Home > 2022 > WiganA-Z of councilsDownloadsAbout the editorContact RSS updatesTweet this pageAndrew's Previews BooksDonate

Local Election Results 2022

Wigan

One-third of council up for election.

IndNwk = Independent Network
LeighAI = Leigh and Atherton Independents
WiganInd = Wigan Independent

Other results for Wigan: 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2018 2019 2021 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.)

Map of the resultsExport spreadsheet


Consolidated results — Wigan 2022

Party Votes Percent Seats
Labour 34421 52.6% 22
Conservative 17140 26.2% 2
Independent 4927 7.5% 1
Liberal Democrat 3631 5.6% 0
Independent Network 2332 3.6% 1
Wigan Independent 1469 2.2% 0
Leigh and Atherton Independents 1270 1.9% 0
UK Independence Party 231 0.4% 0

Abram

Carl Sweeney Lab 1240 50.4%
David Bowker Ind 812 33.0%
Stanley Crook C 290 11.8%
Graham Suddick LD 120 4.9%

Ashton

Anthony Sykes Lab 1281 53.4%
Paul Martin C 557 23.2%
James Richardson Ind 470 19.6%
Geoffrey Matthews LD 92 3.8%

Aspull New Springs Whelley

Ron Conway Lab 2025 71.7%
Paul Chapman C 798 28.3%

Astley Mosley Common

Barry Taylor Lab 1368 40.8%
Andy Brown Ind 1122 33.4%
David Stirzaker C 867 25.8%

Atherleigh

Debra Wailes Lab 1099 51.6%
Angela Roberts C 469 22.0%
Natasha Hodgkinson IndNwk 433 20.3%
Zoƫ Irlam LeighAI 127 6.0%

Atherton

Stuart Gerrard IndNwk 1518 51.4%
Julie Hilling Lab 855 29.0%
Quinton Smith LeighAI 306 10.4%
Paul Fairhurst C 274 9.3%

Bryn

Steve Jones Ind 1772 66.9%
David Aitchison Lab 691 26.1%
Sandip Tailor C 128 4.8%
Stuart Thomas LD 58 2.2%

Douglas

Mary Callaghan Lab 1457 75.2%
Michael Riley C 480 24.8%

Golborne and Lowton West

Susan Gambles Lab 1488 63.0%
James Geddes C 695 29.4%
Andrew Holland LD 180 7.6%

Hindley

Jim Talbot Lab 1304 58.7%
Marie Winstanley C 397 17.9%
John Skipworth LD 288 13.0%
Jordan Gaskell UKIP 231 10.4%

Hindley Green [Lab gain from Ind]

James Palmer Lab 1252 54.8%
Susan Atherton C 461 20.2%
Deborah Lloyd IndNwk 381 16.7%
Gary Skipworth LD 191 8.4%

Ince

James Moodie Lab 1143 68.8%
Allan Atherton C 518 31.2%

Leigh East (2) [Death of Anita Thorpe]

Shelley Guest Lab 1418 50.6%
Fred Walker Lab 1123
Trevor Barton C 734 26.2%
Stephen Gunby C 495
James Morley LeighAI 435 15.5%
Simon Brooks LD 215 7.7%

Leigh South

Charles Rigby Lab 1561 51.5%
Joshua Yates C 1143 37.7%
Christopher Noon LD 327 10.8%

Leigh West

Samantha Brown Lab 1566 61.5%
Tracey McClelland C 505 19.8%
Jayson Hargreaves LeighAI 402 15.8%
Sharron-Lee Honey LD 73 2.9%

Lowton East

Edward Houlton C 1995 53.0%
Garry Lloyd Lab 1770 47.0%

Orrell [Lab gain from C]

Dave Wood Lab 1387 45.4%
Michael Winstanley C 1353 44.3%
Neil Stevenson LD 313 10.3%

Pemberton

Paul Prescott Lab 1187 60.0%
Tony Porter Ind 355 17.9%
Jean Peet C 311 15.7%
David Burley LD 125 6.3%

Shevington with Lower Ground [Lab gain from Wigan Independent Conservative]

Vicky Galligan Lab 1307 43.6%
Gareth Fairhurst WiganInd 783 26.1%
Gary Robinson C 566 18.9%
Brian Crombie-Fisher LD 339 11.3%

Standish with Langtree

Judith Atherton C 1382 40.5%
Terry Mugan Lab 1346 39.4%
Debbie Fairhurst WiganInd 686 20.1%

Tyldesley

Joanne Marshall Lab 1755 66.4%
Gerard Houlton C 890 33.6%

Wigan Central

George Davies Lab 1588 56.3%
Cyril Pendlebury C 853 30.3%
Caroline Waddicor LD 378 13.4%

Wigan West

Phyll Cullen Lab 1542 62.5%
Ian Dyer LD 483 19.6%
Margaret Atherton C 442 17.9%

Winstanley

Clive Morgan Lab 1428 59.6%
Margaret Winstanley C 641 26.8%
Robert Stevenson LD 327 13.6%

Worsley Mesnes

Patricia Holland Lab 1363 60.0%
Danny Cooke Ind 396 17.4%
Michael Owens C 391 17.2%
Donald MacNamara LD 122 5.4%

Back to the 2022 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