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2012 Wyre Forest District Council election

The 2012 Wyre Forest District Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Wyre Forest District Council in Worcestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.

Map of the results of the 2012 Wyre Forest District Council election. Health Concern in pink, Conservatives in blue, Labour in red, Liberals in orange and independent in light grey. Wards in dark grey were not contested in 2012.

The 2012 Wyre Forest District Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Wyre Forest District Council in Worcestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party lost overall control of the council to no overall control.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Conservative 20
Health Concern 8
Labour 8
Liberal 4
Independent 2

After the May 2011 Wyre Forest District Council election the Conservatives had a majority on the council with 24 councillors, compared to 6 for Labour, 5 Liberals, 4 Health Concern and 3 independents. However, later that month one of the Liberal councillors, Graham Ballinger, defected to Health Concern. A further change then came in July 2011, when Mumshad Ahamed, who had sat as an independent councillor since being expelled from the Conservative group in June 2009, joined the Labour Party.

14 of the 42 seats on the council were contested in 2012, with the Conservatives, Labour and Health Concern having candidates for every seat. The Conservatives defended 8 of the 14 seats, with 3 members of the council cabinet, Nathan Desmond, Marcus Hart and Julian Phillips, standing for re-election.

The Conservatives lost four of the eight seats they were defending and so no longer had a majority on the council as they were left with 20 of the 42 councillors. Health Concern were the main beneficiaries picking up three seats and holding two more to have 8 seats on the council. This pulled them level to Labour who also had 8 councillors after making a gain of one seat, with Labour coming within five votes of taking another seat in Oldington and Foley Park from the Conservatives. Independent Helen Dyke held her seat, while the only Liberal councillor to defend a seat, group leader Fran Oborski, successfully defended it after 39 years on the council.

Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
5	3	0	+3	35.7	31.2	6,640	+10.1
4	0	4	-4	28.6	27.8	5,912	-10.8
3	2	1	+1	21.4	26.0	5,529	+2.1
1	0	0	0	7.1	5.4	1,145	-0.5
1	0	0	0	7.1	3.9	826	+0.2
0	0	0	0	0.0	3.3	692	+1.4
0	0	0	0	0.0	2.3	484	+0.6
0	0	0	0	0.0	0.2	34	-3.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Independent	826	50.0	+12.4
	Health Concern	323	19.5	+9.6
	Conservative	270	16.3	−9.5
	Labour	173	10.5	−0.3
	Green	61	3.7	+3.7
503	30.4	+18.6
1,653	31.4	−11.3
	Independent hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	774	48.4	+13.6
	Health Concern	467	29.2	−0.4
	Conservative	357	22.3	−10.6
307	19.2	+17.2
1,598	33.7	−9.1
	Labour hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	772	41.1	−0.9
	Health Concern	657	35.0	+9.9
	Labour	448	23.9	−3.4
115	6.1	−8.6
1,877	34.9	−11.7
	Conservative hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Health Concern	619	37.8	+11.2
	Labour	581	35.5	+6.8
	Conservative	277	16.9	−8.0
	Liberal	81	4.9	−2.0
	Green	80	4.9	+0.7
38	2.3
1,638	27.5	−7.8
	Health Concern gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	592	34.2	+3.7
	Health Concern	441	25.5	+5.8
	Conservative	435	25.2	−21.8
	UKIP	191	11.0	+11.0
	Green	36	2.1	+2.1
	Liberal Democrats	34	2.0	−0.8
151	8.7
1,729	31.2	−11.5
	Labour gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Health Concern	511	32.1	+16.5
	Labour	426	26.8	+4.1
	Liberal	296	18.6	−5.4
	Conservative	273	17.2	−15.6
	Green	85	5.3	+0.5
85	5.3
1,591	25.5	−9.5
	Health Concern hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	656	36.4	−1.5
	Conservative	524	29.1	−6.7
	Health Concern	404	22.4	+1.9
	UKIP	178	9.9	+9.9
	Green	38	2.1	+0.0
132	7.3	+5.2
1,800	34.6	−10.7
	Labour gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Health Concern	841	52.9	+8.9
	Conservative	446	28.1	−10.7
	Labour	303	19.1	+1.8
395	24.8	+19.5
1,590	29.0	−10.0
	Health Concern hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Health Concern	713	42.7	+7.8
	Conservative	567	34.0	−2.1
	Labour	278	16.7	−1.2
	Green	110	6.6	+2.6
146	8.8
1,668	28.0	−10.4
	Health Concern gain from Conservative

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	768	43.6	−0.2
	Health Concern	444	25.2	+25.2
	Conservative	282	16.0	−19.6
	Labour	266	15.1	−5.6
324	18.4	+10.2
1,760	32.4	−9.2
	Liberal hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	261	30.5	−2.9
	Labour	256	29.9	+6.2
	Health Concern	190	22.2	+0.9
	UKIP	127	14.9	+14.9
	Green	21	2.5	+2.5
5	0.6	−9.1
855	22.6	−24.9
	Conservative hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	402	58.1	−4.2
	Health Concern	222	32.1	+32.1
	Labour	68	9.8	+9.8
180	26.0	+1.4
692	34.0	−14.0
	Conservative hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	636	41.7	+1.5
	Health Concern	332	21.8	+2.8
	Labour	307	20.1	+2.9
	UKIP	196	12.9	+2.8
	Green	53	3.5	+0.5
304	19.9	−1.3
1,524	26.7	−9.5
	Conservative hold

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Health Concern	476	37.0	+12.0
	Conservative	410	31.9	−12.7
	Labour	401	31.2	+13.7
66	5.1
1,287	31.9	−39.3
	Health Concern gain from Conservative

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