Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election, 2006

Elections to Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.

The table below summarises the results of the 2006 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election. Although these are the results after the election, the number of seats per party changed later that year. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. Also this year, Councillor Nicholas Yates, who had been returned by the Brighouse ward in the 2004 election for four years and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below, left the party to continue his tenure as an Independent. This left the Conservatives with 18 seats, 1 held by the English Democrats and 4 held by Independents. In December 2006, Illingworth and Mixenden ward Councillor Tom McElroy (Labour) died suddenly, leaving Labour with nine seats. The by-election to succeed him took place on 22 February 2007, with Labour holding the ward.

 Summary of the May 2006 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election results

Parties		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net Gain/Loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/-
	Conservative	20	1	2	-1	39.2	28.8	15,657
	Liberal Democrat	16	1	0	+1	31.4	25.1	13,661
	Labour	10	1	0	+1	19.6	23.5	12,779
	BNP	2	0	1	-1	3.9	10.9	5,937
	Independent	3	1	1	0	5.9	9.1	4,946
	Green	0	0	0	0	0	2.5	1,351
	Christian Peoples	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	103
Total		51						54,434

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

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21	15	9	3	3
Conservative	Lib Dem	Labour	Ind	BN

After the election the composition of the council was:

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20	16	10	3	2
Conservative	Lib Dem	Labour	Ind	BN

Party		Previous council	New council
	Conservative	21	20
	Liberal Democrat	15	16
	Labour	9	10
	Independent	3	3
	BNP	3	2
Total		51	51

Ward results

Brighouse ward

Brighouse ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Colin Stout	1,450	44.47
	Conservative	Alan Robert Taylor	978	30.00
	Labour	Daniel Alan Coll	575	17.63
	Liberal Democrat	Luke William Wickham	257	7.88
Majority			472
Turnout			3,260	39.89
	Independent hold		Swing

Calder ward

Calder ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Nader Fekri	1,222	34.05
	Labour	Stewart Brown	884	24.63
	Green	Paul Edward John Palmer	780	21.73
	Conservative	Annette Jean Getty	702	19.56
Majority			338
Turnout			3,588	41.55
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Elland ward

Elland ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Francis Thompson	1,390	53.68
	Conservative	Michael John Clarke	794	30.66
	Labour	Marion Simone Batten	405	15.64
Majority			596
Turnout			2,589	33.56
	Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative		Swing

Greetland and Stainland ward

Greetland and Stainland ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Conrad Vero Winterburn	1,401	51.26
	Conservative	Bryce Christian Corkish	768	28.10
	Labour	Nigel Patrick Ambler	336	12.29
	Green	Mark Richard Mullany	228	8.34
Majority			633
Turnout			2,733	33.92
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Colin Raistrick	1,277	39.59
	Conservative	John Foran	1,215	37.67
	Labour	Keith John Butterick	500	15.50
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Graham James	233	7.22
Majority			62
Turnout			3,225	39.74
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Illingworth and Mixenden ward

Illingworth and Mixenden ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Geoffrey James Wallace	1,075	35.63
	Labour	Janet Lynne Oosthuysen	840	27.84
	Conservative	Richard Francis Maycock	682	22.60
	Liberal Democrat	Michael Murray Elder	296	9.81
	Independent	Sean Vincent Loftus	124	4.11
Majority			235
Turnout			3,017	36.14
	BNP hold		Swing

Luddendenfoot ward

Luddendenfoot ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Peter Sephton Coles	1,082	34.86
	Conservative	Richard Hugh Marshall	936	30.16
	BNP	John Derek Gregory	570	18.36
	Labour	Graham William Rusher	515	16.59
Majority			146
Turnout			3,103	42.33
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Northowram and Shelf ward

Northowram and Shelf ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Stephen Baines	1,610	44.83
	BNP	Christopher Godridge	830	23.11
	Labour	Gary Rae	764	21.27
	Liberal Democrat	John Christopher Beacroft-Mitchell	387	10.77
Majority			780
Turnout			3,591	41.56
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ovenden ward

Ovenden ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Helen Josephine Rivron	945	20.97
	Labour	Danielle Sara Eleana Coombs	873	19.37
	BNP	Thomas Lee Bates	796	17.66
	BNP	Jane Ann Shooter	775	17.20
	Conservative	Sally Victoria McCartney	319	7.08
	Conservative	Kathleen Young	303	6.72
	Liberal Democrat	Beth Charlotte Gore	285	6.32
	Liberal Democrat	Robert Ward	209	4.63
Turnout			4,505	30.64
	Labour hold		Swing

Park ward

Park ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Zafar Iqbal Din	1,339	35.60
	Liberal Democrat	Mohammed Ilyas	971	25.81
	Independent	Shakar Saghir	668	17.76
	Conservative	John Cecil David Hardy	510	13.56
	Independent	Stephen Pickles	273	7.25
Majority			368
Turnout			3,761	45.65
	Labour hold		Swing

Rastrick ward

Rastrick ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Graham Rogan	1,603	54.02
	Labour	Pamela Margaret Fellows	822	27.70
	Liberal Democrat	Diane Park	542	18.26
Majority			781
Turnout			2,967	36.02
	Conservative hold		Swing

Ryburn ward

Ryburn ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kay Barret	1,338	46.71
	Liberal Democrat	Ashley John Richard Evans	782	27.30
	Labour	Judith Mary Gannon	744	25.97
Majority			556
Turnout			2,864	35.59
	Conservative hold		Swing

Skircoat ward

Skircoat ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Grenville Horsfall	1,419	40.51
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Alexander Gow	1,410	40.26
	Green	Vivienne Patricia Smith	343	9.79
	Labour	Mohammed Ilyas Najib	330	9.42
Majority			9
Turnout			3,502	39.13
	Conservative hold		Swing

Sowerby Bridge ward

Sowerby Bridge ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Martin Howard Peel	955	36.77
	Liberal Democrat	Anne Marsden	888	34.19
	Labour	David Draycott	754	29.03
Majority			67
Turnout			2,597	33.78
	Conservative hold		Swing

Todmorden ward

Todmorden ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Ruth Goldthorpe	1,214	40.53
	Labour	Hariharan Padmanabhan	649	21.66
	BNP	Christian Michael Jackson	647	21.60
	Independent	Nicholas Green	485	16.19
Majority			565
Turnout			2,995	36.05
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Town ward

Town ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert George Metcalfe	1,151	40.68
	BNP	Stuart Brian Gill	748	26.44
	Conservative	Peter Byrne	590	20.85
	Liberal Democrat	John Boje Frederiksen	237	8.37
	Christian Peoples	Shaun Hogan	103	3.64
Majority			403
Turnout			2,829	35.15
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing

Warley ward

Warley ward

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Ian Ginley	935	28.26
	Liberal Democrat	Brendan Robert Stubbs	855	25.84
	BNP	Michael Hall	496	14.99
	Independent	Jennifer Mary Carr	636	19.22
	Labour	Mohammed Shazad Fazal	353	10.67
	Independent	Kelly Marie Catlow	33	0.99
Majority			80
Turnout			3,308	40.42
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

References

• Election of Local Councillors 2006 - 5 May 2006. calderdale.gov.uk.
• Calderdale Council full results - 2006. The Halifax Evening Courier.