Home > 2015 > WakefieldA-Z of councilsDownloadsAbout the editorContact RSS updatesPost this page to BlueskyAndrew's Previews BooksDonate
Short URL for this page: andrewteale.me.uk/0zv2

Local Election Results 2015

Wakefield

One-third of council up for election.

Yorks1st = Yorkshire First

Other results for Wakefield: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2016 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
By-elections for Wakefield (may be incomplete): 21st April 2005 (Horbury & South Ossett) — 21st January 2010 (Airedale & Ferry Fryston) — 7th July 2011 (Horbury & South Ossett) — 21st February 2013 (Castleford C. & Glasshoughton) — 28th November 2013 (Horbury & South Ossett) — 24th September 2015 (Pontefract N.) — 12th October 2017 (Stanley & Outwood E.) — 23rd November 2017 (Wakefield W.)

Map of the resultsExport spreadsheet


Consolidated results — Wakefield 2015

Party Votes Percent Seats
Labour 71701 49.0% 17
Conservative 38875 26.6% 4
UK Independence Party 26218 17.9% 0
Green Party 3744 2.6% 0
Liberal Democrat 2973 2.0% 0
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition 1627 1.1% 0
Yorkshire First 654 0.4% 0
Independent 580 0.4% 0

Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton

Jessica Carrington Lab 3437 45.7%
Don Marshall C 2081 27.7%
Mick Tetlow UKIP 1507 20.0%
Martin Roberts Yorks1st 493 6.6%

Airedale and Ferry Fryston

Yvonne Crewe Lab 4103 70.1%
Amy Swift C 1047 17.9%
Simon Addy Grn 706 12.1%

Altofts and Whitwood

Jo Hepworth Lab 4168 55.3%
Geoffrey Johnston UKIP 1715 22.8%
Anthony Hill C 1655 22.0%

Castleford Central and Glasshoughton

Tony Wallis Lab 4015 62.7%
Dawn Lumb UKIP 1590 24.8%
Eamonn Mullins C 798 12.5%

Crofton, Ryhill and Walton

Maureen Cummings Lab 3625 47.6%
Steve Ashton UKIP 2109 27.7%
Madalena Mestre C 1886 24.8%

Featherstone

Graham Isherwood Lab 4111 59.2%
David Sea-Borne UKIP 1512 21.8%
Rodney Williams C 934 13.5%
Karen Palmer Ind 382 5.5%

Hemsworth

Glyn Lloyd Lab 3856 61.5%
Penny Ashton UKIP 1568 25.0%
Philip Davies C 842 13.4%

Horbury and South Ossett [C gain from Lab]

Margaret Holwell C 2557 33.4%
Rory Bickerton Lab 2512 32.8%
Bob Dixon UKIP 1570 20.5%
Mark Goodair LD 660 8.6%
Richard Norris Grn 299 3.9%
John Vasey TUSC 65 0.8%

Knottingley

Glenn Burton Lab 4070 76.5%
Rebecca Norris C 1253 23.5%

Normanton

David Dagger Lab 3585 54.4%
Colin Wroe UKIP 1752 26.6%
Jean Molloy C 1251 19.0%

Ossett

Angela Taylor C 2977 36.6%
Don Hitchen Lab 2302 28.3%
Jonathan Cook UKIP 2058 25.3%
Tony Sargeant LD 457 5.6%
Lesley Kimber Grn 342 4.2%

Pontefract North

Pat Garbutt Lab 3398 51.7%
Nathan Garbutt UKIP 1422 21.6%
Chris Speight C 1375 20.9%
Rennie Smith Grn 286 4.3%
Daniel Dearden TUSC 97 1.5%

Pontefract South

David Jones Lab 3577 49.1%
Geoff Walsh C 3196 43.8%
John Gill TUSC 518 7.1%

South Elmsall and South Kirkby

Steve Tulley Lab 4889 68.3%
Jim Kenyon UKIP 1672 23.3%
Charles Scholes C 601 8.4%

Stanley and Outwood East

Clive Hudson Lab 3351 42.3%
Rachel Malyk C 2358 29.8%
James Johnston UKIP 1651 20.9%
Margaret Dodd LD 427 5.4%
Dave Byrom TUSC 129 1.6%

Wakefield East

Stuart Heptinstall Lab 3714 60.5%
Richard Wakefield C 1396 22.7%
Jody Gabriel Grn 518 8.4%
Mick Griffiths TUSC 313 5.1%
Steve Gilks Ind 198 3.2%

Wakefield North

Margaret Isherwood Lab 2666 42.6%
Annemarie Glover C 1495 23.9%
Keith Wells UKIP 1319 21.1%
Stuart Boothman Grn 395 6.3%
Adrian O'Malley TUSC 216 3.5%
Lucy Brown Yorks1st 161 2.6%

Wakefield Rural

Ian Sanders C 3381 38.3%
Jayne Wilby Lab 2614 29.6%
Ruth Sheard UKIP 1743 19.8%
Finbarr Cronin LD 590 6.7%
Miriam Hawkins Grn 405 4.6%
Sam Lynch TUSC 91 1.0%

Wakefield South

Monica Graham C 3577 53.3%
Darren Byford Lab 2121 31.6%
Mark Pedlar Grn 495 7.4%
David Currie LD 395 5.9%
John Sibbald TUSC 129 1.9%

Wakefield West [Lab gain from C]

Ryan Case Lab 2521 42.5%
Richard Hunt C 1714 28.9%
Ian Johnston UKIP 1324 22.3%
Brian Else Grn 298 5.0%
Neil Taylor TUSC 69 1.2%

Wrenthorpe and Outwood West

Charlie Keith Lab 3066 39.7%
Dean Ryan C 2501 32.4%
Brian Moorhouse UKIP 1706 22.1%
David Arthur LD 444 5.8%

Back to the 2015 list of councils.

Copyright © Andrew Teale, 2002–2024.
All text and images in this website are available for reuse and modification under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported Licence and the GNU Free Documentation Licence (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts).

All electoral data on this website are based on information kindly supplied by the relevant Returning Officer and are held for archiving, historical and research purposes in the public interest as provided for by the Data Protection Act 2018.

This website does not use cookies or collect any data on users.

This website can be accessed anonymously at:
ya63kyvm3fstfre3tpgjckcv7tzpbu5
wfx64ggqztks4e2sruav5wjad.onion

If this website has been helpful to you, please consider making a donation to support the work required to keep the Local Elections Archive Project going.

Comments? Corrections? Constructive abuse? Commissions? Cash donations? Email me: Email address here