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2011 Wolverhampton City Council election

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Elections to Wolverhampton City Council were held on 5 May 2011, the same day as the national referendum on the Alternative Vote, in Wolverhampton, England. One third of the council was up for election.

2011 local election results in Wolverhampton

Composition

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Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

Note: this differs from the total at the previous election, due to a by-election and a Liberal Democrat councillor defecting to Labour.[1]

Following the election, the composition of the council is:

Election result

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Wolverhampton Local Election Result 2011
Party Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 35 4 0
  Conservative 22 0 3
  Liberal Democrats 3 0 1
  BNP 0 0 0 0
  Independent 0 0 0 0
  UKIP 0 0 0 0

Ward results

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Bilston East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Valerie Gibson 1,764 66.14
Conservative Tom Fellows 903 33.86
Majority 861 32.28
Turnout 2667 29.67
Bilston North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sue Constable 1,696 59.82
Conservative David Hunt 625 22.05
Liberal Democrats Frances Heap 97 3.42
BNP Stewart Gardner 154 5.43
UKIP Remi Hodister 263 9.28
Majority 1071 37.78
Turnout 2,835 32.51
Blakenhall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Robert Jones 3,073
Conservative Sid Sidhu 678
Majority 2,395 45.54%
Turnout
Bushbury North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Leslie Pugh 1,347
Labour Ian Angus 1,673
BNP Simon Patten 391
Majority 326
Turnout 3425 37.87%
Bushbury South and Low Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Peter O'Neill 1,763
Conservative Annette Pugh 625
Majority 1,138
Turnout 2,406 26.74%
East Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Harman Banger 1,763
Conservative Darren Friel 1,508
Majority 705
Turnout 2,855 32.82%
Ettingshall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Samuels Unopposed
Majority - -
Turnout - -
Fallings Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Valerie Evans 2,072
Conservative Simon Hewitt 1,123
Majority 949
Turnout 3,125 35.82%
Graiseley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Elias Mattu 2,399
Conservative Jazz Boparai 614
Liberal Democrats Eileen Birch 201
Independent John Mellor 505
Majority 1,7585
Turnout 3,746 45.44%
Heath Town
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Milkinderpal Jaspal 1,488
Conservative John Lee 708
Green Matthew Addison 231
Majority 1,785
Turnout 2,448 31.85%
Merry Hill
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Christopher Haynes
Labour Nav Rana
Liberal Democrats Lexi Lawrence
Independent Timothy Broomer
UKIP Phil Templar
Majority
Turnout
Oxley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Ian Bisbey 1,263
Labour Ian Claymore 1,749
UKIP Keith Sinclair 276
Majority 513
Turnout 3,285 37.12%
Park
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Hardacre 1,910
Liberal Democrats Jonathan Webber 568
Conservative Nasim Ullah 968
Green David Belcher 262
Majority 942
Turnout 3,730 46.73%
Penn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Singh
Labour Martin Waite
Liberal Democrats Bryan Lewis
Green Daniel Batchelor
UKIP Barry Hodgson
Majority
Turnout
Spring Vale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Michael Heap
Labour Gurcharan Bedi
Conservative Trevor White
BNP David Bradnock
Majority
Turnout
St Peter's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Zahid Shah 1,867
Liberal Democrats Mary Garside 236
Conservative Shailesh Parekh 270
Majority 1,597
Turnout 2,391 35.07%
Tettenhall Regis
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Jonathan Yardley
Labour Muhammad Khan
Liberal Democrats Roger Gray
UKIP Donald Morris
Majority
Turnout
Tettenhall Wightwick
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Wendy Thompson
Labour Stu Goldcrusher
Liberal Democrats Peter Hollis
Majority
Turnout
Wednesfield North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tania Davis
Labour Rita Potter
Majority
Turnout
Wednesfield South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Peter Dobb 1,074
Labour Bhupinder Gakhal 1,481
Liberal Democrats Oliver Williams 572
Majority 407
Turnout 3,1743 37.41%

References

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  1. ^ Wainwright, Daniel (2 April 2011). "Councillor's defection is unfair on the local voters" (PDF). Express & Star. Retrieved 19 September 2011.