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2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election

2010 UK local government election


2010 UK local government election

FieldValue
election_name2010 Hyndburn Borough Council election
typeparliamentary
ongoingno
previous_election2008 Hyndburn Borough Council election
previous_year2008
next_election2011 Hyndburn Borough Council election
next_year2011
seats_for_election11 of 35 seats to Hyndburn Borough Council
election_date6 May 2010
majority_seats18
party1Conservative Party (UK)
image1[[File:No image wide.svg95x50pxBlank]]
leader1Peter Britcliffe
seats_before121
seats_after118
seat_change13
party2Democratic Party (USA)
image2[[File:No image wide.svg95x50pxBlank]]
leader2Graham Jones
seats_before213
seats_after215
seat_change22
party4Independent politician
image4[[File:No image wide.svg95x50pxBlank]]
leader4Ian Robinson
seats_before41
seats_after42
seat_change41
map_imageHyndburn_UK_local_election_2010_map_Revised.svg
map_caption2010 local election results in Hyndburn
leaders_seat1St Andrew's
leaders_seat2Peel

Main article: Hyndburn Borough Council elections

Background

Before the election Conservatives had a majority of 21 councillors, Labour had 13 councillors, while Independent (politician) had 1 councillor.

Conservative candidates contested every ward, Labour candidates contested all wards except Overton-ward. Independents contested seven-wards, not including their one-existing uncontested-seat. LibDem's only single candidate contested in the Spring Hill-ward. BNP's only single candidate contested in the Clayton-le-Moors-ward.

Local Election result

After the election, the composition of the council was -

  • Conservative 18
  • Labour 15
  • Independent 2

|seats % = 63.6 |votes % = 41.2 |plus/minus = +0.4 |seats % = 27.3 |votes % = 39.8 |plus/minus = +9.7 |seats % = 9.1 |votes % = 16.8 |plus/minus = +14.0 |seats % = ... |votes % = ... |plus/minus = |seats % = ... |votes % = ... |plus/minus =

Reference: 2006 Hyndburn Borough Council election#Local Election result

NB: Five (of the 16) Council ward seats that were NOT up for re-election in 2010 included the following wards - Altham, Baxenden and Church, plus Barnfield and Central in Accrington.

Ward results

Clayton-le-Moors

Huncoat

Immanuel

Milnshaw

Netherton

Overton

Peel

Rishton

Spring Hill

St. Andrew's

St. Oswald's

References

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/council/html/3707.stm https://web.archive.org/web/20140525200131/http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/elections/electionresults.php?electionid=1

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