2010 Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council election

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6 May 2010

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One third (21 of 63) seats to Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council
32 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Party	Labour	Conservative	Liberal Democrats
Seats won	17	3	1
Seat change	8	0	2
Popular vote	45,467	25,590	19,022
Percentage	35.9	20.2%	15%
Swing	1.5%	0.1%	1%

Map showing the results of the 2010 Doncaster Council elections.

Council control before election

No overall control

Council control after election

Labour

The 2010 Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect one third of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council in South Yorkshire, England as part of the 2010 United Kingdom local elections. The 2010 General Election also took place on the same day.

The election resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the council from No overall control for the first time since 2003 after gaining eight seats overall. After the election, the composition of the council was:

Result

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council election, 2010
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes %	Votes
Labour	17	8	0	+8	35.9	45,467
Conservative	3	0	0	0	20.2	25,590
Liberal Democrats	1	0	2	-2	15	19,022
English Democrat	0	0	0	0	14.5	18,412
Independent	0	0	4	-4	7.6	9,570
Community Group	0	0	2	-2	2.2	2,809
BNP	0	0	0	0	2.2	2,756
Green	0	0	0	0	1.2	1,552
UKIP	0	0	0	0	1.2	1,501

Ward results

The results in each ward are shown below. Changes are compared with the previous election in 2006. Spoilt ballots are not included in the below results.

Adwick

Adwick
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John Mounsey	2,948	51.99
	Liberal Democrats	Dave Farrell	1,068	18.84
	English Democrat	Janine Clark	1,004	17.71
	Conservative	Alan Smith	650	11.46
Turnout			5,670	52.83
	Labour hold

Armthorpe

Armthorpe
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Chris McGuinness	2,369	39.20
	Independent	Tony Brown	1,258	20.81
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Mitchell	877	14.51
	Conservative	Malcom Andrew Knight	848	14.03
	English Democrat	Lawrence Edward Parramore	692	11.45
Turnout			6,044	55.59
	Labour gain from Independent

Askern Spa

Askern Spa
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Ros Jones	2,756	48.58
	Conservative	Martin Damian Greenhalgh	1,502	26.48
	English Democrat	Malcolm Eric Woodrow	1,415	24.94
Turnout			5,673	59.51
	Labour hold

Balby

Balby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Andrew Bosmans	2,505	42.10
	Conservative	Matthew Peter Brunning	1,462	24.57
	Independent	Garth Oxby	1,289	21.66
	Independent	Margaret Yvonne Dorothy Thompson	694	11.66
Turnout			5,950	53.60
	Labour gain from Independent

Bentley

Bentley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Stuart Hardy	2,262	46.96
	English Democrat	Bernard Warner	1,114	23.13
	Independent	Eddie Storey	792	16.44
	Conservative	Brian Woodhouse	649	13.47
Turnout			4,817	49.64
	Labour hold

Bessacarr and Cantley

Bessacarr and Cantley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Eric Victor Tatton-Kelly	2,496	34.83
	Conservative	Liz Sparrow	1,895	26.44
	Labour	Sue Wilkinson	1,626	22.69
	English Democrat	Mick Cooper	1,149	16.03
Turnout			7,166	64.12
	Liberal Democrats hold

Central

Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	John McHale	2,752	50.89
	Liberal Democrats	Marie Madeleine Lane	1,023	18.92
	English Democrat	Berny Boldry	783	14.48
	Conservative	Ian Paul Hutchinson	735	13.59
	Community Group	Jim Davies	115	2.13
Turnout			5,408	49.19
	Labour hold

Conisbrough and Denaby

Conisbrough and Denaby
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sandra Mary Holland	3,771	57.76
	Liberal Democrats	John Victor Butterfield	753	11.53
	English Democrat	Julie Anne Bulcroft	722	11.06
	BNP	Erwin Toseland	690	10.57
	Conservative	Jonathan Sherwin Broughton	593	9.08
Turnout			6,529	53.66
	Labour hold

Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun

Edenthorpe, Kirk Sandall and Barnby Dun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Andrew Nevett	1,632	24.00
	Liberal Democrats	Karl Goodman	1,585	23.31
	Conservative	Nick Allen	1,383	20.34
	English Democrat	Fred Gee	1,100	16.18
	Independent	Michael Thomas Maye	1,100	16.18
Turnout			6,800	63.00
	Labour gain from Independent

Edlington and Warmsworth

Edlington and Warmsworth
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Elsie Butler	2,242	37.49
	English Democrat	Wayne Crawshaw	1,024	17.12
	Conservative	Liz Jones	863	14.43
	Liberal Democrats	Dominic Thomas Patterson	777	12.99
	Community Group	Margaret Ward	722	12.07
	Independent	Rodger Lee	352	5.89
Turnout			5,980	57.76
	Labour hold

Finningley

Finningley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Allan Jones	2,988	36.97
	Liberal Democrats	Richard Alan Johnson	1,995	24.68
	English Democrat	Eric Tetley	1,612	19.95
	Labour	Francis Jackson	1,487	18.40
Turnout			8,082	67.85
	Conservative hold

Great North Road

Great North Road
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Kevin Rodgers	2,464	36.46
	Independent	David Hughes	1,236	18.29
	English Democrat	Steve Grocott	1,229	18.19
	Conservative	Frank Lloyd Calladine	1,222	18.08
	Green	Stephen Platt	607	8.98
Turnout			6,758	58.52
	Labour gain from Independent

Hatfield

Hatfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Linda Curran	1,961	33.76
	Conservative	James Vincent Hart	1,145	19.71
	English Democrat	Mick Glynn	801	13.79
	Independent	Jessie Jamieson Credland	716	12.33
	Liberal Democrats	Vic Fairhead	602	10.36
	UKIP	William Brooke Shaw	315	5.42
	Community Group	Stewart Anthony Rayner	269	4.63
Turnout			5,809	58.90
	Labour gain from Community Group

Mexborough

Mexborough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	David Holland	2,334	40.05
	Liberal Democrats	Tracey Leyland	1,784	30.61
	BNP	Helen Ellis	785	13.47
	Conservative	Phyllis Calladine	512	8.79
	English Democrat	Ieva Parramore	413	7.09
Turnout			5,828	52.14
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats

Rossington

Rossington
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Barry Johnson	1,771	32.56
	Independent	Terry Wilde	971	17.85
	Community Group	John Nolan Cooke	812	14.93
	English Democrat	Carol Young	733	13.48
	Liberal Democrats	Rebecca Atkinson	638	11.73
	Conservative	Kathleen Margaret Beard	514	9.45
Turnout			5,439	54.21
	Labour hold

Sprotbrough

Sprotbrough
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Doreen Woodhouse	2,414	37.79
	Labour	Peter Millar	1,802	28.21
	English Democrat	Barbara Hewitt	1,342	21.01
	Green	Lynette Chipp	830	12.99
Turnout			6,388	67.51
	Conservative hold

Stainforth and Moorends

Stainforth and Moorends
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Barbara Ann Hedley	1,884	38.08
	Conservative	Martin Edward Drake	1,000	20.21
	BNP	Dave Owen	608	12.29
	English Democrat	Margaret Rose Holt-Taylor	580	11.72
	UKIP	Ronald William Clegg	399	8.06
	Independent	Derek Troops	302	6.10
	Community Group	Mick Green	175	3.54
Turnout			4,948	52.05
	Labour hold

Thorne

Thorne
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Eddie Dobbs	1,653	27.46
	Conservative	John Brown	1,383	22.98
	Independent	Richard Walker	860	14.29
	Liberal Democrats	John Brown	734	12.19
	Community Group	Tony Brookes	716	11.90
	BNP	Anthony Holt	673	11.18
Turnout			6,019	57.65
	Labour gain from Community Group

Torne Valley

Torne Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Patricia Bartlett	2,863	42.05
	Liberal Democrats	David Adgar	1,580	23.21
	Labour	Rachel Hodson	1,325	19.46
	English Democrat	Bernie Aston	523	7.68
	UKIP	Rebecca Walters	517	7.59
Turnout			6,808	69.42
	Conservative hold

Town Moor

Town Moor
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Jane Kidd	1,906	34.17
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Michael Abell	1,681	30.14
	Conservative	Mark David Wells	969	17.37
	English Democrat	Guy Aston	637	11.42
	UKIP	John Michael Andrews	270	4.84
	Green	Darren Robinson	115	2.06
Turnout			5,578	55.21
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats

Wheatley

Wheatley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Moira Hood	2,017	40.46
	English Democrat	Roy John Penketh	1,539	30.87
	Liberal Democrats	Liz Hall	1,429	28.67
Turnout			4,985	51.09
	Labour hold

References

BBC Election 2010 Results
Doncaster Council - Election 2010 Archived 5 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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