# 2011 Bolsover District Council election

The 2011 Bolsover District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Bolsover District Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour Party stayed in overall control of the council.

## Election result

Bolsover local election result 2011 :
| Party | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− |
| Labour | 31 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 83.8 | 64.5 | 23,712 | +3.7 |
| Independent | 4 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 10.8 | 14.4 | 5,310 | -9.1 |
| Whitwell Residents Association | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 778 | -3.2 |
| Green | 1 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 453 | 0.0 |
| Conservative | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 11.9 | 4,381 | +11.9 |
| BNP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 1,123 | +1.1 |
| Barlborough First | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 423 | -3.3 |
| TUSC | 0 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0.0 | 0.9 | 346 | +0.9 |
| Liberal Democrats | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 247 | -0.6 |

## Ward results

Barlborough (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Eion Watts | 690 | |
| | Labour | Hilary Gilmour | 588 | |
| | Barlborough First | John Shaw | 423 | |
| | Conservative | Klara Jeynes | 286 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,987 | 46.0 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Blackwell (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Alan Tomlinson | 777 | |
| | Labour | Clare Munks | 638 | |
| | Independent | Dexter Bullock | 435 | |
| | Conservative | Suzanne Harkins | 278 | |
| | Liberal Democrats | Ian Cox | 247 | |
| | Independent | Paula Wilkinson | 226 | |
| | Independent | Leonard Walker | 104 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,705 | 44.5 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour gain from Independent | Labour gain from Independent | Swing | |
Bolsover North West (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Paul Cooper | 561 | |
| | Labour | Thomas Rodda | 528 | |
| | Conservative | Ann Marshall | 277 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,366 | 31.6 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Bolsover South (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Jennie Bennett | 787 | |
| | Labour | James Hall | 611 | |
| | Conservative | Nicholas Gray-Cowley | 351 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,749 | 59.1 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Bolsover West (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Keith Bowman | 661 | |
| | Labour | Rosemary Bowler | 628 | |
| | Conservative | Maxine Hunt | 222 | |
| | TUSC | Jonathan Dale | 174 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,685 | 36.9 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Clowne North (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Brian Hendry | 611 | |
| | Labour | Terence Connerton | 544 | |
| | Independent | Paul Hendry | 262 | |
| | Conservative | Malcolm Rowley | 217 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,634 | 33.1 |
| | Labour gain from Independent | Labour gain from Independent | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Clowne South (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | James Smith | 655 | |
| | Labour | Karl Reid | 600 | |
| | Independent | Allan Bailey | 454 | |
| | Conservative | Natasha Gray-Cowley | 250 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,959 | 40.8 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour gain from Independent | Labour gain from Independent | Swing | |
Elmton with Creswell (3 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Duncan McGregor | 1,211 | |
| | Labour | Rita Turner | 1,059 | |
| | Independent | James Clifton | 972 | |
| | Labour | Paul Colbert | 921 | |
| | Conservative | Derek Stiff | 258 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 4,421 | 41.4 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Pinxton (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Mary Dooley | 658 | |
| | Labour | Dennis Kelly | 608 | |
| | Independent | John Meredith | 330 | |
| | Independent | Cherry Drake-Brockman | 210 | |
| | Conservative | Kristie Matthewman-Know | 178 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,984 | 33.7 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Pleasley (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Pauline Bowmer | 828 | |
| | Labour | Ann Syrett | 615 | |
| | Conservative | Stephen Matthewman-Know | 401 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,844 | 42.6 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Scarcliffe (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Jennfer Wilson | 803 | |
| | Labour | Malcolm Crane | 711 | |
| | Conservative | Nicholas Sternberg | 297 | |
| | BNP | Martin Radford | 237 | |
| | BNP | Nigel Poynton | 185 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,233 | 42.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Shirebrook East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Brian Murray-Carr | 332 | 72.0 |
| | BNP | Gary Widdowson | 75 | 16.3 |
| | Conservative | Mark McKeown | 54 | 11.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 257 | 55.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 461 | 40.8 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Shirebrook Langwith :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Kenneth Walker | 571 | 80.6 |
| | BNP | Lesley Redding | 137 | 19.4 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 434 | 61.3 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 708 | 42.3 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Shirebrook North West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Stephen Fritchley | 330 | 54.2 | +7.0 |
| | TUSC | Raymond Holmes | 172 | 28.2 | −24.6 |
| | BNP | Paul Harford | 107 | 17.6 | +17.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 158 | 25.9 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 609 | 30.0 | |
| | Labour gain from TUSC | Labour gain from TUSC | Swing | | |
Shirebrook South East :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Andrew Anderson | 402 | 65.5 |
| | BNP | Nigel Shipman | 132 | 21.5 |
| | Conservative | Aidan Press | 80 | 13.0 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 270 | 44.0 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 614 | 40.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Shirebrook South West :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Independent | Alan Waring | 403 | 52.1 | +2.0 |
| | Labour | Hazel Ward | 249 | 32.2 | −17.7 |
| | BNP | Alan Brown | 74 | 9.6 | +9.6 |
| | Conservative | Frederick Newholme | 47 | 6.1 | +6.1 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 154 | 19.9 | +19.8 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 773 | 40.3 | |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | | |
South Normanton East (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Terry Cook | 647 | |
| | Labour | John Phelan | 597 | |
| | Conservative | Claire Gratton | 248 | |
| | Conservative | Michael Holmes | 228 | |
| | BNP | Brian Edwards | 176 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,896 | 32.4 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
South Normanton West (3 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Labour | Raymond Brooks | 906 | |
| | Labour | Susan Wallis | 824 | |
| | Labour | Graham Parkin | 765 | |
| | Conservative | Robert Sainsbury | 709 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 3,204 | 35.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | |
Tibshelf (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent | Raymond Heffer | 784 | |
| | Independent | Deborah Watson | 752 | |
| | Labour | Kathryn Salt | 620 | |
| | Labour | Anthony Trafford | 451 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,607 | 40.7 |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
| | Independent hold | Independent hold | Swing | |
Whitwell (2 seats) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Green | Duncan Kerr | 453 | |
| | Whitwell Residents Association | George Webster | 452 | |
| | Labour | Thomas Munro | 383 | |
| | Independent | Sandra Frow | 378 | |
| | Labour | Jeanne Raspin | 342 | |
| | Whitwell Residents Association | Vivienne Mills | 326 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 2,334 | 41.4 |
| | Green gain from Residents | Green gain from Residents | Swing | |
| | Residents hold | Residents hold | Swing | |

## By-elections between 2011 and 2015
### Shirebrook South West

A by-election was held in Shirebrook South West on 25 August 2011 after the death of the independent councillor Alan Waring. The seat was gained for the Labour party by Sandra Peake with a majority of 97 votes over the Green Party.
Shirebrook South West by-election 25 August 2011 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Sandra Peake | 200 | 47.8 | +15.6 |
| | Green | Ian Musgrove | 103 | 24.6 | +24.6 |
| | Conservative | Frederick Newholme | 72 | 17.2 | +11.1 |
| | BNP | David Key | 43 | 10.3 | +0.7 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 97 | 23.2 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 418 | | |
| | Labour gain from Independent | Labour gain from Independent | Swing | | |

### Whitwell

Whitwell by-election 23 May 2013 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Whitwell Residents Association | Vivienne Mills | 347 | 57.5 |
| | Labour | Frank Raspin | 256 | 42.5 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 91 | 15.1 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 603 | |
| | Residents gain from Green | Residents gain from Green | Swing | |

### South Normanton East

A by-election was held in South Normanton East on 14 August 2014 after the death of Labour councillor Terry Cook. The seat was held for Labour by Tracey Cannon with a majority of 173 votes over the Conservatives.
South Normanton East by-election 14 August 2014 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Tracey Cannon | 293 | 70.9 | +10.5 |
| | Conservative | Robert Sainsbury | 120 | 29.1 | +5.9 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 173 | 41.9 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 413 | 12.5 | −19.9 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |

### Bolsover North West

A by-election was held in Bolsover North West on 8 January 2015 after the death of Labour councillor Thomas Rodda. The seat was held for Labour by Susan Statter with a majority of 21 votes over the UK Independence Party.
Bolsover North West by-election 8 January 2015 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Labour | Susan Statter | 174 | 45.0 | −22.0 |
| | UKIP | John Bagshaw | 153 | 39.5 | +39.5 |
| | Conservative | Maxine Hunt | 60 | 15.5 | −17.6 |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 21 | 5.4 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 387 | 13.4 | −18.2 |
| | Labour hold | Labour hold | Swing | | |