2021 election being postponed from May 2020 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. In 2021 Labour and the Conservatives had each won six of the twelve seats. With two of the Labour councillors elected in 2021 (Caroline Montague and Paddy Short) having left the party to join the Greens, Labour is defending four of their previously won six seats. The Conservatives are defending all six seats they won in 2021.
In this election, Labour would be defending 4 of their previously won 6-ward-seats (where 2 of those seats [Barnfield & Peel], were formerly won by Labour councillors Caroline Montague & Paddy Short, who both later switched to the Green Party following the May 2022 election), and the Conservatives would be defending 6-ward-seats. All previously winning ward-candidates had only served out the last 3-years of a standard 4-year term in office, since the covid-postponed election in May 2021, which should normally have been held 12-months earlier, back in May 2020.


As a result of the Elections Act 2022 electors will again be required to present photographic identification to polling staff in order to cast their vote. Postal voters are not affected.
As a result of the [[Elections Act 2022]] voters will again be required to present photographic identification to polling staff in order to cast their vote. Postal voters are not affected.


==Council composition==
==Council composition==
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*[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] 16
*[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] 16
*[[Green Party of England and Wales]] 2
*[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] 16
*[[Green Party of England and Wales|Green]] 2
*[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] 1
*[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] 1
*[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] 16

Where the 16 Conservatives, with the support of the 2 Greens and the 1 Independent, had overall control of the council, over the previous year.

Conservatives are defending 6-seats whilst Labour are defending 4-seats and where 2-seats were both held by Greens (formerly Labour) and where those councillors are both stepping down this year. In addition, this year there are one Reform UK and one Workers Party GB and two Independent candidates standing in various wards. There are also an additional 3-Green Party Candidates, standing in Central, Church, Spring-Hill wards this year.


Labour and the Conservatives are running candidates in all 12 wards being contested. The Green Party is fielding candidates in Central, Church, and Spring Hill wards. There are also one [[Reform UK]], one [[Workers Party of Britain]] and two independent candidates standing in various wards.
The local Labour and Conservative party's will both run candidates in each of the 12 wards.


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==Local Election result==
==Local Election result==
The majority grouping of councillors as the headline result of the election, was unchanged; with Conservatives retaining an overall 19-seat majority.


After the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -
After the election, the composition of the council's 35 seats was -
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*[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] 1
*[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] 1
*[[Reform UK]] 0
*[[Reform UK]] 0
*[[Workers Party GB]] 0
*[[Workers Party of Britain]] 0


{{Election Summary Begin|title = Hyndburn Local Election Result 2024 - electorate TBC (over just 12 wards) - with TBC% turnout }}
{{Election Summary Begin|title = Hyndburn Local Election Result 2024 - electorate TBC (over just 12 wards) - with TBC% turnout }}
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|party = Workers Party GB
|party = Workers Party of Britain
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Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
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Previous councillors not standing for re-election in May 2024 include: Dominik Allen (Conservatives - Altham), Caroline Montague (Green - Barnfield), Abdul Khan (Labour - Central), Colin McKenzie (Labour - Overton), Paddy Short (Green - Peel) and Susan Hayes<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-12 |title=Labour call for Tory councillor who has moved to other side of county to quit |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24045852.hyndburn-tory-councillor-told-quit-move-fylde/ |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> (Conservatives - St. Oswalds). Former Conservative councillor Michael Miller will be standing this year for the Green party in Peel ward.
NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats are NOT up for re-election in 2024, include the following wards – Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. Although, as the Lancashire PCC Elections are also taking place on the same day, all polling stations will be open, across every ward.

Previous Councillors who are looking to Stand-Down in May 2024 include – Dominik Allen (Conservatives - Altham), Caroline Montague (Green - Barnfield), Abdul Khan (Labour - Central), Colin McKenzie (Labour - Overton), Paddy Short (Green - Peel) and Susan Hayes<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-12 |title=Labour call for Tory councillor who has moved to other side of county to quit |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24045852.hyndburn-tory-councillor-told-quit-move-fylde/ |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=Lancashire Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> (Conservatives - St. Oswalds). Former Conservative councillor Michael Miller will be standing this year for the Green party in Peel ward.


==Ward results==
==Ward results==
The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk(*) indicating a sitting councillor standing for re-election.
The candidates for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk(*) indicating a sitting councillor standing for re-election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jagger |first1=David |title=Local Elections 2024: Every candidate running in Lancashire |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/24241492.local-elections-2024-every-candidate-running-lancashire/ |access-date=17 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=10 April 2024}}</ref>


===Altham===
===Altham===
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|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = David HEAP
|candidate = Vanessa ALEXANDER
|votes = 0
|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
|percentage = 0.0
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}}
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Vanessa ALEXANDER
|candidate = David HEAP
|votes = 0
|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
|percentage = 0.0
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===Barnfield===
===Barnfield===
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{{Election box begin | title=Barnfield}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
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|candidate = Joan WEST
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|percentage = 0.0
|change = 0.0
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
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|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Foyzun NUR
|candidate = Foyzun NUR
|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
|change = 0.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Joan WEST
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|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
|percentage = 0.0
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===Baxenden===
===Baxenden===
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{{Election box begin | title=Baxenden}}
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Terence Keith HURN*
|candidate = Edward BLAKE
|votes = 0
|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
|percentage = 0.0
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}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Edward BLAKE
|candidate = Terence Keith HURN*
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|votes = 0
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===Central===
===Central===
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{{Election box begin | title=Central}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Ijaz AHMED
|candidate = Ijaz AHMED
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}}
{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Workers Party GB
|party = Workers Party of Britain
|candidate = Mohammed IRFAN
|candidate = Mohammed IRFAN
|votes = 0
|votes = 0
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}}
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===Church===
===Church===
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{{Election box begin | title=Church}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Sohail ASGHAR
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|percentage = 0.0
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Stewart EAVES
|votes = 0
|percentage = 0.0
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Sajid MAHMOOD*
|candidate = Sajid MAHMOOD*
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|change = 0.0
|change = 0.0
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{{Election box majority||votes=0|percentage=0.0|change=''N/A''}}
{{Election box rejected|
{{Election box rejected|
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===Netherton===
===Netherton===
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{{Election box begin | title=Netherton}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link|
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Noordad AZIZ*
|candidate = Noordad AZIZ*
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===Overton===
===Overton===
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{{Election box begin | title=Overton}}
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|party = Independent politician
|candidate = Paul KNIGHTON
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{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Judith McKELVEY
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|candidate = Julie STUBBINS
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
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|candidate = Clare YATES
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===Peel===
===Peel===
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{{Election box begin | title=Peel}}
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|party = Green Party of England and Wales
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
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|candidate = Clare PRITCHARD
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}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
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|candidate = Jean HURN
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===Rishton===
===Rishton===
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{{Election box begin | title=Rishton}}
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|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate = Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE*
|candidate = Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE*
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===Spring Hill===
===Spring Hill===
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{{Election box begin | title=Spring Hill}}
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|party = Labour Party (UK)
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = Munsif DAD*
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|party = Green Party of England and Wales
|candidate = Saeed ULLAH
|candidate = Wayne FITZHARRIS
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{{Election box candidate with party link|
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===St. Andrew's===
===St. Andrew's===
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{{Election box begin | title=St. Andrew's}}
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|candidate = Peter BRITCLIFFE*
|candidate = Peter BRITCLIFFE*
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===St. Oswald's===
===St. Oswald's===
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{{Election box begin | title=St. Oswald's}}
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|candidate = Tina WALKER
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Revision as of 19:54, 17 April 2024

Hyndburn Borough Council election, 2024
← 2023 2 May 2024 2026 →
12 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Marlene Haworth Munsif Dad
Party Conservative Labour
Leader's seat St Oswald's Spring Hill
Current seats 16 16
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Leader Paddy Short
Party Green Independent
Current seats 2 1
Incumbent Leader

Marlene Haworth
Conservative
No overall control



The 2024 Hyndburn Borough Council election will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024 to elect 12 of the 35 members of Hyndburn Borough Council in Lancashire, England, being the usual approximate third of the council.[1] Prior to the election the council was under no overall control, being led by a Conservative minority administration.

The Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner elections will also take place on that same day, across all polling stations.[a][2]

Background

Before the election both the Conservatives and Labour had 16 councillors. The Conservatives had formed a minority administration with the informal support of the two Green and one independent councillors ((all three of whom had been elected for Labour but subsequently left the party).[3][4]

The seats up for election in 2024 were last contested in 2021; the reduced term of three years rather than the normal four was due to the 2021 election being postponed from May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 Labour and the Conservatives had each won six of the twelve seats. With two of the Labour councillors elected in 2021 (Caroline Montague and Paddy Short) having left the party to join the Greens, Labour is defending four of their previously won six seats. The Conservatives are defending all six seats they won in 2021.

As a result of the Elections Act 2022 voters will again be required to present photographic identification to polling staff in order to cast their vote. Postal voters are not affected.

Council composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

Labour and the Conservatives are running candidates in all 12 wards being contested. The Green Party is fielding candidates in Central, Church, and Spring Hill wards. There are also one Reform UK, one Workers Party of Britain and two independent candidates standing in various wards.

Previous councillors not standing for re-election in May 2024 include: Dominik Allen (Conservatives - Altham), Caroline Montague (Green - Barnfield), Abdul Khan (Labour - Central), Colin McKenzie (Labour - Overton), Paddy Short (Green - Peel) and Susan Hayes[5] (Conservatives - St. Oswalds). Former Conservative councillor Michael Miller will be standing this year for the Green party in Peel ward.

Ward results

The candidates for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk(*) indicating a sitting councillor standing for re-election.[6]

Altham

Altham
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Vanessa ALEXANDER 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative David HEAP 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
gain from Swing

Barnfield

Barnfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clare McKENNA 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Foyzun NUR 0 0.0 0.0
Green Joan WEST 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
gain from Swing

Baxenden

Baxenden
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward BLAKE 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Terence Keith HURN* 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

Central

Central
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Ijaz AHMED 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Allah DAD 0 0.0 0.0
Green Shabir FAZAL 0 0.0 0.0
Workers Party Mohammed IRFAN 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

Church

Church
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Sohail ASGHAR 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Stewart EAVES 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Sajid MAHMOOD* 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
gain from Swing

Netherton

Netherton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Noordad AZIZ* 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Mohammed RIAZ 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

Overton

Overton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Paul KNIGHTON 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Judith McKELVEY 0 0.0 0.0
Green Julie STUBBINS 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Clare YATES 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

Peel

Peel
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Nav AFZAL 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Jean HURN 0 0.0 0.0
Green Michael MILLER 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Clare PRITCHARD 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

Rishton

Rishton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE* 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Ethan RAWCLIFFE 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
gain from Swing

Spring Hill

Spring Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Munsif DAD* 0 0.0 0.0
Green Wayne FITZHARRIS 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Saeed ULLAH 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter BRITCLIFFE* 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Andrew GILBERT 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
Swing

St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform UK Richard OAKLEY 0 0.0 0.0
Labour Andy TATCHELL 0 0.0 0.0
Conservative Tina WALKER 0 0.0 0.0
Majority 0 0.0 N/A
Rejected ballots 0 0
Turnout 0 0.0 0.0
Registered electors 0
gain from Swing

References

  1. ^ Four of the 16 council wards do not have borough council elections in 2024, being Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel and Milnshaw, but as the Lancashire PCC Elections are also taking place on the same day, all polling stations will be open, across every ward.
  1. ^ "Elections in your area". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Elections & Referendums – what we do". Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner Election Information. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Bill (10 May 2023). "Greens say no formal coalition with Hyndburn Conservatives". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  4. ^ Jacobs, Bill (19 May 2023). "Hyndburn Tories take control of divided council by two votes". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Labour call for Tory councillor who has moved to other side of county to quit". Lancashire Telegraph. 12 January 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
  6. ^ Jagger, David (10 April 2024). "Local Elections 2024: Every candidate running in Lancashire". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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