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Local Election Results 2011

Wigan

CA = Community Action
EFP = England First Party
WiganBGS = Wigan Borough Green Socialists
WiganIC = Wigan Independent Conservatives (who stood under a variety of labels)

Other results for Wigan: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 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 2011

Party Votes Percent Seats
Labour 43384 54.5% 21
Conservative 15603 19.6% 0
Independent 10046 12.6% 3
Community Action 3836 4.8% 0
Wigan Independent Conservatives 2809 3.5% 1
Liberal Democrat 2159 2.7% 0
British National Party 777 1.0% 0
UK Independence Party 498 0.6% 0
Wigan Borough Green Socialists 320 0.4% 0
England First Party 114 0.1% 0

Abram

Eunice Smethurst Lab 1696 56.9%
Sandra Atherton Ind 774 25.9%
Marion Green C 271 9.1%
Dennis Shambley BNP 242 8.1%

Ashton [Lab gain from C]

Joel Haddley Lab 1595 48.7%
Walter Carney Ind 710 21.7%
Leanne Brotherton CA 626 19.1%
Marie Winstanley C 344 10.5%

Aspull New Springs Whelley

Christopher Ready Lab 2509 66.3%
Alan Robinson LD 796 21.0%
Jane Surples C 482 12.7%

Astley Mosley Common

Brendan Bowen Lab 2028 63.7%
Nasri Barghothi C 1158 36.3%

Atherleigh

Mark Aldred Lab 1499 59.3%
Jamie Hodgkinson Ind 537 21.3%
Derek Davies C 491 19.4%

Atherton [Ind gain from Lab]

Norman Bradbury Ind 1517 42.8%
David Welch Lab 1271 35.9%
Vivienne Lee C 437 12.3%
Stephen Hall WiganBGS 320 9.0%

Bryn

Gary Wilkes Ind 1955 54.4%
John Allen Lab 1363 37.9%
Stuart Foy C 274 7.6%

Douglas

Michael Dewhurst Lab 1867 72.3%
Anthony Unsworth Ind 393 15.2%
Margaret Atherton C 321 12.4%

Golborne and Lowton West

Stuart Keane Lab 1897 60.5%
Peter Franzen CA 849 27.1%
Kathleen Houlton C 389 12.4%

Hindley

James Churton Lab 1831 59.4%
David Culshaw Ind 1000 32.4%
Stephen Holt C 251 8.1%

Hindley Green [Ind gain from CA]

Francis Carmichael Ind 1185 39.9%
Romanna Kowalczuk Lab 927 31.2%
Barry Fagan CA 626 21.1%
Margaret Winstanley C 232 7.8%

Ince

Janice Sharratt Lab 1679 66.9%
Anthony Farrell BNP 296 11.8%
Brian Kenrick Ind 243 9.7%
Raymond Whittingham C 177 7.1%
Robert Hague EFP 114 4.5%

Leigh East

Anita Thorpe Lab 1835 70.0%
Richard Short C 785 30.0%

Leigh South

John O'Brien Lab 2180 62.0%
Stanley Walker C 885 25.2%
Stuart Preston CA 450 12.8%

Leigh West

Myra Whiteside Lab 1844 64.8%
Brian Turrell Ind 430 15.1%
John Oxley C 334 11.7%
Martin Grainey BNP 239 8.4%

Lowton East [Lab gain from CA]

Pamela Gilligan Lab 1561 40.9%
Edward Houlton C 1546 40.5%
Ian Franzen CA 710 18.6%

Orrell [Lab gain from C]

Stephen Murphy Lab 1825 48.6%
Michael Winstanley C 1693 45.1%
Brian Merry Ind 236 6.3%

Pemberton

Barbara Bourne Lab 1864 71.7%
Michael Leyland CA 377 14.5%
Jonathan Cartwright C 360 13.8%

Shevington with Lower Ground [Lab gain from C]

Paul Collins Lab 1557 42.1%
Callum Chadwick C 974 26.3%
Deborah Fairhurst WiganIC 672 18.2%
Arnold Foster UKIP 498 13.5%

Standish with Langtree [WiganIC gain from C]

George Fairhurst WiganIC 1672 43.4%
Andrew Birchall Lab 1336 34.6%
Steven Surples C 848 22.0%

Tyldesley [Lab gain from LD]

Stephen Hellier Lab 1529 47.1%
Keith McManus LD 1363 42.0%
David Ollerton C 357 11.0%

Wigan Central [Lab gain from C]

Michael McLoughlin Lab 1684 48.0%
Jean Peet C 1161 33.1%
Gareth Fairhurst WiganIC 465 13.3%
Robert Hall CA 198 5.6%

Wigan West

Stephen Dawber Lab 2301 75.9%
Barry Alder C 730 24.1%

Winstanley

Rona Winkworth Lab 1509 48.3%
Christine Shore Ind 1066 34.1%
Michael Nicholls C 552 17.7%

Worsley Mesnes

William Rotherham Lab 2197 79.9%
Joseph Sheedy C 551 20.1%

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