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Local Election Results 2008

Oldham

EFP = England First Party

Thanks to Andrew Stidwill for pointing out an error on a previous version of this page.

Other results for Oldham: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
By-elections for Oldham (may be incomplete): 20th November 2003 (Failsworth E.) — 5th July 2007 (Saddleworth W. & Lees) — 14th June 2012 (Failsworth E.) — 15th November 2012 (Failsworth W.) — 14th March 2013 (Royton S.) — 9th May 2013 (Alexandra) — 16th February 2017 (Failsworth E.) — 8th June 2017 (Royton N.) — 29th November 2018 (Failsworth E.) — 17th November 2022 (Hollinwood)

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Consolidated results — Oldham 2008

Party Votes Percent Seats
Liberal Democrat 22558 37.6% 11
Labour 18866 31.5% 5
Conservative 14646 24.4% 4
Independent 1282 2.1% 0
British National Party 1051 1.8% 0
Green Party 762 1.3% 0
England First Party 752 1.3% 0

Alexandra [LD gain from Lab]

Martin Dinoff LD 932 33.8%
Khamran Ghafoor C 841 30.5%
Hugh McDonald Lab 801 29.1%
Phil Howarth Ind 183 6.6%

Chadderton Central [C gain from Lab]

John Hudson C 966 35.7%
Tony Brownridge Lab 866 32.0%
Roy Goodwin BNP 660 24.4%
Pat Lord LD 212 7.8%

Chadderton North [C gain from Lab]

Jack Hulme C 1699 55.8%
Julie Kirkham Lab 927 30.4%
Nilu Uddin LD 419 13.8%

Chadderton South

Dave Hibbert Lab 959 40.7%
John Berry C 735 31.2%
Martin Brierley EFP 425 18.0%
Kevin Dawson LD 236 10.0%

Coldhurst

Abdul Jabbar Lab 2296 52.8%
Mujibur Rahman LD 1684 38.8%
Muhammed Dara C 365 8.4%

Crompton

Ann Wingate LD 1672 58.8%
Chris Shyne C 819 28.8%
David Bibby Lab 351 12.4%

Failsworth East [C gain from Lab]

Paul Martin C 1036 43.7%
Barbara Dawson Lab 1028 43.3%
John Parker Grn 173 7.3%
Phil Renold LD 136 5.7%

Failsworth West [C gain from Lab]

Ian Barker C 963 37.7%
John Johnson Lab 871 34.1%
Warren Bates Grn 589 23.1%
Ken Wilson LD 132 5.2%

Hollinwood [LD gain from Lab]

Phil Holley LD 1268 51.4%
Jean Stretton Lab 992 40.2%
Abdul Malik C 208 8.4%

Medlock Vale

Ur-Rahman Ateeque Lab 1136 39.9%
Rafiq Pazeer LD 925 32.5%
Gary Dalloway Ind 534 18.7%
Tahir Iqbal C 254 8.9%

Royton North

Bernard Judge Lab 1093 36.2%
Joe Farquhar C 811 26.8%
Nazia Raja LD 742 24.6%
Anita Corbett Ind 376 12.4%

Royton South [LD gain from Lab]

Diane Williamson LD 1333 42.8%
Phil Harrison Lab 953 30.6%
Allan Fish C 832 26.7%

Saddleworth North

Mike Buckley LD 1744 53.9%
Barbara Jackson C 916 28.3%
Ken Hulme Lab 575 17.8%

Saddleworth South

Richard Knowles LD 1774 48.5%
Graham Sheldon C 1582 43.3%
Paul Fryer Lab 301 8.2%

Saddleworth West and Lees

Val Sedgewick LD 1673 55.8%
Pam Byrne C 799 26.6%
John Battye Lab 527 17.6%

St James'

Jackie Stanton LD 968 44.8%
Joseph Fitzpatrick Lab 476 22.0%
David Atherton C 392 18.1%
Andrew Clayton EFP 327 15.1%

St Mary's [LD gain from Lab]

Mohammed Masud LD 2483 56.0%
Mohammed Sharif Lab 1632 36.8%
Paul Stephenson C 320 7.2%

Shaw

Howard Sykes LD 1496 57.3%
Michael Canning C 422 16.2%
Alwyn Stott BNP 391 15.0%
Dilys Fletcher Lab 303 11.6%

Waterhead

Linda Dawson LD 1421 57.3%
Arooj Shah Lab 535 21.6%
David Caddick C 335 13.5%
Stuart Allsopp Ind 189 7.6%

Werneth

Fida Hussain Lab 2244 57.5%
Ashazar Mahmood LD 1308 33.5%
Mohammed Irfan C 351 9.0%

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