2011 High Peak Borough Council election

(Redirected from 2011 High Peak Council election) 2011 UK local government election

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 5 May 2011. All of the council was up for election and the control of the council changed from Conservative control to no overall control. Overall turnout was 44.11%.

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Labour 21
Conservative 15
Liberal Democrat 3
Independent 4

Election result

High Peak Local Election Result 2011
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %
Labour	21	12	0	+12	48.84
Conservative	15	1	10	-9	34.88
Liberal Democrats	3	0	3	-3	6.98
Independent	4	1	1	0	9.30
Green	0	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0

Ward results

Barms
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rachael Quinn	329	56.43	+14.53
	Conservative	Bill Barratt	247	42.37	−0.33
Majority			82	14.07
Turnout			583	37.25	+2.66
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Blackbrook
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Audrey Bramah	706
	Independent	Christopher Pearson	665
	Liberal Democrats	Edith Claire Longden	644
	Conservative	Theodore Rofer	410
	Liberal Democrats	Lisa Kate Beeden	382
	Labour	Phil George Forrest	294
Turnout			1757	55.11	+7.49
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Independent gain from Conservative		Swing

Burbage
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ronald Silverwood Faulkner	566	64.98	−12.42
	Labour	Ian King Hamilton	291	33.41	+12.01
Majority			275	31.57
Turnout			871	44.64	+5.82
	Conservative hold		Swing

Buxton Central
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Philip Ashmore	566
	Labour	Christopher James Payne	466
	Conservative	William Fiddy	455
	Conservative	Robert Morris	452
	Green	Matthew Alexander Bain	190
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Ashenden	150
Turnout			1255	36.18	−3.58
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Chapel East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jim Perkins	294	35.00	−5.50
	Liberal Democrats	Mike Harrison	277	32.98	−9.72
	Labour	Mavis Morrison	259	30.83	+14.13
Majority			17	2.02
Turnout			840	46.85	9.72
	Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Chapel West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Timothy Ian Norton	721
	Conservative	Stewart Paul Young	718
	Conservative	Jocelyn Street	697
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Debes	315
Turnout			1586	47.49	+5.17
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Corbar
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda June Baldry	748
	Conservative	Tony Arthur Kemp	743
	Labour	Martin Walter Thomas	535
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher Richard Warhurst Weaver	336
Turnout			1428	47.21	+4.62
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Cote Heath
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynn Stone	556
	Labour	Keith Edward Savage	525
	Conservative	Colin Boynton	521
	Conservative	Linda Grooby	506
Turnout			1158	38.55	+3.37
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Dinting
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jean Wharmby	564	65.43	+6.93
	Labour	Ben Hopkins	288	33.41	+17.41
Majority			276	32.02
Turnout			862	56.94	+4.75
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gamesley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anthony Edward McKeown	389	80.87	+23.77
	Conservative	Thomas Brian Evans	84	17.46	+17.46
Majority			305	63.41
Turnout			481	27.90	+2.43
	Labour hold		Swing

Hadfield North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Victoria Elizabeth Mann	317	58.60	+7.90
	Conservative	David Novakovic	161	29.76	−3.64
	Liberal Democrats	John Storey	62	11.46	−1.74
Majority			156	28.84
Turnout			541	35.50	+3.56
	Labour hold		Swing

Hadfield South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Robert Joseph McKeown	761
	Labour	Peter Edward Siddall	725
	Conservative	Marie Melita Foote	599
	Conservative	Stephen Dennis William Foote	568
Turnout			1432	41.58	+7.75
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Hayfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Herbert David Mellor	485	54.25	+54.25
	Liberal Democrats	Elizabeth Atkins	409	45.75	+45.75
Majority			76	8.50
Turnout			894	53.92	+53.92
	Independent hold		Swing

Hope Valley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Favell	991
	Conservative	John Walton	799
	Green	Charlotte Nancy Farrell	634
	Liberal Democrats	Maeve Patricia Serby	519
Turnout			1797	55.86	10.35
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Howard Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Godfrey Claff	753
	Labour	Colin Peter Waude	643
	Conservative	Jamie Douglas	370
	Conservative	William Rowlands	326
	Green	Peter Duncan Allen	248
Turnout			1318	40.27	6.32
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Limestone Peak
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Derek Walter Udale	374	51.44	−5.86
	Labour	Alexander Lamont	224	30.81	+30.81
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Scott	121	16.64	−24.76
Majority			150	20.63
Turnout			727	41.78	+4.07
	Conservative hold		Swing

New Mills East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Samuel Edward Huddlestone	565
	Labour	Alan Barrow	510
	Conservative	Mark Gadd	370
	Conservative	Gwyn Bowers	333
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair John Stevens	239
	Liberal Democrats	Tobias Spencer Stroner	150
Turnout			1151	36.54	−0.96
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

New Mills West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lancelot Edgar Dowson	648
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond George Atkins	573
	Conservative	Jacqueline Gadd	494
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Carter	476
	Green	Hazel May Body	456
	Conservative	David Ian Lamb	402
Turnout			1685	49.17	+5.73
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Old Glossop
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Garry Parvin	687
	Independent	Chris Webster	686
	Conservative	Paul Francis Hardy	673
	Labour	Damien Greenhalgh	653
	Conservative	Jeff Lawton	421
Turnout			1436	38.58	−0.55
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Independent hold		Swing

Padfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eleanor Wilcox	354	42.86	+12.72
	Conservative	Peter James Kay	338	40.92	+6.06
	Green	Lee David Selwood	88	10.65	+10.65
	Liberal Democrats	Sandra Batey	39	4.72	−30.00
Majority			16	1.94
Turnout			826	39.48	3.73
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Sett
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Ashton	396	47.48	+8.40
	Green	Michael John Shipley	281	33.69	+33.69
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond Wild	148	17.75	−17.41
Majority			115	13.79
Turnout			834	50.09	3.04
	Conservative hold		Swing

Simmondley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Haken	793
	Conservative	Julie Ann McCabe	663
	Labour	Robert O’Connor	588
	Labour	Nick Longos	574
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Walker Haggart	268
	Liberal Democrats	Ayshea Christina Garbutt	229
Turnout			1660	44.28	5.11
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St John's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George David Wharmby	429	59.17	−11.36
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen David Worrall	255	35.17	+22.01
Majority			174	24.00
Turnout			725	48.63	+3.00
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stone Bench
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Caitlin Janette Bisknell	673
	Labour	Fiona Sloman	616
	Conservative	Pam Reddy	356
	Conservative	Mick Reddy	341
Turnout			1085	32.77	+5.14
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Temple
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emily Lilian Thrane	524	64.37	−11.15
	Labour	Roger Lane Cooper	272	33.42	+10.60
Majority			252	30.96
Turnout			814	53.80	+6.08
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tintwistle
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Patrick Jenner	393	50.51	+5.93
	Conservative	William Clarke	379	48.71	−5.52
Majority			14	1.80
Turnout			778	46.39	+10.93
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Whaley Bridge
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	John Arthur Thomas Pritchard	1286
	Liberal Democrats	David William Lomax	1117
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Leather	1038
	Labour	Neville Clarke	807
	Conservative	Rodney Bruce Gilmour	799
	Conservative	Samantha Claire Flower	502
	Conservative	David Charles McDowell	423
	UKIP	James Henry Bush	371
Turnout			2638	51.13	+8.68
	Independent hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Whitfield
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Nigel Oakley	442	69.28	+16.71
	Conservative	Paul Lomas	135	21.16	−2.73
	Liberal Democrats	Goinden (George) Kuppan	55	8.62	−14.74
Majority			307	48.12
Turnout			638	37.20	+2.58
	Labour hold		Swing

References

"Party Results 2011". Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
"Ward Turnout Statistics 2011". highpeak.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2011.
"High Peak Borough Council - Elections - Borough Results 2011". highpeak.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 May 2011.

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