Warrington Parishes

[carolus]

I'm not very impressed by Warrington who appear not to have kept proper records of elections that happened just three years ago. On their website they only have the results of uncontested parish elections from 2021, without candidate descriptions (which they appear not to have at all). The only source for the various contested parish election results is the Warrington Guardian live blog.

So these are what I can piece together - it's a shame not to have the full picture as the Warrington parishes seem to have been pretty thoroughly party contested. I've tried to track the missing descriptions via the declarations of interest where possible.

Appleton

Cobbs & Hillcliffe - 3 LD*, 2 Con*, 4 ?*

Hillcliffe North - LD*

Thorn - 2x ?*

Byelection:

2023, Sep - Cobbs & Hillcliffe - LD 1400*, Con 424

2023, Sep - Thorn - LD 232*, Ind 110

Birchwood

Locking Stumps (4) - Con 543*, Lab 580*/468*, LD 331*/305

Chatfield - 2 Lab*

Gorse Covert - 2 Lab*

Oakwood - 3 Lab*

Burtonwood & Westbrook -

Old Hall (1) - Ind 599*, Lab 385

Burtonwood - 4x ?*

Westbrook - 9x ?*

Byelection:

2022, Feb - Westbrook - Lab 247*, Ind 246, Con 194

2022, Nov - Burtonwood - Lab 305*, Ind 259

2023, Mar - Westbrook - Ind 395*, Lab 238

2024, Feb - Burtonwood - Ind*

Croft

Southworth (6) - Con 525*/424*/411*/334*/328, Lab 358*/349*, LD 317

Culcheth & Glazebury -

Culcheth (5) - Con 1063*/972*/945*/901*/702, Lab 842*

Newchurch (3) - Lab 369*/366*/321*, Con 303/286/249

Glazebury & Mee Brow - 2x ?*

Grappenhall & Thelwall -

Grappenhall (8) - LD 1156*/1066*/768*/717*/691*/624*/609*, Con 930*, Lab 294

Thelwall (8?) - 8 LD*

Byelection:

2022, Sep - Grappenhall - LD 772*/718*, Con 319/277

Great Sankey -

Central (5) - Lab 1186*/1125*/1121*/1011*, Con 1014*/893/876, LD 724, Green 645

North (4) - Ind 1322*/1181*, Lab 1189*/1137*/1129/1038

South (4) - Lab 1584*/1180*/1119*/994*, LD 858

Liverpool Road - ?*

South West - ?*

Lymm -

North (6) - LD 1571*/1518*/1264*/1238*/1217*/1081*, Con 706

South (6) - LD 1409*/1270*/1183*/1167/1076*/989  Con 1157*/954/905, Lab 507

Penketh - 10 Ind, 1 Con, 1 Lab

East (5) - Ind 766*/738*/734*/705*/486*, Lab 288/261/259/238/228

West (7) - Ind 1041*/1023*/936*/910*/825*, Con 738*, Lab 556*/521/506498/463/462/396, [] 352

Byelection:

2022, Jul - East - Ind 343*/320*, Lab 190/179, LD 48

Poulton with Fearnhead - 11 Lab, 1 Con:

Bruche (5) - Lab 675*/607*/604*/573*/561*, Con 510/486, LD 205/183

Longbarn, Fearnhead & Cinnamon Brow (7) - Lab 1378*/1292*/1238*/1090*/1027*/1002*/897, Con 995*

Rixton with Glazebrook -

Rixton (4) - Ind 256*/254*/139, Con 188*/151*/141

Glazebrook - ?*

Stockton Heath -

West (12) - LD 1005*/997*/899*/863*/777*/746*/718*, Con 788*/694*, Lab 636*/607*/525*/485

East  - Lab*, LD*

Stratton - Con*, 5x ?*

Walton
Higher Walton - 2x ?*
Lower Walton - LD*, 4x ?*

Winwick -

Winwick (3) - Ind 342*/306*, Lab 303*/225/148

Houghton Green - 3x Lab*, ?*

Byelection:

2022, Dec - Peel Hall - Lab 46*, Ind 35

Woolston

East (6) - Lab 660*/651*/631*/569*/487, Con 571*/519*/502, LD 287

West - 3x ?*

Byelection:

2022, Apr - East - Lab 245*, Con 239*/216, LD 234/135

[The Bishop]

There may be more info on the relevant 2021 threads in this forum.

[carolus]

Feb 6, 2024 14:07:12 GMT The Bishop said:

There may be more info on the relevant 2021 threads in this forum.

Unfortunately not, as far as I can see.

[carolus]

Feb 6, 2024 15:25:37 GMT andrewp said:

Feb 6, 2024 15:16:52 GMT carolus said:

Unfortunately not, as far as I can see.

They are in this article, albeit in a not very lovely format

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19289715.warrington-parish-councils-election-results-2021/

That's the article I mentioned above - it contains all the contested elections, but not the descriptions for the uncontested ones (relevant as almost every parish seems to have had party candidates). A couple of the uncontested ones can be deduced from comments in the article.

I award marks to the Warrington Guardian for reporting, let alone liveblogging, the parish elections. I deduct all those marks from Warrington electoral services who seem to view that article as the canonical source...

[andrewp]

Feb 6, 2024 15:33:31 GMT carolus said:

Feb 6, 2024 15:25:37 GMT andrewp said:

They are in this article, albeit in a not very lovely format

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/19289715.warrington-parish-councils-election-results-2021/

That's the article I mentioned above - it contains all the contested elections, but not the descriptions for the uncontested ones (relevant as almost every parish seems to have had party candidates). A couple of the uncontested ones can be deduced from comments in the article.

I award marks to the Warrington Guardian for reporting, let alone liveblogging, the parish elections. I deduct all those marks from Warrington electoral services who seem to view that article as the canonical source...

Yes sorry, I noticed that it didn’t add anything more to what you have done a good job in collating after I sent, so deleted my post! 

[listener]

In 2021, Warrington posted only the Notices of Uncontested Election for the 20 uncontested elections on their website.

The Local Elections (Principal Areas) Rules do not prescribe that Notices of Uncontested Election should include descriptions. The Rules prescribe that the SOPNs (a stage common to contested and uncontested elections) should show the description. Unfortunately in 2021, Warrington did not publish the SOPNs for the uncontested parish elections, but jumped straight to the Notices of Uncontested Election.

In 2021, however, I did download the Declarations of Result of Poll for the 19 contested parish elections (which are complete with descriptions).

If someone tells this old dinosaur how to upload pdfs to this thread, I will post them here.

[carolus]

www.warrington.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-04/Statement%20of%20persons%20nominated%20-%20Parish%20councils%20-%20Election%202%20May%202024.pdf
www.warrington.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2024-04/Statement%20of%20persons%20nominated%20-%20Borough%20council%20-%20Election%202%20May%202024.pdf

Appleton - 8 LD, 3 Con, 2 Vacancy
Cobbs & Hillcliffe (10) - 5 LD*, 3 Con*
Hillcliffe North (1) - LD*
Thorn (2) - 2 LD*

Birchwood
Gorse Covert (3) - 3 Lab, 1 Con, 1 Ind
Chatfield (2) - 2 Lab*
Locking Stumps (4) - 4 Lab*
Oakwood (3) - 3 Lab*

Burtonwood & Westbrook - 7 Lab, 6 Ind, 3 Vacancy
Burtonwood (6) - 2 Lab*, 3 Ind*
Old Hall (1) - Ind*
Westbrook (9) - 5 Lab*, 2 Ind*

Croft, Southworth (6) - 4 Con*, 2 Lab*
Not sure what's going on here - there's only one ward on the SOPN and notice of election.

Culcheth & Glazebury
Glazebury & Mee Brow (2) - 2 Lab, 1 Con, 1 Ind
Culcheth (5) - 4 Con*, 1 Lab*
Newchurch (3) - 2 Lab*, 1 Con*

Grappenhall & Thelwall- 14 LD, 2 Vacancy
Grappenhall (8) - 7 LD*
Thelwall (8) - 7 LD*

Great Sankey
Central (5) - 5 Lab, 2 Con
North (4) - 4 Lab, 1 Ind
South (4) - 4 Lab, 1 LD
Liverpool Road (1) - Lab*
South West (1) - Lab*

Hatton (7) - 1 Con*, 5 []*, 2 Ind*

Lymm
South (6) - 6 LD, 1 Con
North (6) - 5 LD*, 1 Ind*

Penketh - 1 Con, 6 Ind, 5 Vacancy
East (5) - 2 Ind*
West (7) - 1 Con*, 4 Ind*

Poulton with Fearnhead
Longbarn & Fearnhead (5) - 5 Lab, 1 Con
Blackbrook (2) - 1 Lab*
Bruche (4) - 4 Lab*
Cinammon Brow (4) - 4 Lab*
Paddington (1) - 1 Lab*

Rixton with Glazebrook, Rixton (4) - 5 Ind

Stockton Heath - 8 LD, 4 Lab, 2 Con, 1 Vacancy
East (3) - 2 Lab*, 1 LD*
West (12) - 7 LD*, 2 Con*, 2 Lab*,

Walton
Higher Walton (4) - 5 [], 1 Ind
Lower Walton (7) - 1 LD*, 1 []*

Woolston
East (6) - 2 Con*, 1 []*
West (6) - 1 Lab*

I think that makes Appleton an LD gain, but hard to be sure.

[carolus]

Birchwood - 11 Lab, 1 Ind - Lab hold
Gorse Covert (3) - Lab 375*/280*/259, Ind 324*, Con 280
Chatfield (2) - 2 Lab*
Locking Stumps (4) - 4 Lab*
Oakwood (3) - 3 Lab*

Culcheth & Glazebury - 6 Con, 4 Lab - Con hold (?)
Glazebury & Mee Brow (2) - Lab 266*/231, Con 233*, Ind 165
Culcheth (5) - 4 Con*, 1 Lab*
Newchurch (3) - 2 Lab*, 1 Con*

Great Sankey - 14 Lab, 1 Ind - Lab hold
Central (5) - Lab 1311*/1271*/1209*/1069*/1027*, Con 640/508
North (4) - Ind 1602*, Lab 1460*/1386*/1043*/910
South (4) - Lab 1466*/1194*/1173*/1038*, LD 693
Liverpool Road (1) - Lab*
South West (1) - Lab*

Lymm - 11 LD, 1 Ind - LD hold
South (6) - LD 1568*/1296*/1206*/1158*/1098*/1098*, Con 823
North (6) - 5 LD*, 1 Ind*

Poulton with Fearnhead - 16 Lab - Lab hold
Longbarn & Fearnhead (5) - Lab 724*/696*/696*/683*/605*, Con 192
Blackbrook (2) - 1 Lab*
Bruche (4) - 4 Lab*
Cinammon Brow (4) - 4 Lab*
Paddington (1) - 1 Lab*