Local Election Results 2018

Wigan

One-third of council up for election.

DVP = Democrats and Veterans Party
IndNwk = Independent Network
WiganIC = Wigan Independent Conservatives (who stood under a variety of labels)

Other results for Wigan:2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2014 2015 2016 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
By-elections for Wigan (may be incomplete): 26th September 2002 (Leigh C.) — 16th June 2005 (Douglas) — 28th June 2007 (Tyldesley) — 20th September 2007 (Wigan W.) — 18th October 2007 (Wigan C.) — 10th July 2008 (Wigan W.) — 3rd March 2011 (Wigan C.) — 4th April 2013 (Pemberton) — 24th October 2013 (Winstanley) — 13th November 2014 (Douglas) — 19th October 2017 (Astley Mosley Common) — 14th December 2017 (Shevington with Lower Ground) — 14th October 2021 (Leigh W.) — 25th November 2021 (Bryn) — 15th December 2022 (Ashton) — 4th July 2024 (Leigh S.) — 2nd October 2025 (Wigan C.)

Map of the results —Export spreadsheet

Consolidated results — Wigan 2018

Party	Votes	Percent	Seats
Labour	32512	52.3%	18
Conservative	14980	24.1%	3
Independent	6103	9.8%	2
Liberal Democrat	2343	3.8%	0
Independent Network	2329	3.7%	1
Wigan Independent Conservatives	2109	3.4%	1
UK Independence Party	1196	1.9%	0
Green Party	401	0.6%	0
Democrats and Veterans Party	140	0.2%	0

Abram

Carl Sweeney	Lab	1479	68.6%
Beverley Bridgwater	C	404	18.7%
Frank Swift	UKIP	274	12.7%

Ashton

Anthony Sykes	Lab	1112	53.2%
Michael Moulding	Ind	793	37.9%
Gillian Gibson	UKIP	109	5.2%
Geoffrey Matthews	LD	41	2.0%
Marie Winstanley	C	36	1.7%

Aspull New Springs Whelley

Ronald Conway	Lab	1708	61.4%
Michael Owens	C	764	27.5%
Andrew Holland	LD	308	11.1%

Astley Mosley Common

Barry Taylor	Lab	1349	52.7%
Richard Short	C	1082	42.2%
Stuart Thomas	LD	131	5.1%

Atherleigh

Debra Wailes	Lab	938	48.1%
Anthony Waite	IndNwk	550	28.2%
Paul Fairhurst	C	394	20.2%
Lorraine Gillon	LD	68	3.5%

Atherton [IndNwk gain from Lab]

Stuart Gerrard	IndNwk	1779	53.7%
Karen Aldred	Lab	1197	36.2%
Marjorie Clayton	C	334	10.1%

Bryn [Ind gain from Lab]

Andrew Collinson	Ind	1065	43.7%
Vicky Johnson	Lab	973	39.9%
Judith Atherton	C	198	8.1%
Philip Hayden	UKIP	133	5.5%
Denise Melling	LD	67	2.8%

Douglas

Shirley Dewhurst	Lab	1551	78.6%
Margaret Atherton	C	422	21.4%

Golborne and Lowton West

Susan Gambles	Lab	1280	57.2%
William Heaton	Ind	612	27.4%
Gerard Houlton	C	345	15.4%

Hindley

Jim Talbot	Lab	1063	45.9%
Jim Ellis	Ind	905	39.0%
Margaret Winstanley	C	206	8.9%
Neil Hancox	Grn	86	3.7%
John Skipworth	LD	58	2.5%

Hindley Green [Ind gain from Lab]

Paul Maiden	Ind	976	41.4%
Gena Merrett	Lab	787	33.4%
John Thomason	LD	305	13.0%
Jonathan Cartwright	C	287	12.2%

Ince

James Moodie	Lab	1273	69.2%
James O'Neill	Ind	379	20.6%
Yamini Gupta	C	188	10.2%

Leigh East

Frederick Walker	Lab	1189	59.6%
Denise Young	C	518	26.0%
John Dowsett	LD	288	14.4%

Leigh South

Charles Rigby	Lab	1531	54.4%
Connor Short	C	1283	45.6%

Leigh West

Peter Smith	Lab	1308	54.1%
Jayson Lomax-Hargreaves	Ind	578	23.9%
Richard Houlton	C	374	15.5%
Natalie Smalley	LD	158	6.5%

Lowton East

Edward Houlton	C	2099	60.9%
Garry Lloyd	Lab	1346	39.1%

Orrell [C gain from Lab]

Richard Clayton	C	1430	46.6%
Eileen Rigby	Lab	1273	41.5%
Denise Capstick	LD	367	12.0%

Pemberton

Paul Prescott	Lab	1472	74.4%
Susan Atherton	C	322	16.3%
David Burley	LD	185	9.3%

Shevington with Lower Ground [WiganIC gain from Lab]

Janet Brown	WiganIC	1107	40.1%
Mike Crosby	Lab	1045	37.9%
Allan Atherton	C	487	17.7%
Joseph Rylance	Grn	120	4.3%

Standish with Langtree [C gain from WiganIC]

Adam Marsh	C	1200	36.8%
Debbie Parkinson	Lab	1185	36.4%
Debbie Fairhurst	WiganIC	872	26.8%

Tyldesley

Joanne Marshall	Lab	1344	51.0%
Julian Marsh	Ind	706	26.8%
David Stirzaker	C	587	22.3%

Wigan Central

George Davies	Lab	1518	55.5%
Lewis Evans	C	834	30.5%
Caroline Waddicor	LD	163	6.0%
Gareth Fairhurst	WiganIC	130	4.8%
Tony Spencer	Ind	89	3.3%

Wigan West

Phyllis Cullen	Lab	1746	72.0%
Jean Peet	C	363	15.0%
Nathan Ryding	UKIP	176	7.3%
Ronnie Clark	DVP	140	5.8%

Winstanley

Clive Morgan	Lab	1396	58.4%
Daniel Whitehouse	C	509	21.3%
Steven Heyes	Grn	195	8.2%
Daniel Singleton	UKIP	177	7.4%
Neil Stevenson	LD	114	4.8%

Worsley Mesnes

Patricia Holland	Lab	1449	66.5%
Maureen McCoy	UKIP	327	15.0%
Paul Chapman	C	314	14.4%
Joshua Hindle	LD	90	4.1%

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Local Election Results 2018

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