2015 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election explained

Election Name:	2015 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election
Country:	England
Type:	Parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Party Colour:	yes
Previous Election:	2014 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election
Previous Year:	2014
Next Election:	2016 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election
Next Year:	2016
Seats For Election:	One third of seats (22 of 63) to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Majority Seats:	32
Election Date:	7 May 2015
Party1:	Labour Party (UK)
Seats1:	18
Seat Change1:	3
Party2:	UK Independence Party
Seats2:	3
Seat Change2:	3
Party4:	Conservative Party (UK)
Seats4:	0
Seat Change4:	1
Party5:	Liberal Democrats (UK)
Seats5:	1
Seat Change5:	1
Map Size:	400px
Majority party
Posttitle:	Majority party after election
Before Election:	Labour
After Election:	Labour

The by-thirds 2015 Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on Thursday 7 May 2015, to elect approximately one third of the members of the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in England as part of the 2015 United Kingdom local elections held on the same day as the general election.^[1] All seats contested at this election were last contested in 2011, and of these, 20 were held by Labour Party councillors.^[2]

Following the premature resignation of former Cabinet member Cllr. Mahroof Hussain (L) elected in Boston Castle at a more recent election, his seat (for the Boston Castle ward) was also contested in the 2015 election. As the election is held by thirds, a Labour Party majority would fall if the party failed to win more than 2 of the 22 seats that were up for election in 2015.

Council Composition

Prior to the election the composition of the council was:

↓

50	10	2	1
Labour	UKIP	C	I

After the election the composition of the council is:

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48	13	1	1
Labour	UKIP	C	I

C - Conservative Party
I - Independent

Summary

Party !! colspan=3

Year of election !	Total
2011	2012	2014
	20	19	11	50
	0	0	10	10
	1	1	0	2
(Clive Jepson)	0	1	0	1
	0	0	0	0
	0	0	0	0
	0	0	0	0

Party !!

!	Change	After
Not up	Won	±	2015 Council make-up
	29	19	-2	48
	10	3	+3	13
	1	0	-1	1
	1	0	±0	1

The governing group of councillors, holding a majority of 16, remained councillors of the Labour Party, with two fewer members within this group (now standing at 48 councillors) and one fewer within the smaller local party opposition group of councillors (Conservatives) as these three seats fell to UKIP affiliated candidates, bringing the official opposition group to 13 councillors. An Independent and a Conservative, who complete the Council Chamber, seek re-election in 2016.

Election result

Rotherham Council Election Result 2014
Party	Candidates	Seats	Seats ±	Votes	Votes %	Next Council
	21	11	– 8	27,793	43.40%	50
	21	10	+ 10	26,158	40.84%	10
	15	0	– 2	6,482	10.12%	2
Independents	4	0	unch.	1,886	2.94%	0
	2	0	unch.	487	0.76%	0
	2	0	unch.	484	0.76%	0
	3	0	unch.	395	0.62%	0
PNP	1	0	unch.	223	0.35%	0
	1	0	unch.	136	0.21%	0
Total !70	21 !—	64,044 !100%	63
Rejected ballots				508	0.79%

Candidates in each ward

width=16% rowspan=2	Ward	Candidates								width=1% rowspan=2		width=14% rowspan=2	Incumbent
width=1% style="background:"		width=15% style="background:"	Labour	width=1% style="background:"		width=15% style="background:"	UKIP	width=1% style="background:"		width=15% style="background:"	Conservative	width=1% style="background:"		width=20% style="background:"	Other
bgcolor=whitesmoke	1. Anston and Woodsetts		Robert Taylor		Bernard Froggatt		Nichola Richardson		David Foulstone (Green) John Ireland (Ind.)		Dalton
2. Boston Castle (two seats)		Saghir Alam		Lisa Raby		Christian Kramer		Mohammed Ilyas (LibDem) Bingham Christopher (TUSAC)		Wooton
	Taiba Yaseen		Peter Short						Hussain (resigned)
bgcolor=whitesmoke	3. Brinsworth and Catcliffe		Andy Roddison		Ian Saunderson		Omar Mehban				Roddison
bgcolor=whitesmoke	4. Dinnington		Jeanette Mallinder		Shaun Grice		Peter Higgins		Wendy Hamilton (Green) Dave Smith (Ind.)		Havenhand
bgcolor=whitesmoke	5. Hellaby		Jenny Andrews		Richard Fleming		Anne Middleton		Shaun Barratt (Ind.)		Andrews
bgcolor=whitesmoke	6. Holderness		Lyndsay Pitchley		John Jenkins		Michael Naughton		Helen Greer-Waring (Green) Michael Senior (Ind.)		Pitchley
bgcolor=whitesmoke	7. Hoober		Jane Hamilton		Sandra Horridge		Brian Taylor		Steven Scutt (LibDem)		Hamilton
bgcolor=whitesmoke	8. Keppel		Barry Kaye		Paul Hague		Kenneth Marshall		Neil Adshead (TUSAC) Janice Middleton (LibDem)		Kaye
bgcolor=whitesmoke	9. Maltby		Christine Beaumont		Roger Jarvis		Jane Salt		Michael Conlon (Ind.)		Beaumont
bgcolor=whitesmoke	10. Rawmarsh		Simon Evans		Alan Napper		Jo Taylor				Hamilton
bgcolor=whitesmoke	11. Rother Vale		Darren Hughes		Robert Webster		William Salt				Swift
bgcolor=whitesmoke	12. Rotherham East		Tajamal Khan		Leah Webster		Marilyn Marshall		Richard Penycate (Green)		Dodson
bgcolor=whitesmoke	13. Rotherham West		Ian Jones		Steve Webster		Ruth Highfield				Foden
bgcolor=whitesmoke	14. Silverwood		Jon Rosling		Melissa Owen		Denise Hall				Stone
bgcolor=whitesmoke	15. Sitwell		Haroon Rashid		Julie Turner		Alex Walker				Gilding
bgcolor=whitesmoke	16. Swinton		Eve Rose		Darren Corbett		Stephen Jones				Doyle
bgcolor=whitesmoke	17. Valley		Dave Pickering		Brian Cutts		Anthony Kavanagh				Lakin
bgcolor=whitesmoke	18. Wales		Dominic Beck		Dennis Flynn		John Cox		Paul Martin (Green)		Beck
bgcolor=whitesmoke	19. Wath		Jayne Elliott		Brian Bailey		Lissa Higgins		Ann Roche (Green) Keith Roper (Ind.)		Sangster
bgcolor=whitesmoke	20. Wickersley		Chris Read		Les Hince		Thomas Angel				Read
bgcolor=whitesmoke	21. Wingfield		Richard Price		Rob Elliott		Ben Waters				Sharman
Total		19 seats (–2)		3 seats (+3)		0 seat (–1)

Results by Ward

In these results^[3] an asterisk indicates incumbent in the Ward, and Bold names highlight winning candidate.

Wingfield

Notes and References

1. Web site: England council results . 23 May 2014 . BBC News.
2. Web site: Borough Council Elections 2011 Results. Rotherham Politics.
3. Web site: Borough Council Election Results 7 May 2015. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. 10 August 2016.