2023_Bassetlaw_District_Council_election

2023 Bassetlaw District Council election
All 48 seats to Bassetlaw District Council; 25 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	31.5%
	Map of the results of the election. Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Leader before election; James Naish; Labour	Leader after election ; James Naish; Labour

2023 Bassetlaw District Council election

Scheduled Local election in England

The 2023 Bassetlaw District Council election took place on 4 May, 2023, to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England.^[1] The election was held on the same day as other local elections in England as part of the 2023 United Kingdom local elections.

Quick Facts All 48 seats to Bassetlaw District Council 25 seats needed for a majority, Turnout ...

The Labour Party retained control of the council with an increased majority, gaining one seat from the Liberal Democrats and one seat from an Independent. The Conservatives gained three seats, one from Labour and two from Independents.^[2]

Ward results

^[4]^[5] (inc) denotes incumbent Councillors seeking re-election.

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Votes %	Votes
Labour	38	2	1	+1	47.1%	13,587
Conservative	8	3	0	+3	35.5%	10,235
Independent	2	0	3	-3	9.5%	2,732
Liberal Democrats	0	0	1	-1	4.0%	1,152
Green	0	0	0	0	4.0%	1,142

Turnout
Registered electors		87,978
Votes cast		27,738
Turnout		31.5% (+1.5%)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Joan Sanger (inc)	447	59.0	14.1
	Conservative	April Hayman	310	41.0	14.1
Turnout			760	36.9	4.2
	Independent hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jack Peter Bowker (inc)	430	58.2	20.1
	Conservative	Donald Clarke	309	41.8	7.2
Turnout			744	39.8	2.6
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Steve Scotthorne (inc)^[6]	807	50.1	3.6
	Labour	Robin Carrington-Wilde (inc)^[6]	759	47.1	3.3
	Labour	David Pidwell (inc)^[6]	738	45.8	1.4
	Conservative	Valerie Bowles	710	44.0	9.2
	Conservative	Charles Lister	707	43.9	14.1
	Conservative	Callum Bailey	706	43.8	21.5
Turnout			1,618	34.8	2.0
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

2023_Bassetlaw_District_Council_election

2023 Bassetlaw District Council election

Background

Result

Ward results

Beckingham

Blyth

Carlton

Clayworth

East Markham

East Retford East

East Retford North

East Retford South

East Retford West

Everton

Harworth

Langold

Misterton

Rampton

Ranskill

Sturton

Sutton

Tuxford and Trent

Welbeck

Worksop East

Worksop North

Worksop North East

Worksop North West

Worksop South

Worksop South East

Changes 2023–2027

References

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Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Fraser McFarland	307	51.7	7.9
	Independent	Ben Sofflet (inc)	287	48.3	7.9
Turnout			599	39.3	1.6
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Gary Dinsdale	491	66.0	N/A
	Labour	Marcin Wasiak	158	21.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Thompson	95	12.8	N/A
Turnout			749	36.6
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Shaw (inc)	859	44.5	1.8
	Labour	Daniel Henderson	795	41.2	1.4
	Conservative	John Manners	727	37.7	7.1
	Conservative	Michael Hadwen	719	37.3	2.3
	Labour	Piers Digby	706	36.6	1.4
	Conservative	Liam Wildish	639	33.1	6.3
	Green	Rachel Reeves	295	15.3	NEW
	Independent	Gerald Bowers	270	14.0	NEW
	Independent	Mandy Bromley	251	13.0	NEW
Turnout			1,932	35.0	4.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Oxby (inc)	934	55.1	4.7
	Labour	David Challinor	852	50.2	1.2
	Labour	Jonathan Slater	793	46.8	2.2
	Conservative	Richard Gill	537	31.7	0.6
	Conservative	Anthony Dexter	505	29.8	0.5
	Conservative	Perry Offer	437	25.8	1.1
	Independent	Mark Nicholson	261	15.4	NEW
	Liberal Democrats	Jennie Coggles	173	10.2	3.6
	Independent	Clifford Miller	170	10.0	NEW
Turnout			1,701	33.1	2.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Carolyn Troop (inc)	634	54.3	5.7
	Labour	David Naylor	599	51.3	10.3
	Conservative	Daniel Ashford	381	32.6	15.2
	Conservative	Eva Cernysovaite	315	27.0	11.2
	Independent	John Hudson	97	8.3	NEW
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Edley	91	7.8	NEW
Turnout			1,169	30.3	0.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Harriet Digby	477	39.7	2.0
	Labour	Malachi Carroll	459	38.2	3.3
	Liberal Democrats	Helen Tamblyn-Saville (inc)	401	33.4	2.1
	Conservative	James Purle	316	26.3	3.7
	Conservative	Karen Dexter	288	24.0	10.4
	Liberal Democrats	Phil Ray	235	19.6	3.9
	Independent	Jon Wade	78	6.5	NEW
Turnout			1,209	31.6	3.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Steve Pashley	386	50.9	7.7
	Independent	Mark Watson (inc)	372	49.1	7.7
Turnout			765	38.1	2.1
	Conservative gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lynne Schuller (inc)	1,058	70.8	6.4
	Labour	June Evans (inc)	950	63.5	4.1
	Labour	Joe Horrocks	913	61.1	4.8
	Conservative	Jake Boothroyd	298	19.9	6.1
	Green	Sarah Whitehead	269	18.0	NEW
	Conservative	Alastair Bowman	259	17.3	8.0
	Conservative	Nancy Wright	235	15.7	6.4
Turnout			1,506	22.7	2.2
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Gillian Freeman (inc)	313	68.6	7.7
	Conservative	James Palmer	143	31.4	7.7
Turnout			466	23.9	0.4
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Hazel Brand (inc)	499	86.3	4.9
	Conservative	Richard Maltby-Azeemi	79	13.7	4.9
Turnout			583	29.6	0.2
	Independent hold		Swing

Sturton (1)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	James Naish (inc)	524	77.6	15.2
	Conservative	Kirsty Glasby	151	22.4	15.2
Turnout			680	36.5	3.0
	Labour hold		Swing

Tuxford and Trent (2)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emma Griffin	666	60.4	12.9
	Conservative	Lewis Stanniland (inc)	595	53.9	10.7
	Labour	Ian Warton-Woods	389	35.3	13.9
	Green	Denise Taylor-Roome	297	26.9	NEW
Turnout			1,110	31.3	3.4
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Worksop East (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jo White (inc)	824	67.2	16.3
	Labour	Cliff Entwistle (inc)	805	65.6	9.1
	Labour	Deborah Merryweather (inc)	770	62.8	9.7
	Conservative	Pamela Briggs	328	26.7	15.4
	Conservative	Tim Griffith	287	23.4	12.5
	Conservative	Klaudia Piatek	222	18.1	7.5
Turnout			1,234	25.9	3.6
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Worksop North (3)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maria Charlesworth (inc)	1,072	54.3	1.3
	Labour	Neil Sanders (inc)	1,031	52.2	1.1
	Labour	Laura Sanders	960	48.6	1.5
	Conservative	Ben Storey	677	34.3	9.4
	Conservative	Helen Colton	663	33.6	12.7
	Conservative	Barry Bowles	593	30.0	9.5
	Green	Jack Best	281	14.2	NEW
	Liberal Democrats	Simon Russell	168	8.5	NEW
Turnout			1,982	26.7	1.9
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Coultate (inc)	381	70.6	1.4
	Labour	Joe Butler	159	29.4	1.4
Turnout			547	32.7	0.1
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	David Bamford	393	56.5	27.5
	Labour	Andy Jee	302	43.5	4.0
Turnout			704	36.5	1.7
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Darrell Pulk (inc)	409	58.3	46.3
	Conservative	Tracey Taylor	292	41.7	15.3
Turnout			706	42.3	4.8
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Charles Adams	335	55.6	4.7
	Conservative	Matthew Evans	241	40.0	0.3
	Liberal Democrats	Steffi Harangozo	27	4.5	NEW
Turnout			609	40.5
	Labour hold		Swing	3.7

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Alan Rhodes (inc)	876	54.7	12.5
	Labour	Madelaine Richardson (inc)	766	47.8	12.4
	Labour	Fraser Merryweather	757	47.3	17.1
	Conservative	Rachel Briggs	705	44.0	17.0
	Conservative	Russell Dodd	641	40.0	13.2
	Conservative	Wyktoria Krawczyk	536	33.5	7.8
Turnout			1,615	32.1	4.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sybil Fielding (inc)	1,047	67.0	6.1
	Labour	David Pressley (inc)	989	63.3	6.2
	Labour	Lynne Dixon	948	60.7	6.1
	Conservative	Ewa Blachewicz	405	25.9	3.0
	Conservative	Ewa Niec	379	24.2	1.9
	Conservative	Miroslaw Zubicki	340	21.8
	Liberal Democrats	Leon Duveen	197	12.6	NEW
Turnout			1,568	24.6	0.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Julie Leigh (inc)	1,119	55.7	12.2
	Labour	Paddy Ducey	1,014	50.5	9.2
	Labour	Tony Eaton (inc)	1,011	50.3	9.2
	Conservative	John Jewitt	797	39.7	5.3
	Conservative	Ashley Penty-Williams	763	38.0	5.6
	Conservative	Ewa Romanczuk	674	33.5	1.7
Turnout			2,022	36.8	2.7
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josie Potts (inc)	861	74.8	9.0
	Labour	John Shephard (inc)	709	61.6	6.7
	Labour	Clayton Tindle (inc)	700	60.8	4.0
	Conservative	Ryan Penty-Williams	205	17.8	9.4
	Conservative	Stephen Evans	192	16.7	10.6
	Conservative	Yvonne Evans	192	16.7	11.5
Turnout			1,160	21.1	4.8
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing