2006 Pendle Borough Council election

2006 UK local government election

Main article: Pendle Borough Council elections

The 2006 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2006 to elect members of Pendle Borough Council in Lancashire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats stayed in overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Background

Before the election the Liberal Democrats held a majority with 29 seats, compared to 11 for the Conservatives, 7 for Labour and 1 seat was vacant. 18 of the 49 seats on the council were contested at the election, with 2 seats available in Reedley and Vivary Bridge wards. Candidates in the election came from the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, as well as 7 from the British National Party.

Election result

The results saw the Liberal Democrats retain a majority on the council, while the British National Party won a first seat on the council. Brian Parker gained Marsden for the British National Party from Labour by 80 votes, with the leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin saying he was "very pleased" and hoped "we can go on and progress in the future". However the other parties expressed concern over the success for the British National Party. Meanwhile, among the other successful candidates in the election was Liberal Democrat Naseem Shabnam, who became the first Asian woman councillor in Pendle after being elected in Brierfield ward. Overall turnout in the election was 43.03%.

Later in May Mohammed Iqbal was elected as the new leader of the Labour group on the council, after the previous leader Frank Clifford stood down at the election. Also towards the end of the month, councillor Marlene Hill-Crane quit the Liberal Democrats to sit as an independent, due to a dispute over the regeneration of a former school.

Pendle local election result 2006
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Liberal Democrats	9	2	2	0	50.0	40.6	11,547	-0.4%
Conservative	4	1	0	+1	22.2	26.0	7,407	+2.9%
Labour	4	1	3	-2	22.2	23.0	6,556	+0.3%
BNP	1	1	0	+1	5.6	10.4	2,953	-0.2%

Ward results

Barrowford
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jonathan Eyre	740	45.2	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Allan Vickerman	712	43.5	+12.3
	Labour	Christine Stables	185	11.3	+2.9
Majority			28	1.7	−9.1
Turnout			1,637	41.7	−11.2
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Boulsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Aaron Hurst	681	37.0	+1.1
	Conservative	Violet Vaughan	572	31.1	−4.5
	BNP	Thomas Boocock	463	25.2	+5.3
	Labour	Jillian Allanson	123	6.7	−1.9
Majority			109	5.9	+5.5
Turnout			1,839	46.4	−7.2
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Bradley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mohammed Iqbal	951	46.0	+5.2
	Liberal Democrats	Saba Iftikhar	879	42.5	−9.5
	Conservative	Victoria Landriau	239	11.6	+4.4
Majority			72	3.5
Turnout			2,069	48.0	−8.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Brierfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Naseem Shabnam	623	40.1	−9.8
	Labour	Robert Allen	467	30.1	+6.6
	Conservative	Peter Jackson	464	29.9	+3.3
Majority			156	10.0	−13.2
Turnout			1,554	42.3	−14.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Cloverhill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Edwards	726	44.2	−13.5
	BNP	Helen Mulligan	405	24.6	+6.8
	Labour	Colin Waite	358	21.8	+4.9
	Conservative	Michael Landriau	155	9.4	+1.8
Majority			321	19.5	−20.4
Turnout			1,644	43.3	−8.4
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

Coates
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Bell	1,002	64.6	+10.5
	Conservative	Sandra Sargeant	336	21.7	+8.9
	Labour	Lakhbir Randhawa	213	13.7	+2.9
Majority			666	42.9	+11.0
Turnout			1,551	39.1	−9.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Craven
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Whipp	923	50.3	+6.2
	BNP	John Stonnell	459	25.0	+3.1
	Conservative	Valerie Langtree	301	16.4	+2.2
	Labour	Sheila Wicks	151	8.2	−3.2
Majority			464	25.3	+3.1
Turnout			1,834	44.1	−5.8
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Earby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Christopher Tennant	1,100	59.2	+15.1
	Liberal Democrats	Doris Haigh	487	26.2	+1.9
	Labour	Peter Wilkinson	271	14.6	+2.1
Majority			613	33.0	+13.2
Turnout			1,858	42.2	−9.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Horsfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sharon Davies	681	43.2	+7.9
	BNP	Geoffrey Whitehead	454	28.8	+9.3
	Labour	Frank Allanson	251	15.9	−0.3
	Conservative	Geoffrey Riley	191	12.1	+2.1
Majority			227	14.4	−1.4
Turnout			1,577	39.9	−8.3
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Marsden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BNP	Brian Parker	417	38.3	+38.3
	Labour	Dorothy Ormrod	337	31.0	−13.8
	Conservative	Timothy Eyre	176	16.2	−17.4
	Liberal Democrats	David Dean	158	14.5	+14.5
Majority			80	7.4
Turnout			1,088	42.7	−2.8
	BNP gain from Labour		Swing

Reedley (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Pauline McCormick	1,120
	Conservative	Joan Clegg	1,027
	Liberal Democrats	Audrey Westwell	554
	Liberal Democrats	Salma Naeem	375
	Labour	Anthony Martin	322
Turnout			3,398	46.1	−8.7
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Southfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sheena Dunn	527	42.9	+12.8
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Weinberg	491	40.0	−13.8
	Conservative	Joyce Myers	210	17.1	+1.0
Majority			36	2.9
Turnout			1,228	22.0	−23.5
	Labour hold		Swing

Vivary Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David Clegg	690
	Liberal Democrats	Howard Thomas	599
	BNP	Robert Cottage	403
	BNP	Trevor Dawson	352
	Labour	David Foat	248
	Labour	Dianne Tweedie	230
	Conservative	Smith Benson	206
	Conservative	Harold Ryder	157
Turnout			2,885	38.3	−4.9
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Walverden
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	George Adam	673	50.9	+23.7
	Liberal Democrats	Abdul Malik	492	37.2	−14.1
	Conservative	Ann Jackson	156	11.8	−9.7
Majority			181	13.7
Turnout			1,321	50.7	−9.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Waterside
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Boyle	677	58.5	+2.9
	Labour	Ian Tweedie	306	26.4	−0.5
	Conservative	Maureen Regan	174	15.0	−2.5
Majority			371	32.1	+3.4
Turnout			1,157	31.1	−9.4
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Whitefield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Asjad Mahmood	943	51.7	+13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Mahboob Ahmed	797	43.7	−11.8
	Conservative	Michelle Ainsworth	83	4.6	−1.1
Majority			146	8.0
Turnout			1,823	71.7	−6.5
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

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