2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election

The 2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections.

2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election

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All 56 seats to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
29 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
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Party Conservative Independent
Last election 35 seats, 40.1% 10 seats, 13.9%
Seats won 25 17
Seat change Decrease 10 Increase 7
Popular vote 17,132 13,448
Percentage 36.3% 28.5%
Swing Decrease 3.8% Increase 14.6%

  Third party Fourth party
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Party Labour Liberal Democrats
Last election 13 seats, 24.6% 2 seats, 4.7%
Seats won 13 1
Seat change Increase 6 Decrease 1
Popular vote 12,282 1,969
Percentage 26.0% 4.2%
Swing Increase 1.4% Decrease 0.5%

Winner of each seat at the 2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election

Council control before election


Conservative

Council control after election


No overall control

Results summary

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Election result

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2019 Staffordshire Moorlands District Council election
Party Candidates Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 42 25 3 13   10 44.6 36.3 17,132 –3.8
  Independent 32 17 9 2   7 30.4 28.5 13,448 +14.6
  Labour 34 13 9 2   6 23.2 26.0 12,282 +1.4
  Liberal Democrats 8 1 0 1   1 1.8 4.2 1,969 –0.5
  Green 10 0 0 0   0.0 5.1 2,416 +1.9
  UKIP 0 0 0 2   2 0.0 0.0 0 –3.3

Ward results

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Alton

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Alton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Hayley Plimley 320 66.5
Labour Jenny Lingham 161 33.5
Majority
Turnout 43.6
Conservative hold Swing

Bagnall & Stanley

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Bagnall & Stanley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Sybil Ralphs 421 70.8
Green Helen Stead 97 16.3
Labour Frances Naggs 77 12.9
Majority
Turnout 43.5
Conservative hold Swing

Biddulph East

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Biddulph East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jill Salt 482 50.5
Labour Kevin Jackson 453 47.4
Labour Connor Brady 374 39.2
Independent Gerald Adams 341 35.7
Independent Chris Perkin 328 34.3
Independent Ken Harper 199 20.8
Conservative Catharine Aberley 155 16.2
Turnout 21.1
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour hold

Biddulph Moor

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Biddulph Moor
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent John Jones 479 80.5
Conservative Pam Gregory 85 14.3
Labour Robert Whilding 31 5.2
Majority
Turnout 42.9
Independent hold Swing

Biddulph North

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Biddulph North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Tony Hall 885 64.6
Independent Jim Davies 878 64.1
Independent Andrew Hart 795 58.0
Labour Jim Bostock 364 26.6
Labour Denver Johnson 304 22.2
Green Ian Waite 253 18.5
Turnout 30.3
Independent hold
Independent hold
Independent hold

Biddulph South

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Biddulph South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats John Redfern 154 34.2
Independent Paul Barlow 144 32.0
Labour Dave Proudlove 89 19.8
Conservative Martin Graham 63 14.0
Majority
Turnout 36.7
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Biddulph West

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Biddulph West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Hilda Sheldon 873 72.0
Labour Nigel Yates 423 34.9
Conservative Ian Lawson 374 30.9
Conservative Oliver McGuinness 325 26.8
Conservative Stefan Trbovic 179 14.8
Turnout 29.8
Independent hold
Labour hold
Conservative hold

Brown Edge & Endon

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Brown Edge & Endon
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Linda Lea 653 48.4
Conservative Geoffrey Bond 558 41.4
Conservative Joe Porter 551 40.8
Liberal Democrats Louise Adams 405 30.0
Liberal Democrats Mark Delf 310 23.0
Labour Andrew Church 271 20.1
Green Alison McCrea 269 19.9
Labour Sam Chapple 197 14.6
Turnout 34.8
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats

Caverswall

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Caverswall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Paul Roberts 322 80.1
Labour Andy Darrant 80 19.9
Majority
Turnout 28.7
Conservative hold Swing

Cellarhead

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Cellarhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony McNicol 389 58.4
Conservative Barbara Hughes 342 51.4
Green Andrew Sharrock 259 38.9
Turnout
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Cheadle North East

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Cheadle North East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ian Whitehouse 372 51.0
Independent Phil Routledge 252 34.6
Independent Paulette Upton 175 24.0
Independent Julie Bull 158 21.7
Labour Martin Chadwick 125 17.1
Independent Alan Thomas 98 13.4
Green Rachel Fairbanks 65 8.9
Turnout 26.4
Independent gain from Conservative
Independent gain from UKIP

Cheadle South East

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Cheadle South East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Richard Alcock 448 52.3
Independent Peter Elkin 304 35.5
Independent Abigail Wilkinson 247 28.9
Labour Adam Drane 225 26.3
Conservative David Newport 196 22.9
Turnout 29.2
Independent hold Swing
Independent gain from Conservative Swing

Cheadle West

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Cheadle West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Kate Martin 468 45.5
Independent Ian Plant 422 41.0
Independent Gary Bentley 397 38.6
Independent Ron Locker 337 32.8
Conservative Stephen Ellis 334 32.5
Conservative Peter Jackson 251 24.4
Conservative Alan Banks 246 23.9
Independent Add Lees 196 19.0
Turnout 25.9
Independent gain from Conservative
Independent gain from Conservative
Independent gain from Conservative

Checkley

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Checkley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Mark Deaville 664 48.5
Independent Peter Wilkinson 626 45.7
Conservative Alan Hulme 557 40.7
Independent Sandra Peck 389 28.4
Conservative Paul McCormack 382 27.9
Green James Firkins 307 22.4
Labour John Palfreyman 287 20.9
Turnout 29.7
Conservative hold
Independent gain from Conservative
Conservative hold

Cheddleton

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Cheddleton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Michael Bowen 640 43.9
Conservative Mike Worthington 627 43.0
Conservative Sav Scalise 623 42.8
Labour Steven Proffitt 517 35.5
Labour Ian Dakin 441 30.3
Labour Mahfooz Ahmed 410 28.1
Liberal Democrats Geoff Preston 295 20.2
Turnout 34.0
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Churnet

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Churnet
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Elsie Fallows 491 52.6
Conservative James Aberley 458 49.0
Independent Ivor Lucas 405 43.4
Labour Paul Powner 175 18.7
Turnout 35.7
Conservative gain from Independent
Conservative hold

Dane

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Dane
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gill Heath 341 68.1
Green Mike Jones 160 31.9
Majority
Turnout 38.3
Conservative hold Swing

Forsbrook

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Forsbrook
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tony Holmes 707 60.1
Conservative Ian Herdman 652 55.4
Conservative Keith Flunder 578 49.1
Labour Joanne Darrant 557 47.4
Turnout 29.8
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative gain from UKIP

Hamps Valley

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Hamps Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Edwin Wain 524 84.7
Labour Neil Singh 95 15.3
Turnout 42.7
Conservative hold Swing

Horton

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Horton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Norma Hawkins 366 60.2
Conservative Bob Cooper 151 24.8
Labour Laura Robinson 91 15.0
Turnout 39.9
Independent gain from Conservative Swing

Ipstones

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Ipstones
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Linda Malyon 511 74.5
Conservative Dan Newton 175 25.5
Turnout 45.0
Independent hold Swing

Leek East

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Leek East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Pamela Wood 939 67.1
Labour Darren Price 500 35.7
Independent Brian Johnson 485 34.7
Labour Andrew Kidd 424 30.3
Independent Stephen Wales 388 27.7
Conservative Michael Howson 332 23.7
Liberal Democrats Roy Gregg 216 15.4
Turnout 35.5
Independent hold
Labour gain from Conservative
Independent gain from Conservative

Leek North

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Leek North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charlotte Atkins 731 62.2
Labour Lyn Swindlehurst 548 46.6
Labour Lytton Page 516 43.9
Conservative Dani Ogden 384 32.7
Independent Charlotte Lockett 361 30.7
Turnout 28.5
Labour hold
Labour hold
Labour gain from Conservative

Leek South

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Leek South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mike Gledhill 775 54.9
Labour Sue Coleman 654 46.4
Labour Keith Hoptroff 575 40.8
Conservative Jo Cox 445 31.5
Green Daniella Vickerstaff 352 24.9
Liberal Democrats Mike Ottewell 214 15.2
Independent Gail Lockett 182 12.9
Turnout 32.0
Labour hold
Labour gain from Independent
Labour gain from Conservative

Leek West

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Leek West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bill Cawley 714 53.0
Conservative Ben Emery 591 43.9
Labour Phil Taylor 560 41.6
Conservative Neal Podmore 494 36.7
Green Mark Sidebotham 382 28.4
Conservative Roy Molson 351 26.1
Liberal Democrats Lee Jagger 235 17.4
Turnout 36.8
Labour gain from Conservative
Conservative hold
Labour gain from Conservative

Manifold

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Manifold
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Teresa Riley 357 64.6
Liberal Democrats Claire Wolstencroft 140 25.3
Labour Jonathan Rowley 56 10.1
Majority
Turnout 38.4
Conservative hold Swing

Werrington

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Werrington
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative David Shaw 440 63.1
Conservative Ross Ward 404 58.0
Green Teresa Pattison 272 39.0
Turnout 26.8
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Changes 2019–2023

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By-elections

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  • 6 May 2021: Conservative gain (Stephen Ellis) in Cheadle North East following death of independent Ian Whitehouse.
  • 6 May 2021: Conservative gain (Peter Jackson) in Cheadle South East following resignation of independent Peter Elkin.
  • 5 May 2022: Conservative gain (Zenobia Routledge) in Cheadle South East following death of independent Richard Alcock.
Biddulph West: 19 January 2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Charlie Smith 364 50.5
Labour Dave Proudlove 288 39.9
Independent Neil Eardley 226 31.3
Conservative Rathi Pragasam 185 25.7
Independent Alistair McLoughlin 154 21.4
Green Ian Waite 61 8.5
Turnout 721 17.9
Registered electors 4,039
Labour gain from Conservative
Labour gain from Independent

A double by-election after the deaths of incumbent Conservative (Ian Lawson) and independent (Hilda Sheldon) councillors.

Changes of allegiance

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In May 2022, Norma Hawkins, Brian Johnson and Phil Routledge, all elected as independents, joined the Conservatives. At the same time, Michael Bowen, elected as a Conservative, left the party to sit as an independent. These changes gave the council an overall Conservative majority, having previously been under no overall control.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "District, Town and Parish Elections 2nd May 2019 - Staffordshire Moorlands District Council". staffsmoorlands.gov.uk. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  2. ^ Boothroyd, David (13 May 2022). "Post-election roundup". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 30 December 2023.