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Local Election Results 2008

Bradford

ACP = Anti-Crime Party
DemNat = Democratic Nationalist
EDP = English Democrats Party

Other results for Bradford: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023
By-elections for Bradford (may be incomplete): 16th October 2003 (Great Horton) — 16th March 2006 (Craven) — 23rd March 2006 (Keighley W.) — 4th December 2008 (Bingley) — 25th November 2010 (Worth Valley) — 24th November 2011 (Great Horton) — 15th November 2012 (Wharfedale) — 14th July 2016 (Wibsey) — 4th May 2017 (Queensbury) — 7th February 2019 (Bolton & Undercliffe)

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Consolidated results — Bradford 2008

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 48987 37.1% 14
Labour 38185 28.9% 9
Liberal Democrat 28887 21.9% 6
Green Party 6946 5.3% 1
British National Party 6695 5.1% 0
Democratic Nationalist 1203 0.9% 0
UK Independence Party 565 0.4% 0
Respect - The Unity Coalition 395 0.3% 0
English Democrats Party 183 0.1% 0
Independent 78 0.1% 0
Anti-Crime Party 66 0.0% 0

Baildon

John Cole LD 3122 55.3%
David Herdson C 2230 39.5%
Vera Martin Lab 292 5.2%

Bingley

Colin Gill C 3529 63.0%
David Green Lab 940 16.8%
Jean Taylor LD 648 11.6%
Arthur Arnold Grn 487 8.7%

Bingley Rural

Margaret Eaton C 3839 71.2%
James Newton Lab 690 12.8%
Alan Sykes LD 496 9.2%
Brian Newham Grn 367 6.8%

Bolton and Undercliffe

Margaret Chadwick LD 2139 57.4%
Ronnie Fieldhouse Lab 798 21.4%
Isa Khan C 557 14.9%
Steven Schofield Grn 232 6.2%

Bowling and Barkerend [C gain from LD]

John Robertshaw C 1796 42.9%
Rupert Oliver Lab 1376 32.9%
Tracey Leeming LD 1012 24.2%

Bradford Moor

Riaz Ahmed LD 2941 52.6%
Mohammed Shaukat Lab 1869 33.4%
Sakhawat Hussain C 786 14.0%

City

Sajawal Hussain Lab 2497 63.8%
Saleem Kader C 815 20.8%
Chris Reid LD 344 8.8%
Chris Howson Grn 256 6.5%

Clayton and Fairweather Green

Elaine Byrom C 1578 37.2%
Sinead Engel Lab 1324 31.2%
Neil Crossley BNP 869 20.5%
Lorna Leeming LD 387 9.1%
James Illingworth UKIP 85 2.0%

Craven

Adrian Naylor C 3162 67.2%
Robert Beckwith Lab 866 18.4%
Angela Pearson LD 676 14.4%

Eccleshill

Ann Wallace LD 1551 36.5%
John Pennington C 1301 30.6%
Leslie Nakonecznyi BNP 763 17.9%
Tony Niland Lab 602 14.1%
Trish Boyle DemNat 38 0.9%

Great Horton

Paul Flowers Lab 2353 60.5%
Qurban Hussain C 1014 26.1%
Kasha de Verny LD 522 13.4%

Heaton

Sajid Akhtar C 1823 37.3%
David Ford Grn 1587 32.4%
Ashiq Hussain Lab 1018 20.8%
Tariq Mahmood LD 465 9.5%

Idle and Thackley

Ed Hall LD 2599 61.7%
Ryan Atkinson C 1149 27.3%
Rosie Watson Lab 467 11.1%

Ilkley

Anne Hawkesworth C 3245 64.3%
Andrew Dundas Lab 719 14.3%
Vaughan Bruce LD 553 11.0%
Bryan Websdale Grn 526 10.4%

Keighley Central

Khadim Hussain Lab 2559 52.9%
Jamil Arshad C 1404 29.0%
Roger Beaumont LD 878 18.1%

Keighley East [C gain from Lab]

Dorothy Clamp C 2059 43.5%
Malcolm Slater Lab 1995 42.1%
Judith Brooksbank LD 683 14.4%

Keighley West [C gain from BNP]

Robert Payne C 1542 44.5%
Angela Sinfield Lab 1477 42.6%
Frank McAulay LD 445 12.8%

Little Horton

Ian Greenwood Lab 2063 60.4%
Alun Griffiths LD 843 24.7%
Jamshad Khan C 507 14.9%

Manningham [Lab gain from LD]

Mohammad Amin Lab 2319 43.2%
Mohammed Mirza LD 2122 39.6%
Arshad Ali Respect 395 7.4%
Adam Jamal C 246 4.6%
John Robinson Grn 214 4.0%
Norman Scarth ACP 66 1.2%

Queensbury

Michael Walls C 1713 38.1%
Eric Baxendale BNP 1521 33.8%
Graham Mahony Lab 713 15.9%
David Weston LD 306 6.8%
Jason Smith UKIP 227 5.0%
Laura Beardsworth DemNat 18 0.4%

Royds

Andrew Thornton Lab 1414 39.1%
Derek Green C 922 25.5%
Linden Baxendale BNP 693 19.2%
Susan Fletcher LD 311 8.6%
Jim Lewthwaite DemNat 276 7.6%

Shipley

Martin Love Grn 2238 47.8%
Andy Rowley C 1264 27.0%
Emma Hoddinott Lab 688 14.7%
Christine Briggs LD 245 5.2%
Philip Bird UKIP 153 3.3%
Paul Wood DemNat 96 2.0%

Thornton and Allerton

Charles Sykes C 1750 41.9%
Jenny Sampson BNP 1056 25.3%
Mark Blackburn Lab 834 20.0%
Ruth Weston LD 475 11.4%
Ronald Craig DemNat 57 1.4%

Toller

Arshad Hussain C 1986 35.7%
Sobia Kauser Lab 1978 35.5%
Iqbal Khan LD 1326 23.8%
Sonja McNally Grn 277 5.0%

Tong

Michael Johnson Lab 1060 36.7%
Simon Buckingham C 852 29.5%
Rita Cromie BNP 569 19.7%
Kirsty Yeadon LD 327 11.3%
John Shoesmith DemNat 77 2.7%

Wharfedale

Dale Smith C 2718 66.0%
Vernon Whelan LD 677 16.4%
Philip Ferriby Lab 373 9.1%
Richard Howson Grn 348 8.5%

Wibsey

David Green Lab 1397 38.5%
Richard Sheard C 921 25.4%
Clifford Cockayne BNP 595 16.4%
Brian Boulton LD 410 11.3%
Andrew Clarke EDP 183 5.0%
Stephen White UKIP 100 2.8%
Terry Wells DemNat 26 0.7%

Windhill and Wrose [LD gain from Lab]

John Hall LD 1614 39.6%
Phil Thornton Lab 1290 31.6%
Chris Rowley C 705 17.3%
Martin Craig DemNat 283 6.9%
Linda Arnold Grn 106 2.6%
Michael Breen Ind 78 1.9%

Worth Valley

Kristian Hopkins C 2475 60.0%
Keith Dredge Lab 1027 24.9%
Sam Harris LD 312 7.6%
Betts Fetherston Grn 308 7.5%

Wyke

David Robinson Lab 1187 32.0%
Richard Milczanowski C 1099 29.7%
Stephen Cromie BNP 629 17.0%
Kevin Hall LD 458 12.4%
Neil Craig DemNat 332 9.0%

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