2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election
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The 2024 Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024 to elect members of Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council in Merseyside, England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections across England, Liverpool's City Region mayoral election and Merseyside's Police and Crime Commissioner election.
As is typical for Sefton's local elections, twenty-two seats of the sixty-six total were contested. The Labour party have controlled the council since the 2012 elections, and prior to the election had a comfortable working majority of 13. Shortly before the election, this was reduced from their majority of 18 they had had following the previous year's election; in early March Labour Councillor Trish Hardy resigned from her Litherland ward seat leaving a vacancy, and less than a month before polling day Councillors Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall left Labour in protest of the party's policy direction and stance on the war in Gaza.[2]
The majority of the seats contested were held by Labour, who defended fifteen of the twenty-two seats. The Liberal Democrats defended three seats, and the Conservatives defended two seats.[3] The then-vacant Litherland seat was also contested alongside two seats held by independent councillors.
Labour and the Conservatives contested all seats up for election, while the Green Party contested every seat except 1 (Linacre). As a result of administrative confusion some of the Green Party candidates had the description “Green Party” and the party’s logo (16 candidates) next to their name on the voting ballots while others only had the logo (5 candidates). Additionally the Liberal Democrats contested close to all seats, with candidates representing Reform UK, TUSC, Freedom Alliance, localist groups, also stood a small number of candidates alongside 2 independents.
Amongst other results, the Green party gained their first seat ever on the council, narrowly winning in Church ward by just over a hundred votes.[4]
Previous council composition[edit]
After 2023 election | Before 2024 election[5] | ||||
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Party | Seats | Party | Seats | ||
Labour | 51 | Labour | 48 | ||
Liberal Democrats | 9 | Liberal Democrats | 9 | ||
Conservative | 5 | Conservative | 5 | ||
Independent | 0 | Independent | 2 | ||
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents | 1 | Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents | 1 | ||
Vacant | 1 |
Changes:
- 7 March 2024: Labour councillor Trish Hardy resigns.[6]
- 8 April 2024: Natasha Carlin and Sean Halsall leave Labour to sit as independents over protest of Labour's direction and stance on the Israel-Hamas war.[2]
Election results[edit]
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Labour | 27 | |||||||||
Liberal Democrats | 6 | |||||||||
Conservative | 3 | |||||||||
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents | 1 | |||||||||
Freedom Alliance | 0 | |||||||||
Formby Residents Action Group | 0 | |||||||||
Green | 0 | |||||||||
Reform UK | 0 | |||||||||
TUSC | 0 | |||||||||
Independent | 0 |
Ward Results[edit]
The Statements of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, were released by Sefton Council on 8 April 2024 following the close of nominations.[1] Councillors that were standing for re-election are marked with an asterisk (*). The results for each ward were announced the day after the election.[7]
Ainsdale Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Lynne Thompson* | 1,978 | 51.5 | 16.3 | |
Labour | Frank Hanley | 1,193 | 31.0 | 4.5 | |
Conservative | Ryan Abbott | 527 | 13.7 | 11.1 | |
Green | Laurence Rankin | 145 | 3.8 | 0.6 | |
Majority | 785 | 21.4 | 21.1 | ||
Registered electors | 10,061 | ||||
Turnout | 3,843 | 38.2 | |||
Rejected ballots | 27 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 10.4 |
Birkdale Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sonya Kelly* | 1,435 | 41.6 | 3.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Erin Harvey | 1,357 | 39.3 | 1.2 | |
Conservative | Sam Harris | 489 | 14.2 | 0.1 | |
Green | Jeff Bee | 168 | 4.9 | 1.2 | |
Majority | 78 | ||||
Registered electors | 10,018 | ||||
Turnout | 3,449 | 34.4 | 1.0 | ||
Rejected ballots | 26 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.3 |
Blundellsands Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Diane Roscoe* | 2,249 | 68.3 | 1.4 | |
Conservative | Katie Burgess | 548 | 16.7 | 1.9 | |
Green | Kieran Dams | 270 | 8.2 | 1.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Brian Dunning | 224 | 6.8 | 0.6 | |
Majority | 1,701 | 51.6 | |||
Registered electors | 9,159 | ||||
Turnout | 3,291 | 35.9 | |||
Rejected ballots | 25 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 1.7 |
Cambridge Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Mike Sammon | 1,161 | 36.5 | 6.2 | |
Conservative | Gary Haran Doyle | 1,002 | 31.5 | 2.6 | |
Labour | Callum Naylor | 816 | 25.6 | 6.5 | |
Green | Stephen Hesketh | 204 | 6.4 | 2.3 | |
Majority | 159 | ||||
Registered electors | 9,716 | ||||
Turnout | 3,441 | 32.8 | 2.7 | ||
Rejected ballots | 28 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | Swing | 1.8 |
Church Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Neil Doolin | 1,412 | 50.6 | 10.6 | |
Labour Co-op | Paul Cummins* | 1,307 | 46.5 | 7.1 | |
Conservative | Dorothy Brown | 91 | 3.2 | 1.0 | |
Majority | 105 | ||||
Registered electors | 9,091 | ||||
Turnout | 2,810 | 30.9 | 0.9 | ||
Rejected ballots | 18 | ||||
Green gain from Labour | Swing | 8.9 |
Derby Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Maria Porter | 1,580 | 78.9 | 2.0 | |
Reform UK | Leighton Sealeaf | 122 | 6.1 | New | |
Green | Kate Robinson | 114 | 5.7 | 1.6 | |
Conservative | Iain Beckett | 91 | 4.5 | 2.3 | |
TUSC | Dean Young | 55 | 2.7 | 2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rowenna Gibson | 41 | 2.0 | New | |
Majority | 1,458 | ||||
Registered electors | 9,002 | ||||
Turnout | 2,003 | 22.3 | |||
Rejected ballots | 20 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 4.1 |
Dukes Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Mike Prendergast* | 1,379 | 41.7 | 7.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Damian Bond | 967 | 29.3 | 12.8 | |
Labour | Helen Duerden | 764 | 23.1 | 4.1 | |
Green | David Newman | 195 | 5.9 | 1.3 | |
Rejected ballots | 29 | ||||
Majority | 412 | ||||
Registered electors | 10,442 | ||||
Turnout | 31.7 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | 10.2 |
Ford Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Paulette Lappin* | 1,541 | 80.9 | 0.1 | |
Green | Lyndsey Doolin | 187 | 9.8 | 0.3 | |
Conservative | Michael Shaw | 120 | 6.3 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Adarsh Makdani | 56 | 2.9 | 0.2 | |
Rejected ballots | 17 | ||||
Majority | 1,354 | 71.8 | |||
Turnout | 1,904 | 20.6 | |||
Labour hold | Swing | 0.2 |
Harington Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Cavanagh | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Annie Gorski | ||||
Formby Residents Action Group | Dave Irving | ||||
Conservative | Joe Riley* | ||||
Green | Michael Walsh | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Kew Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Jen Corcoran* | 1,358 | 43.8 | 8.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Daniel Lewis | 1,118 | 36.1 | 15.7 | |
Conservative | Owen Phillips | 440 | 14.2 | 5.3 | |
Green | Rob Wesley | 184 | 5.9 | 1.6 | |
Majority | 240 | ||||
Registered electors | 10,720 | ||||
Turnout | 3,100 | 28.9 | 0.1 | ||
Rejected ballots | 33 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 12.2 |
Linacre Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | John Campbell | ||||
Liberal Democrats | David Mellalieu | ||||
Labour | Joanne Williams | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Litherland Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Colin Appleton | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Roy Connell | ||||
Green | Amber-Page Moss | ||||
Labour | Paula Murphy | ||||
Independent | Ian Smith | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Manor Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Martyn Barber | ||||
Liberal Democrats | John Gibson | ||||
Labour | Dominic McNabb | ||||
Green | James O’Keeffe | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Meols Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | John Dodd* | 1,452 | 46.3 | 1.6 | |
Labour | Steve Jowett | 863 | 27.5 | 4.0 | |
Conservative | Bob Teesdale | 613 | 19.5 | 6.7 | |
Green | Pauline Anne Hesketh | 208 | 6.6 | 1.0 | |
Majority | 589 | ||||
Registered electors | 10,016 | ||||
Turnout | 3,136 | 31.3 | 2.7 | ||
Rejected ballots | 21 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | 1.2 |
Molyneux Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Marcus Bleasdale | ||||
Green | David Collins | ||||
Labour | Sam Hinde | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Paul Young | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Netherton and Orrell Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Green | Simon Baron | ||||
TUSC | Owen Croft | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Vic Foulds | ||||
Conservative | Adam Marsden | ||||
Labour | Tom Spring* | ||||
Freedom Alliance | Maria Walsh | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Norward Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Dave Neary | 1,487 | 55.3 | 4.0 | |
Conservative | Margaret Middleton | 461 | 17.2 | 1.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Lesley Delves | 433 | 16.1 | 2.6 | |
Green | David McIntosh | 306 | 11.4 | 5.0 | |
Rejected ballots | 40 | ||||
Majority | 1,026 | ||||
Turnout | 2,687 | 26.3 | 2.7 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | 2.8 |
Park Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Keith Cawdron | ||||
Green | Roy Greason | ||||
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents | Paul McCord | ||||
Labour | Chloe Parker | ||||
Conservative | Craig Titherington | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Ravenmeols Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Formby Residents Action Group | Maria Bennett | ||||
Green | Alison Gibbon | ||||
Liberal Democrats | Lisa Nicolson-Smith | ||||
Labour | Catie Page* | ||||
Conservative | Angelica Sadrieva | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
St Oswald Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Bliss | ||||
Labour | Joe Johnson | ||||
TUSC | Conor O’Neill | ||||
Green | Rupert Shoebridge | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Sudell Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Marie Blease | ||||
Green | Paul Dunbar | ||||
Labour | James Hansen* | ||||
Conservative | Daniel Kirk | ||||
Lydiate and Maghull Community Independents | Joanne McCall | ||||
Liberal Democrats | James Tattersall | ||||
Rejected ballots | |||||
Majority | |||||
Turnout |
Victoria Ward[edit]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Roche* | 2,386 | 68.7 | +7.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hannah Gee | 452 | 13.0 | -7.2 | |
Green | Samantha Cook | 380 | 10.9 | +1.0 | |
Conservative | Paul Barber | 253 | 7.3 | -1.3 | |
Rejected ballots | 25 | ||||
Majority | 1,934 | 55.7 | |||
Registered electors | 10,505 | ||||
Turnout | 3,471 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | 7.25 |
References[edit]
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- ^ "Election results for Cambridge, 2 May 2024". 3 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
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