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2008 Hyndburn Borough Council election

2008 UK local government election

Summary

2008 UK local government election

FieldValue
election_name2008 Hyndburn Borough Council election
typeparliamentary
previous_election2007_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
previous_year2007
next_election2010_Hyndburn_Borough_Council_election
next_year2010
seats_for_election12 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
election_date1 May 2008
majority_seats18
party1Conservative Party (UK)
seats_before118
seats121
seat_change13
party2Labour Party (UK)
seats_before215
seats213
seat_change22
map_imageHyndburn_UK_local_election_2008_map.svg
map_caption2008 local election results in Hyndburn
leader1Peter Britcliffe
leader2Graham Jones
leaders_seat1St Andrew's
leaders_seat2Peel

Main article: Hyndburn Borough Council elections

The Conservative Party made the only gain of the election, taking Altham ward from the Labour Party to extend their majority to 6 following the defection of Malcolm Pritchard form Labour to Independent who also included David Mason who had left the Conservatives to go Independent..

After the election, the composition of the council was:

  • Conservative 21
  • Labour 13
  • Independent 1

Election result

|seats % = 66.7 |votes % = 49.9 |plus/minus = +1.7 |seats % = 33.3 |votes % = 41.9 |plus/minus = -4.1 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 4.8 |plus/minus = +4.8 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 2.3 |plus/minus = -2.4 |seats % = 0.0 |votes % = 1.1 |plus/minus = +0.1

NB: Four (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2008 included the following wards – Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington.

Ward results

References

References

  1. (2008-05-02). "Hyndburn election results: Tories tighten grip". Lancashire Telegraph.
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