2011 North Warwickshire Borough Council election

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2011 North Warwickshire Borough Council election
  2007 5 May 2011 2015  

All 35 seats to North Warwickshire Borough Council
18 seats needed for a majority
Turnout43.7% Increase2.svg 4.9 pp
 First partySecond party
  No image wide.svg No image wide.svg
Party Labour Conservative
Seats before1520
Seats after1817
Seat changeIncrease2.svg3Decrease2.svg3
Popular vote9,74810,021
Percentage47.7%49.0%
SwingIncrease2.svg9.7%Decrease2.svg0.4%

North Warwickshire UK ward map 2011.svg
Results of the 2011 North Warwickshire Borough council election. Conservatives in blue and Labour in red.

North Warwickshire Borough Council 2011.svg
Composition of the council after the election.

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

Labour

Elections to North Warwickshire District Council were held on Thursday 5 May 2011.

Contents

A total of 35 seats were up for election, all councillors from all wards. The previous election produced a majority for the Conservative Party. [1]

Election result

These elections saw Labour narrowly win with a majority of just one seat but losing the overall popular vote to the Conservatives. The number of close results in so many wards perhaps is the reason for this.

The Conservatives lost four seats at these elections, in the following wards.

The number of seats could have flipped the other way if the Conservatives managed to have won in Atherstone North, where both of the Conservative candidates received 522 votes, which was 32 votes behind taking the second seat in that ward, which bizarrely wasn't one of the four seats the Conservatives lost at these elections. Even more astonishingly, Atherstone North had never elected a Conservative councillor in the entirety of the borough council's existence, and would not do so until the following elections in 2015, which coincided with the North Warwickshire parliamentary constituency, which incorporates all of the North Warwickshire borough except for 2 wards (Arley & Whitacre and Hartshill), as well as five Nuneaton and Bedworth wards (Bede, Exhall, Heath, Poplar, and Slough) being held by the Conservatives with an increased majority at the general election on the same day. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Ward results

Arley and Whitacre Ward (3 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Karen Barber852
Conservative Pam Coton730
Conservative Carol Fox788
Independent Richard John Hancocks252
Labour Sharon Jane Moss770
Labour Harry Thomas George Taylor770
Labour Nigel Ivor Turley823
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Atherstone Central Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Denise Sandra Clews
Labour Lorna Elizabeth Dirveiks
Labour Neil Adrian David Dirveiks
Conservative Tony Wright
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Atherstone North Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Gill Davis
Labour Anne Forwood
Labour Derek Nicholas Alfred Pickard
Conservative Martin George Shaw
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Atherstone South and Mancetter Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Martin Cyril Davis
Conservative Lorraine Freer
Labour Ray Jarvis
Labour Ceri Short
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Baddesley and Grendon Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Margaret Anne Manley
Labour John Sidney Moore
Conservative Mel Smith
Labour Ray Sweet
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Coleshill North Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Jeremy Bowden
Labour Adam Joseph Farrell
Labour Dominic Charles Ferro
Conservative Peter John Fowler
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Coleshill South Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Christopher David Bain
Labour Claire Breeze
Conservative Gordon James Thomas Sherratt
Conservative Andrew Watkins
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing
Curdworth Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Celia Banner
Labour Mike Banner
Conservative Joan Lea
Conservative Mark Simpson
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Dordon Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
UKIP Steve Fowler
Conservative Dave Hanratty
Conservative Sue Hanratty
Labour Peter Frank Morson
Labour John George Winter
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Fillongley Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Roger Ball
Conservative Colin Charles Hayfield
Labour Mary Phillips
Conservative Leslie John Smith
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Hartshill Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Kath Johnston
Labour Carmel Mary Morson
Labour Kieren Luke Moss
Conservative Tim Wykes
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing
Hurley and Wood End Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Richard Freer
Labour Ann Lewis
Independent Tony Moppett
Labour Hayden Albert Phillips
Conservative Howard Smith
Independent Ian Frederick Thomas
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing
Kingsbury Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Independent Carol Ann Ayasamy
Independent Andrew Roy Jenns
Conservative Dave Moffatt
Labour Brian Peter Moss
Labour Margaret Ceridwen Moss
Conservative Stuart Swan
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing
Newton Regis and Warton Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative David John Humphreys
Conservative Tilly May
Labour Owen George Phillips
Labour Eleanor Mary Pugh
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Polesworth East Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Karen Marie Mercer-West
Conservative Colin Walter Peat
Labour Mick Stanley
Labour Yvette Karen Stanley
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Polesworth West Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Dave Butcher
Conservative Lee Clarke
Conservative Wendy Christine Smitten
Labour Alison Helen Stanley
Majority
Turnout
Swing
Water Orton Ward (2 Councillors)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labour Tom Foley
Labour Dan Hodkinson
Conservative Allan Francis Holland
Conservative Ray Pyne
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

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