| Election Name: | 2023 Pendle Borough Council election |
| Country: | Lancashire |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2022 Pendle Borough Council election |
| Previous Year: | 2022 |
| Next Election: | 2024 Pendle Borough Council election |
| Next Year: | 2024 |
| Seats For Election: | 12 of 33 seats on Pendle Borough Council |
| Majority Seats: | 17 |
| Leader1: | Nadeem Ahmed |
| Party1: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Seats Before1: | 17 |
| Seats1: | 5 |
| Seats After1: | 14 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 10,032 |
| Percentage1: | 40.2% |
| Swing1: | 6.2% |
| Leader2: | Asjad Mahmood |
| Party2: | Labour Party (UK) |
| Seats Before2: | 10 |
| Seats2: | 4 |
| Seats After2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 1 |
| Popular Vote2: | 9,902 |
| Percentage2: | 39.7% |
| Swing2: | 4.9% |
| Leader4: | David Whipp |
| Party4: | Liberal Democrats (UK) |
| Seats Before4: | 5 |
| Seats4: | 3 |
| Seats After4: | 7 |
| Seat Change4: | 2 |
| Popular Vote4: | 3,957 |
| Percentage4: | 15.9% |
| Swing4: | 0.3% |
| Party5: | Independent politician |
| Seats Before5: | 1 |
| Seats5: | 0 |
| Seats After5: | 1 |
| Leader | |
| Posttitle: | Leader after election |
| Before Election: | Nadeem Ahmed |
| Before Party: | Conservative Party (UK) |
| After Election: | Asjad Mahmood Labour |
| After Party: | No overall control |
The 2023 Pendle Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect a third of the council for the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections in England. Twelve seats across eleven wards were up for election, being the usual approximate third of the council plus a by-election in Vivary Bridge ward.
The council was under Conservative majority control prior to the election. After the election the council was under no overall control; the Conservatives were still the largest party but no longer had a majority. After the election a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats formed to take control of the council. At the subsequent annual council meeting on 18 May 2023 the Labour group leader Asjad Mahmood was appointed leader of the council.[1]
| Party | Leader | Councillors | Votes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Total | Of Total | |||||||||
| Conservative Party | Nadeem Ahmed | 5 | data-sort-value="" | 10,032 | 40.2% | |||||
| Labour Party | Asjad Mahmood | 4 | data-sort-value="" | 9,902 | 39.7% | |||||
| Liberal Democrats | David Whipp | 3 | data-sort-value="" | 3,957 | 15.9% | |||||
| Green Party of England and Wales | 0 | data-sort-value="" | 1,002 | 4.0% | ||||||
| UK Independence Party | 0 | data-sort-value="" | 43 | 0.2% | ||||||
| Independent (elected Labour) | data-sort-value="" | |||||||||
Incumbent councillors denoted by an asterisk (*). These seats were last up for election when new ward boundaries were introduced in 2021 - percentage changes are calculated based on the mean party result in 2021.[2] [3]