2004 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
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Election result
Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56.0 | 41.6 | 35,360 | -8.1% | |
Community Action | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24.0 | 24.4 | 20,761 | +10.5% | |
Liberal Democrats | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.7 | 10.4 | 8,805 | -3.7% | |
Conservative | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.3 | 17.3 | 14,686 | +0.3% | |
BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.2 | 1,831 | +0.4% | |
Independent
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 1,457 | +1.7% | |
Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 1,180 | +1.4% |
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:
Party | Previous council | New council | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | 60 | 42 | |||
Community Action | 5 | 18 | |||
Liberal Democrat | 4 | 8 | |||
Conservative | 3 | 7 | |||
BNP | 0 | 0 | |||
Independent | 0 | 0 | |||
Green | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 72 | 75 | |||
Working majority | 48 | 9 |
Ward results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Audrey Bennett | 1,809 | 58.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Eunice Smethurst | 1,686 | |||
Labour | Carl Sweeney | 1,629 | |||
BNP | Dennis Shambley | 647 | 20.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Marion Green | 625 | 20.1 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 31 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 982 | 37.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,112 | 31.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Action | Paul Tushingham | 2,366 | 57.8 | N/A | |
Community Action | Walter Carney | 2,302 | |||
Community Action | Claire Daington | 2,229 | |||
Labour | Nigel Ash | 1,302 | 31.8 | N/A | |
Labour | Barry Hampson | 1,029 | |||
Labour | Frederick Lever | 1,012 | |||
Conservative | Marie Winstanley | 402 | 9.8 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 22 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Majority | 927 | 26.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,092 | 44.6 | N/A | ||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John Hilton | 1,758 | 52.2 | N/A | |
Labour | Christopher Ready | 1,744 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Jean Beswick | 1,528 | 45.3 | N/A | |
Labour | James Roberts | 1,519 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Alan Robinson | 1,134 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Christopher Thomas | 1,030 | |||
Rejected ballots | 84 | 2.5 | N/A | ||
Majority | 9 | 6.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,370 | 34.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Brian Wilson | 1,501 | 39.8 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Glynnis Hogg | 1,367 | 36.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Joseph Haley | 1,259 | |||
Liberal Democrats | John Stackhouse | 1,173 | |||
Labour | John Lea | 1,122 | |||
Labour | Alan Stephenson | 1,095 | |||
Green | Ian Davies | 870 | 23.0 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 37 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 137 | 3.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,775 | 39.6 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Susan Loudon | 1,219 | 48.4 | N/A | |
Labour | Mark Aldred | 1,214 | |||
Labour | Anne Turnock | 1,207 | |||
Community Action | Francis Myler | 683 | 27.1 | N/A | |
Community Action | Patricia Myler | 680 | |||
Conservative | Ann Davies | 584 | 23.2 | N/A | |
Community Action | Gladys Wilkes | 442 | |||
Rejected ballots | 33 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 524 | 21.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,519 | 33.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Robert Splaine | 1,705 | 42.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | David Higginbottom | 1,525 | |||
Labour | Karen Aldred | 1,487 | 37.5 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Moore | 1,414 | |||
Labour | Philip Loudon | 1,320 | |||
Labour | Reginald Holmes | 1,292 | |||
Conservative | Malcolm Parr | 449 | 11.3 | N/A | |
Green | Nicholas Redmond | 310 | 7.8 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 19 | 0.5 | N/A | ||
Majority | 73 | 5.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,970 | 36.3 | N/A | ||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Action | John Hodgkinson | 2,370 | 60.2 | N/A | |
Community Action | Gary Wilkes | 2,297 | |||
Community Action | Brian Merry | 2,239 | |||
Labour | Mildred Millington | 1,233 | 31.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Alan Melling | 1,183 | |||
Labour | William Evans | 986 | |||
Conservative | William Winstanley | 323 | 8.2 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 11 | 0.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 1,006 | 28.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,937 | 42.3 | N/A | ||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joy Birch | 1,427 | 51.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Christine Hitchen | 1,347 | |||
Labour | Margaret Coghlin | 1,318 | |||
Community Action | Lucy Beale | 1,296 | 46.6 | N/A | |
Community Action | Robert Beale | 1,287 | |||
Community Action | Janette Thomas | 1,223 | |||
Rejected ballots | 61 | 2.2 | N/A | ||
Majority | 131 | 4.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,784 | 30.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Action | Peter Franzen | 1,639 | 49.4 | N/A | |
Community Action | Kevin Williams | 1,414 | |||
Community Action | Peter Solinas | 1,413 | |||
Labour | David Kelly | 1,298 | 39.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Martin King | 1,258 | |||
Labour | Gerard Bretherton | 1,216 | |||
Conservative | Rosina Oxley | 355 | 10.7 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 24 | 0.7 | N/A | ||
Majority | 115 | 10.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,316 | 38.3 | N/A | ||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Alfred Robinson | 1,578 | 39.1 | N/A | |
Community Action | James Ellis | 1,153 | 28.6 | N/A | |
Community Action | Dorothy Grace | 1,134 | |||
Labour | John Holland | 1,041 | |||
Labour | Stephen Murphy | 1,024 | |||
Independent
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David Culshaw | 874 | 21.7 | N/A | |
Community Action | Edward Houlton | 614 | |||
Conservative | Dorothy Angell | 403 | 10.0 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 25 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Majority | 93 | 10.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,033 | 45.1 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Simmons | 1,272 | 35.0 | N/A | |
Community Action | Robert Brierley | 1,264 | 34.8 | N/A | |
Community Action | Barry Fagan | 1,231 | |||
Labour | Gordon Jackson | 898 | |||
Labour | John Phillips | 895 | |||
Community Action | Adele Wilkes | 750 | |||
Independent
|
John Vickers | 583 | 16.0 | N/A | |
Conservative | Andre Walker | 489 | 13.5 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 25 | 0.7 | N/A | ||
Majority | 333 | 0.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,633 | 42.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | David Molyneux | 1,494 | 66.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Joan Hurst | 1,368 | |||
Labour | James Moodie | 1,132 | |||
Community Action | Constantine Winstanley | 694 | 30.9 | N/A | |
Community Action | Robert Hall | 667 | |||
Community Action | David Hall | 651 | |||
Rejected ballots | 59 | 2.6 | N/A | ||
Majority | 438 | 35.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,247 | 26.3 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Keith Cunliffe | 1,407 | 46.5 | N/A | |
Labour | Brian Jarvis | 1,299 | |||
Labour | Frederick Walker | 1,081 | |||
Community Action | Stuart Winstanley | 943 | 31.2 | N/A | |
Community Action | Peter O'Connell | 843 | |||
Conservative | Derek Davies | 644 | 21.3 | N/A | |
Community Action | Natalie Franzen | 595 | |||
Rejected ballots | 30 | 1.0 | N/A | ||
Majority | 138 | 15.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,024 | 34.1 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Keith Anderson | 1,547 | 40.6 | N/A | |
Labour | John O'Brien | 1,465 | |||
Labour | Charles Rigby | 1,429 | |||
Community Action | Stephen Ellison | 1,175 | 30.9 | N/A | |
Community Action | Janice Solinas | 1,094 | |||
Community Action | Irene Franzen | 1,041 | |||
Conservative | Andrew Oxley | 1,030 | 27.1 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 54 | 1.4 | N/A | ||
Majority | 254 | 9.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,806 | 37.2 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Barbara Jarvis | 1,708 | 58.1 | N/A | |
Labour | Myra Whiteside | 1,624 | |||
Labour | Peter Smith | 1,506 | |||
Community Action | Daniel Burrows | 669 | 22.7 | N/A | |
Community Action | Yvonne Lavelle | 549 | |||
BNP | Richard Close | 513 | 17.4 | N/A | |
Community Action | Ian Franzen | 508 | |||
Rejected ballots | 51 | 1.7 | N/A | ||
Majority | 837 | 35.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,941 | 27.7 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Action | Ian Franzen | 1,793 | 44.6 | N/A | |
Community Action | Jonathan Miller | 1,730 | |||
Community Action | James Lavelle | 1,516 | |||
Labour | Lynne Liptrot | 1,289 | 32.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Eric Waterworth | 1,179 | |||
Labour | Christine Cottam | 1,062 | |||
Conservative | James Grundy | 879 | 21.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jeanette Leigh | 792 | |||
Conservative | Alan Lowe | 647 | |||
Rejected ballots | 63 | 1.6 | N/A | ||
Majority | 227 | 12.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,024 | 40.9 | N/A | ||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Richard Clayton | 1,747 | 39.4 | N/A | |
Conservative | Michael Winstanley | 1,520 | |||
Labour | Ernest Swift | 1,402 | 31.6 | N/A | |
Labour | Michael Barnes | 1,381 | |||
Labour | Rodney Stockwell | 1,313 | |||
Conservative | Hazel Shields | 1,285 | |||
BNP | Charles Mather | 671 | 15.1 | N/A | |
Community Action | Alan Freeman | 595 | 13.4 | N/A | |
Community Action | Tracy Lavelle | 420 | |||
Community Action | Sean Ashdown | 395 | |||
Rejected ballots | 19 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Majority | 117 | 7.8 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,434 | 49.5 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Jeanette Prescott | 1,419 | 46.7 | N/A | |
Labour | Barbara Bourne | 1,381 | |||
Labour | Paul Prescott | 1,314 | |||
Community Action | Margaret Crank | 1,140 | 37.5 | N/A | |
Community Action | William Burrows | 1,096 | |||
Community Action | John Hulme | 1,025 | |||
Conservative | Jonathan Cartwright | 439 | 14.5 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 38 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Majority | 174 | 9.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,036 | 31.1 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | John O'Neill | 1,843 | 45.3 | N/A | |
Labour | David Brown | 1,468 | |||
Labour | Michael Crosby | 1,461 | |||
Conservative | Elizabeth Beasleigh | 1,456 | 35.8 | N/A | |
Conservative | Deborah Fairhurst | 1,288 | |||
Conservative | Barry Alder | 1,191 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Martin Sutton | 739 | 18.2 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Freda Graham | 664 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Solveiq Gaber | 607 | |||
Rejected ballots | 31 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Majority | 5 | 9.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,069 | 44.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | George Davies | 1,383 | 34.7 | N/A | |
Conservative | George Fairhurst | 1,325 | 33.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Jessica Downer | 1,278 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Raymond Murphy | 1,254 | 31.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Trevor Beswick | 1,202 | |||
Labour | Thomas Morris | 1,197 | |||
Conservative | Barry Woolley | 1,185 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Maureen Garner | 1,066 | |||
Labour | Michael McLoughlin | 953 | |||
Rejected ballots | 29 | 0.7 | N/A | ||
Majority | 24 | 1.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,991 | 42.5 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Democrats | Neil Hogg | 2,212 | 54.7 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Keith McManus | 1,976 | |||
Liberal Democrats | Richard Derricutt | 1,768 | |||
Labour | Stephen Hellier | 1,350 | 33.4 | N/A | |
Labour | David Boydell | 1,212 | |||
Labour | Richard Evans | 1,027 | |||
Conservative | Deborah Woodcock | 457 | 11.3 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 23 | 0.6 | N/A | ||
Majority | 418 | 21.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,042 | 40.1 | N/A | ||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | |||||
Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Henry Cadman | 2,130 | 54.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | James Davies | 2,089 | |||
Conservative | Gareth Fairhurst | 1,961 | |||
Labour | Richard Walsh | 1,694 | 43.0 | N/A | |
Labour | Susan Turner | 1,668 | |||
Labour | John Ball | 1,502 | |||
Rejected ballots | 116 | 2.9 | N/A | ||
Majority | 267 | 11.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,940 | 43.2 | N/A | ||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) | |||||
Conservative win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Terence Halliwell | Uncontested | N/A | N/A | |
Labour | Joe Shaw | Uncontested | N/A | N/A | |
Labour | David Willis | Uncontested | N/A | N/A | |
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Community Action | Stanley Barnes | 1,810 | 48.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Rona Winkworth | 1,393 | 37.2 | N/A | |
Community Action | William Wilkes | 1,330 | |||
Community Action | Ronald Barnes | 1,299 | |||
Labour | Philip Kelly | 1,000 | |||
Labour | Robin Atkinson | 993 | |||
Conservative | Matthew Sephton | 525 | 14.0 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 16 | 0.4 | N/A | ||
Majority | 330 | 11.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,744 | 42.6 | N/A | ||
Community Action win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Community Action win (new seat) |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Joseph Baldwin | 1,547 | 48.9 | N/A | |
Labour | William Rotherham | 1,540 | |||
Labour | Wilfred Brogan | 1,498 | |||
Community Action | Susan Barnes | 1,171 | 37.0 | N/A | |
Community Action | William Barnes | 1,115 | |||
Community Action | Stephen Wilkes | 966 | |||
Conservative | Thomas Sutton | 424 | 13.4 | N/A | |
Rejected ballots | 24 | 0.8 | N/A | ||
Majority | 327 | 11.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,166 | 36.0 | N/A | ||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) | |||||
Labour win (new seat) |
By-elections between 2004 and 2006
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Michael Dewhurst | 916 | 48.5 | -2.8 | |
Community Action | Robert Beale | 788 | 41.8 | -4.8 | |
Conservative | Jean Peet | 101 | 5.4 | +5.4 | |
BNP | Dennis Shambley | 47 | 2.5 | +2.5 | |
UKIP
|
Gregory Atherton | 35 | 1.9 | +1.9 | |
Majority | 128 | 6.7 | +2.0 | ||
Turnout | 1,887 | 20.4 | -9.8 | ||
Labour hold | Swing | +1.0 |
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