Chapter 1

Greater

1.1

Left = Left List You = You Party

Astley Bridge Hilary Fairclough C 2,358 Jim Lord Lab 1,151 Clive Atty LD 733 Tariq Aziz LD 955 Muhammad Rafiq Lab 572 Michelle Ionn C 531 Andy Allen You 138

Bradshaw Great Lever [Lab gain from C] Walter Hall C 2,535 Mohammed Iqbal Lab 1,657 James Cottam Lab 620 Mudasir Dean C 1,299 Lauren Alergant LD 342 Alan Johnson Grn 374 Anne Mumberson Grn 195 Mian Akhtar LD 245

Halliwell Breightmet Cliff Morris Lab 1,875 Arthur Norris C 1,696 Shahid Mahmood C 632 William Gallagher Lab 1,182 Riaz Gul LD 494 Carl Hemmings BNP 350 Stephen Howarth LD 163 Harper Green Norma Armston You 137 Lynne Hyland Grn 74 Champak Mistry Lab 1,181 Bill Dawson C 1,071 David Connor LD 390 Bromley Cross Heaton and Lostock Alan Wilkinson C 2,933 Jeremy Foster Lab 705 Alan Rushton C 3,378 David Wibberley LD 331 John Gillatt Lab 831 Liz Spencer Grn 147 Jonathan Evans LD 326 Andy Openshaw You 141 Daniel Mann Grn 249 and [C gain Crompton [Lab gain from LD] from LD] Hanif Darvesh Lab 1,985 Pat Barrow C 1,469 John C 1,113 Kevan Jones Lab 1,021 Yakub Khoda LD 873 Ian Hamilton LD 869

4 1.2. BURY 5

Consolidated Results — Bolton Conservative ...... 29,254 41.8% 9 councillors Labour ...... 22,644 32.4% 7 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 14,221 20.3% 4 councillors Green Party ...... 1,751 2.5% ...... 867 1.2% You Party ...... 637 0.9% Left List ...... 444 0.6% Independent ...... 104 0.1%

Horwich North East Smithills Barbara Ronson LD 1,615 Roger Hayes LD 1,784 Stephen Wallen C 1,126 Christine Flanigan C 1,216 Kevin McKeon Lab 832 Christopher Peacock Lab 599 Lucy Openshaw You 95 Rachel Mann Grn 136 Doug Bagnall You 94 Hulton Tonge with The Haulgh Alan Walsh C 1,822 Paul Fitzpatrick Lab 1,118 Frank White Lab 1,289 Linden Greensitt LD 421 Nigel Ford C 1,109 David Wood BNP 517 Paul Harasiwka LD 194 James Tomkinson Grn 68 Ryan Barlow You 32 John Rothwell LD 1,435 Guy Harkin Lab 1,052 Diane Bamber C 593 North and Chew Moor [C gain from LD] Little Lever and Darcy Lever Christine Wild C 1,700 Mike Francis Lab 874 Mary Woodward C 1,726 Derek Gradwell LD 858 Jesamine Kay Lab 1,408 Laura Spencer Grn 141 Eric Hyde LD 418 Alwynne Cartmell Grn 243 Westhoughton South David Wilkinson LD 1,128 Rumworth Lynda Winrow C 947 Rosa Kay Lab 1,875 Harry Bowling Lab 817 Wendy Connor LD 647 Eric Hyland Grn 124 Neil McAlister Left 444 Ainslie Casson Ind 104

1.2 Bury

EDP = Party

Besses Church Derek Boden Lab 1,084 Roy Walker C 2,425 Julie Baum LD 614 Linda Chesters Lab 789 Adele Douglas C 584 Julia Kay BNP 292 Stephen Morris EDP 354 Tamsin Thomson LD 287 6 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Bromley Cross Astley Bridge Bradshaw Horwich N.E.

Smithills Crompton Horwich & Blackrod

Halliwell

Heaton & Lostock Tonge with The Haulgh Breightmet Rum− worth Great Westhoughton N. Lever Little Lever & & Chew Moor Darcy Lever

Harper Farnworth Green Hulton Westhoughton S. Kearsley

Figure 1.1: Bolton 2008

East Radcliffe East [C gain from Lab]

John Byrne Lab 1,148 Sam Hurst C 1,384 Azmat Hussain C 1,023 Daisy Johnston Lab 907 Emma Davison LD 384 Tom Rosser BNP 466 Mike Halsall LD 308 Elton Yvonne Creswell C 1,861 Simon Carter Lab 775 Radcliffe North [C gain from Lab] Robert Sloss LD 405 Jackie Harris C 1,656 Timothy Chamberlain Lab 1,265 Holyrood Peter Hallows BNP 472 Lynn Molloy LD 220 Vic D’Albert LD 1,632 Matthew Hague C 852 Benjamin Shatliff Lab 669 Radcliffe West Tony Isherwood Lab 1,187 Moorside Bernard Slingsby C 727 Stewart Clough BNP 484 Dot Cassidy Lab 1,279 Joanne O’Hanlon LD 175 Angela Cane C 1,197 Harold Greenhalgh UKIP 89 Phil Sedman BNP 317 Nissa Finney LD 223 Victor Hagan Ind 130 North Manor Barry Theckston C 2,010 Val Robinson Lab 872 Dorothy Gunter C 2,694 Janet Turner LD 354 Nick Parnell Lab 577 Ewan Arthur LD 338 Tom Nuttall BNP 162 Lynette Mitchell-Male Ind 66 Redvales [C gain from Lab] Ijaz Ahmed C 1,465 Pilkington Susan Southworth Lab 1,093 Brian Jepson BNP 317 Jacqueline Wiseman C 1,908 Paul Jenkins LD 302 Gill Campbell Lab 637 Mike Harling Ind 104 Wayne Burrows LD 304 Bill Brison Ind 98 1.3. MANCHESTER 7

Consolidated Results — Bury Conservative ...... 25,237 46.9% 10 councillors Labour ...... 15,980 29.7% 4 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 9,046 16.8% 3 councillors British National Party ...... 2,720 5.1% Independents...... 398 0.7% English Democrats Party ...... 354 0.7% UK Independence Party ...... 89 0.2%

St Mary’s [LD gain from Lab] Tottington

Mary D’Albert LD 1,308 Roger Brown C 1,700 Kevin Lee Lab 1,013 Jane Lewis Lab 614 Raymond Soloman C 692 David Foss LD 456 Reg Norris BNP 210

Sedgley Unsworth Ann Garner LD 1,488 Sam Cohen C 1,821 Jonathan Grosskopf C 1,238 Ann Audin Lab 1,165 Frank Adam Lab 906 Theo Tymczyna LD 248

1.3 Manchester

Left = Left List

Ancoats and Clayton Brooklands Mike Carmody Lab 1,428 Glynn Evans Lab 1,274 Carol Connell LD 403 Marie Raynor C 1,106 David Morgan C 334 Gary Bridges LD 362 Sophy Hansford Grn 226 Tamisin MacCarthy-Mor- Grn 140 rogh Ardwick Tom O’Callaghan Lab 1,180 Mohammed Sajjad LD 346 Burnage Claire Babington C 221 Andrew Speke Grn 152 John Cameron LD 2,096 Tom Murphy Lab 768 Baguley Peter Schofield C 228 Angela Tibke Grn 142 Tony Burns Lab 1,123 Nathan Cruddas C 565 Lynn Worthington Soc Alt 295 Ann Rodgers LD 243 Charlestown Lynne Richmond Grn 179 Mark Hackett Lab 1,328 Stephen Moran BNP 687 Bradford Gareth Brown C 425 Neil Swannick Lab 1,467 Michael Prior Grn 186 Chris Jenkinson LD 286 Alexandra Reynolds-Co- LD 178 Rod Keller C 224 croft Andrew Bullen Grn 209 Catherine Ritchie UKIP 84 8 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Ramsbottom

North Manor

Tottington Moorside Elton

East Church

Radcliffe N. Redvales

Radcliffe E. Unsworth

Radcliffe W. Besses

Pilkington Park Holyrood

St Mary’s Sedgley

Figure 1.2: Bury 2008 1.3. MANCHESTER 9

Cheetham Gorton North Martin Pagel Lab 1,735 Jackie Pearcey LD 1,468 Wajid Ali C 673 John Hughes Lab 1,156 Kay Phillips Respect 502 Jane Percival C 242 Sham Raja LD 429 Karl Wardlaw Grn 150 Luke Smith Grn 141 Gorton South Chorlton Charles Glover LD 1,262 Sheila Newman Lab 2,126 Julie Reid Lab 1,017 Lianne Williams LD 1,867 Sue McPherson Left 292 Brian Candeland Grn 448 William Clapham C 217 David Hopps C 260 Deborah Clarke Grn 164

Chorlton Park Harpurhey Bernie Ryan LD 1,693 Patrick Karney Lab 1,475 John Hacking Lab 763 Will Palmer C 500 Kathryn Brownbridge Grn 359 Dave Page LD 317 Christopher Green C 358 Katherine Smith Grn 283

City Centre Higher Blackley Marc Ramsbottom LD 568 Ken Barnes Lab 1,328 Anthony McCaul Lab 479 Derek Adams BNP 828 Rob Adlard C 386 Vivienne Clarke C 467 Peter Birkinshaw Grn 139 Lee Walker LD 248 Michael Daw Grn 164 Crumpsall Hulme [Lab gain from Grn] Richard Leese Lab 1,779 Kim Glasspole C 597 Emily Lomax Lab 961 Rashid Shahbaz LD 354 Steven Durrant Grn 911 Eithne Quinn Grn 208 Jamie Hutchinson C 215 Bob Willescroft UKIP 206 Glenn Hinks LD 190

Didsbury East Levenshulme David Sandiford LD 2,050 Keith Whitmore LD 1,530 Andrew Simcock Lab 1,053 Quammer Ahmad Lab 715 Louise Quigley C 492 Justine Hall Grn 327 Gerry Gee Grn 310 Abbas Khurshid C 175

Didsbury West Longsight Luthfur Rahman Lab 2,005 Graham Shaw LD 1,283 Liaqat Ali LD 858 Jenny Lennox Lab 620 Spencer Fitz-Gibbon Grn 237 David Bean C 451 Daniel Valentine C 153 James Alden Grn 281 Robert Gutfreund-Walms- UKIP 81 ley Miles Platting and Newton Heath [LD gain from Lab] Fallowfield Damien O’Connor LD 1,441 David Royle Lab 1,178 Christine Carroll Lab 1,256 Kas Afzal LD 643 Joseph Cegla BNP 250 Colin Power C 263 Vaseem Valentine C 147 Daniel Lee Grn 207 Jonathan Mercer Grn 83 10 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Consolidated Results — Manchester Labour ...... 39,300 43.0% 19 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 27,773 30.4% 13 councillors Conservative ...... 12,999 14.2% Green Party ...... 7,602 8.3% British National Party ...... 1,765 1.9% Respect — The Unity Coailition. . . . . 655 0.7% Left List ...... 612 0.7% UK Independence Party ...... 371 0.4% Socialist Alternative ...... 295 0.3%

Moss Side Sharston Alistair Cox Lab 1,776 Tommy Judge Lab 1,115 Zeke Ukairo LD 271 Jimmy McCullough C 773 Nigel Woodcock Grn 225 Bill Fisher LD 274 Kashif Ali C 185 Karen Duffy Grn 199 Ali Shelmani Respect 153

Moston Paul Murphy Lab 1,551 Whalley Range Gareth Morris C 936 Timothy Hartley LD 398 John Grant LD 1,683 Tom Redford Grn 246 Amina Lone Lab 1,271 Fawad Hussain C 945 Northenden [LD gain from Lab] Mary Candeland Grn 381 Martin Eakins LD 1,562 Michael Kane Lab 1,554 Sarah Lovell C 293 Lance Crookes Grn 159 Withington

Old Moat Brendon Jones LD 1,267 Leif Jerram Lab 508 Andrew Fender Lab 1,391 Felicity Paris Grn 223 Sufiyan Rana LD 947 Zoe Slater C 199 Lia Sims Grn 213 Paul Lally C 205

Rusholme Woodhouse Park Paul Shannon LD 1,090 Atiha Chaudry Lab 693 Brian O’Neil Lab 1,227 Nahella Ashraf Left 320 Stephen Heath C 473 Dola Miah C 291 Joe Podbylski LD 166 Penny Collins Grn 158 Jody Bradford Grn 152 1.3. MANCHESTER 11

Higher Blackley

Charlestown Crumpsall Moston Miles Platting & Newton Heath

Harpurhey

Cheetham Ancoats & Clayton City Centre Bradford

Hulme Ardwick Gorton N. Moss Side Whalley Range Rusholme Gorton S.

Fallowfield Longsight Levenshulme Chorlton Old Withington Chorlton Moat Park

Didsbury Burnage W.

Brooklands

Didsbury E.

Northenden

Baguley

Sharston

Woodhouse Park

Figure 1.3: Manchester 2008 12 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

1.4

EFP = First Party

Alexandra [LD gain from Lab] Hollinwood [LD gain from Lab] Martin Dinoff LD 932 Phil Holley LD 1,268 Khamran Ghafoor C 841 Jean Stretton Lab 992 Hugh McDonald Lab 801 Abdul Malik C 208 Phil Howarth Ind 183 Medlock Vale Central [C gain from Ur-Rahman Ateeque Lab 1,136 Lab] Rafiq Pazeer LD 925 Gary Dalloway Ind 534 John Hudson C 966 Tahir Iqbal C 254 Tony Brownridge Lab 866 Roy Goodwin BNP 660 Pat Lord LD 212 North Bernard Judge Lab 1,093 Chadderton North [C gain from Joe Farquhar C 811 Lab] Nazia Raja LD 742 Anita Corbett Ind 376 Jack Hulme C 1,699 Julie Kirkham Lab 927 Nilu Uddin LD 419 Royton South [LD gain from Lab] Diane Williamson LD 1,333 Chadderton South Phil Harrison Lab 953 Allan Fish C 832 Dave Hibbert Lab 959 John Berry C 735 Martin Brierley EFP 425 Saddleworth North Kevin Dawson LD 236 Mike Buckley LD 1,744 Barbara Jackson C 916 Ken Hulme Lab 575 Coldhurst Abdul Jabbar Lab 2,296 Mujibur Rahman LD 1,684 Saddleworth South Muhammed Dara C 365 Richard Knowles LD 1,774 Graham Sheldon C 1,582 Paul Fryer Lab 301 Crompton Ann Wingate LD 1,672 Saddleworth West and Lees Chris Shyne C 819 Val Sedgewick LD 1,673 David Bibby Lab 351 Pam Byrne C 799 John Battye Lab 527 East [C gain from Lab] Paul Martin C 1,036 St James’ Barbara Dawson Lab 1,028 Jackie Stanton LD 968 John Parker Grn 173 Joseph Fitzpatrick Lab 476 Phil Renold LD 136 David Atherton C 392 Andrew Clayton EFP 327 Failsworth West [C gain from Lab] St Mary’s [LD gain from Lab] Ian Barker C 963 John Johnson Lab 871 Mohammed Masud LD 2,483 Warren Bates Grn 589 Mohammed Sharif Lab 1,632 Ken Wilson LD 132 Paul Stephenson C 320 1.5. 13

Consolidated Results — Oldham Liberal Democrat ...... 22,558 37.6% 11 councillors Labour ...... 18,866 31.5% 5 councillors Conservative ...... 14,646 24.4% 4 councillors Independents...... 1,282 2.1% British National Party ...... 1,051 1.8% Green Party ...... 762 1.3% England First Party ...... 752 1.3%

Crompton Shaw

Royton Saddleworth N. N. St James’ Royton S. Chadderton N. Cold− St Mary’s hurst Chadderton Waterhead C. Werneth Alexandra Saddleworth S.

Hollin− Chadderton wood Saddleworth W. S. & Lees

W. E. Medlock Vale

Failsworth

Figure 1.4: Oldham 2008

Shaw Waterhead Linda Dawson LD 1,421 Arooj Shah Lab 535 David Caddick C 335 Stuart Allsopp Ind 189

Howard Sykes LD 1,496 Werneth Michael Canning C 422 Fida Hussain Lab 2,244 Alwyn Stott BNP 391 Ashazar Mahmood LD 1,308 Dilys Fletcher Lab 303 Mohammed Irfan C 351

1.5 Rochdale

Balderstone and Kirkholt [LD gain Bamford from Lab] Pat Colclough LD 821 Jane Gartside C 1,766 Darren Pedley Lab 760 Mohammed Shafiq LD 988 Ian Duckworth C 658 Ben Robertson Lab 388 14 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Castleton Norden Pat Flynn LD 1,386 James Gartside C 1,450 Jean Hornby Lab 637 Hilary Rodgers LD 874 Ronnie Crossley C 467 Peter Greenwood BNP 421 Anthony Bennett Lab 278 Central Rochdale North Heywood [LD gain from Zulfiqar Ali LD 1,869 Daalat Ali Lab 1,422 Lab] Roger Howarth C 309 Malcolm Bruce LD 936 Susan Coates Lab 799 East Middleton [Lab gain from LD] Darren Bayman C 353 Malcolm Boriss Lab 1,030 John Cardus C 625 North Middleton Irene Cooper LD 492 Maureen Rowbotham Lab 746 David Harris C 537 Healey Rhoda Morley LD 481 Tom Bailey LD 1,214 Smallbridge and Firgrove Andrew Neilson C 920 Phillip Bethell Lab 525 Jean Ashworth LD 1,053 Amna Mir Lab 841 Len Branton C 412 Hopwood Hall Linda Robinson Lab 1,325 South Middleton Keith Taylor C 761 Teresa Fitzsimons C 1,713 Harry Boota LD 382 John Orford Lab 993 Neil Lever LD 228 Kingsway David Clayton LD 1,245 Spotland and Falinge Tom Stott Lab 1,116 Barbara Todd LD 1,304 Phil Grantham C 314 Surinder Biant Lab 1,151 Steven Scholes C 452 Littleborough Lakeside Peter Evans LD 1,086 Wardle and West Littleborough Andrew Jones C 1,001 Ashley Dearnley C 2,157 John Hartley Lab 335 Andy Kelly LD 264 Mike Radanovic Lab 263 Milkstone and Deeplish Mohammed Sharif LD 1,872 West Heywood Ghulam Shazad Lab 796 Colin Lambert Lab 1,087 Javed Iqbal Ind 637 John Kershaw C 541 Sue Pawson C 178 George Kinder LD 410

Milnrow and Newhey West Middleton Irene Davidson LD 1,193 Lil Murphy Lab 997 Michael Butler C 663 Terry Smith LD 474 Debbie Abrahams Lab 620 Dave Pawson C 424 1.5. ROCHDALE 15

Consolidated Results — Rochdale Liberal Democrat ...... 18,572 36.1% 11 councillors Labour ...... 16,109 31.3% 5 councillors Conservative ...... 15,701 30.5% 4 councillors Independent ...... 637 1.2% British National Party ...... 421 0.8%

Wardle & West Littleborough Littleborough Lakeside

Norden Healey Smallbridge & Firgrove

Central Spotland Rochdale & Falinge

Bamford & Newhey Milkstone Kingsway & Deeplish

North Heywood Balderstone West & Kirkholt Heywood Castleton

Hopwood Hall

West North

South East

MIDDLETON

Figure 1.5: Rochdale 2008 16 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

1.6

CA = Community Action

Barton Langworthy [LD gain from Lab] John Mullen Lab 1,039 Lynn Drake LD 1,049 Abdul Mannan C 701 Andy Salmon Lab 878 Ronald Benjamin LD 489 Helen Vernon C 330 Alan Valentine Ind 303 Little Hulton Boothstown and Ellenbrook Pat Ryan Lab 1,021 Andrew Cheetham C 1,867 Elaine West C 488 Catherine Connett LD 452 Vinnie Coleman BNP 404 Abdul Shahid Lab 437 Susan Carson LD 270

Broughton Ordsall Jim King Lab 1,185 Ray Mashiter Lab 860 Bernard Carson LD 472 Yan Cockayne C 358 David Wolfson C 383 Liam Starkey LD 348

Cadishead [C gain from Lab] Lyn Bramer-Kelly C 1,047 Barry Warner Lab 975 Jimmy Hunt Lab 865 Peter Allcock C 826 Chris Dickenson CA 653 Christine Corry LD 375 Melanie Owen LD 130 Wayne Taylor BNP 352 Stuart Cremins Ind 117 Claremont Norman Owen LD 1,277 Swinton North Peter Wheeler Lab 737 Derek Antrobus Lab 1,122 Chris Allcock C 525 Shirley Walsh C 947 Edward O’Sullivan BNP 295 Tamara Cooke LD 624 Robert Wakefield UKIP 149 Swinton South [LD gain from Lab] Eccles [C gain from Lab] Martin O’Neill LD 1,150 Judith Tope C 1,422 Valerie Burgoyne Lab 642 Alan Broughton Lab 1,144 Hilary Brunyee C 527 Stephen Ferrer LD 479 Dave Kelly Ind 347 Irlam [CA gain from Lab] North Rick Houlton CA 1,152 Vincent Devine Lab 1,033 Stephen Fitzsimmons C 832 Eileen Macdonald C 756 Roger Jones Lab 650 Thomas Fernley LD 395 Mariska Jones LD 161 Walkden South [C gain from Lab] Irwell Riverside Stephen Coen Lab 888 Nicky Turner C 1,649 Kenneth McKelvey LD 337 Brendan Ryan Lab 815 David Lewis C 286 Pauline Ogden LD 458 Anthony Healey BNP 233 Tommy Cavanagh BNP 336

Kersal Weaste and Seedley Peter Connor Lab 1,385 Janice Heywood LD 1,282 Shneur Odze C 1,046 Tony Harold Lab 682 Harold Kershner LD 356 Heather Grant C 478 1.7. 17

Consolidated Results — Salford Labour ...... 17,899 34.8% 10 councillors Conservative ...... 17,472 34.0% 5 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 10,949 21.3% 4 councillors British National Party ...... 1,871 3.6% Community Action ...... 1,805 3.5% 1 councillor Independents...... 1,238 2.4% UK Independence Party ...... 149 0.3%

Little Hulton Walkden N.

Pendlebury Walkden S. Swinton N. Kersal

Swinton S. Claremont Irwell Riverside Broughton Boothstown Langworthy & Ellenbrook Eccles Weaste & Seedley Winton Barton Ordsall

Irlam

Cadishead

Figure 1.6: Salford 2008

Winton Worsley David Lancaster Lab 959 Karen Garrido C 2,411 Gary Green C 593 John Ferguson Lab 582 Paul Doyle Ind 471 Sheila Mulleady LD 476 Stephen Plaister LD 369 Thomas Williams BNP 251

1.7 Stockport

Bramhall North Bramhall South L Holt C 3,043 J Ellis LD 2,018 B Bagnall C 2,762 K Priestley Lab 140 K Holloway LD 1,554 D Gordon BNP 123 B Dykes Lab 170 M Crossley UKIP 84 D Perry UKIP 163 18 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Bredbury and Woodley Heald Green S Humphries LD 2,056 P Burns Ind 2,594 J Holland C 996 R Stevenson C 396 C Stanway Lab 321 I Roberts LD 352 R Skill BNP 247 P Jackson Lab 197 Green and Romiley H Lees LD 2,159 J Rogers C 2,040 Heatons North B Cawley Lab 303 L Jones C 2,069 M Pollard Lab 1,000 Brinnington and Central [LD gain K Dowling LD 358 J Cuff Grn 336 from Lab] G Price UKIP 150 C Walker LD 1,264 M Rowles Lab 1,009 S Holgate C 259 Heatons South P Shaw Grn 162 C Foster Lab 1,796 A Raisbeck C 1,468 Cheadle and Gatley [C gain from R Axtell LD 408 LD] P Barber Grn 292 M Jones C 2,194 P Carter LD 2,177 Manor C Owen Lab 420 S Derbyshire LD 1,435 B Lechner Lab 739 Cheadle Hulme North B Charlesworth C 551 J Pantall LD 2,009 D Warner BNP 437 C Ashley C 1,105 B Harrop Lab 231 H Peake UKIP 190 Marple North M Candler LD 2,162 Cheadle Hulme South C Walsh C 1,502 M Preston Grn 340 L Grice LD 2,215 D Rowbottom Lab 215 M Roscoe C 1,702 D Leaver Grn 141 L Sinclair Lab 131 Marple South C Peake UKIP 126 S Alexander LD 2,051 Davenport and Cale Green W Wragg C 1,391 T Moore UKIP 201 A Smith LD 1,427 G Reid Grn 180 B Hendley Lab 903 K Vickers Lab 151 C Holgate C 589 S Flood BNP 224 Offerton Edgeley and Cheadle Heath D Goddard LD 1,602 N Lewis-Booth C 738 Lab S Bailey 1,447 S Maher BNP 617 LD A Rawling 972 S Ball Lab 326 B Charlesworth C 481 V Kellaway Grn 199 Reddish North Hazel Grove A Graham Lab 1,341 K Hogg LD 2,345 T Hannay C 699 J Lewis-Booth C 1,668 P Bennett BNP 402 Y Bradley Lab 262 P Weigert LD 321 1.8. 19

Consolidated Results — Stockport Liberal Democrat ...... 31,655 39.6% 12 councillors Conservative ...... 28,127 35.2% 4 councillors Labour ...... 12,740 15.9% 4 councillors Independent ...... 2,594 3.2% 1 councillor British National Party ...... 2,050 2.6% Green Party ...... 1,818 2.3% UK Independence Party ...... 914 1.1%

Reddish N.

Bredbury Reddish & Woodley S. Heatons N.

Bredbury Green Heatons S. & Romiley Brinnington & Central Manor Edgeley & Marple N. Cheadle HulmeCheadle N. Heath

Offerton Cheadle Davenport & & Gatley Cale Green Stepping Hill

Bramhall Marple S. N. Heald Cheadle Hazel Grove Green Hulme S.

Bramhall S.

Figure 1.7: Stockport 2008

Reddish South Stepping Hill M Clay LD 2,276 A Verdeille Lab 1,382 M Cunningham C 1,557 S Burt C 917 J Rothwell Lab 256 D Langley LD 494 K Pease Grn 168

1.8 Tameside

Ashton Hurst Ashton St Michael’s Margaret Sidebottom Lab 893 Paul Buckley C 887 Richard Ambler C 1,905 John Bartley LD 256 Paul Dowthwaite Lab 1,121 Richard Harrison UKIP 180 Paul Littlewood UKIP 331 Rochelle Rolland Grn 132 20 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Ashton Waterloo Hyde Godley Catherine Piddington Lab 1,152 Joe Kitchen Lab 1,026 Dot Buckley C 864 Thomas Welsby C 733 Anthony Jones BNP 473 Rosalind Gauci BNP 293 Paul Daley LD 230 Jennifer Ball-Foster LD 264 Nigel Rolland Grn 124 Duran O’Dwyer UKIP 109

Audenshaw [Lab gain from LD] Hyde Newton Jean Brazil Lab 1,292 Peter Robinson Lab 1,124 Stacey Knighton C 1,013 Nigel Byrne BNP 846 David Gough BNP 846 John Welsh C 732 Peter Ball-Foster LD 376 Denton North East Hyde Werneth Martin Wareing Lab 1,139 Georgina Greenwood C 912 Derek Baines C 1,821 Shaun O’Rourke LD 455 Claire Francis Lab 1,238 John Cooke UKIP 259 June Gill Grn 181 Denton South Margaret Downs Lab 1,421 Longdendale Thomas Jones C 1,049 Sean Parker-Perry Lab 1,316 Sue Barker C 1,057 Denton West Ruth Bergan Grn 312 Dawson Lane Lab 1,578 Kevin Misell UKIP 203 Joan Howarth C 1,565 East Roy Etchells Ind 1,133 Jim Middleton Lab 1,408 Idu Miah Lab 910 David Lomas BNP 1,000 Kevin Hartley C 664 Lee Robinson C 648 Christine Clark Grn 275

Droylsden West St Peter’s Warren Bray Lab 1,265 Gerald Cooney Lab 1,779 Dorothy Ward C 570 Gill Westhead C 657 Ian Dunlop LD 313 Paul Hindley BNP 601 Trevor Clarke Grn 261

Dukinfield North [C gain from Brian Wild Lab 1,266 Lab] Roy West BNP 734 Clive Patrick C 1,159 Lynn Major C 582 Bernard Walsh Lab 1,115 Martine Marshall Grn 250 Jean Smee Grn 250 Tracy Radcliffe UKIP 190 Dukinfield Stalybridge [C gain from Lab] Stalybridge South Dorothy Cartwright C 1,288 Doreen Dickinson C 1,771 Michael Ballagher Lab 1,022 Pauline Harrison Lab 596 Jeffrey Clayton BNP 366 Melanie Roberts Grn 217 Michael Smee Grn 236 Angela McManus UKIP 191 1.8. TAMESIDE 21

Consolidated Results — Tameside Labour ...... 22,661 41.6% 13 councillors Conservative ...... 19,877 36.5% 5 councillors British National Party ...... 5,159 9.5% Green Party ...... 2,238 4.1% Liberal Democrat ...... 1,894 3.5% UK Independence Party ...... 1,463 2.7% Independent ...... 1,133 2.1% 1 councillor

Mossley

Ashton Hurst

Ashton Waterloo Stalybridge N.

Ashton Stalybridge S.

St Michael’s DroylsdenW. Droylsden E.

St Peter’s Stalybridge Dukinfield

Audenshaw

Hyde Newton Denton Longdendale N.E.

Denton W. Hyde Godley

Denton S.

Hyde Werneth

Figure 1.8: Tameside 2008 22 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

1.9

Altrincham West Susan Williams C 1,590 Brian Shaw C 1,755 Majella Kennedy Lab 620 Kevin Procter Lab 669 Roger Legge LD 323 Simon Wright LD 292 Deborah Leftwich Grn 155 Joe Ryan Grn 137 Sarah Walmsley Ind 137

Ashton upon Mersey Keith Summerfield C 1,785 Brian Rigby C 1,762 Dolores O’Sullivan Lab 890 Michael Wilton Lab 535 Richard Elliott LD 321 Terry Corbett LD 389 Paul Syrett Grn 213 Marian Sudbury Grn 244

Bowdon Sean Anstee C 2,187 Laurence Walsh Lab 1,170 Ian Chappell LD 334 Colin Levenston C 617 Thomas Hague Lab 255 Francis Beswick LD 262 Bridget Green Grn 190 Philip Leape Grn 189

Broadheath Barns Brenda Houraghan C 1,681 Patrick Myers C 2,216 Andrew Western Lab 836 Sandra Taylor LD 437 Armaan Chohan LD 334 Emily Spurrell Lab 290 Martin Bate Grn 255 Andrew Gratton Grn 125

Brooklands Kathy Bullock C 1,883 Chris Candish C 1,861 Angela Gratrix Lab 522 Beverly Harrison Lab 379 Kenneth Clarke LD 514 Pauline Cliff LD 338 Barbara Jarkowski Grn 196 Sarah McIlroy Grn 231 - Longford Ian Platt Lab 961 Anne Hooley C 592 Judith Lloyd Lab 1,167 Elizabeth Hogg LD 183 Rod Allan C 931 Melanie Bell Grn 182 Margaret Westbrook Grn 448 David Rhodes LD 282 (2) Whit Stennett Lab 1,434 Sophie Taylor Lab 1,212 Christine Rawson Grn 377 Barry Brotherton Lab 1,225 John Schofield C 338 Rob Chilton C 1,013 John Blackburn C 318 James Eisen LD 358 Anne Power Grn 313 Emma Handley Grn 253 Louise Bird LD 264 Philip Davis BNP 144 Derek Hurst LD 220 St Mary’s John Holden C 1,659 Linda Blackburn C 1,728 Tom Tomkins Lab 655 Ged Carter Lab 703 Diane Webster LD 280 Jennie Gander Grn 150 Stephen Farndon UKIP 223 Graham Rogers LD 286 Zoe Power Grn 145 1.9. TRAFFORD 23

Consolidated Results — Trafford Conservative ...... 29,827 48.4% 13 councillors Labour ...... 16,372 26.6% 7 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 10,559 17.1% 2 councillors Green Party ...... 4,369 7.1% UK Independence Party ...... 223 0.4% British National Party ...... 144 0.2% Independent ...... 137 0.2%

Clifford Davyhulme Gorse Hill E.

Davyhulme W. Longford

Flixton

Ashton upon Priory Mersey Bucklow−St Martins

St Mary’s Brooklands

Broadheath

Bowdon

Altrincham

Hale C.

Figure 1.9: Trafford 2008

Sale Moor [C gain from Lab] Urmston

Nigel Hooley C 1,120 Christine Turner C 1,346 Philip Gratrix Lab 1,116 Joyce Acton Lab 1,129 Margaret Clarke LD 351 Bernard Murray LD 714 Bridget Battye Grn 218 Helen Jocys Grn 191 Stretford Tom Ross Lab 1,345 Colin Hooley C 896 Liz O’Neill Grn 247 John O’Connor LD 218

Timperley [LD gain from C] Village Jane Brophy LD 2,196 Ray Bowker LD 1,883 Darren Storey C 1,864 Jacki Wilkinson C 1,003 Peter Baugh Lab 247 Thomas Shelton Lab 224 Jadwiga Leigh Grn 97 Michael Leigh Grn 126 24 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

1.10

CA = Community Action

Abram and West [Lab Eddie Russin Lab 1,226 gain from CA] John Shale CA 943 Yvonne Klieve Lab 1,186 Marion Green C 386 Peter Franzen CA 1,110 John Oxley C 282 Steven McEllenborough BNP 178 Ashton Frank Davies Ind 129 Paul Tushingham CA 1,766 Ann Rampling Lab 1,111 Hindley [Ind gain from Lab] Marie Winstanley C 248 Adrian Jones BNP 178 Jim Ellis Ind 1,347 Marcia Dooley Lab 696 David Culshaw Ind 515 Aspull New Springs Whelley Margaret Winstanley C 277 John Hilton Lab 1,443 Hindley Green [Ind gain from Lab] Alan Robinson LD 1,254 Anthony Hind C 640 Bob Brierley Ind 1,105 Martin Long Lab 655 Stuart Foy C 353 Astley Mosley Common [C gain Rachel Fagan CA 351 from Lab] Ince Sean Ell C 1,207 David Molyneux Lab 1,180 Brian Wilson Lab 1,014 Syd Hall CA 479 Gavin Clements LD 634 Raymond Whittingham C 275

Leigh East Atherleigh Keith Cunliffe Lab 981 Susan Loudon Lab 1,246 Dorothy Angell C 649 Abigail Solomon C 858 Gordon Jackson LD 591

Leigh South Atherton [Ind gain from LD] Kevin Anderson Lab 1,372 Bob Splaine Ind 976 Andrew Oxley C 1,000 Elnur Yusifzade Lab 856 Ian Franzen CA 476 David Higginbottom LD 821 Gary Chadwick BNP 470 Michael Nicholls C 426 Stephen Hall Respect 222 Leigh West Susan Greensmith Lab 1,543 Bryn [Ind gain from CA] Denise Young C 817

Don Hodgkinson Ind 1,606 Helen Ash Lab 765 Lowton East [C gain from CA] Clive Charles CA 394 James Grundy C 1,972 Ken Haslam BNP 284 Sandy Franzen CA 943 Malcolm Childs C 204 James Cowley Lab 758

Orrell Douglas Richard Clayton Sr C 1,608 Joy Birch Lab 1,170 Mike Barnes Lab 969 Anthony Unsworth CA 745 Charles Mather BNP 548 Stephen Holt C 350 Richard Clayton Jr Ind 321 1.10. WIGAN 25

Consolidated Results — Wigan Labour ...... 26,353 37.5% 12 councillors Conservative ...... 18,360 26.1% 6 councillors Community Action ...... 9,830 14.0% 2 councillors Independents...... 6,260 8.9% 4 councillors Liberal Democrat ...... 6,054 8.6% 1 councillor British National Party ...... 2,352 3.3% UK Independence Party ...... 912 1.3% Respect - The Unity Coalition ...... 222 0.3%

Pemberton Wigan Central

Jeanette Prescott Lab 1,387 Henry Cadman C 1,562 Mike Leyland CA 406 Matthew Bullen Lab 940 Benjamin Gray C 350 Keith Jones UKIP 378 Chris Hilton BNP 334 Leanne Brotherton CA 213 Shevington with Lower Ground [C gain from Lab] Wigan West

Paul Liptrot C 1,531 Terence Halliwell Lab 1,089 Mike Crosby Lab 971 Steven Surples C 471 John Atherton UKIP 251 Darren Atherton LD 462 Martin Sutton LD 251 Susan Mather BNP 360 Andy Sumner Ind 157 Mick Dahl Ind 104 Standish with Langtree [C gain from Lab] Winstanley Judith Atherton C 1,710 George Davies Lab 1,039 Stanley Barnes CA 1,226 Alan Freeman UKIP 283 Phil Kelly Lab 869 June Garner LD 214 Paula Thompson C 508 Ronnie Barnes CA 116

Tyldesley Worsley Mesnes Robert Bleakley LD 1,827 Brian Baldwin Lab 1,275 Barry Taylor Lab 612 Hannah Leyland CA 662 Hilary Hayden C 313 Jonathan Cartwright C 363 26 LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS 2008

Standish with Langtree Aspull New Springs Shevington with Whelley Lower Ground Wigan W. Wigan Pemberton C.

Douglas Ince Hindley

Worsley Atherton Mesnes Hindley Green Orrell Winstanley Atherleigh Abram

Bryn Leigh W. Leigh E.

Ashton Golborne & Leigh S. Lowton W. Astley Mosley Common Lowton E.

Figure 1.10: Wigan 2008