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2006 Carlisle City Council election

2006 UK local government election

2006 UK local government election

The 2006 Carlisle City Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Carlisle District Council in Cumbria, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

  • Labour 24
  • Conservative 19
  • Liberal Democrats 8
  • Independent 1

Background

Before the election the Conservatives ran the council with 20 seats and the backing of the 7 Liberal Democrats. Labour was in opposition despite being the largest group on the council with 24 seats and needed 3 gains to take control.

19 of the 52 seats on the council were being elected, Labour were defending 9 seats, compared to 8 for the Conservatives and 2 Liberal Democrats. Candidates at the election included 11 independents standing to protest against the demolition of the Warwick Road cinema and the first candidate from the English Democrats Party in Belah ward.

Before the election top Labour targets were reported as being Morton and Castle from the Liberal Democrats and Belah from the Conservatives. The Conservatives were targeting Yewdale from Labour, while the Liberal Democrats aimed to take Dalston from the Conservatives.

Election result

Labour remained the largest party on the council with 24 councillors after only one seat changed hands. The Liberal Democrats gained Dalston from the Conservatives,

Following the election Michael Boaden became the new leader of the Labour group, after challenging the previous leader Heather Bradley. However Conservative Mike Mitchelson remained as council leader after being re-elected by 26 votes to 25 at the annual council meeting on 22 May. This came after the Liberal Democrats backed the Conservatives and Liberal Democrat Peter Farmer was elected mayor by the same margin.

|seats % = 47.4 |votes % = 35.6 |plus/minus = -2.4% |seats % = 36.8 |votes % = 40.7 |plus/minus = -0.4% |seats % = 15.8 |votes % = 13.7 |plus/minus = -2.0% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 8.3 |plus/minus = +3.8% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.9 |plus/minus = +0.9% |seats % = 0 |votes % = 0.8 |plus/minus = 0.0%

Ward results

References

References

  1. (4 May 2006). "Local elections: Carlisle". BBC News.
  2. (10 May 2006). "Local elections 2006". [[House of Commons Library]].
  3. Whittle, Julian. (14 April 2006). "Labour hopes for comeback". [[News and Star]].
  4. Whittle, Julian. (4 May 2006). "Tory's past raked up in city election". [[News and Star]].
  5. Richardson, Anna. (7 April 2006). "Craig's hoping to step up to city council seat". [[News and Star]].
  6. (5 May 2006). "Elections fail to find winner". [[News and Star]].
  7. Whittle, Julian. (12 May 2006). "Tories can no longer rely on Lib Dems". [[News and Star]].
  8. "2006 Election Results". Carlisle City Council.
  9. (12 May 2006). "City council Labour leader ousted". [[News and Star]].
  10. Story, Chris. (23 May 2006). "Farmer for a Fisher as council elects new mayor". [[News and Star]].
  11. (6 May 2006). "Carlisle City Council election results". [[News and Star]].
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