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The2023 Stafford Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect members ofStafford Borough Council inStaffordshire, England. This was on the same day as otherlocal elections across England.
The council remained underno overall control, but went from being run by a Conservative minority administration to being run by a coalition of Labour, local party the Stafford Borough Independents, and the Greens.
The council had been under no overall control prior to the election, being run by a Conservative minority administration. The Conservatives had won a majority of the seats at the previous election in 2019, but lost their majority in March 2022 when two councillors left the party to sit as independents.[3] Shortly before the election, eight of the nine independent councillors registered as a newlocalist party called the Stafford Borough Independents.[4][5][6]
The council remained under no overall control after the election. The Conservative leader of the council, Patrick Farrington, lost his seat.[7] The Labour group leader, Aidan Godfrey, was appointed the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 13 May 2023 with support from the Greens and Stafford Borough Independents, with those three parties each taking positions on the council's cabinet.[8]
The overall results were:[9]
| 2023 Stafford Borough Council election | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidates | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
| Conservative | 39 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 35.0 | 36.1 | 20,843 | –12.4 | ||
| Labour | 32 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 32.5 | 29.1 | 16,764 | +1.9 | ||
| Stafford Ind. | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 10,094 | N/A | ||
| Green | 24 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 7,704 | +10.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1,417 | +1.6 | ||
| Reform | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 777 | N/A | ||
| Independent | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 107 | –14.5 | ||
The Statement of Persons Nominated, which details the candidates standing in each ward, was released by Stafford Borough Council following the close of nominations on 5 April 2023.[10] The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating an incumbent councillor standing for re-election.[11][4]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Evan Jones* | 368 | 54.0 | −22.4 | |
| Labour | Richard Sidley | 209 | 30.7 | N/A | |
| Green | Karen Davies | 104 | 15.3 | N/A | |
| Majority | 159 | 23.3 | |||
| Turnout | 681 | 30.3 | |||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ann Edgeller* | 915 | 49.9 | −13.9 | |
| Conservative | Marnie Phillips* | 688 | 37.5 | −10.2 | |
| Labour | Alison Carr | 633 | 34.5 | +4.4 | |
| Labour | Kulwant Kang | 524 | 28.6 | −0.6 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Maria Davies | 357 | 19.5 | N/A | |
| Stafford Ind. | Paul Woodhead | 346 | 18.9 | N/A | |
| Green | Timothy Boardman | 205 | 11.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 39.6 | ||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Aidan Godfrey* | 439 | 63.0 | +13.6 | |
| Conservative | Peter Martin | 178 | 25.5 | +9.0 | |
| Green | Daniel Laidler | 80 | 11.5 | −5.9 | |
| Majority | 261 | 37.5 | |||
| Turnout | 23.3 | ||||
| Labour Co-ophold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Louise Nixon* | 645 | 68.3 | +8.3 | |
| Labour Co-op | Ant Reid | 564 | 59.7 | −4.6 | |
| Conservative | Neil Glover | 214 | 22.7 | −10.5 | |
| Conservative | Paul Startin | 160 | 16.9 | −15.4 | |
| Green | Michael Spight | 131 | 13.9 | N/A | |
| Reform | Michael Riley | 100 | 10.6 | N/A | |
| Reform | Steven Spennewyn | 74 | 7.8 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 19.7 | ||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Tony Pearce* | 447 | 56.1 | −2.7 | |
| Labour | Richard Duffy | 146 | 18.3 | +0.5 | |
| Conservative | James Brampton | 97 | 12.2 | −11.1 | |
| Independent | Eleanor Tristram | 60 | 7.5 | −10.3 | |
| Independent | Isabella Davies | 47 | 5.9 | −17.4 | |
| Majority | 301 | 37.8 | |||
| Turnout | 28.8 | ||||
| Greenhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Jeremy Pert* | 1,028 | 61.4 | −3.0 | |
| Conservative | Peter Jones* | 949 | 56.7 | −5.0 | |
| Labour | Kate Hanley | 591 | 35.3 | +16.8 | |
| Labour | Sally Osborne-Town | 444 | 26.5 | N/A | |
| Green | Gillian Douce | 338 | 20.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 33.6 | ||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Julian Thorley | 418 | 56.1 | +15.6 | |
| Conservative | James Cantrill | 188 | 25.2 | N/A | |
| Green | Robert Norman | 139 | 18.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 230 | 30.9 | |||
| Turnout | 28.0 | ||||
| Labour Co-opgain fromIndependent | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Alec Sandiford | 693 | 54.5 | +17.9 | |
| Conservative | Michael Dodson* | 576 | 45.3 | −10.9 | |
| Conservative | Lynne Bakker-Collier | 515 | 40.5 | −17.8 | |
| Liberal Democrats | Maria Moore | 429 | 33.7 | N/A | |
| Labour | Charlie Nutt | 331 | 26.0 | +2.4 | |
| Turnout | 30.2 | ||||
| Liberal Democratsgain fromConservative | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Mark Winnington* | 962 | 48.6 | −6.8 | |
| Green | Scott Spencer | 926 | 46.8 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Patrick Farrington* | 914 | 46.1 | −10.4 | |
| Green | Dave Whittaker | 828 | 41.8 | N/A | |
| Reform | Richard Harris | 171 | 8.6 | N/A | |
| Reform | Susan Harris | 160 | 8.1 | −14.5 | |
| Turnout | 38.0 | ||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Greengain fromConservative | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Ind. | Brandan McKeown* | 1,088 | 72.4 | +33.8 | |
| Conservative | Andy Cooper | 861 | 57.3 | +22.8 | |
| Labour | Julian Porter | 684 | 45.5 | +29.2 | |
| Green | Victoria Door | 373 | 24.8 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 36.4 | ||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Andy McNaughton | 597 | 55.4 | +1.8 | |
| Labour Co-op | Dee McNaughton* | 548 | 50.9 | −2.5 | |
| Conservative | Roy Clarke | 358 | 33.2 | −9.4 | |
| Conservative | Barbara Riddle | 334 | 31.0 | −11.4 | |
| Green | Jake Mahal | 162 | 15.0 | N/A | |
| Green | Rosemary Musson | 156 | 14.5 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 23.3 | ||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Frank James | 797 | 49.9 | +23.5 | |
| Conservative | Bryan Cross* | 790 | 49.5 | +0.4 | |
| Conservative | Jonathan Price* | 783 | 49.0 | −1.1 | |
| Labour | Mick Lupton | 583 | 36.5 | +14.0 | |
| Green | Jonathan Moore | 242 | 15.1 | +0.8 | |
| Turnout | 31.2 | ||||
| Labourgain fromConservative | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Gillian Pardesi* | 775 | 58.6 | +20.4 | |
| Labour Co-op | Tony Nixon* | 704 | 53.2 | +17.9 | |
| Conservative | Maria Redfern | 370 | 28.0 | −2.0 | |
| Conservative | William Taylor | 370 | 28.0 | +0.4 | |
| Green | Andrew Murray | 202 | 15.3 | −2.1 | |
| Reform | Michael Bailey | 120 | 9.1 | N/A | |
| Reform | Martyn Garbett | 106 | 8.0 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 32.0 | ||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Labour Co-ophold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Angela Loughran* | 853 | 62.1 | +8.5 | |
| Labour | Anne Hobbs* | 785 | 57.2 | +5.6 | |
| Conservative | Alex Oldridge | 450 | 32.8 | −10.2 | |
| Conservative | Robert Gwynn | 432 | 31.5 | −10.1 | |
| Green | Hayley Percival | 227 | 16.5 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 28.5 | ||||
| Labourhold | |||||
| Labourhold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Peter Edgeller | 444 | 48.6 | −7.4 | |
| Labour | Nicholas Shaw | 344 | 37.6 | +14.9 | |
| Green | Katherine Dewey | 126 | 13.8 | −7.4 | |
| Majority | 100 | 11.0 | |||
| Turnout | 38.2 | ||||
| Conservativehold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Frances Beatty* | 836 | 49.2 | −2.8 | |
| Conservative | Karine Aspin | 752 | 44.2 | −5.6 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Jim Davies | 424 | 24.9 | N/A | |
| Labour | Kathryn Williams | 414 | 24.4 | +6.4 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Susan McKeown | 403 | 23.7 | N/A | |
| Labour | Paul McGee | 365 | 21.5 | N/A | |
| Green | Tom Harris | 205 | 12.1 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 34.5 | ||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ralph Cooke* | 324 | 54.5 | −8.1 | |
| Conservative | Anthony Boucker | 169 | 28.4 | −9.0 | |
| Green | Roisin Chambers | 56 | 9.4 | N/A | |
| Reform | Fran Clark | 46 | 7.7 | N/A | |
| Majority | 155 | 26.1 | |||
| Turnout | 23.7 | ||||
| Labourhold | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Doug Rouxel | 496 | 41.3 | +21.2 | |
| Conservative | Carolyn Trowbridge* | 406 | 33.8 | −18.3 | |
| Labour | Deborah Hawkes | 300 | 25.0 | −2.7 | |
| Majority | 90 | 7.5 | |||
| Turnout | 1,202 | 40.1 | |||
| Greengain fromConservative | Swing | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Emma Carter | 974 | 55.8 | N/A | |
| Green | Jack Rose | 777 | 44.5 | N/A | |
| Conservative | Cathy Collier | 710 | 40.7 | −29.5 | |
| Conservative | Geoff Collier | 681 | 39.0 | −31.1 | |
| Labour | Joe McCormick | 349 | 20.0 | −8.6 | |
| Turnout | 1,860 | 33.6 | |||
| Greengain fromConservative | |||||
| Greengain fromConservative | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Ind. | Rob Kenney* | 1,323 | 59.8 | +10.9 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Philip Leason* | 1,306 | 59.0 | +10.3 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Ian Fordham* | 1,219 | 55.1 | +11.1 | |
| Labour | Mike Osborne-Town | 863 | 39.0 | +20.5 | |
| Conservative | Simon Bell | 795 | 35.9 | +10.8 | |
| Conservative | Adrian Harding | 679 | 30.7 | +6.5 | |
| Conservative | Duncan Sandbrook | 454 | 20.5 | −3.3 | |
| Turnout | 32.9 | ||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Roy James* | 676 | 43.8 | +43.8 | |
| Conservative | James Nixon* | 546 | 35.4 | +35.4 | |
| Labour | Adrian Holmes | 435 | 28.2 | N/A | |
| Stafford Ind. | Kerry Dawson | 356 | 23.0 | N/A | |
| Labour | Paul Warman | 347 | 22.5 | N/A | |
| Liberal Democrats | Philip Jones | 295 | 19.1 | N/A | |
| Stafford Ind. | Jason Metters | 239 | 15.5 | N/A | |
| Green | Simon Capewell | 195 | 12.6 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 32.2 | ||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Conservativehold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Ind. | Jill Hood* | 1,144 | 81.6 | +7.8 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Jon Powell | 658 | 46.9 | −6.8 | |
| Labour | Bill Lockwood | 536 | 38.2 | +18.1 | |
| Conservative | Ivor Parry | 252 | 18.0 | −3.8 | |
| Conservative | Stephen Walker | 213 | 15.2 | −3.1 | |
| Turnout | 27.7 | ||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromIndependent | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stafford Ind. | Jenny Barron* | 639 | 36.6 | −24.3 | |
| Labour | Julie Read | 630 | 36.1 | −1.7 | |
| Stafford Ind. | Ray Barron* | 592 | 33.9 | −25.8 | |
| Labour | James Withington | 587 | 33.6 | −4.7 | |
| Conservative | Steph Travis | 372 | 21.3 | −39.6 | |
| Conservative | Lianne al-Khaldi | 358 | 20.4 | −39.3 | |
| Green | Sarah Matthews | 189 | 10.8 | N/A | |
| Green | Martin Sandbrook | 126 | 7.2 | N/A | |
| Turnout | 38.0 | ||||
| Stafford Ind.gain fromConservative | |||||
| Labourgain fromConservative | |||||
Jenny Barron and Ray Barron had both been elected as Conservatives in 2019 but left the party in March 2022 to sit as independents, subsequently joining the Stafford Borough Independents.[3] Seats shown as gains from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 results.