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Local Election Results 2008

Calderdale

EDP = English Democrats Party

Other results for Calderdale: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
By-elections for Calderdale (may be incomplete): 5th December 2002 (Calder Valley) — 23rd January 2003 (Mixenden) — 6th February 2003 (Rastrick) — 16th October 2003 (Mixenden) — 22nd February 2007 (Illingworth & Mixenden) — 2nd April 2009 (Skircoat) — 19th July 2012 (Warley) — 6th April 2017 (Hipperholme & Lightcliffe) — 8th June 2017 (Rastrick; Todmorden) — 2nd September 2021 (Park; Ryburn) — 24th October 2024 (Calder)

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Full Calderdale results 1973-2012, kindly donated by "hullenedge".


Consolidated results — Calderdale 2008

Party Votes Percent Seats
Conservative 19713 35.8% 8
Liberal Democrat 15312 27.8% 6
Labour 12111 22.0% 2
British National Party 4355 7.9% 1
English Democrats Party 1283 2.3% 0
Independent 1245 2.3% 0
Green Party 1014 1.8% 0

Brighouse

Howard Blagbrough C 1329 40.2%
Nick Yates LD 1250 37.8%
Ann Martin Lab 729 22.0%

Calder

Janet Battye LD 1188 32.1%
Janet Oosthuysen Lab 1135 30.7%
Beverley Carter C 890 24.1%
Ruby Berridge Grn 486 13.1%

Elland

Pat Allen LD 1203 44.0%
Christian Corkish C 800 29.3%
Stewart Brown Lab 312 11.4%
Mick Clarke EDP 262 9.6%
Susan Thomas Grn 156 5.7%

Greetland and Stainland

Keith Watson LD 1404 45.7%
John Ford C 958 31.2%
Pamela Fellows Lab 251 8.2%
Michael Hall BNP 229 7.5%
Mark Mullany Grn 170 5.5%
Johnathan Rogan EDP 59 1.9%

Hipperholme and Lightcliffe

Graham Hall C 2209 68.5%
Jim Souper LD 578 17.9%
Susan Press Lab 438 13.6%

Illingworth and Mixenden [BNP gain from Lab]

Tom Bates BNP 1323 38.3%
Judy Gannon Lab 1014 29.4%
Jon Shaw C 796 23.1%
Michael Elder LD 193 5.6%
Sean Loftus Ind 124 3.6%

Luddendenfoot

Christine Bampton-Smith LD 1301 41.4%
Sarah Jennings C 1016 32.3%
James Fearon Lab 513 16.3%
John Gregory BNP 316 10.0%

Northowram and Shelf

Graham Reason C 1745 49.0%
Gary Rae Lab 524 14.7%
Raymond Pearson Ind 387 10.9%
John Dowson EDP 343 9.6%
Chris Godridge BNP 322 9.0%
John Beacroft-Mitchell LD 240 6.7%

Ovenden

Danielle Coombs Lab 847 39.6%
Jane Shooter BNP 564 26.4%
John Hardy C 479 22.4%
Malcolm James LD 248 11.6%

Park [LD gain from Lab]

Ilyas Mohammad LD 1838 41.3%
Mohammed Najib Lab 1678 37.7%
Craig Stanton C 489 11.0%
Shakar Saghir Ind 442 9.9%

Rastrick

Ann McAllister C 1546 49.0%
George Richardson Lab 666 21.1%
David Stevenson EDP 516 16.4%
Philip Jeffery LD 425 13.5%

Ryburn

Geraldine Carter C 1667 54.2%
Ashley Evans LD 908 29.5%
Lesley Sleigh Lab 502 16.3%

Skircoat

Geoffrey Wainwright C 2132 54.0%
Pauline Nash LD 1305 33.1%
Marion Batten Lab 308 7.8%
Viv Smith Grn 202 5.1%

Sowerby Bridge

Amanda Byrne C 1252 42.6%
Dave Draycott Lab 864 29.4%
John Frederiksen LD 365 12.4%
Stuart Gill BNP 357 12.1%
Tom Mathieson EDP 103 3.5%

Todmorden [C gain from LD]

Ian Cooper C 1048 32.5%
Hilary Myers LD 912 28.3%
Steph Booth Lab 853 26.5%
Christian Jackson BNP 408 12.7%

Town

Megan Swift Lab 1055 39.5%
Chris Pillai C 649 24.3%
Anthony Bentley BNP 403 15.1%
Robert Reynolds Ind 292 10.9%
Brendan Stubbs LD 273 10.2%

Warley [LD gain from Ind]

Robert Pearson LD 1681 51.8%
Sally McCartney C 708 21.8%
Paul Wadsworth BNP 433 13.3%
Anne Collins Lab 422 13.0%

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