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Local Election Results 2010

Wigan

One-third of council up for election.

Thanks to Alex Elliott for a correction to this page.

CA = Community Action
EFP = England First Party
WiganIC = Wigan Independent Conservatives

Other results for Wigan: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 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.)

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Consolidated results — Wigan 2010

Party Votes Percent Seats
Labour 63404 45.7% 24
Conservative 26036 18.8% 0
Liberal Democrat 12447 9.0% 1
Community Action 11129 8.0% 0
Independent 10254 7.4% 0
British National Party 9116 6.6% 0
Wigan Independent Conservatives 4351 3.1% 0
UK Independence Party 1797 1.3% 0
England First Party 134 0.1% 0

Abram

Carl Sweeney Lab 2849 52.9%
Sandra Atherton Ind 893 16.6%
Marie Winstanley C 668 12.4%
Dennis Shambley BNP 659 12.2%
John Shale CA 316 5.9%

Ashton

Nigel Ash Lab 2208 38.8%
Joanne Bradley CA 1980 34.8%
Frank Merry Ind 574 10.1%
Malcolm Childs C 571 10.0%
Barry Longstaffe BNP 352 6.2%

Aspull New Springs Whelley [Lab gain from LD]

Ronald Conway Lab 3133 49.7%
Trevor Beswick LD 1470 23.3%
Jane Surples C 1175 18.7%
Andrew Jones BNP 430 6.8%
Ian Bland WiganIC 90 1.4%

Astley Mosley Common [Lab gain from LD]

Barry Taylor Lab 2339 39.9%
Gavin Clements LD 1894 32.3%
Nasri Barghothi C 1635 27.9%

Atherleigh

Pamela Stewart Lab 2038 43.3%
Derek Davies C 871 18.5%
Lisa Clements LD 711 15.1%
Neil Wade Ind 447 9.5%
Gary Chadwick BNP 386 8.2%
Julie Finch CA 254 5.4%

Atherton

Karen Aldred Lab 2758 45.4%
Vivienne Lee C 961 15.8%
Jamie Hodgkinson Ind 852 14.0%
Gareth Clements LD 850 14.0%
Stephen Hall CA 655 10.8%

Bryn [Lab gain from CA]

Margaret Rampling Lab 2274 40.3%
Brian Merry Ind 1697 30.1%
Kevin Williams CA 609 10.8%
Kenneth Haslam BNP 531 9.4%
Joseph Sheedy C 525 9.3%

Douglas

Shirley Dewhurst Lab 2742 59.1%
Margaret Atherton C 659 14.2%
Ian Lloyd BNP 461 9.9%
Jayne Bryan CA 396 8.5%
Anthony Unsworth Ind 380 8.2%

Golborne and Lowton West

Gerard Bretherton Lab 2554 50.2%
Peter Franzen CA 1431 28.1%
Kathleen Houlton C 775 15.2%
Steven McEllenborough BNP 329 6.5%

Hindley

James Talbot Lab 2558 49.5%
David Culshaw Ind 1346 26.0%
David Ollerton C 610 11.8%
Stephen Bradbury BNP 501 9.7%
Peter Solinas CA 152 2.9%

Hindley Green [Lab gain from CA]

David Stitt Lab 1658 31.6%
Francis Carmichael Ind 1476 28.2%
Barry Fagan CA 1087 20.7%
Margaret Winstanley C 593 11.3%
Darren Taylor BNP 427 8.1%

Ince

James Moodie Lab 2559 61.1%
James Harrison BNP 570 13.6%
Raymond Whittingham C 402 9.6%
Robert Hall CA 300 7.2%
Brian Kenrick Ind 224 5.3%
Robert Hague EFP 134 3.2%

Leigh East

Frederick Walker Lab 2422 48.7%
Gordon Jackson LD 1373 27.6%
Richard Short C 1183 23.8%

Leigh South

Charles Rigby Lab 2571 41.0%
Stanley Walker C 1196 19.1%
Christopher Blackburn LD 1002 16.0%
Clive Charles CA 583 9.3%
Adam Lloyd BNP 516 8.2%
Philip Symonds Ind 279 4.4%
Elaine Brown WiganIC 125 2.0%

Leigh West

Peter Smith Lab 2509 46.7%
Richard Derricutt LD 828 15.4%
Martin Grainey BNP 693 12.9%
John Oxley C 557 10.4%
David Hull Ind 280 5.2%
Brian Turrell Ind 255 4.7%
Mary Lavelle UKIP 247 4.6%

Lowton East [Lab gain from CA]

James Cowley Lab 2403 38.1%
Edward Houlton C 2315 36.7%
Ian Franzen CA 1591 25.2%

Orrell [Lab gain from C]

David Arrowsmith Lab 2877 46.6%
Stuart Foy C 2317 37.5%
Charles Mather BNP 697 11.3%
Paula Timpson WiganIC 286 4.6%

Pemberton

Paul Prescott Lab 3219 65.9%
Jonathan Cartwright C 617 12.6%
Christopher Hilton BNP 596 12.2%
Michael Leyland CA 451 9.2%

Shevington with Lower Ground [Lab gain from C]

Michael Crosby Lab 2180 34.5%
Anthony Hind C 1404 22.2%
Angela Bland WiganIC 1210 19.1%
Daniel Clarke LD 995 15.7%
John Atherton UKIP 534 8.4%

Standish with Langtree [Lab gain from C]

Emma McGurrin Lab 2097 32.1%
Steven Surples C 1894 29.0%
Neil Dunlop WiganIC 1021 15.6%
Alan Robinson LD 1009 15.5%
Alan Freeman UKIP 280 4.3%
Graham Lawrence BNP 228 3.5%

Tyldesley

Paul Valentine LD 2315 39.6%
Anita Thorpe Lab 1875 32.1%
Hilary Hayden C 930 15.9%
David Peacock BNP 450 7.7%
Joseph Haley Ind 272 4.7%

Wigan Central [Lab gain from C]

George Davies Lab 2477 42.2%
Robin Gibson C 1522 25.9%
Gareth Fairhurst WiganIC 1090 18.6%
Keith Jones UKIP 475 8.1%
Anthony Farrell BNP 306 5.2%

Wigan West

Phyllis Cullen Lab 3437 62.0%
Christopher McGowan C 970 17.5%
Susan Mather BNP 608 11.0%
Andrew Lomax WiganIC 529 9.5%

Winstanley [Lab gain from CA]

Clive Morgan Lab 2465 43.5%
William Wilkes Ind 1279 22.6%
Victoria Ashurst C 852 15.0%
Ronald Barnes CA 433 7.6%
Adrian Jones BNP 376 6.6%
Arnold Foster UKIP 261 4.6%

Worsley Mesnes

Lynne Holland Lab 3202 65.0%
Arthur Fairhurst CA 891 18.1%
Marion Green C 834 16.9%

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