Local Election Results 2017
Durham
Whole council up for election.
DInd = Derwentside Independents
NEast = North East Party
Seaham = Seaham Community Party
Spennymr = Spennymoor Independents
Other results for Durham:
2008
2013
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 |
48730 |
36.3% |
74 |
| Conservative |
27190 |
20.3% |
10 |
| Independent |
20177 |
15.0% |
13 |
| Liberal Democrat |
15740 |
11.7% |
14 |
| Derwentside Independents |
7670 |
5.7% |
7 |
| UK Independence Party |
4269 |
3.2% |
0 |
| Green Party |
3696 |
2.8% |
0 |
| North East Party |
3146 |
2.3% |
3 |
| Spennymoor Independents |
1942 |
1.4% |
5 |
| Seaham Community Party |
1643 |
1.2% |
0 |
| Joan Nicholson |
DInd |
871 |
45.6% |
| Jeanette Stephenson |
Lab |
812 |
42.5% |
| Douglas Carmichael |
Lab |
795 |
|
| Christine Bell |
DInd |
666 |
|
| Nicky Fernandez |
C |
227 |
11.9% |
| James Atkinson |
Lab |
707 |
37.4% |
| Sarah Iveson |
Lab |
670 |
|
| William Blenkinsopp |
Ind |
498 |
26.3% |
| Christine Duffy |
C |
347 |
18.4% |
| John Grant |
UKIP |
254 |
13.4% |
| Brian Haigh |
Ind |
179 |
|
| Helen Hanks |
Grn |
84 |
4.4% |
| Scott Durham |
C |
868 |
37.7% |
| John Clare |
Lab |
863 |
37.5% |
| Paul Howell |
C |
846 |
|
| Joan Gray |
Lab |
754 |
|
| Edward Dixon |
Lab |
675 |
|
| Dorothy Bowman |
Ind |
573 |
24.9% |
| Irene Hewitson |
Ind |
279 |
|
| Paul Symons |
Ind |
213 |
|
| Sandra Haigh |
Ind |
187 |
|
| Sally Symons |
Ind |
151 |
|
| Edward Adam |
Lab |
570 |
46.1% |
| Catherine Hopper |
Lab |
519 |
|
| Kenneth Robson |
Ind |
437 |
35.4% |
| George Gray |
Ind |
416 |
|
| Arun Chandran |
Ind |
276 |
|
| Marney Swan |
C |
229 |
18.5% |
| James Rowlandson |
C |
1389 |
53.0% |
| George Richardson |
C |
1292 |
|
| Emma Rowell |
Lab |
752 |
28.7% |
| Christopher Kelsey |
Lab |
644 |
|
| Thomas Robinson |
Ind |
478 |
18.3% |
| Richard Bell |
C |
1837 |
74.9% |
| Edward Henderson |
C |
1576 |
|
| Francis Roche |
Lab |
616 |
25.1% |
| George Smith |
Lab |
483 |
|
| Eric Mavin |
LD |
1604 |
32.1% |
| Katie Corrigan |
Lab |
1497 |
29.9% |
| Lesley Mavin |
LD |
1472 |
|
| Paul Finley |
Lab |
1292 |
|
| Stephen White |
LD |
1149 |
|
| Christopher Turner |
Lab |
1111 |
|
| Liam Bewick |
C |
841 |
16.8% |
| Arthur Walker |
Ind |
720 |
14.4% |
| Ian Kelsey |
Ind |
385 |
|
| Roger McAdam |
Grn |
342 |
6.8% |
| Stephen Robinson |
DInd |
1161 |
48.8% |
| Peter Oliver |
DInd |
1023 |
|
| Steven Wood |
Lab |
632 |
26.6% |
| Sylvia Peak |
Lab |
567 |
|
| David Kinch |
C |
341 |
14.3% |
| Claire English |
LD |
245 |
10.3% |
| Natalie English |
LD |
191 |
|
| Samuel Zair |
Ind |
692 |
34.7% |
| Joy Allen |
Lab |
640 |
32.1% |
| Aaron Bainbridge |
C |
498 |
25.0% |
| Nigel Bryson |
Lab |
483 |
|
| Lesley Zair |
Ind |
419 |
|
| Patricia Child |
C |
387 |
|
| William Neilson |
Ind |
283 |
|
| Daniel Davison |
Grn |
164 |
8.2% |
| Pauline Crathorne |
Lab |
351 |
45.5% |
| David Evans |
C |
212 |
27.5% |
| Deane Brett |
Ind |
209 |
27.1% |
| Robert Crute |
Lab |
1115 |
62.4% |
| Lynn Pounder |
Lab |
1041 |
|
| Thomas Eaton |
C |
412 |
23.1% |
| Stephen Franklin |
NEast |
259 |
14.5% |
| Jamie Robinson |
NEast |
240 |
|
| Paul Taylor |
Lab |
1339 |
60.3% |
| John Turnbull |
Lab |
1331 |
|
| Valerie Booth |
C |
464 |
20.9% |
| Laura Wilson |
LD |
417 |
18.8% |
| Denis Jackson |
LD |
368 |
|
| Ivan Jewell |
Lab |
844 |
35.0% |
| Joanne Carr |
Lab |
698 |
|
| Roland Hemsley |
Ind |
508 |
21.0% |
| David Marrs |
DInd |
478 |
19.8% |
| Elizabeth Minto |
DInd |
416 |
|
| Ivy Wilson |
C |
359 |
14.9% |
| Melody Sandells |
Grn |
225 |
9.3% |
| Beatrice Bainbridge |
C |
394 |
32.5% |
| Simon Mulligan |
Lab |
289 |
23.8% |
| Derek Morse |
Grn |
181 |
14.9% |
| Paul Evans |
Ind |
175 |
14.4% |
| Maureen May |
Ind |
71 |
5.9% |
| Stephen Rendle |
UKIP |
59 |
4.9% |
| Russell Haswell |
LD |
43 |
3.5% |
| Tracie Smith |
Lab |
678 |
54.1% |
| Clare Todd |
Ind |
270 |
21.5% |
| William Middlemass |
C |
222 |
17.7% |
| Philip Nathan |
LD |
84 |
6.7% |
| Paul Sexton |
Ind |
789 |
30.9% |
| Allan Bainbridge |
C |
766 |
30.0% |
| George Davidson |
Lab |
762 |
29.9% |
| David Moist |
Ind |
751 |
|
| Katherine Henig |
Lab |
718 |
|
| Daniel Mayne |
C |
637 |
|
| Liam Scanlon-Brown |
LD |
233 |
9.1% |
| Michael Peacock |
LD |
185 |
|
| Simon Henig |
Lab |
854 |
40.2% |
| Linda Marshall |
Lab |
749 |
|
| Mark Atkinson |
Ind |
611 |
28.8% |
| Ewan Marshall |
Ind |
454 |
|
| Graham Thorp |
NEast |
369 |
17.4% |
| Michael Gossage |
C |
289 |
13.6% |
| Christine Potts |
Lab |
622 |
68.1% |
| John Sandles |
C |
291 |
31.9% |
| Owen Temple |
LD |
1089 |
36.8% |
| Alexander Watson |
Ind |
913 |
30.8% |
| Margaret Nealis |
LD |
570 |
|
| Kevin Earley |
Lab |
557 |
18.8% |
| Benjamin Eckford |
Lab |
345 |
|
| Wendy Brown |
DInd |
226 |
7.6% |
| Alan Beaty |
C |
175 |
5.9% |
| Derek Hicks |
DInd |
395 |
50.8% |
| Jack Simons |
Lab |
267 |
34.4% |
| Raymond Goodson |
C |
115 |
14.8% |
| Charlie Kay |
Lab |
489 |
60.4% |
| Adam Zair |
Ind |
175 |
21.6% |
| Mark Watson |
C |
146 |
18.0% |
| Janet Blakey |
Ind |
1325 |
34.4% |
| John Dunn |
Lab |
1220 |
31.7% |
| Maura McKeon |
Lab |
1160 |
|
| Maria Plews |
Lab |
1123 |
|
| Anne Murphy |
C |
757 |
19.7% |
| Andrew Shuttleworth |
LD |
545 |
14.2% |
| Adam Walker |
LD |
322 |
|
| Mark Davinson |
Lab |
874 |
50.8% |
| Carole Hampson |
Lab |
831 |
|
| Katy Smith |
DInd |
374 |
21.8% |
| Kenneth Rollings |
UKIP |
221 |
12.9% |
| Graeme Whitworth |
DInd |
205 |
|
| Patrick Seargeant |
C |
190 |
11.1% |
| Gregory Coltman |
LD |
60 |
3.5% |
| Martin Williams |
LD |
60 |
|
| Anne Reed |
Ind |
1239 |
36.0% |
| Patricia Jopling |
Ind |
1022 |
|
| Andrea Hudspith |
Lab |
913 |
26.5% |
| Edward Tomlinson |
Lab |
893 |
|
| Daniel Cohen |
C |
776 |
22.6% |
| Maureen Stanton |
Lab |
667 |
|
| David English |
LD |
512 |
14.9% |
| Kevin Shaw |
Lab |
886 |
46.1% |
| Leanne Kennedy |
Lab |
812 |
|
| Robert Arthur |
Seaham |
710 |
36.9% |
| Kathryn Brace |
Seaham |
520 |
|
| Ben Cooper |
C |
209 |
10.9% |
| Robert Reay |
Grn |
117 |
6.1% |
| Jean Chaplow |
Lab |
1533 |
48.4% |
| David Bell |
Lab |
1502 |
|
| Marion Wilson |
Lab |
1340 |
|
| Jack Gilmore |
C |
644 |
20.3% |
| John Kelley |
LD |
529 |
16.7% |
| Janice Wilson |
Grn |
461 |
14.6% |
| Florence Simpson |
LD |
429 |
|
| Edwin Simpson |
LD |
426 |
|
| Nicholas Kasch |
Grn |
295 |
|
| Malcolm Clarke |
Lab |
798 |
41.3% |
| Jane Brown |
Lab |
776 |
|
| George McKay |
DInd |
672 |
34.7% |
| Wendy Smith |
C |
464 |
24.0% |
| Edward Bell |
Lab |
777 |
50.5% |
| Jennifer Bell |
Lab |
716 |
|
| Barry Taylor |
Seaham |
462 |
30.0% |
| Katie Murden |
Seaham |
432 |
|
| George Jackson |
C |
172 |
11.2% |
| Arron Gilbraith |
NEast |
128 |
8.3% |
| Terence Duffy |
NEast |
62 |
|
| David Stoker |
LD |
351 |
46.6% |
| Andrzej Olechnowicz |
Lab |
225 |
29.8% |
| Richard Lawrie |
C |
178 |
23.6% |
| Angela Surtees |
Lab |
885 |
48.9% |
| David Boyes |
Lab |
835 |
|
| Terence Murray |
Ind |
392 |
21.6% |
| Christine Holt |
C |
303 |
16.7% |
| Andrew Watson |
NEast |
231 |
12.8% |
| Richard Ormerod |
LD |
923 |
59.6% |
| David Freeman |
LD |
905 |
|
| Maureen Boettcher |
Lab |
335 |
21.6% |
| Francis Salisbury |
Lab |
284 |
|
| James Penston Raja |
Grn |
149 |
9.6% |
| Benjamin Glaister |
C |
141 |
9.1% |
| Patricia Wynne |
C |
133 |
|
| Arnold Simpson |
LD |
1320 |
55.4% |
| Michael McGaun |
LD |
1231 |
|
| Barbara Armstrong |
Lab |
659 |
27.7% |
| Joseph Armstrong |
Lab |
644 |
|
| Kathryn Whittaker |
C |
402 |
16.9% |
| Heather Broadbent |
Lab |
847 |
44.2% |
| Anthony Hugill |
C |
775 |
40.5% |
| Andrew Turner |
Lab |
668 |
|
| James Cosslett |
C |
657 |
|
| Alan Breeze |
UKIP |
293 |
15.3% |
| Brian Avery |
Ind |
1127 |
49.0% |
| Joseph Makepeace |
Ind |
834 |
|
| Peter Atkinson |
Lab |
806 |
35.0% |
| David Farry |
Ind |
740 |
|
| John Lindsay |
Lab |
731 |
|
| Laura Wayman |
Ind |
731 |
|
| Carole Atkinson |
Lab |
722 |
|
| Douglas Hutley |
C |
367 |
16.0% |
| Amanda Hopgood |
LD |
2491 |
57.3% |
| Mark Wilkes |
LD |
2459 |
|
| Frances Simmons |
LD |
2286 |
|
| David Gill |
Lab |
892 |
20.5% |
| Anne Bonner |
Lab |
768 |
|
| Joshua Morgan |
C |
695 |
16.0% |
| Susan Nelson |
Lab |
687 |
|
| Philip Heath |
C |
658 |
|
| Elizabeth Bromley |
Grn |
271 |
6.2% |
| Clare Galland |
Grn |
214 |
|
| Rim Hassen |
Grn |
212 |
|
| Ian McLean |
Lab |
748 |
44.6% |
| June Clark |
Lab |
673 |
|
| Mary Cartwright |
NEast |
461 |
27.5% |
| John Maddison |
Ind |
381 |
22.7% |
| David Hawley |
NEast |
265 |
|
| Douglas Langan |
Ind |
242 |
|
| Kathleen Currie |
C |
87 |
5.2% |
| Oswald Johnson |
Lab |
937 |
36.8% |
| Judith Considine |
Lab |
652 |
|
| Richard Young |
DInd |
642 |
25.2% |
| John Ingham |
DInd |
567 |
|
| Richard Coad |
C |
522 |
20.5% |
| Keith English |
LD |
242 |
9.5% |
| David Lindsay |
Ind |
203 |
8.0% |
| David Rolfe |
LD |
161 |
|
| Watts Stelling |
DInd |
1426 |
57.3% |
| Alan Shield |
DInd |
1275 |
|
| Liam Carr |
Lab |
732 |
29.4% |
| Donna Summerson |
Lab |
597 |
|
| Gaynor-Anne Taffurelli |
C |
331 |
13.3% |
| Alan Bell |
Ind |
1079 |
55.6% |
| Audrey Willis |
Ind |
824 |
|
| Anna Lavery |
Lab |
523 |
26.9% |
| David Thompson |
Ind |
510 |
|
| Lauren Anders |
Lab |
396 |
|
| Graham Fielder |
C |
339 |
17.5% |
| Alan Napier |
Lab |
983 |
45.7% |
| Joyce Maitland |
Lab |
836 |
|
| Thomas Young |
Ind |
604 |
28.1% |
| Brian Brown |
UKIP |
370 |
17.2% |
| Stephen Robson |
UKIP |
320 |
|
| Oliver Lewis |
C |
196 |
9.1% |
| Elizabeth Brown |
LD |
1192 |
40.8% |
| Elizabeth Scott |
LD |
1056 |
|
| Jonathan Elmer |
Grn |
948 |
32.5% |
| Sarah Thin |
Grn |
724 |
|
| William Halford |
C |
347 |
11.9% |
| Michael Smith |
C |
309 |
|
| Owen Edwards |
Lab |
274 |
9.4% |
| Maciej Matuszewski |
Lab |
272 |
|
| Stephen Ashfield |
Ind |
158 |
5.4% |
| Craig Martin |
LD |
743 |
52.3% |
| Peter May |
Ind |
464 |
32.7% |
| Saul Cahill |
Lab |
110 |
7.7% |
| John Middleton |
C |
104 |
7.3% |
| Karen Hawley |
NEast |
337 |
34.0% |
| Joan Maslin |
Ind |
296 |
29.9% |
| Barry Wilson |
Lab |
201 |
20.3% |
| Isaac Duffy |
C |
157 |
15.8% |
| Alison Batey |
Lab |
1846 |
45.5% |
| Colin Carr |
Lab |
1431 |
|
| Daniel Wood |
Lab |
1371 |
|
| Michael Botterill |
C |
1000 |
24.6% |
| Callum Redfern |
UKIP |
681 |
16.8% |
| David Revett |
Grn |
530 |
13.1% |
| Audrey Laing |
Lab |
586 |
46.4% |
| Henry Bennett |
Lab |
568 |
|
| Lee Cook |
NEast |
547 |
43.3% |
| Victoria Watson |
NEast |
531 |
|
| Jonathan Bayliss |
C |
129 |
10.2% |
| Susan McDonnell |
NEast |
736 |
46.9% |
| Karon Liddell |
NEast |
635 |
|
| James Alvey |
Lab |
623 |
39.7% |
| Lisa Alvey |
Lab |
549 |
|
| Aaron Lee |
C |
211 |
13.4% |
| Heather Liddle |
Lab |
1013 |
56.0% |
| Simon Wilson |
Lab |
952 |
|
| Graeme Hynds |
C |
403 |
22.3% |
| Michael Toms |
UKIP |
394 |
21.8% |
| Geraldine Bleasdale |
Lab |
634 |
38.0% |
| Susan Morrison |
Lab |
604 |
|
| Graeme Hepworth |
Seaham |
471 |
28.3% |
| Derick Dixon |
C |
468 |
28.1% |
| Adam Remmer |
Seaham |
438 |
|
| Margaret Reid |
C |
402 |
|
| Helen Reay |
Grn |
94 |
5.6% |
| David Brown |
C |
817 |
33.6% |
| John Robinson |
Lab |
800 |
32.9% |
| Rachel Lumsdon |
Lab |
733 |
|
| Melvyn Carr |
Ind |
479 |
19.7% |
| Gloria Wills |
Ind |
301 |
|
| John Gasston |
C |
293 |
|
| Alan Bell |
LD |
193 |
7.9% |
| James Seymour |
Ind |
168 |
|
| Timothy Illingworth |
UKIP |
144 |
5.9% |
| Christine Moore |
Ind |
119 |
|
| David Hall |
Lab |
1131 |
53.7% |
| William Kellett |
Lab |
1056 |
|
| Raymond Taffurelli |
C |
523 |
24.8% |
| Ellie Hopgood |
LD |
452 |
21.5% |
| Andrew Tibbs |
LD |
366 |
|
| Henry Nicholson |
Lab |
1172 |
30.4% |
| Brian Stephens |
Lab |
1129 |
|
| Shirley Quinn |
Lab |
1023 |
|
| James Huntington |
LD |
817 |
21.2% |
| Robert Ingledew |
Ind |
814 |
21.1% |
| Leonard Cockfield |
LD |
625 |
|
| Mary Gilbertson |
C |
587 |
15.2% |
| John Brigstock |
UKIP |
468 |
12.1% |
| Ivan Cochrane |
Ind |
808 |
42.1% |
| Eunice Huntington |
Lab |
738 |
38.5% |
| Alan Liversidge |
Lab |
695 |
|
| Christopher Hood |
Ind |
617 |
|
| Victoria Lincoln |
C |
268 |
14.0% |
| Christian Round |
LD |
103 |
5.4% |
| Kevin Thompson |
Spennymr |
1140 |
28.1% |
| Geoffrey Darkes |
Spennymr |
938 |
|
| Eizabeth Maddison |
Spennymr |
894 |
|
| Benjamin Ord |
LD |
824 |
20.3% |
| Ian Geldard |
Lab |
745 |
18.3% |
| Steven Jones |
Lab |
642 |
|
| Peter Molloy |
Ind |
601 |
14.8% |
| Rebecca Calder |
LD |
579 |
|
| Kathleen Griffiths |
Lab |
517 |
|
| Dean Ranyard |
LD |
517 |
|
| Alan Booth |
C |
362 |
8.9% |
| Richard Child |
C |
332 |
|
| James Hargrave |
UKIP |
258 |
6.4% |
| Mark Quinn |
Grn |
130 |
3.2% |
| Carl Marshall |
Lab |
924 |
55.3% |
| Lyn Boyd |
Lab |
919 |
|
| David Walker |
DInd |
496 |
29.7% |
| Mary Wilkinson |
DInd |
437 |
|
| Gary McCallum |
C |
250 |
15.0% |
| Joyce Charlton |
DInd |
929 |
43.5% |
| Olga Milburn |
Lab |
839 |
39.3% |
| Gordon Binney |
Lab |
800 |
|
| Colin Thompson |
DInd |
766 |
|
| Kevin Foster |
C |
274 |
12.8% |
| Julia Wright |
LD |
94 |
4.4% |
| Richard Manchester |
Lab |
433 |
46.7% |
| John Bailey |
Ind |
300 |
32.3% |
| Andrew Dixon |
C |
195 |
21.0% |
| Lucy Hovvels |
Lab |
1433 |
50.2% |
| Peter Brookes |
Lab |
1413 |
|
| Morris Nicholls |
Lab |
1392 |
|
| Clive Taylor-Sholl |
UKIP |
582 |
20.4% |
| Ilsa Graham |
C |
546 |
19.1% |
| Martin Jones |
LD |
295 |
10.3% |
| Elizabeth Temple |
LD |
231 |
|
| Neil Grayson |
Spennymr |
802 |
32.6% |
| Alan Gardner |
Spennymr |
775 |
|
| Barbara Graham |
Lab |
654 |
26.6% |
| William McAloon |
Ind |
635 |
25.8% |
| Neil Foster |
Lab |
624 |
|
| Linda Raper |
C |
367 |
14.9% |
| John Shuttleworth |
Ind |
1899 |
65.4% |
| Mary Savory |
Ind |
1717 |
|
| Robert George |
Lab |
509 |
17.5% |
| Peter Gilbertson |
C |
495 |
17.1% |
| Alan Myers |
Lab |
358 |
|
| Robert Yorke |
Lab |
808 |
42.8% |
| Christine Wilson |
Lab |
759 |
|
| Mark Roberts |
C |
585 |
31.0% |
| Victor Thompson |
C |
359 |
|
| Alexander Tighe |
Ind |
254 |
13.5% |
| Lee-James Harris |
UKIP |
239 |
12.7% |
| Fraser Tinsley |
Lab |
1086 |
53.4% |
| Olwyn Gunn |
Lab |
1069 |
|
| Helen Hannar |
C |
629 |
30.9% |
| Samuel Richardson |
LD |
318 |
15.6% |
| Robert Taylor |
Lab |
577 |
73.7% |
| Greta Pike |
C |
107 |
13.7% |
| Stephen Miles |
NEast |
78 |
10.0% |
| Cameron Lord |
LD |
21 |
2.7% |
| John Lethbridge |
Lab |
765 |
52.1% |
| Tanya Tucker |
Lab |
594 |
|
| Nichola Thompson |
C |
396 |
27.0% |
| Colin Race |
UKIP |
306 |
20.9% |
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