2011 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election

2011 UK local government election

The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton shown within England.

Elections to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 5 May 2011, along with the 2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum. One third of the council was up for election, with each successful candidate to serve a four-year term of office, expiring in 2015.

21 seats were contested, including 2 seats in the Horwich North East ward following Barbara Ronson's resignation. The Labour Party won 15 seats, whilst the Conservatives won 5 and the Liberal Democrats 1.

The Labour Party gained overall control of the council for the first time since 2003.

After the election, the composition of the council was as follows:

Election result

Bolton Local Election Result 2011
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	15	5	0	+5		49.3	38,148	+9.8
Conservative	5	0	2	-2		33.2	25,745	-0.7
Liberal Democrats	1	0	3	-3		12.7	9,801	-8.7
Green	0	0	0	0	0	3.6	2,762	+1.4
BNP	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	299	-1.1
Independent	0	0	0	0	0	0.9	692	-0.8

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓
30	22	8
Labour	Conservative	Lib Dems

After the election the composition of the council was:

↓
35	20	5
Labour	Conservative	Lib Dems

Ward results

Astley Bridge ward

Astley Bridge ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Vernon Wild	1,982	46.1	−0.4
	Labour	Asif Ismail Ibrahim	1,481	34.5	+5.0
	Independent	Neville Mercer	430	10.00	+4.3
	Astley Bridge First	Stuart Anthony Lever	202	4.7	+4.7
	Liberal Democrats	Clive Richard Atty	202	4.7	−13.5
Majority			501	11.6	−5.2
Turnout			4,297	42.9	−26.2
	Conservative gain from Ind. Conservative		Swing	LD to Labour 9.2

Bradshaw ward

Bradshaw ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Diana Brierley	2,328	55.7	+2.0
	Labour	Kate Challender	1,567	37.5	+10.6
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Frederick Howarth	285	6.8	−10.1
Majority			761	18.1	−8.6
Turnout			4,209	47.7	−24.4
	Conservative hold		Swing	LD to Labour 10.4

Breightmet ward

Breightmet ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	John Byrne	2,045	60.2	+10.6
	Conservative	Sandra MacNeill	1,176	34.6	−0.1
	Liberal Democrats	Tracey Odessa Kane	176	5.2	−10.4
Majority			869	25.4	+10.6
Turnout			3,420	36.0	−23.2
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 10.5

Bromley Cross ward

Bromley Cross ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Norman Andrew Wilkinson	2,821	59.7	+5.2
	Labour	Tony Muscat	1,244	26.3	+3.5
	Green	Rosa Sarah Shaw	336	7.1	+3.2
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Atty	327	6.9	−11.6
Majority			1,577	33.2	+1.8
Turnout			4,755	45.0	−29.0
	Conservative hold		Swing	LD to Con 8.4

Crompton ward

Crompton ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Guy J. Harkin	2,403	68.7	+6.4
	Conservative	Gareth James Morris	713	20.4	−1.6
	Green	Alex Shaw	218	6.2	+6.2
	Liberal Democrats	Gabrielle McDowall	164	4.7	−10.9
Majority			1,690	48.0	+7.7
Turnout			3,522	35.1	−26.6
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 10.6

Farnworth ward

Farnworth ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Gillies	1,855	68.8	+15.9
	Conservative	Ibby Ismail	383	14.2	−6.8
	Green	Diana Hayes	231	8.6	+3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Connor	226	8.4	−11.7
Majority			1,472	54.0	+32.0
Turnout			2,726	25.5	−20.4
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 13.8

Great Lever ward

Great Lever ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Madeline Murray	2,282	68.5	+19.0
	Conservative	Anjani Kumar	612	18.4	−13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Aqeel Akhtar	241	7.2	−6.5
	Green	David William Collins	198	5.9	+1.2
Majority			1,670	49.5	−31.3
Turnout			3,375	35.5	−22.8
	Labour hold		Swing	Con to Labour 16.0

Halliwell ward

Halliwell ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Linda Carol Thomas	2,235	75.8	+10.7
	Conservative	Joylon Horton Greenhalgh	377	12.8	−4.2
	Green	Ian David McHugh	195	6.6	+6.6
	Liberal Democrats	Francine Godfrey	143	4.8	−13.0
Majority			1,858	62.6	+15.3
Turnout			2,969	33.1	−22.0
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 11.8

Harper Green ward

Harper Green ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Margaret Clare	1,918	69.2	+24.6
	Conservative	Jay Patel	616	22.2	+4.8
	Liberal Democrats	David Arthur Connor	236	8.5	−14.7
Majority			1,302	45.2	+23.7
Turnout			2,881	30.0	−24.0
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 19.6

Heaton and Lostock ward

Heaton and Lostock ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Bob Allen	3,175	62.0	+4.7
	Labour	John William Gillatt	1,394	27.2	+2.9
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Joyce MacPherson	316	6.2	−9.4
	Green	Hannah Louisa Middleton	240	4.7	+2.4
Majority			1,781	34.6	+1.5
Turnout			5,149	48.5	−27.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	LD to Con 7.0

Horwich and Blackrod ward

Horwich and Blackrod ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lindsey Ann Kell	1,851	49.1	+11.3
	Conservative	John Raymond Birchall Barrow	1,425	37.8	+3.0
	Green	Graham Chadwick	281	7.4	+1.3
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Andrew Kane	215	5.7	−14.9
Majority			426	11.2
Turnout			3,804	39.7	−26.2
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	LD to Labour 13.1

Horwich North East ward

Two seats were up for election in this ward.

Horwich North East ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Joyce Kellett	1,869	24.6
	Labour Co-op	Richard Silvester	1,526	20.2
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Michael Rock	1,217	16.0
	Conservative	Carol Ann Forshaw	1,135	14.9
	Liberal Democrats	Kenneth Thomson	1,017	13.4
	Conservative	Peter Sloan	837	11.0
Majority			(Kellett) 652
Majority			(Silvester) 309
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats
	Labour Co-op gain from Liberal Democrats

Hulton ward

Hulton ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Philip John Ashcroft	1,671	46.4	−0.8
	Labour	Shafaqat Shaikh	1,369	38.0	+6.3
	Green	James Tomkinson	344	9.6	+3.6
	Liberal Democrats	Matthew David Tyas Cooper	215	6.0	−8.6
Majority			302	8.4	−7.2
Turnout			3,599	36.7	−25.1
	Conservative hold		Swing	LD to Labour 7.4

Kearsley ward

Kearsley ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liam Irving	1,630	52.4	+6.0
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Patricia Rothwell	953	30.6	−0.2
	Conservative	Michelle Ionn	529	17.0	−5.8
Majority			677	21.5	+5.9
Turnout			3,144	30.2	−26.3
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing	Con to Labour 5.9

Little Lever and Darcy Lever ward

Little Lever and Darcy Lever ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anthony Connell	1,988	50.0	+18.4
	Conservative	Rees Gibbon	1,057	26.6	−1.2
	Liberal Democrats	Eric John Hyde	714	18.0	−2.8
	Green	Alwynne Cartmell	217	5.5	+3.0
Majority			931	23.3	+19.6
Turnout			3,992	41.2	−24.8
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 10.6

Rumworth ward

Rumworth ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ebrahim Adia	2,677	77.1	+7.1
	Conservative	Ruth Kenny	374	10.8	−3.9
	Green	Alan Johnson	300	8.6	+8.6
	Liberal Democrats	David Charles Tyas Cooper	119	3.4	−11.8
Majority			2,303	66.4	+11.6
Turnout			3,470	34.6	−21.4
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Green 10.2

Smithills ward

Smithills ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Carole R. Swarbrick	1,642	40.0	−0.7
	Labour	Sean Francis Harkin	1,344	32.8	+7.6
	Conservative	Christine Deidre Porter	913	22.3	−1.9
	Green	Rachel Elizabeth Mann	202	4.9	+2.6
Majority			298	7.2	−8.4
Turnout			4,125	41.6	−25.7
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing	Con to Labour 4.7

Tonge with the Haulgh ward

Tonge with the Haulgh ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Elaine Sherrington	1,714	55.2	+7.2
	Conservative	Kath Kavanagh	933	30.0	+2.7
	BNP	Dorothee Sayers	299	9.6	−0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Anthony Harasiwka	160	5.2	−9.3
Majority			781	25.0	+4.3
Turnout			3,124	35.1	−22.6
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 8.2

Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward

Westhoughton North and Chew Moor ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Christopher Peacock	2,038	47.8	+17.4
	Conservative	Patricia Allen	1,837	43.1	+5.1
	Liberal Democrats	Patricia Cooper	392	9.2	−18.8
Majority			201	4.7
Turnout			4,304	39.3	−28.3
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	LD to Labour 18.1

Westhoughton South ward

Westhoughton South ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Andrew Chadwick	1,718	49.5	+14.9
	Conservative	Michael Baker	851	24.5	−1.8
	Liberal Democrats	Derek John Gradwell	841	24.2	−5.1
	Independent	Glenn George Kaalman	60	1.7	+1.7
Majority			933	26.2	+20.9
Turnout			3,562	37.1	−26.4
	Labour hold		Swing	LD to Labour 10.0

References

"Bolton Election Line-Up". The Bolton News. 5 April 2011. p. 4.
"Bolton Council Results: Ward by Ward". The Bolton News. 7 May 2011. p. 6.
Rallings, Colin; Thrasher, Michael. "Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results 1973–2012" (PDF). The Elections Centre. The Elections Centre, Plymouth University. Retrieved 12 July 2016.

v t e Council elections in Greater Manchester
Mayor	2017 2021 2024 2028
Bolton	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Bury	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Manchester	1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1945 1946 1947 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Oldham	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Rochdale	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Salford	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Stockport	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Tameside	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Trafford	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
Wigan	1973 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024 2026
County Council	1973 1977 1981
See also: Wards Boundary changes

v t e (2010 ←) 2011 United Kingdom local elections (→ 2012)
Metropolitan boroughs	Barnsley Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bury Calderdale Coventry Doncaster Dudley Gateshead Kirklees Knowsley Leeds Liverpool Manchester Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside Oldham Rochdale Rotherham Salford Sandwell Sefton Sheffield Solihull South Tyneside St Helens Stockport Sunderland Tameside Trafford Wakefield Walsall Wigan Wirral Wolverhampton
Unitary authorities	Bath and North East Somerset Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Brighton & Hove Bristol Central Bedfordshire Cheshire East Cheshire West & Chester Darlington Derby East Riding of Yorkshire Halton Hartlepool Herefordshire Kingston upon Hull Leicester Luton Medway Middlesbrough Milton Keynes North East Lincolnshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar and Cleveland Rutland Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Swindon Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Warrington West Berkshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York
District councils (England)	Allerdale Amber Valley Arun Ashfield Ashford Aylesbury Vale Babergh Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke and Deane Bassetlaw Blaby Bolsover Boston Braintree Breckland Brentwood Broadland Bromsgrove Broxbourne Broxtowe Burnley Cambridge Cannock Chase Canterbury Carlisle Castle Point Charnwood Chelmsford Cherwell Chesterfield Chichester Chiltern Christchurch Chorley Colchester Copeland Corby Cotswold Craven Crawley Dacorum Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Dales Dover Eastbourne East Cambridgeshire East Devon East Dorset East Hampshire East Hertfordshire Eastleigh East Lindsey East Northamptonshire East Staffordshire Eden Elmbridge Epping Forest Epsom and Ewell Erewash Exeter Fenland Forest Heath Forest of Dean Fylde Gedling Gloucester Gravesham Guildford Great Yarmouth Hambleton Harborough Harlow Harrogate Hart Havant Hertsmere High Peak Hinckley and Bosworth Horsham Huntingdonshire Hyndburn Ipswich Kettering King's Lynn and West Norfolk Lancaster Lewes Lincoln Lichfield Maidstone Maldon Malvern Hills Mansfield Melton Mendip Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Mole Valley New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme North Devon North Dorset North East Derbyshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Norfolk North Warwickshire North West Leicestershire Northampton Norwich Oadby and Wigston Pendle Preston Purbeck Redditch Reigate and Banstead Ribble Valley Richmondshire Rochford Rossendale Rother Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Ryedale Scarborough Sedgemoor Selby Sevenoaks Shepway South Bucks South Cambridgeshire South Derbyshire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Somerset South Staffordshire Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury Stafford Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stratford-on-Avon Stroud Suffolk Coastal Surrey Heath Swale Swale Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teignbridge Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet Three Rivers Tonbridge and Malling Torridge Tunbridge Wells Uttlesford Vale of White Horse Warwick Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wellingborough Welwyn Hatfield West Devon West Dorset West Lancashire West Lindsey West Oxfordshire West Somerset Weymouth and Portland Winchester Woking Worcester Worthing Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest
District councils (Northern Ireland)	Antrim Ards Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Belfast Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Cookstown Craigavon Derry Down Dungannon and South Tyrone Fermanagh Larne Limavady Lisburn Magherafelt Moyle Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey North Down Omagh Strabane
Mayoral elections	Bedford Leicester Mansfield Middlesbrough Torbay
Other elections	National Assembly for Wales Northern Ireland Assembly Scottish Parliament
Referendum	United Kingdom Alternative Vote Results

Categories: