# 2021 Hyndburn Borough Council election

A by-thirds Hyndburn Borough Council local election (postponed since March 2020, due to the Coronavirus outbreak), was held on Thursday 6 May 2021. Approximately one third of the local council's 35 seats fall up for election on that day.
This election, postponed for 12-months since 2020, took place at the same time as the regularly-scheduled 2021 Lancashire County Council elections and the rescheduled Lancashire Police & Crime Commissioner elections.

## Background

Before the election Labour had a majority of 25 councillors, Conservatives had 7 councillors, with 1 Independent councillor who had previously been a Conservative and had since resigned from that party and become an Independent, plus 2 Vacant seats where after councillor Stephanie Haworth opted to stand-down (in 2020) her seat was left Vacant (during the covid pandemic) and the other suddenly became vacant (in March 2020) following the death of long-serving councillor Tony Dobson, who had also originally planned to stand-down (in 2020).
* Hyndburn's Conservative MP, Sara Britcliffe was previously elected in 2018 to one of the St. Andrew's HBC-ward seats AND that vacated seat's postponed by-election is due to take place in May-2021
In this election, Labour was defending 10-ward-seats and Conservatives were defending 3-ward-seats. The winning ward-candidates will serve out only the last 3-years of a standard 4-year term in office, with those same seats coming up for re-election, in May 2024, 12-months prior to the next LCC election, in May 2025.
Candidates were also standing as potential Reform Party ward-councillors in Netherton, Overton, Rishton and St Andrew's. Candidates were also standing as potential Lib-Dem Party ward-councillors in Rishton and St Oswald's. A single Candidate stood as a potential Independent ward-councillor in Rishton. The Green Party did not stand candidates in any Hyndburn ward-seats and only contested LCC seats. There were no UKIP Candidates standing in any Hyndburn ward-seats, with just one such candidate for the Accrington North LCC-seat.
* Candidates standing for both a HBC-ward seat AND a LCC-seat – are tagged with "(& LCC)"

## Local Election result

Votes :
| Party | | Of total | Whole Council | | Of total |
| Labour | 6 | 46.2% | 22 / 35 | 7,831 | 47.5% |
| Conservative Party | 7 | 53.8% | 12 / 35 | 7,548 | 45.8% |
| Independents | 0 | 0.0% | 1 / 35 | 411 | 2.5% |
| Reform UK | 0 | 0.0% | 0 / 35 | 404 | 2.5% |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0.0% | 0 / 35 | 73 | 0.5% |
Reference: 2016 Hyndburn Borough Council election
NB: Four (of 16) Council wards, where seats were NOT be up for re-election in 2021, include the following wards – Clayton Le Moors, Huncoat, Immanuel in Oswaldtwistle and Milnshaw in Accrington. However, as there was ALSO an election previously scheduled for Lancashire's next Police and Crime Commissioner, polling stations in those other Four wards would normally ALSO have been OPEN to accept those ballots for a new Commissioner.
Previous Councillors who were looking to Stand-Down in May 2021 included – Stephanie Haworth (Lab-Overton), Jean Battle (Lab-Church) and Jeff Scales (Lab-Rishton). As well as the (Con) Barnfield seat, which became vacant in March 2020 when Councillor Tony Dobson died.

## Ward results
### Altham

Altham – Electorate 3,918 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Dominik ALLEN | 632 | 54.62 | 31.38 |
| | Labour | Steve BUTTON | 502 | 43.39 | −3.01 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 22 | 0.19 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 130 | 11.24 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,157 | 29.53 | 0.10 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |

### Barnfield

Barnfield – Electorate 3,284 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Caroline Elizabeth MONTAGUE | 594 | 51.34 | 7.88 |
| | Conservative | Danny CASSIDY | 545 | 47.10 | 0.17 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 17 | 1.47 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 49 | 4.24 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,157 | 35.23 | −4.63 |
| | Labour gain from Conservative | Labour gain from Conservative | Swing | | |

### Baxenden

Baxenden – Electorate 3,226 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Terence Keith HURN (& LCC) | 779 | 59.19 | 8.45 |
| | Labour | Kimberley Jane WHITEHEAD | 532 | 40.43 | 8.86 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 6 | 0.46 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 247 | 18.77 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,316 | 40.79 | 2.21 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

### Central

Central – Electorate 3,784 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Abdul Ghafar KHAN | 986 | 49.70 | −10.03 |
| | Conservative | Mohammed YOUNIS (& LCC) | 963 | 48.54 | 9.67 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 31 | 1.56 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 23 | 1.16 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,984 | 52.43 | 1.29 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Church

Church – Electorate 3,476 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Sajid MAHMOOD | 595 | 51.07 | 32.94 |
| | Labour | Clare PRITCHARD | 545 | 46.78 | −33.24 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 35 | 3.00 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 50 | 4.29 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,165 | 33.52 | 5.34 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |

### Netherton

Netherton – Electorate 3,385 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Noordad AZIZ (& LCC) | 745 | 59.74 | 8.79 |
| | Conservative | Peter EDWARDS | 417 | 33.44 | 5.12 |
| | Reform UK | Sarah-Kay Margaret FITZHARRIS | 70 | 5.61 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 15 | 1.20 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 328 | 26.30 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,247 | 36.84 | −4.84 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Overton

Overton – Electorate 4,796 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Michael John HINDLEY | 787 | 45.73 | 6.25 |
| | Conservative | Gareth Jason MOLINEUX (& LCC) | 698 | 40.56 | 4.62 |
| | Reform UK | Wayne James FITZHARRIS (& LCC) | 215 | 12.49 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 21 | 1.22 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 89 | 5.17 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,721 | 35.88 | −2.58 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Peel

Peel – Electorate 2,965 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Patrick SHORT | 503 | 65.58 | −3.61 |
| | Conservative | David ECCLES | 245 | 31.94 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 18 | 2.35 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 258 | 33.64 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 767 | 25.87 | −1.45 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Rishton

Rishton – Electorate 4,982 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Carole Anne HAYTHORNTHWAITE (& LCC) | 658 | 37.54 | 3.25 |
| | Labour | Jodi CLEMENTS | 620 | 35.37 | −6.19 |
| | Independent | Andrew Joseph HARRIS | 411 | 23.45 | N/A |
| | Reform UK | Ian ROBINSON (& LCC) | 39 | 2.22 | N/A |
| | Liberal Democrats | Adam John Thomas WALLER-SLACK (& LCC) | 20 | 1.14 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 6 | 0.34 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 38 | 2.17 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,753 | 35.19 | −0.52 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |

### Spring Hill

Spring Hill – Electorate 3,589 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Munsif DAD (& LCC) | 792 | 59.15 | −17.33 |
| | Conservative | Saghir HUSSAIN | 521 | 38.91 | 18.14 |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 16 | 1.19 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 271 | 20.24 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,339 | 37.31 | 1.60 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### St. Andrew's

St. Andrew's – Electorate 3,295 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Peter BRITCLIFFE (& LCC) | 550 | 52.38 | 7.60 |
| | Conservative | Steven Lee SMITHSON (*) | 372 | 35.43 | N/A |
| | Labour | Stewart Thurston EAVES | 364 | 34.67 | −19.23 |
| | Labour | Gayle Bernadette KNIGHT | 312 | 29.71 | N/A |
| | Reform UK | Jake Connor ALLEN (& LCC) | 80 | 7.62 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 6 | 0.57 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | PB: 186 | 17.71 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,050 | 31.87 | 0.69 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |

### St. Oswald's

St. Oswald's – Electorate 4,856 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Susan HAYES | 945 | 50.45 | 17.89 |
| | Labour | Glen Kevin HARRISON (& LCC) | 861 | 45.97 | 6.49 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Beth WALLER-SLACK (& LCC) | 53 | 2.83 | N/A |
| | ... | spoilt ballots | 14 | 0.75 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 84 | 4.48 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,873 | 38.57 | 3.26 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |