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2024 Warrington Borough Council election
All 58 Seats to Warrington Borough Council; 29 seats needed for a majority
Incumbent Leader; Hans Mundry; Labour	; ;

The 2024 Warrington Borough Council election will be held on Thursday 2 May 2024 to elect members of Warrington Borough Council in England. It will take place on the same day as other local elections in the United Kingdom.

Background

In the 2021 Warrington Borough Council election, the Labour Party retained overall control of the council but lost 10 seats.^[1] Before the election, Labour had 36 Seats and the opposition having 22 seats.^[2]

Pre-Election Council Composition
36 10 8 4
Party		Seats
	Labour Party	36
	Conservative Party	10
	Liberal Democrats	8
	Independents	4

Councillors standing down

Councillor	Ward	First elected		Date announced
Russ Bowden	Birchwood	2010	Labour	28 October 2023^[3]
Cathy Mitchell	Burtonwood & Winwick	2016	Labour	29 October 2023^[4]
Amanda King	Great Sankey South	2016	Independent (elected Labour)	28 January 2024^[5]
Kath Buckley	Lymm South	2015	Conservative	7 March 2024^[6]
Wendy Maisey	Culcheth, Glazebury & Croft	2021	Conservative	25 March 2024^[7]
David Ellis	Birchwood	2021	Labour	6 April 2024^[8]
Sarah Hall	Bewsey & Whitecross	2016	Labour Co-op	6 April 2024
Alex Abbey	Burtonwood & Winwick	2020	Labour	6 April 2024
Maureen Creaghan	Poulton South	2014	Labour	6 April 2024
Linda Butler	Chapelford & Old Hall	2021	Conservative	6 April 2024
Bob Barr	Lymm North & Thelwall	2006	Liberal Democrats	6 April 2024
Claire Lloyd-Fitzgerald	Orford	2021	Labour	6 April 2024
Morgan Tarr	Orford	2016	Labour	6 April 2024
Andrew Hill	Rixton & Woolston	2016	Labour	6 April 2024

Ward results

Incumbent councillors are denoted by an asterisk (*).

Appleton

Appleton (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Booth
	Conservative	Ghazala Chapman*
	Conservative	Kenneth David Critchley*
	Conservative	Mark Christopher Jervis*
	Liberal Democrats	Matt Scott
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Walker
	Labour	Jane Whalen

Bewsey and Whitecross

Bewsey and Whitecross (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Cecilia Margaret Critchley
	Liberal Democrats	David Crowther
	Labour Co-op	Tom Jennings*
	Labour Co-op	Shireen Saeed Mohammed
	Conservative	Barbara May Price
	Conservative	Lisa Charlotte Thompson
	Labour Co-op	Steve Wright*

Birchwood

Birchwood (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Craig Peter Allen
	Conservative	Nigel William Balding*
	Reform UK	Dion Challinor
	Labour	Balbir Kaur Dhillon
	Labour	Kuldeep Singh Dhillon
	Conservative	Neil Anthony Murphy
	Labour	Tim Price

Burtonwood & Winwick

Burtonwood & Winwick (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin Burgess
	Labour	Siobhan Carr
	Conservative	Stewart Anthony Gardiner
	Independent	Stuart David Mann
	Independent	Theresa-Jane Murray
	Green	Maddison Stacey Wheeldon

Chapelford and Old Hall

Chapelford and Old Hall (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Allan Keith Bird
	Conservative	Blake Cooper
	Conservative	Gavin Hepherd-Hall
	Green	Bec Hutton-Reidijk
	Labour Co-op	Steve Parish*
	Labour Co-op	Barbara Pete
	Conservative	Nisha Jethalal Shah
	Labour Co-op	Paul Warburton*

Culcheth, Glazebury & Croft

Culcheth, Glazebury & Croft (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Valerie Margaret Allen*
	Conservative	Carol Ruth Benson*
	Conservative	Alicia Edwards
	Labour	Neil Johnson
	Labour	Janet Seddon
	Labour	Matt Smith

Fairfield and Howley

Fairfield and Howley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Flaherty*
	Reform UK	Dave Fowler
	Labour	Tony Higgins*
	Conservative	Daniel Thompson
	Labour	Sagheer Zaman*

Grappenhall

Grappenhall (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Damen Browne*
	Green	Michael Caldow
	Labour	Dave Cundy
	Conservative	Andrew Freeman
	Conservative	Joanne Freeman
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Speed*

Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall

Great Sankey North and Whittle Hall (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour Co-op	Marcus Cameron
	Independent	Nigel John Catlow
	Green	Stephanie Davies
	Conservative	Julie Groom
	Labour Co-op	Janet Henshaw*
	Conservative	Chi Kuong-Kwan
	Conservative	Brodie Mitchell
	Labour Co-op	Hitesh Patel*

Great Sankey South

Great Sankey South (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Moira Dolan
	Labour	Leah Hussain
	Labour	Mo Hussain*
	Conservative	Caleb Michael Lovegrove
	Conservative	Andrew David Pennington
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Alfred Smith
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony James Tobin
	Labour	Laura Watson*

Latchford East

Latchford East (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Heather Winifred Allan
	Liberal Democrats	Vicki Duncan
	Labour Co-op	Hans Josef Mundry*
	Labour Co-op	Karen Mundry*
	Conservative	Carl Andrew Olsen

Latchford West

Latchford West (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Tim Jordan
	Labour Co-op	Denis James Thomas Matthews*
	Labour Co-op	Maureen McLaughlin*
	Conservative	Stephen Howard Taylor
	Conservative	Marc Turner

Lymm North and Thelwall

Lymm North and Thelwall (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sue Farrington
	Conservative	Calum Higginson
	Liberal Democrats	Bob Hignett
	Liberal Democrats	Wendy Johnson*
	Liberal Democrats	Ian George Marks*
	Labour	Helen Charlotte Milner
	Conservative	Carole Margaret Pemberton

Lymm South

Lymm South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Phillip Martin Ford
	Labour	Sara Frith
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Farrington Gowland*
	Conservative	Ian Pemberton
	Liberal Democrats	Luke William Stuttard

Orford

Orford (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Appleton
	Conservative	David Bent
	Labour	Robin Michael David Frith
	Independent	Carol Kilgannon
	Reform UK	Trevor Nicholls
	Labour	Emily Russon

Penketh and Cuerdley

Penketh and Cuerdley (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jacob Barnard
	Liberal Democrats	Katie Barr
	Conservative	Joanne Ellen Baxter
	Conservative	Chuck Eriobuna
	Independent	Geoff Fellows*
	Labour	Brian Gallagher
	Independent	Andy Heaver*
	Independent	Craig Joseph Lenihan*
	Labour	Martin Paul McManus
	Independent	Eunice Peters
	Conservative	Paula Wilkinson
	Independent	Christine Wych

Poplars and Hulme

Poplars and Hulme (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform UK	Dennis James Cornwell
	Labour	John Kerr-Brown*
	Conservative	Anthony Douglas Muir
	Labour	Gemma Southern
	Labour	Nathan Sudworth*

Poulton North

Poulton North (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Emery*
	Labour	Graham Jeffrey Friend*
	Labour	Una Bernadette Gillham*
	Conservative	Michael Millington

Poulton South

Poulton South (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Andrew David Jones
	Labour	Rebecca Knowles
	Labour	Steven Rydzkowski*

Rixton and Woolston

Rixton and Woolston (3 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Hilary Cooksey
	Independent	Phil Eastty*
	Conservative	Howard Klein
	Conservative	Gary Rushby
	Labour	Laurence Sheridan
	Reform UK	Geoffrey Siddell
	Conservative	Rob Tynan*
	Labour	Sheejo Varghese
	Green	Karen Wild

Stockton Heath

Stockton Heath (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Sharon Harris
	Labour	Laurence James Murphy
	Conservative	Lyndsey Jane Olsen
	Conservative	Seb Sheldon
	Liberal Democrats	Judith Wheeler*

Westbrook

Westbrook (2 seats)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kate Eglington
	Conservative	Gavin Ruben
	Labour	Marc Victor Rufus

References

^ "Warrington result - Local Elections 2021". BBC News. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
^ "Composition of the council 2023". Warrington Borough Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
^ "Warrington council leader will not stand at next election". BBC News. 28 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^ "Deputy council leader confirms she too will not stand for re-election next year". Warrington Guardian. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
^ "Great Sankey South councillor Amanda King will not stand in elections". Warrington Guardian. 28 January 2024.
^ "Former Tory group leader Kath Buckley announces retirement ahead of council elections". Warrington Worldwide. 7 March 2024.
^ "Tory councillor announces she will not seek re-election". Warrington Guardian. 25 March 2024.
^ Skentelbery, Gary (6 April 2024). "Election nominations close and list of candidates revealed". Warrington Worldwide. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

[1] "Warrington result - Local Elections 2021". BBC News. Retrieved 16 December 2023.

[2] "Composition of the council 2023". Warrington Borough Council. Archived from the original on 29 December 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

[3] "Warrington council leader will not stand at next election". BBC News. 28 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.

[4] "Deputy council leader confirms she too will not stand for re-election next year". Warrington Guardian. 29 October 2023. Retrieved 5 November 2023.

[5] "Great Sankey South councillor Amanda King will not stand in elections". Warrington Guardian. 28 January 2024.

[6] "Former Tory group leader Kath Buckley announces retirement ahead of council elections". Warrington Worldwide. 7 March 2024.

[7] "Tory councillor announces she will not seek re-election". Warrington Guardian. 25 March 2024.

[8] Skentelbery, Gary (6 April 2024). "Election nominations close and list of candidates revealed". Warrington Worldwide. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

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