2024 Pendle Borough Council election explained

Election Name:2024 Pendle Borough Council election
Country:Lancashire
Type:parliamentary
Previous Election:2023 Pendle Borough Council election
Previous Year:2023
Next Election:2026 Pendle Borough Council election
Next Year:2026
Seats For Election:12 of 33 seats on Pendle Borough Council
Majority Seats:17
Leader1:Nadeem Ahmed
Party1:Conservative Party (UK)
Last Election1:14 seats, 40.2%
Seats Before1:13
Seats1:4
Seats After1:13
Seat Change1:1
Popular Vote1:7,703
Percentage1:34.5%
Swing1:5.7%
Party2:Independent politician
Last Election2:1 seat, 0%
Seats Before2:12
Seats2:5
Seats After2:12
Seat Change2:7
Popular Vote2:7,448
Percentage2:33.4%
Swing2:33.4%
Leader3:David Whipp
Party3:Liberal Democrats (UK)
Last Election3:7 seats, 15.9%
Seats Before3:7
Seats3:3
Seats After3:8
Seat Change3:1
Popular Vote3:3,356
Percentage3:15.0%
Swing3:0.9%
Party4:Labour Party (UK)
Last Election4:11 seats, 39.7%
Seats Before4:0
Seats4:0
Seats After4:0
Seat Change4:11
Popular Vote4:3,285
Percentage4:14.7%
Swing4:25.0%
Party5:Green Party of England and Wales
Last Election5:0 seats, 0%
Seats Before5:0
Seats5:0
Seats After5:0
Popular Vote5:508
Percentage5:2.2%
Swing5:1.8%
Leader
Posttitle:Leader after election
Before Election:Asjad Mahmood
Independent
Before Party:No overall control
After Election:Asjad Mahmood
Independent
After Party:No overall control

The 2024 Pendle Borough Council election will take place on 2 May 2024 to elect a third of the council for the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, on the same day as other local elections in England.

The council was under no overall control prior to the election. It had been governed by a coalition of Labour and the Liberal Democrats until the entire Labour caucus left the party in April 2024.[1]

Labour lost all their seats they were defending to Independents.[2] Following the election the Independent Group (being the former Labour councillors) and the Liberal Democrats continued to run the council.[3]

Results by ward

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.[4]

Barnoldswick

* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Barnoldswick in 2021.

Barrowford and Pendleside

* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Barrowford and Pendleside in 2022.

Boulsworth and Foulridge

* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Boulsworth and Foulridge in 2021.

Bradley

* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Bradley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield East and Clover Hill

* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield East and Clover Hill in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Brierfield West and Reedley

* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Brierfield West and Reedley in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Fence and Higham

* Elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for Fence and Higham in 2021..

Marsden and Southfield

* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, defected to Labour, and then the Independent Group.

Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Marsden and Southfield in 2021, stood down in 2023.

Waterside and Horsfield

* Elected as a Conservative Councillor for Waterside and Horsfield in 2021.

Whitefield and Walverden

* Elected as a Labour Councillor for Whitefield and Walverden in 2021, defected to the Independent Group in April 2024.

Notes and References

  1. News: Labour and Lib Dems to run 'hung' Pendle Council . 26 June 2023 . BBC News . 17 May 2023.
  2. Web site: 2024-05-03 . Is Labour’s stance on Gaza behind the party’s failure to win any council seats in Pendle? . 2024-05-04 . Channel 4 News . en-GB.
  3. News: Macdonald . Robert . Pendle appoints new mayor and political leaders after elections and mass Labour resignation . 10 July 2024 . Lancs Live . 22 May 2024.
  4. Web site: 2024 . Election results - 2024 - Borough Election 2 May . 2024-05-04 . www.pendle.gov.uk . en.