Local Election Results 2004
Wigan
Whole council up for election on new ward boundaries. Three Labour councillors were elected unopposed.
CA = Community Action
Other results for Wigan:
2002
2003
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
2014
2015
2016
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
By-elections for Wigan (may be incomplete): 26th September 2002 (Leigh C.)
— 16th June 2005 (Douglas)
— 28th June 2007 (Tyldesley)
— 20th September 2007 (Wigan W.)
— 18th October 2007 (Wigan C.)
— 10th July 2008 (Wigan W.)
— 3rd March 2011 (Wigan C.)
— 4th April 2013 (Pemberton)
— 24th October 2013 (Winstanley)
— 13th November 2014 (Douglas)
— 19th October 2017 (Astley Mosley Common)
— 14th December 2017 (Shevington with Lower Ground)
— 14th October 2021 (Leigh W.)
— 25th November 2021 (Bryn)
— 15th December 2022 (Ashton)
— 4th July 2024 (Leigh S.)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
35360 |
42.1% |
42 |
| Community Action |
20761 |
24.7% |
18 |
| Conservative |
14686 |
17.5% |
7 |
| Liberal Democrat |
8805 |
10.5% |
8 |
| British National Party |
1831 |
2.2% |
0 |
| Independent |
1457 |
1.7% |
0 |
| Green Party |
1180 |
1.4% |
0 |
| Audrey Bennett |
Lab |
1809 |
58.7% |
| Eunice Smethurst |
Lab |
1686 |
|
| Carl Sweeney |
Lab |
1629 |
|
| Dennis Shambley |
BNP |
647 |
21.0% |
| Marion Green |
C |
625 |
20.3% |
| Paul Tushingham |
CA |
2366 |
58.1% |
| Walter Carney |
CA |
2302 |
|
| Claire Daington |
CA |
2229 |
|
| Nigel Ash |
Lab |
1302 |
32.0% |
| Barry Hampson |
Lab |
1029 |
|
| Frederick Lever |
Lab |
1012 |
|
| Marie Winstanley |
C |
402 |
9.9% |
| John Hilton |
Lab |
1758 |
53.5% |
| Christopher Ready |
Lab |
1744 |
|
| Jean Beswick |
LD |
1528 |
46.5% |
| James Roberts |
Lab |
1519 |
|
| Alan Robinson |
LD |
1134 |
|
| Christopher Thomas |
LD |
1030 |
|
| Brian Wilson |
Lab |
1501 |
40.2% |
| Glynnis Hogg |
LD |
1367 |
36.6% |
| Joseph Haley |
LD |
1259 |
|
| John Stackhouse |
LD |
1173 |
|
| John Lea |
Lab |
1122 |
|
| Alan Stephenson |
Lab |
1095 |
|
| Ian Davies |
Grn |
870 |
23.3% |
| Susan Loudon |
Lab |
1219 |
49.0% |
| Mark Aldred |
Lab |
1214 |
|
| Anne Turnock |
Lab |
1207 |
|
| Francis Myler |
CA |
683 |
27.5% |
| Patricia Myler |
CA |
680 |
|
| Ann Davies |
C |
584 |
23.5% |
| Gladys Wilkes |
CA |
442 |
|
| Robert Splaine |
LD |
1705 |
43.2% |
| David Higginbottom |
LD |
1525 |
|
| Karen Aldred |
Lab |
1487 |
37.6% |
| Andrew Moore |
LD |
1414 |
|
| Philip Loudon |
Lab |
1320 |
|
| Reginald Holmes |
Lab |
1292 |
|
| Malcolm Parr |
C |
449 |
11.4% |
| Nicholas Redmond |
Grn |
310 |
7.8% |
| John Hodgkinson |
CA |
2370 |
60.4% |
| Gary Wilkes |
CA |
2297 |
|
| Brian Merry |
CA |
2239 |
|
| Mildred Millington |
Lab |
1233 |
31.4% |
| Alan Melling |
Lab |
1183 |
|
| William Evans |
Lab |
986 |
|
| William Winstanley |
C |
323 |
8.2% |
| Joy Birch |
Lab |
1427 |
52.4% |
| Christine Hitchen |
Lab |
1347 |
|
| Margaret Coghlin |
Lab |
1318 |
|
| Lucy Beale |
CA |
1296 |
47.6% |
| Robert Beale |
CA |
1287 |
|
| Janette Thomas |
CA |
1223 |
|
| Peter Franzen |
CA |
1639 |
49.8% |
| Kevin Williams |
CA |
1414 |
|
| Peter Solinas |
CA |
1413 |
|
| David Kelly |
Lab |
1298 |
39.4% |
| Martin King |
Lab |
1258 |
|
| Gerard Bretherton |
Lab |
1216 |
|
| Rosina Oxley |
C |
355 |
10.8% |
| Alfred Robinson |
Lab |
1578 |
39.4% |
| James Ellis |
CA |
1153 |
28.8% |
| Dorothy Grace |
CA |
1134 |
|
| John Holland |
Lab |
1041 |
|
| Stephen Murphy |
Lab |
1024 |
|
| Davud Culshaw |
Ind |
874 |
21.8% |
| Edward Houlton |
CA |
614 |
|
| Dorothy Angell |
C |
403 |
10.1% |
| William Simmons |
Lab |
1272 |
35.3% |
| Robert Brierley |
CA |
1264 |
35.0% |
| Barry Fagan |
CA |
1231 |
|
| Gordon Jackson |
Lab |
898 |
|
| John Phillips |
Lab |
895 |
|
| Adele Wilkes |
CA |
750 |
|
| John Vickers |
Ind |
583 |
16.2% |
| Andre Walker |
C |
489 |
13.6% |
| David Molyneux |
Lab |
1494 |
68.3% |
| Joan Hurst |
Lab |
1368 |
|
| James Moodie |
Lab |
1132 |
|
| Constantine Winstanley |
CA |
694 |
31.7% |
| Robert Hall |
CA |
667 |
|
| David Hall |
CA |
651 |
|
| Keith Cunliffe |
Lab |
1407 |
47.0% |
| Brian Jarvis |
Lab |
1299 |
|
| Frederick Walker |
Lab |
1081 |
|
| Stuart Winstanley |
CA |
943 |
31.5% |
| Peter O'Connell |
CA |
843 |
|
| Derek Davies |
C |
644 |
21.5% |
| Natalie Franzen |
CA |
595 |
|
| Kevin Anderson |
Lab |
1547 |
41.2% |
| John O'Brien |
Lab |
1465 |
|
| Charles Rigby |
Lab |
1429 |
|
| Stephen Ellison |
CA |
1175 |
31.3% |
| Janice Solinas |
CA |
1094 |
|
| Irene Franzen |
CA |
1041 |
|
| Andrew Oxley |
C |
1030 |
27.5% |
| Barbara Jarvis |
Lab |
1708 |
59.1% |
| Myra Whiteside |
Lab |
1624 |
|
| Peter Smith |
Lab |
1503 |
|
| Daniel Burrows |
CA |
669 |
23.1% |
| Yvonne Lavelle |
CA |
549 |
|
| Richard Close |
BNP |
513 |
17.8% |
| Ian Franzen |
CA |
508 |
|
| Ian Franzen |
CA |
1793 |
45.3% |
| Jonathan Miller |
CA |
1730 |
|
| James Lavelle |
CA |
1516 |
|
| Lynne Liptrot |
Lab |
1289 |
32.5% |
| Eric Waterworth |
Lab |
1179 |
|
| Christine Cottam |
Lab |
1062 |
|
| James Grundy |
C |
879 |
22.2% |
| Jeanette Leigh |
C |
792 |
|
| Alan Lowe |
C |
647 |
|
| Richard Clayton |
C |
1747 |
39.6% |
| Michael Winstanley |
C |
1520 |
|
| Ernest Swift |
Lab |
1402 |
31.8% |
| Michael Barnes |
Lab |
1381 |
|
| Rodney Stockwell |
Lab |
1313 |
|
| Hazel Shields |
C |
1285 |
|
| Charles Mather |
BNP |
671 |
15.2% |
| Alan Freeman |
CA |
595 |
13.5% |
| Tracy Lavelle |
CA |
420 |
|
| Sean Ashdown |
CA |
395 |
|
| Jeanette Prescott |
Lab |
1419 |
47.3% |
| Barbara Bourne |
Lab |
1381 |
|
| Paul Prescott |
Lab |
1314 |
|
| Margaret Crank |
CA |
1140 |
38.0% |
| William Burrows |
CA |
1096 |
|
| John Hulme |
CA |
1025 |
|
| Jonathan Cartwright |
C |
439 |
14.6% |
| John O'Neill |
Lab |
1843 |
45.6% |
| David Brown |
Lab |
1468 |
|
| Michael Crosby |
Lab |
1461 |
|
| Elizabeth Beasleigh |
C |
1456 |
36.1% |
| Deborah Fairhurst |
C |
1288 |
|
| Barry Alder |
C |
1191 |
|
| Martin Sutton |
LD |
739 |
18.3% |
| Freda Graham |
LD |
664 |
|
| Solveiq Gaber |
LD |
607 |
|
| George Davies |
Lab |
1383 |
34.9% |
| George Fairhurst |
C |
1325 |
33.4% |
| Jessica Downer |
C |
1278 |
|
| Raymond Murphy |
LD |
1254 |
31.7% |
| Trevor Beswick |
LD |
1202 |
|
| Thomas Morris |
Lab |
1197 |
|
| Barry Woolley |
C |
1185 |
|
| Maureen Garner |
LD |
1066 |
|
| Mihcael McLoughlin |
Lab |
953 |
|
| Neil Hogg |
LD |
2212 |
55.0% |
| Keith McManus |
LD |
1976 |
|
| Richard Derricutt |
LD |
1768 |
|
| Stephen Hellier |
Lab |
1350 |
33.6% |
| David Boydell |
Lab |
1212 |
|
| Richard Evans |
Lab |
1027 |
|
| Deborah Woodcock |
C |
457 |
11.4% |
| Henry Cadman |
C |
2130 |
55.7% |
| James Davies |
C |
2089 |
|
| Gareth Fairhurst |
C |
1961 |
|
| Richard Walsh |
Lab |
1694 |
44.3% |
| Susan Turner |
Lab |
1668 |
|
| John Ball |
Lab |
1502 |
|
| Terence Halliwell |
Lab |
unop. |
|
| Joe Shaw |
Lab |
unop. |
|
| David Willis |
Lab |
unop. |
|
| Stanley Barnes |
CA |
1810 |
48.6% |
| Rona Winkworth |
Lab |
1393 |
37.4% |
| William Wlikes |
CA |
1330 |
|
| Ronald Varnes |
CA |
1299 |
|
| Philip Kelly |
Lab |
1000 |
|
| Robin Atkinson |
Lab |
993 |
|
| Matthew Sephton |
C |
525 |
14.1% |
| Joseph Baldwin |
Lab |
1547 |
49.2% |
| William Rotherham |
Lab |
1540 |
|
| Wilfred Brogan |
Lab |
1498 |
|
| Susan Barnes |
CA |
1171 |
37.3% |
| William Barnes |
CA |
1115 |
|
| Stephen Wilkes |
CA |
966 |
|
| Thomas Sutton |
C |
424 |
13.5% |
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