# 2015 High Peak Borough Council election

Elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held on 7 May 2015, at the same time as the 2015 UK General Election. All of the council falls up for election every four years and the control of the council changed from no overall control to Conservative councillor control.

## Election result

After the election, the composition of the council was:
* Conservative 23
* Labour 17
* Liberal Democrat 2
* Independent 1

### Ward by ward

High Peak Local Election Result 2015 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes |
| Conservative | 23 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 53.49 | 37.86 | 29,576 |
| Labour | 17 | 0 | 4 | -4 | 39.53 | 35.83 | 27,990 |
| Liberal Democrats | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 4.65 | 8.01 | 6,257 |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 2.33 | 5.87 | 4,583 |
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8.09 | 6,317 |
| UKIP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.36 | 3,405 |

## Ward results

Barms :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Rachael Quinn | 418 | 44.95 | −11.48 |
| | Conservative | Sebastian Brooke | 349 | 37.53 | −4.84 |
| | Independent | Simon Fussell | 155 | 16.67 | +16.67 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 69 | 7.42 | −6.65 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 930 | 63.50 | +26.25 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Blackbrook :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Caroline Howe | 1044 | | |
| | Conservative | John Kappes | 864 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Edith Claire Longden | 715 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Graham Hewitt | 517 | | |
| | Labour | Ruth George | 492 | | |
| | Labour | Phil George Forrest | 466 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2454 | 76.3 | +21.19 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Burbage :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Samantha Flower | 582 | 49.45 | −15.53 |
| | Labour | Jane McGrother | 320 | 27.19 | −6.22 |
| | Independent | Bob Morris | 267 | 22.68 | +22.68 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 262 | 22.26 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1177 | 71.8 | +27.16 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Buxton Central :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Matt Stone | 734 | | |
| | Labour | Jean Todd | 723 | | |
| | Conservative | James Johnson | 639 | | |
| | Conservative | Justine Linden | 540 | | |
| | Green | Susan Ledger | 340 | | |
| | Independent | Bill Fiddy | 281 | | |
| | Independent | Jonathan Davey | 261 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1984 | 58.9 | +14.87 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Chapel East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Jim Perkins | 658 | 52.76 | +17.76 |
| | Labour | Mavis Morrison | 350 | 28.07 | −2.76 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Brian Hallsworth | 125 | 10.02 | −22.96 |
| | Green | Tess Lomas | 102 | 8.18 | +8.18 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 308 | 24.7 | +22.68 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1247 | 69.5 | +22.65 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Chapel West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Stewart Paul Young | 1152 | | |
| | Conservative | Kathleen Sizeland | 1149 | | |
| | Labour | Jessica Cowley | 836 | | |
| | Labour | Timothy Ian Norton | 801 | | |
| | Green | Lucas Jones | 303 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Rayworth | 294 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2463 | 71.36 | +23.87 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Corbar :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Clive Johnson | 975 | | |
| | Conservative | Tony Arthur Kemp | 848 | | |
| | Labour | Claire Moore | 654 | | |
| | Labour | Martin Walter Thomas | 487 | | |
| | Independent | Linda June Baldry | 362 | | |
| | Green | Nicky Kierton | 205 | | |
| | Independent | Nick Watterson | 251 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2234 | 67.7 | +20.49 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Cote Heath :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Colin Boynton | 965 | | |
| | Conservative | Linda Grooby | 880 | | |
| | Labour | Lynn Stone | 648 | | |
| | Labour | Keith Edward Savage | 642 | | |
| | Independent | David Finney | 263 | | |
| | Green | Tony Pickering | 205 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2095 | 65.2 | +26.65 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
Dinting :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Jean Wharmby | 720 | 54.13 | −11.3 |
| | Labour | Benjamin Hopkins | 364 | 27.37 | −6.04 |
| | UKIP | Sylvia Hall | 128 | 9.62 | +9.62 |
| | Green | Stephen Bossett-Roberts | 113 | 8.50 | +8.50 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 356 | 26.77 | −5.25 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1330 | 78.6 | +21.66 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Gamesley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Anthony Edward McKeown | 716 | 80.87 | +23.77 |
| | Conservative | Thomas Brian Evans | 153 | 17.46 | +17.46 |
| | Green | Peter Allen | 93 | 8.50 | +8.50 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 563 | 58.04 | −5.37 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 970 | 56 | +28.1 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Hadfield North :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Ed Kelly | 549 | 52.09 | −6.52 |
| | Conservative | Marie Foote | 304 | 28.84 | −0.92 |
| | UKIP | Richard Moore | 189 | 17.93 | +17.93 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 245 | 23.24 | −5.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1054 | 58.7 | +23.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Hadfield South :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Robert Joseph McKeown | 992 | | |
| | Labour | Peter Edward Siddall | 883 | | |
| | Conservative | Ann Flavell | 841 | | |
| | Conservative | Stephen Dennis William Foote | 833 | | |
| | UKIP | Trish Boyle | 337 | | |
| | UKIP | Pat Ellison-Reed | 312 | | |
| | Green | Melanie O'Brien | 254 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2344 | 66.51 | +24.93 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Hayfield :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Peter Easter | 584 | 45.84 | +45.84 |
| | Labour | Dave Gates | 338 | 26.53 | +26.53 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Martin Jones | 187 | 14.68 | −31.07 |
| | Green | Karen Hunt | 145 | 11.38 | +11.38 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 246 | 19.31 | +10.81 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1274 | 76 | +22.08 |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Hope Valley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Sarah Helliwell | 1185 | | |
| | Conservative | John Walton | 1005 | | |
| | Green | Charlotte Nancy Farrell | 755 | | |
| | Labour | Sandy Lamont | 482 | | |
| | Green | Philip Taylor | 473 | | |
| | UKIP | Andrew Law | 329 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2463 | 74.7 | +18.84 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Howard Town :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Godfrey Claff | 1217 | | |
| | Labour | Damien Greenhalgh | 1199 | | |
| | Conservative | Paul Lomas | 715 | | |
| | Green | Robert O'Connor | 673 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2344 | 63.9 | +23.63 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Limestone Peak :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Daren Robins | 575 | 49.83 | −1.61 |
| | Labour | Jim Lambert | 306 | 26.52 | −4.29 |
| | UKIP | Graham Scott | 263 | 22.88 | +22.88 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 251 | 21.75 | +1.12 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1154 | 66.94 | +25.16 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
New Mills East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Alan Barrow | 802 | | |
| | Labour | Ian Samuel Edward Huddlestone | 723 | | |
| | Conservative | Matt Crompton | 495 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | David Burfoot | 346 | | |
| | Green | Dee Sayce | 264 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1971 | 62.27 | +25.73 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
New Mills West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Lancelot Edgar Dowson | 959 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Raymond George Atkins | 777 | | |
| | Conservative | Jeff Lawton | 639 | | |
| | Conservative | Josh Gaskell | 602 | | |
| | Green | Michael Daw | 583 | | |
| | UKIP | Paddy Ban | 358 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Alan Debes | 291 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2509 | 69.01 | +19.84 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
Old Glossop :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Jamie Douglas | 984 | | |
| | Conservative | Paul Francis Hardy | 880 | | |
| | Labour | Moira Cunningham | 767 | | |
| | Labour | Garry Parvin | 767 | | |
| | Independent | Chris Webster | 438 | | |
| | UKIP | Michael Perry | 332 | | |
| | Green | Margo McKenna | 270 | | |
| | Independent | Neil Johnstone | 195 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2760 | 73.3 | +34.72 |
| | Conservative gain from Labour | Conservative gain from Labour | Swing | | |
| | Conservative gain from Independent | Conservative gain from Independent | Swing | | |
Padfield :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Nick Longos | 649 | 49.54 | +6.68 |
| | Conservative | Peter James Kay | 635 | 48.47 | +7.55 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14 | 1.94 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1310 | 69.9 | +30.42 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Sett :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Anthony Ashton | 577 | 47.37 | −0.11 |
| | Labour | Sue Barrow | 423 | 34.73 | +34.73 |
| | Green | Michael John Shipley | 165 | 13.55 | −20.14 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Christopher Weaver | 109 | 8.95 | −8.8 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 154 | 12.64 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1218 | 74.9 | +24.81 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Simmondley :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | John Haken | 1152 | | |
| | Conservative | Julie Ann McCabe | 866 | | |
| | Labour | Graham Fox | 740 | | |
| | Labour | Stella Hutchinson | 685 | | |
| | UKIP | David Phillips | 420 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Ayshea Christina Garbutt | 247 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Murray Booth | 238 | | |
| | Green | Masha Bennett | 229 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2625 | 72.67 | +28.39 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
St John's :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | George David Wharmby | 557 | 49.47 | −9.7 |
| | Labour | Rob McKeown | 228 | 20.25 | +20.25 |
| | Liberal Democrats | Stephen David Worrall | 194 | 17.23 | −17.94 |
| | UKIP | Chris Boyle | 138 | 12.26 | +12.26 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 174 | 15.54 | −8.55 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1126 | 75.42 | +26.79 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Stone Bench :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | David Kerr | 1048 | | |
| | Labour | Fiona Sloman | 996 | | |
| | Conservative | Doreen Martin | 611 | | |
| | Independent | Aileen Warneford | 385 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1934 | 58.4 | +25.63 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Temple :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Emily Lilian Thrane | 760 | 54.13 | −10.24 |
| | Labour | Roger Lane Cooper | 391 | 27.85 | −5.57 |
| | Independent | Jean Luton | 131 | 9.33 | +9.33 |
| | Green | Catherine Crosby | 112 | 7.98 | +7.98 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 369 | 26.28 | −4.68 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1404 | 77.5 | +23.7 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
Tintwistle :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Patrick Jenner | 607 | 55.69 | +5.18 |
| | Conservative | David Novakovic | 308 | 28.26 | −20.45 |
| | UKIP | John Reed | 160 | 14.68 | +14.68 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 14 | 1.80 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1090 | 64.6 | +18.21 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |
Whaley Bridge :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Independent | John Arthur Thomas Pritchard | 1594 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | David William Lomax | 1446 | | |
| | Conservative | Andrew Fox | 1355 | | |
| | Conservative | Rodney Bruce Gilmour | 1271 | | |
| | Labour | Zara Clarke | 1156 | | |
| | Labour | Martin Thomas | 977 | | |
| | Labour | Andy Murray | 906 | | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Ray Wild | 772 | | |
| | Green | Iain Reynolds | 691 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3992 | 74.43 | +23.3 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | | |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
| | Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Conservative gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | | |
Whitfield :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Graham Nigel Oakley | 549 | 48.58 | −20.7 |
| | Conservative | Ian Baker | 324 | 28.67 | −7.51 |
| | UKIP | Murgan Kerr | 152 | 13.45 | +13.45 |
| | Green | Chris Cuff | 100 | 8.85 | +8.85 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 225 | 19.91 | −28.21 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1130 | 62.6 | +25.4 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |