Local Election Results 2013
Durham
Whole council up for election on new division boundaries.
DInd = Derwentside Independents
FAIR = Ferryhill Association for Independent Representation
FairInd = FAIR and Independent
Spennymr = Spennymoor Independents
WVIG = Wear Valley Independent Group
Other results for Durham:
2008
2017
2021
By-elections for Durham (may be incomplete): 4th June 2009 (Barnard Castle E.)
— 11th February 2010 (Easington)
— 30th September 2010 (Brandon)
— 14th October 2010 (Deneside)
— 21st June 2012 (Peterlee W.)
— 7th November 2013 (Crook)
— 18th September 2014 (Crook)
— 23rd October 2014 (Burnopfield & Dipton; Evenwood)
— 7th May 2015 (Barnard Castle W.; Ferryhill; Sherburn; Willington & Hunwick)
— 20th August 2015 (Shotton & South Hetton)
— 29th June 2017 (Dawdon)
— 28th September 2017 (Trimdon & Thornley)
— 14th March 2019 (Wingate)
— 21st March 2019 (Esh & Witton Gilbert)
— 2nd May 2019 (Shildon & Dene Valley; Spennymoor)
— 24th February 2022 (Ferryhill)
— 14th April 2022 (West Auckland)
— 4th May 2023 (Chester-le-Street E.)
— 30th November 2023 (Dawdon)
— 2nd May 2024 (Horden)
— 4th July 2024 (Coxhoe)
Map of the results —Export spreadsheet
| Party |
Votes |
Percent |
Seats |
| Labour |
56787 |
46.0% |
94 |
| Independent |
16808 |
13.6% |
9 |
| Liberal Democrat |
11772 |
9.5% |
9 |
| Conservative |
10752 |
8.7% |
4 |
| UK Independence Party |
8467 |
6.9% |
0 |
| Derwentside Independents |
7911 |
6.4% |
8 |
| Wear Valley Independent Group |
3876 |
3.1% |
1 |
| Green Party |
2217 |
1.8% |
0 |
| FAIR and Independent |
1815 |
1.5% |
0 |
| Spennymoor Independents |
1483 |
1.2% |
1 |
| Ferryhill Association for Independent Representation |
866 |
0.7% |
0 |
| British National Party |
681 |
0.6% |
0 |
| Michele Hodgson |
Lab |
959 |
45.3% |
| Thomas Nearney |
Lab |
799 |
|
| Joan Nicholson |
DInd |
757 |
35.7% |
| David Walker |
DInd |
433 |
|
| Kenneth Rollings |
UKIP |
402 |
19.0% |
| Sarah Iveson |
Lab |
885 |
55.2% |
| Jeremy Hillary |
Lab |
732 |
|
| William Blenkinsopp |
Ind |
598 |
37.3% |
| Paul Gittins |
Ind |
456 |
|
| Lileen Cuthbertson |
Ind |
233 |
|
| Raymond Goodson |
C |
119 |
7.4% |
| Joan Gray |
Lab |
988 |
46.8% |
| John Clare |
Lab |
985 |
|
| Edward Dixon |
Lab |
884 |
|
| Sandra Haigh |
Ind |
660 |
31.3% |
| Marney Swan |
C |
461 |
21.9% |
| Catherine Hoppe |
Lab |
761 |
58.5% |
| Edward Adam |
Lab |
697 |
|
| George Gray |
Ind |
445 |
34.2% |
| Dorothy Bowman |
Ind |
274 |
|
| Brian Haigh |
Ind |
185 |
|
| June Croft |
Ind |
104 |
|
| Sally Symons |
Ind |
103 |
|
| Fane Murray |
C |
94 |
7.2% |
| James Rowlandson |
C |
991 |
48.6% |
| George Richardson |
C |
771 |
|
| Thomas Caygill |
Lab |
566 |
27.8% |
| Graham Young |
Lab |
562 |
|
| David Royle |
UKIP |
481 |
23.6% |
| Richard Bell |
C |
1395 |
59.4% |
| Barbara Harrison |
C |
1191 |
|
| Thomas Robinson |
Grn |
481 |
20.5% |
| Philip Hunt |
Lab |
472 |
20.1% |
| Matthew Burdess |
Lab |
321 |
|
| Patrick Conway |
Lab |
1498 |
38.5% |
| Katie Corrigan |
Lab |
1490 |
|
| William Moir |
Lab |
1300 |
|
| Eric Mavin |
LD |
1146 |
29.5% |
| Dennis Southwell |
LD |
1004 |
|
| Christopher Pattinson |
LD |
966 |
|
| Arthur Walker |
Ind |
707 |
18.2% |
| Christopher Gill |
Ind |
645 |
|
| Thomas Kaye |
Grn |
272 |
7.0% |
| Marc Krajewski |
C |
267 |
6.9% |
| Paul Jackson |
C |
237 |
|
| William Pinkney-Baird |
Grn |
222 |
|
| Stephen Robinson |
DInd |
1090 |
51.3% |
| Peter Oliver |
DInd |
915 |
|
| John Davies |
Lab |
761 |
35.8% |
| Brynnen Ririe |
Lab |
625 |
|
| Keith English |
LD |
274 |
12.9% |
| James Settrey |
LD |
167 |
|
| Samuel Zair |
WVIG |
861 |
37.0% |
| Joy Allen |
Lab |
615 |
26.5% |
| David Hunter |
Lab |
552 |
|
| John Gasston |
C |
442 |
19.0% |
| Alan Andeson |
LD |
406 |
17.5% |
| Michael Simpson |
Lab |
592 |
82.3% |
| Judith Webb |
C |
127 |
17.7% |
| Robert Crute |
Lab |
1151 |
57.0% |
| Lynn Pounder |
Lab |
1046 |
|
| Alan Cox |
Ind |
869 |
43.0% |
| John Turnbull |
Lab |
1396 |
68.8% |
| Paul Taylor |
Lab |
1384 |
|
| Maureen Smith |
LD |
403 |
19.9% |
| Jak Hocking |
C |
229 |
11.3% |
| Robert Alderson |
DInd |
760 |
41.3% |
| Ivan Jewell |
Lab |
701 |
38.1% |
| Joanne Carr |
Lab |
688 |
|
| David Marrs |
DInd |
510 |
|
| Reginald Ord |
Ind |
381 |
20.7% |
| Roland Hemsley |
Ind |
328 |
|
| Trevor Ord |
Ind |
257 |
|
| Lawson Armstrong |
Lab |
310 |
32.2% |
| Beatrice Bainbridge |
C |
285 |
29.6% |
| Graham Thorp |
UKIP |
229 |
23.8% |
| Maureen May |
Ind |
140 |
14.5% |
| Tracie Smith |
Lab |
853 |
75.0% |
| Philip Hall |
C |
148 |
13.0% |
| Lesley Cook |
UKIP |
137 |
12.0% |
| George Davidson |
Lab |
1047 |
48.3% |
| Katherine Henig |
Lab |
926 |
|
| Allan Bainbridge |
C |
528 |
24.4% |
| Fiona Fordham |
UKIP |
410 |
18.9% |
| Daniel Mayne |
C |
379 |
|
| Miles Fordham |
UKIP |
377 |
|
| Philip Nathan |
LD |
181 |
8.4% |
| Michael Peacock |
LD |
114 |
|
| Simon Henig |
Lab |
1171 |
71.3% |
| Linda Marshall |
Lab |
1126 |
|
| Kenneth Taylor |
UKIP |
335 |
20.4% |
| Samantha Robinson |
UKIP |
265 |
|
| Mark Nicholson |
C |
137 |
8.3% |
| Julie Watson |
C |
116 |
|
| Christine Potts |
Lab |
646 |
65.5% |
| Peter Davies |
Ind |
280 |
28.4% |
| Richard Child |
C |
61 |
6.2% |
| Owen Temple |
LD |
924 |
32.4% |
| Alexander Watson |
Ind |
765 |
26.9% |
| Sara-Jane Heslop |
Lab |
499 |
17.5% |
| Margaret Nealis |
LD |
491 |
|
| Clive Robson |
Lab |
473 |
|
| Mary Westgarth |
DInd |
408 |
14.3% |
| Joseph Bailey |
UKIP |
253 |
8.9% |
| Derek Hicks |
DInd |
306 |
53.6% |
| Malcolm Clarke |
Lab |
265 |
46.4% |
| Charles Kay |
Lab |
396 |
60.6% |
| Lesley Zair |
WVIG |
217 |
33.2% |
| Michael Gossage |
C |
41 |
6.3% |
| Abiodun Williams |
Lab |
1826 |
77.6% |
| Maria Plews |
Lab |
1737 |
|
| Janet Blakey |
Lab |
1536 |
|
| Miranda Jupp |
C |
264 |
11.2% |
| John Lightley |
LD |
264 |
11.2% |
| Edward Parson |
C |
244 |
|
| Benjamin Lewis |
C |
241 |
|
| James Walton |
LD |
209 |
|
| Adam Walker |
LD |
169 |
|
| Mark Davinson |
Lab |
995 |
55.2% |
| Carole Hampson |
Lab |
939 |
|
| James Lockie |
DInd |
488 |
27.1% |
| Andrew McDonald |
UKIP |
319 |
17.7% |
| Edward Murphy |
Ind |
771 |
33.0% |
| Edward Tomlinson |
Lab |
719 |
30.8% |
| Geoffrey Mowbray |
Lab |
691 |
|
| Lindsay Wright |
Lab |
642 |
|
| Ian Hirst |
Ind |
630 |
|
| John Winter |
Ind |
594 |
|
| John Bailey |
WVIG |
559 |
24.0% |
| Patricia Jopling |
WVIG |
476 |
|
| Marc Cowen |
WVIG |
450 |
|
| David English |
LD |
161 |
6.9% |
| David Halliday |
LD |
144 |
|
| Kenneth Godard |
LD |
124 |
|
| Joanne Yelland |
Grn |
123 |
5.3% |
| Katherine Machen |
Grn |
89 |
|
| Gerald Alken |
Grn |
88 |
|
| Kevin Shaw |
Lab |
1115 |
57.4% |
| Sonia Forster |
Lab |
993 |
|
| Robert Arthur |
Ind |
829 |
42.6% |
| Jean Chaplow |
Lab |
1753 |
56.9% |
| David Bell |
Lab |
1616 |
|
| Anne Bonner |
Lab |
1475 |
|
| John Wilkinson |
LD |
632 |
20.5% |
| Redvers Crooks |
Ind |
539 |
17.5% |
| Annette Crooks |
Ind |
424 |
|
| Shaun Easter |
Ind |
404 |
|
| John Kelley |
LD |
359 |
|
| Andrea Watts |
LD |
357 |
|
| Andrew Lloyd |
C |
155 |
5.0% |
| Benjamin Frost |
C |
151 |
|
| Theodore Lloyd |
C |
125 |
|
| Jane Brown |
Lab |
1066 |
64.7% |
| Robert Glass |
Lab |
776 |
|
| Lesley Richardson |
DInd |
581 |
35.3% |
| Edward Bell |
Lab |
972 |
78.7% |
| Jennifer Bell |
Lab |
920 |
|
| Steven Colborn |
Ind |
263 |
21.3% |
| David Stoker |
LD |
349 |
43.3% |
| Andrzej Olechnowicz |
Lab |
250 |
31.0% |
| Jonathan Duell |
C |
117 |
14.5% |
| Robert Shaw |
Grn |
90 |
11.2% |
| David Boyes |
Lab |
1026 |
57.3% |
| Angela Surtees |
Lab |
936 |
|
| Terrence Murray |
Ind |
521 |
29.1% |
| Martin Warin |
Grn |
244 |
13.6% |
| David Freeman |
LD |
572 |
36.7% |
| Richard Ormerod |
LD |
532 |
|
| Alan Hayton |
Lab |
450 |
28.9% |
| Peter Thompson |
Lab |
413 |
|
| Rebecca Coulson |
C |
193 |
12.4% |
| Sean Healy |
Grn |
191 |
12.3% |
| Jake Pentland |
Grn |
171 |
|
| Patricia Wynne |
C |
160 |
|
| Christopher Arthur |
UKIP |
151 |
9.7% |
| Joseph Armstrong |
Lab |
897 |
42.6% |
| Barbara Armstrong |
Lab |
865 |
|
| Arnold Simpson |
LD |
693 |
32.9% |
| Paul Guy |
LD |
636 |
|
| Rita Moralee |
UKIP |
410 |
19.5% |
| Susan Bell |
UKIP |
390 |
|
| Megan Roberts |
C |
105 |
5.0% |
| Pok Lai Leung |
C |
86 |
|
| Pauline Charlton |
Lab |
870 |
46.0% |
| Andrew Turner |
Lab |
655 |
|
| Anthony Hugill |
C |
529 |
28.0% |
| Graham Casey |
UKIP |
491 |
26.0% |
| Linda Raper |
C |
362 |
|
| Patrick McCourt |
Lab |
968 |
35.0% |
| Brian Avery |
Ind |
933 |
33.7% |
| Pauline Crathorne |
Lab |
867 |
|
| Charles Rand |
FAIR |
866 |
31.3% |
| David Farry |
FAIR |
850 |
|
| Melvin Brown |
FAIR |
833 |
|
| Craig Patterson |
Lab |
784 |
|
| Amanda Hopgood |
LD |
1628 |
36.0% |
| Mark Wilkes |
LD |
1590 |
|
| Frances Simmons |
LD |
1452 |
|
| Laurence Bell |
Lab |
1179 |
26.1% |
| Joseph Lennox |
Lab |
1140 |
|
| Aurelia Smith |
Lab |
1082 |
|
| Terence Moderate |
Ind |
714 |
15.8% |
| Colin Mortimer |
UKIP |
589 |
13.0% |
| Philip Wolstenholme |
Ind |
421 |
|
| Shaun Kennedy |
Ind |
265 |
|
| Alexander Humphries |
C |
237 |
5.2% |
| James Elliott |
Grn |
174 |
3.8% |
| Anne Murphy |
C |
169 |
|
| Amanda Taylor Aiken |
Grn |
147 |
|
| Daniel Stern |
Grn |
141 |
|
| Paul Stradling |
Lab |
1218 |
73.4% |
| June Clark |
Lab |
939 |
|
| Douglas Langan |
Ind |
442 |
26.6% |
| Dennis Maddison |
Ind |
432 |
|
| Oswald Johnson |
Lab |
1189 |
43.2% |
| Richard Young |
DInd |
876 |
31.8% |
| Janet Box |
Lab |
758 |
|
| John Harpin |
UKIP |
413 |
15.0% |
| Clive Taylor-Sholl |
UKIP |
340 |
|
| Christopher MacAllister |
C |
275 |
10.0% |
| Watts Stelling |
DInd |
1413 |
54.5% |
| Alan Shield |
DInd |
1147 |
|
| Liam Carr |
Lab |
976 |
37.6% |
| Estelle Spring |
Lab |
709 |
|
| Leanne Moses |
C |
206 |
7.9% |
| Alan Bell |
Ind |
1083 |
59.5% |
| Audrey Willis |
Ind |
889 |
|
| David Thompson |
Lab |
737 |
40.5% |
| Rita Carr |
Lab |
656 |
|
| Alan Napier |
Lab |
1305 |
76.4% |
| Joyce Maitland |
Lab |
1214 |
|
| Arthur Ord |
UKIP |
403 |
23.6% |
| Michael Walton |
UKIP |
376 |
|
| Nigel Martin |
LD |
1117 |
45.1% |
| James Holland |
LD |
1087 |
|
| Jonathan Elmer |
Grn |
642 |
25.9% |
| Stephen Ashfield |
Grn |
619 |
|
| Jonathan Lovell |
Lab |
471 |
19.0% |
| Jonathan Roberts |
Lab |
442 |
|
| Michael Smith |
C |
247 |
10.0% |
| Wendy Smith |
C |
228 |
|
| Peter May |
Ind |
540 |
47.5% |
| Sarah Gill |
Lab |
288 |
25.3% |
| Craig Martin |
LD |
259 |
22.8% |
| Lucille Nicholson |
C |
50 |
4.4% |
| Joan Maslin |
Ind |
348 |
36.6% |
| Mandy Thompson |
Lab |
334 |
35.1% |
| David Hawley |
FairInd |
270 |
28.4% |
| Alison Batey |
Lab |
1788 |
58.0% |
| James Cordon |
Lab |
1660 |
|
| Colin Carr |
Lab |
1422 |
|
| Stephen Black |
UKIP |
865 |
28.1% |
| Joel Shepherd |
C |
429 |
13.9% |
| Henry Spencer |
C |
394 |
|
| Henry Bennett |
Lab |
797 |
60.6% |
| Audrey Laing |
Lab |
728 |
|
| John Hardy |
FairInd |
518 |
39.4% |
| Susan Lewins |
FairInd |
516 |
|
| James Alvey |
Lab |
669 |
42.8% |
| Janice Measor |
Lab |
542 |
|
| Susan McDonnell |
FairInd |
534 |
34.1% |
| Karen Hawley |
FairInd |
509 |
|
| Ralph Liddle |
Ind |
325 |
20.8% |
| Mandeep Singh Thandi |
C |
36 |
2.3% |
| Heather Liddle |
Lab |
919 |
62.4% |
| Simon Wilson |
Lab |
911 |
|
| Bruce Reid |
UKIP |
348 |
23.6% |
| Michael Toms |
UKIP |
330 |
|
| Mark Watson |
C |
108 |
7.3% |
| Lynne Cowan |
LD |
98 |
6.7% |
| Laurence Ashwin |
C |
97 |
|
| Alexander Woodmass |
LD |
64 |
|
| Geraldine Bleasdale |
Lab |
748 |
50.8% |
| Susan Morrison |
Lab |
700 |
|
| Lynn Errington |
UKIP |
445 |
30.3% |
| Jeanette Strong |
UKIP |
400 |
|
| Derick Dixon |
C |
278 |
18.9% |
| Margaret Reid |
C |
209 |
|
| John Robinson |
Lab |
1166 |
46.2% |
| Rachel Lumsdon |
Lab |
939 |
|
| David Brown |
C |
864 |
34.2% |
| Rebecca Hagan |
C |
665 |
|
| James Seymour |
Ind |
493 |
19.5% |
| Stephen Guy |
Lab |
1084 |
48.4% |
| David Hall |
Lab |
1012 |
|
| Carol Woods |
LD |
710 |
31.7% |
| Maureen Wood |
LD |
645 |
|
| Andrew Sowerby |
Ind |
231 |
10.3% |
| William Halford |
C |
213 |
9.5% |
| Michael Fishwick |
C |
143 |
|
| Brian Stephens |
Lab |
1443 |
39.4% |
| Henry Nicholson |
Lab |
1294 |
|
| Patricia Pemberton |
Lab |
1104 |
|
| Graham Beal |
WVIG |
793 |
21.6% |
| James Huntington |
LD |
737 |
20.1% |
| Robert Ingledew |
Ind |
692 |
18.9% |
| Gareth Howe |
LD |
422 |
|
| Eunice Huntington |
Lab |
893 |
43.1% |
| Robin Todd |
Lab |
871 |
|
| Ivan Cochrane |
Ind |
686 |
33.1% |
| Karon Liddell |
FairInd |
493 |
23.8% |
| Kevin Thompson |
Spennymr |
1034 |
31.2% |
| Ian Geldard |
Lab |
950 |
28.7% |
| Patricia Lawton |
Lab |
911 |
|
| Elizabeth Maddison |
Spennymr |
877 |
|
| Benjamin Ord |
LD |
872 |
26.3% |
| Colin Nelson |
Lab |
868 |
|
| Amanda Molloy |
BNP |
271 |
8.2% |
| George Smedley |
C |
188 |
5.7% |
| Carl Marshall |
Lab |
1161 |
62.0% |
| Katherine Dearden |
Lab |
1064 |
|
| William Pye |
DInd |
455 |
24.3% |
| Alan Robinson |
UKIP |
258 |
13.8% |
| Valentine Taylor-Sholl |
UKIP |
180 |
|
| Olga Milburn |
Lab |
914 |
46.0% |
| Joyce Charlton |
DInd |
777 |
39.1% |
| Peter McLaughlin |
Lab |
753 |
|
| Thomas Pattinson |
DInd |
566 |
|
| Alan Errington |
UKIP |
296 |
14.9% |
| Jonathan Hart |
Lab |
399 |
45.0% |
| Anita Atkinson |
Ind |
220 |
24.8% |
| Ronald Grogan |
WVIG |
148 |
16.7% |
| Terence Batson |
Ind |
93 |
10.5% |
| Don Cameron |
Ind |
27 |
3.0% |
| Morris Nicholls |
Lab |
1801 |
75.6% |
| Lucy Hovvels |
Lab |
1692 |
|
| Peter Brookes |
Lab |
1654 |
|
| Edward Seath |
UKIP |
581 |
24.4% |
| Jean Seath |
UKIP |
510 |
|
| Barbara Graham |
Lab |
1024 |
42.3% |
| Neil Foster |
Lab |
942 |
|
| Richard Parker |
Spennymr |
449 |
18.5% |
| Peter Molloy |
BNP |
410 |
16.9% |
| Cherry Hudson |
UKIP |
302 |
12.5% |
| Christine Sproat |
Spennymr |
261 |
|
| Richard Coad |
C |
121 |
5.0% |
| Edward Rhodes |
LD |
115 |
4.8% |
| John Shuttleworth |
Ind |
1642 |
58.2% |
| Mary Savory |
Ind |
1536 |
|
| John Kirwin |
Lab |
983 |
34.8% |
| Christine Holt |
C |
197 |
7.0% |
| Ivy Wilson |
C |
142 |
|
| Robert Yorke |
Lab |
772 |
44.5% |
| Christine Wilson |
Lab |
682 |
|
| George Smith |
WVIG |
408 |
23.5% |
| Margaret Hopson |
UKIP |
349 |
20.1% |
| Alan Booth |
C |
204 |
11.8% |
| Edward Buckham |
Lab |
908 |
46.0% |
| Olwyn Gunn |
Lab |
870 |
|
| Matthew Todd |
WVIG |
731 |
37.1% |
| Kathleen Currie |
C |
334 |
16.9% |
| Margaret Mukherjee |
C |
152 |
|
| Robert Taylor |
Lab |
538 |
67.8% |
| Janet Higgins |
Ind |
256 |
32.2% |
| John Lethbridge |
Lab |
694 |
47.0% |
| June Lee |
Lab |
602 |
|
| William Neilson |
Ind |
315 |
21.3% |
| Florence Todd |
LD |
231 |
15.7% |
| Michael O'Neil |
WVIG |
159 |
10.8% |
| Winston Perkins |
WVIG |
152 |
|
| Jack Seear |
C |
77 |
5.2% |
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