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The Conservatives retained their majority on the council.
Background
Following the 2019 election the council had comprised 27 Conservative and 16 Labour councillors. In October 2019 the former leader of the Labour group, Mark Kirk, left the party and sat as an independent. There were then three by-elections in May 2021, which saw the Conservatives gain one extra seat from Labour. The 2023 election saw the parties return to the same number of seats they had had in 2019.
Following boundary changes across North Lincolnshire, this was a new ward for these elections. Therefore, no swing is provided.
*Ashley Sykes was suspended by the Conservative Party during the election campaign, however, remained on the ballot paper as a candidate for the 'Local Conservatives' due to the timing of the suspension.
Following boundary changes across North Lincolnshire, this was a new ward for these elections. Therefore, no swing is provided.
The below is the legally-declared result for this election in this ward. However, 864 cast postal votes for this ward were placed in a wheelie bin and mistakenly not counted towards the legally-declared result. The legally-declared turnout figure includes the aforementioned "missing" postal votes.
Map of the results
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