2013 Lancashire County Council election

Lancashire County Council election, 2013
All 84 seats to Lancashire County Council; 43 seats needed for a majority
	Map showing the results of the 2013 Lancashire County Council election.
Council control before election; Conservative;	Council control after election ; No Overall Control;

An election to Lancashire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. 84 councillors were elected from single-member electoral divisions by first-past-the-post for a four-year term of office. Electoral divisions were the same as those at the previous election in 2009. Elections were held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside. The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council, instead overtaken in number of seats by the Labour Party, without any absolute majority.

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections,^[1] although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.^[2]

Summary

	Burnley	Chorley	Fylde	Hyndburn	Lancaster	Pendle	Preston	Ribble Valley	Rossendale	South Ribble	West Lancashire	Wyre	Total
Labour	4	4	0	5	5	2	6	0	3	3	5	2	39
Conservative	0	3	4	1	4	2	3	4	2	4	3	5	35
Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	6
Green	0	0	0	0	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	1
Independent	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3

Results

Burnley

Seat	Result	Majority
Burnley Central East	Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat	1,347
Burnley Central West	Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat	7
Burnley North East	Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat	1,029
Burnley Rural	Liberal Democrat hold	206
Burnley South West	Liberal Democrat hold	136
Padiham and Burnley West	Labour GAIN from British National Party	954

Chorley

Seat	Result	Majority
Chorley East	Labour hold	1,127
Chorley North	Conservative hold	184
Chorley Rural East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	556
Chorley Rural North	Conservative hold	123
Chorley Rural West	Conservative hold	438
Chorley South	Labour GAIN from Conservative	947
Chorley West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	609

Fylde

Seat	Result	Majority
Fylde East	Independent hold	1,353
Fylde South	Conservative hold	522
Fylde West	Independent hold	415
Lytham	Conservative hold	873
St Annes North	Conservative GAIN from Liberal Democrat	207
St Annes South	Conservative hold	541

Hyndburn

Seat	Result	Majority
Accrington North	Labour GAIN from Independent	243
Accrington South	Labour hold	158
Accrington West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	919
Great Harwood	Labour hold	390
Oswaldtwistle	Conservative hold	441
Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors	Labour hold	1,108

Lancaster

Seat	Result	Majority
Heysham	Conservative hold	52
Lancaster Central	Green hold	340
Lancaster East	Labour GAIN from Green	115
Lancaster Rural East	Conservative hold	995
Lancaster Rural North	Conservative hold	527
Lancaster South East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	247
Morecambe North	Conservative hold	561
Morecambe South	Labour GAIN from Conservative	84
Morecambe West	Labour hold	65
Skerton	Labour hold	678

Pendle

Seat	Result	Majority
Brierfield and Nelson North	Labour hold	1,560
Nelson South	Labour hold	1,113
Pendle Central	Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative	191
Pendle East	Conservative hold	944
Pendle West	Conservative hold	619
West Craven	Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative	179

Preston

Seat	Result	Majority
Preston Central North	Labour hold	1,795
Preston Central South	Labour hold	1,187
Preston City	Labour hold	1,265
Preston East	Labour hold	947
Preston North	Conservative hold	957
Preston North East	Conservative hold	161
Preston North West	Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat	449
Preston Rural	Conservative hold	1,295
Preston South East	Labour hold	1,346
Preston West	Liberal Democrat hold	184

Ribble Valley

Seat	Result	Majority
Clitheroe	Conservative GAIN from Liberal Democrat	45
Longridge with Bowland	Conservative hold	1,306
Ribble Valley North East	Conservative hold	1,125
Ribble Valley South West	Conservative hold	1,564

Rossendale

Seat	Result	Majority
Rossendale East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	133
Rossendale North	Labour GAIN from Conservative	254
Rossendale South	Conservative hold	162
Rossendale West	Conservative hold	32
Whitworth	Labour GAIN from Conservative	407

South Ribble

Seat	Result	Majority
Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale	Labour GAIN from Conservative	31
Farington	Conservative hold	22
Leyland Central	Labour GAIN from Conservative	341
Leyland South West	Conservative hold	212
Penwortham North	Liberal Democrat hold	459
Penwortham South	Labour GAIN from Conservative	187
South Ribble Rural East	Conservative GAIN from Idle Toad	672
South Ribble Rural West	Conservative hold	957

West Lancashire

Seat	Result	Majority
Ormskirk West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	318
Skelmersdale Central	Labour hold	1,553
Skelmersdale East	Labour GAIN from Conservative	648
Skelmersdale West	Labour hold	1,809
West Lancashire East	Conservative hold	630
West Lancashire North	Conservative hold	1,019
West Lancashire South	Conservative hold	594
West Lancashire West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	292

Wyre

Seat	Result	Majority
Amounderness	Conservative hold	664
Fleetwood East	Labour hold	760
Fleetwood West	Labour GAIN from Conservative	459
Garstang	Independent GAIN from Conservative	61
Poulton-le-Fylde	Conservative hold	1,091
Thornton-Cleveleys Central	Conservative hold	312
Thornton-Cleveleys North	Conservative hold	310
Wyreside	Conservative hold	1,869

References

^ "The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006, Schedule Part 1". Legislation.gov.uk. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^ "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

Preceded by Lancashire County Council election, 2009	Lancashire County Council elections	Succeeded by Lancashire County Council election, 2017

[1] "The Representation of the People (Form of Canvass) (England and Wales) Regulations 2006, Schedule Part 1". Legislation.gov.uk. 13 October 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

[2] "I have two homes. Can I register at both addresses?". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

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