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2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election

The 2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day, to elect one-third of the 51 members of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in Lancashire.

The 2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election took place on Thursday 2 May 2024, alongside the other local elections in the United Kingdom being held on the same day, to elect one-third of the 51 members of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in Lancashire.

Labour retained control of the council. Both Labour and the Conservatives lost seats to independent candidates, many of whom were allied to the '4 BwD' group of independents which had formed on the council in autumn 2023. After the election there were 12 councillors in the 4BwD group, overtaking the Conservatives who were left with 9 seats. The 4 BwD group therefore became the council's official opposition.

The Labour Party have governed Blackburn with Darwen for most of its history. They controlled the council from its creation in 1997 as a unitary authority to 2007, and again from 2011 to the present, with a period of no overall control between. In the previous election, Labour won 14 seats (up 2) with 63.0% of the vote, the Conservatives won 3 (down 1) with 30.3%, and the Liberal Democrats lost the seat they were defending with 5.1%.

The seats up for election in 2024 were last contested in 2021; because of the delay of all local elections due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the seats are up for election after 3 years rather than the usual 4. In that election, Labour won 11 seats with 55.4%, the Conservatives won 6 with 38.8%, and the Liberal Democrats won 0 with 5.0%.

Before 2024 election	After 2024 election
Labour	39	Labour	31	Labour	29
Conservative	12	Conservative	11	Conservative	9
Independent	0	Independent	9	Independent	13

Changes:

October 2023: Saj Ali, Mustafa Desai, Samim Desai, Suleman Khonat, Adbul Patel, Salma Patel, and Salim Sidat leave Labour to sit as independents; Mohammed Irfan suspended from Labour; Altaf "Tiger" Patel leaves Conservatives to sit as an independent

2024 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election
Labour	7	2	41.2	22	29	56.9	12,749	40.4	-22.6
Independent	8	4	47.1	5	13	25.5	10,964	34.7	+34.2
Conservative	2	2	11.8	7	9	17.6	7,094	22.5	-7.8
Green	0		0.0	0	0	0.0	762	2.4	+1.5

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}±%
	Independent	1,068	49.2	N/A
	Labour	664	30.6	–36.5
	Green	311	14.3	N/A
	Conservative	129	5.9	−12.5
2,172	34.2	+5.8

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	1,273	52.6	N/A
	Labour	936	38.7	–41.7
	Conservative	139	5.7	−13.9
	Independent	71	2.9	N/A
2,419	41.3	+6.1
	Independent gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	1,512	62.7	N/A
	Labour	509	21.1	–40.9
	Conservative	389	16.1	−16.6
2,410	38.3	+4.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	799	51.2	N/A
	Labour	596	38.2	–38.2
	Conservative	166	10.6	−5.5
1,561	25.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	809	53.8	+9.8
	Conservative	696	46.2	−9.8
1,505	26.7	+0.4
	Labour gain from Conservative	9.8

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	628	58.3	−15.1
	Independent	259	24.0	N/A
	Conservative	191	17.7	−8.9
1,078	17.8	+1.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	773	58.6	−0.5
	Independent	331	25.1	N/A
	Conservative	214	16.2	+0.4
1,318	20.7	–1.2

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	903	49.0	+3.7
	Conservative	734	39.8	−1.0
	Green	206	11.2	N/A
1,843	28.5	–0.3
	Labour hold	2.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,293	73.7	+10.9
	Conservative	460	26.2	−5.1
1,753	28.7	–2.1
	Labour hold	8.0

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	657	52.8	−5.4
	Conservative	397	31.9	−9.9
	Green	128	10.3	N/A
	Independent	63	5.1	N/A
1,245	20.3	–0.5
	Labour gain from Conservative	2.3

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	809	36.5	N/A
	Independent	755	34.1	N/A
	Labour	480	21.7	–58.6
	Conservative	170	7.7	−5.6
2,214	36.7	+11.4

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,441	74.7	+7.2
	Labour	487	25.3	−7.2
1,928	29.6	–1.9
	Conservative hold	7.2

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	697	64.0	−4.1
	Conservative	272	25.0	+2.0
	Independent	120	11.0	N/A
1,089	19.8	–0.4
	Labour hold	3.1

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	999	46.9	N/A
	Labour	723	34.0	–33.4
	Conservative	406	19.1	−4.7
2,128	33.1	+5.3
	Independent gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	1,957	70.9	N/A
	Labour	740	26.8	–63.7
	Conservative	65	2.4	−7.1
2,762	45.0	+17.1
	Independent gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	948	46.7	N/A
	Labour	881	43.4	−46.7
	Green	117	5.8	N/A
	Conservative	86	4.2	−5.7
2,032	33.8	+3.6
	Independent gain from Labour

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	1,139	53.9	+2.0
	Labour	973	46.1	+13.4
2,112	35.1	–2.3
	Conservative hold	5.7

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