2016 West Lancashire Borough Council election

The 2016 West Lancashire Borough Council election take place on 5 May 2016 to elect members of West Lancashire Borough Council in Lancashire, England.^[1] Following the 2015 local elections Labour Party (UK) took control of the council.^[2] A third of the seats were being polled during this election. Summary post election-

Political Composition after election: Conservative (Leader Councillor David Westley) 22 seats; Labour (Leader Councillor Ian Moran) 31 seats and Our West Lancashire 1 seat.

Ashurst

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gail Pamela Hodson	1011	72.3%
	Green	William Mason Rowan Gilmour	220	15.7%
	Conservative	David Jonathan Griffiths	168	12.0%
Majority			791
Turnout			1416	30.3%

Aughton and Downholland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Sam Currie	952	58.1%
	Labour	Thomas George Phillips	686	41.9%
Majority			266
Turnout			1657	36.1%

Birch Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Claire Louise Cooper	662	88.9%
	Conservative	William John Weingart	83	11.1%
Majority			579
Turnout			751	25.7%

Burscough East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Evans	760	58.4%
	Conservative	Robert Bailey	541	41.6%
Majority			219
Turnout			1322	38.7%

Burscough West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Andrew John Pritchard	912	62.7%
	Conservative	Leon Graham	542	37.3%
Majority			370
Turnout			1466	38.5%

Derby

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Our West Lancashire	Adrian Edward Owens	806	41.8%
	Labour	Liam David Blacklock	710	36.8%
	Conservative	Thomas Burton	339	17.6%
	Green	Heather Doyle	72	3.7%
Majority			96
Turnout			1936	38.4%

Digmoor

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin William Henry Wilkie	784	92.6%
	Conservative	Richard Henry Shepherd	63	7.4%
Majority			721
Turnout			870	29.1%

Halsall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maureen Kathleen Patricia Mills	313	43.5%
	Conservative	Doreen Joan Stephenson	289	40.1%
	UKIP	John Stewart Simpson Stewart	118	16.4%
Majority			24
Turnout			725	42.3%

Hesketh-with-Becconsall

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Paul Moon	578	63.4%
	Labour	Sally Josephine Hodson	333	36.6%
Majority			245
Turnout			930	29.1%

Knowsley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Adam Gerard Yates	1063	51.5%
	Conservative	Edward James McCarthy	744	36.0%
	Our West Lancashire	Peter Banks	174	8.4%
	Green	Gaynor Anne Pickering	85	4.1%
Majority			319
Turnout			2074	45.7%

Moorside

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Terence Aldridge	725	91.2%
	Conservative	George Ernest Pratt	70	8.8%
Majority			655
Turnout			802	30.8%

Rufford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Ian Gordon	472	71.5%
	Labour	Natalie June McCulloch	188	28.5%
Majority			284
Turnout			671	40.4%

Scott

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kevin John Wright	770	43.0%
	Our West Lancashire	Jane Thompson	640	35.7%
	Conservative	David John Meadows	300	16.7%
	Green	Maurice Henry George	82	4.6%
Majority			130
Turnout			1797	41.9%

Skelmersdale North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Neil Stuart Furey	856	89.7%
	Conservative	Susan Ingrid Janvier	98	10.3%
Majority			758
Turnout			963	32.6%

Skelmersdale South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Donna Marie Eileen West	1099	81.3%
	Conservative	Jenni Mayer	138	10.2%
	Green	Martin John Lowe	115	8.5%
Majority			961
Turnout			1360	28.6%

Tarleton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	John Philip Cairns	1077	67.4%
	Labour	Frederick Andrew Hodson	522	32.6%
Majority			555
Turnout			1632	35.7%

Up Holland

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gaynar Owen	1113	67.8%
	Conservative	Jane Houlgrave	529	32.2%
Majority			584
Turnout			1655	33.6%

Wrightington

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Carolyn Evans	668	53.5%
	Labour	Bernadette Green	432	34.6%
	Green	Julie Hotchkiss	148	11.9%
Majority			236
Turnout			1256	37.9%