User:HLE/Harper Green (ward)

Harper Green
CountryUnited Kingdom
Constituent countryEngland
RegionNorth West
CountyGreater Manchester
Metropolitan boroughBolton
Created1980
Named forHarper Green
Government
 • TypeMetropolitan borough
 • BodyBolton Council
 • LeadershipLeader and Cabinet
 • ExecutiveNo overall control
Area
 • Total1.21 sq mi (3.13 km2)
Population
 • Total14,478.[1]
UK Parliament constituencyBolton South East
WebsiteHarper Green

Harper Green is an electoral ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It elects three Councillors to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council using the first past the post electoral method, electing one Councillor every year without election on the fourth.

Together with Farnworth, Great Lever, Hulton, Kearsley, Little Lever and Darcy Lever, and Rumworth wards it makes up the Bolton South East Parliamentary Constituency.

Election results

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Elections in the 2010s

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Harper Green By-Election 16 October 2014
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Susan Haworth 1,176 50.7% −6.3%
UKIP Jeff Armstrong 777 33.5% +9.3%
Conservative Robert Tyler 282 12.2%
Greens James Tomkinson 38 1.6% −2.2%
Liberal Democrats Rebekah Fairhurst 28 1.2% −1.7%
Independent Joseph Holt 19 0.8% n/a
Harper Green By-Election 20 December 2013[2]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Asha Ali Ismail 744
Conservative Robert Tyler 325
UKIP Peter McGeehan 252
Green Kathy Sykes 60
Liberal Democrats Wendy Connor 53
Majority 419
Turnout 1,450
Labour hold Swing



Elections in the 2000s

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Elections in the 1990s

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Elections in the 1980s

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Harper Green Ward in North West England". Retrieved 15 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Asha scores double first in Labour romp". The Bolton News. 21 December 2013. p. 4.

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