2019 High Peak Borough Council election

2019 High Peak Borough Council election

2 May 2019 (2019-05-02)
All 43 seats to High Peak Borough Council 22 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Party Labour Conservative Last election 17 seats, 35.8% 23 seats, 37.9% Seats won 22 16 Seat change 5 7 Popular vote 15,940 15,115 Percentage 34.9% 33.2% Swing 0.9% 4.7%   Third party Fourth party   Party Liberal Democrats Green Last election 2 seats, 8.0% 0 seats, 8.1% Seats won 3 2 Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 6,805 6,874 Percentage 14.9% 15.1% Swing 6.9% 7.0%
Map of the results of the election
Council control before election Conservative Council control after election Labour

The 2019 High Peak Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect all 43 members of High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England.

The election resulted in the Labour Party taking control of the council from the Conservative Party after winning 22 of the 43 seats up for election. The Conservatives lost 7 of the seats they were defending and lost their majority on the council. The Liberal Democrats and Greens won 3 and 2 seats respectively.^[1][2]

Summary

After the election, the composition of the council was:

• Labour 22
• Conservative 16
• Liberal Democrat 3
• Green 2

Election result

2019 High Peak Borough Council election
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	37	22	5	0	5	51.2	34.9	15,940	–0.9
	Conservative	43	16	0	7	7	37.2	33.2	15,115	–4.7
	Liberal Democrats	22	3	1	0	1	7.0	14.9	6,805	+6.9
	Green	26	2	2	0	2	4.7	15.1	6,874	+7.0
	UKIP	4	0	0	0		0.0	1.1	505	–3.3
	Independent	1	0	0	0	1	0.0	0.8	368	–5.1

Ward results

Barms

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rachael Quinn	223	48.9	3.9
	Conservative	Sebastian Brooke	155	34.0	−3.5
	Green	Daniel Mayers	78	17.1	17.1
Majority			68	14.9	7.7
Turnout			456	32.98	−30.52
	Labour hold		Swing

Blackbrook

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Edith Claire Longden	607	37.5
	Conservative	Eve Burton	571	35.2
	Conservative	John Kappes	519	32.0
	Labour	Penny Took	484	29.9
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Hewitt	443	27.3
	Green	Joshua Bennett	342	21.1
Turnout			1620	46.19	−30.11
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Burbage

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Samantha Flower	232	43.2	−6.3
	Labour	Anthony Glew	175	32.6	5.4
	Green	Ivor Lewis	130	24.2	24.2
Majority			57	10.6	−12.1
Turnout			537	34.4	−37.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

Buxton Central

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Matt Stone	651	59.1
	Labour	Jean Todd	586	53.2
	Green	Eileen Reynolds	302	27.4
	Conservative	Alicia Hill	275	25.0
	Conservative	Josh Kirkman	235	21.3
Turnout			1101	37.42
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Chapel East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jim Perkins	253	43.2
	Labour	Jim Lambert	195	33.3
	Green	Jeremy Wight	72	12.3
	Liberal Democrats	James Patterson	65	11.1
Majority
Turnout			585	35.19
	Conservative hold		Swing

Chapel West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kathleen Sizeland	656	43.7
	Conservative	Stewart Paul Young	522	34.8
	Labour	Jessica Cowley	391	26.0
	Independent	Paddy Bann	368	24.5
	Labour	Adrian Cowley	342	22.8
	Liberal Democrats	David Rayworth	208	13.9
	Green	Philip Taylor	201	13.4
Turnout			1501	38.62
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Corbar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Arthur Kemp	445	35.4
	Labour	Madeline Hall	435	34.6
	Green	Peter Crook	420	33.4
	Conservative	Pam Reddy	388	30.8
	Liberal Democrats	Adam Scott	306	24.3
	Liberal Democrats	Stan Heptinstall	266	21.1
Turnout			1258	39.26
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Cote Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Linda Grooby	477	47.8
	Labour	Keith Edward Savage	475	47.6
	Labour	Catherine Grundy-Glew	452	45.3
	Conservative	Laszlo Gyongyosi	407	40.8
Turnout			998	31.72
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Dinting

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jean Wharmby	361	43.3
	Labour	Ray Collins	262	31.5
	Green	Holly McBride	120	14.4
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Worrall	90	10.8
Majority
Turnout			833	46.97
	Conservative hold		Swing

Gamesley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Anthony Edward McKeown	306	84.8
	Conservative	Matthew Crompton	55	15.2
Majority
Turnout			361	21.98
	Labour hold		Swing

Hadfield North

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ed Kelly	242	55.7
	Green	Robyn Summers	110	25.3
	Conservative	Lisa Hartington	82	18.9
Majority
Turnout			434	25.77
	Labour hold		Swing

Hadfield South

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Edward Siddall	543	49.5
	Labour	Bob McKeown	506	46.1
	Conservative	Peter Lynas	250	22.8
	Conservative	Bev Haigh	237	21.6
	Green	Peter Tomlin	212	19.3
	UKIP	Jo Shaw	137	12.5
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Parry	133	12.1
Turnout			1097	32.78
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Hayfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Eva Lawson	300	37.6
	Labour	Catherine Hughes	287	36.0
	Liberal Democrats	David Burfoot	124	15.5
	Green	Susan Shipley	87	10.9
Majority
Turnout			798	48.5
	Conservative hold		Swing

Hope Valley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Charlotte Nancy Farrell	777	45.9
	Green	Joanna Collins	744	44.0
	Conservative	Frederick John Walton	728	43.0
	Conservative	Charles Lawley	708	41.8
	Liberal Democrats	Jane Simm	226	13.4
Turnout			1692	53.92
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing
	Green gain from Conservative		Swing

Howard Town

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Damien Greenhalgh	761	59.8
	Labour	Rachel Abbotts	688	54.0
	Green	Robert Hodgetts-Haley	355	27.9
	Conservative	Peter Kay	191	15.0
	Liberal Democrats	Mark Smitham	170	13.4
	Conservative	Dominic Starkey	144	11.3
Turnout			1273	36.08
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Limestone Peak

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Roberts	320	57.1
	Labour	Caitlin Bisknell	147	26.3
	Green	Daniel Wimberley	93	16.6
Majority
Turnout			560
	Conservative hold		Swing

New Mills East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Samuel Edward Huddlestone	421	43.9
	Labour	Alan Barrow	411	42.9
	Liberal Democrats	Beth Atkins	350	36.5
	Conservative	Pam Ashton	186	19.4
	Green	Dee Sayce	185	19.3
	UKIP	Jim Muldoon	131	13.7
	Conservative	Virginia Priestly	78	8.1
Turnout			958	30.99
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

New Mills West

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lancelot Edgar Dowson	623	42.8
	Liberal Democrats	Raymond George Atkins	552	37.9
	Labour	Anne Marie Clarke	527	36.2
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Weaver	320	22.0
	Green	Hazel Body	318	21.8
	Conservative	Edward Sheils	280	19.2
	Conservative	William Lockwood	158	10.9
Turnout			1456	42.5
	Labour hold		Swing
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Old Glossop

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jamie Douglas	591	35.6
	Conservative	Paul Francis Hardy	584	35.2
	Labour	Sheila Yamin	549	33.1
	Labour	Pat Irwin	500	30.1
	Green	Paul Bohan	455	27.4
	Liberal Democrats	Kallen McColl	360	21.7
Turnout			1659	44.55
	Conservative hold		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

Padfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ollie Cross	337	46.3
	Conservative	David Hartington	249	34.2
	Green	Rachel Robinson	142	19.5
Majority
Turnout			728	39.9
	Labour hold		Swing

Sett

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Tony Ashton	316	42.9
	Labour	Aaron Jones	274	37.2
	Green	Michael John Shipley	146	19.8
Majority
Turnout			736	45.86
	Conservative hold		Swing

Simmondley

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Stewart Gardner	625	41.8
	Conservative	John Haken	580	38.8
	Conservative	Julie Ann McCabe	516	34.5
	Green	Melanie O’Brien	319	21.4
	Liberal Democrats	Ayshea Christina Garbutt	211	14.1
	UKIP	David Phillips	164	11.0
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair Murray Booth	117	7.8
Turnout			1494	43.75
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Conservative hold		Swing

St John's

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	George David Wharmby	283	52.8
	Labour	Kasey Carver	180	33.6
	UKIP	Chris Boyle	73	13.6
Majority
Turnout			536	35.88
	Conservative hold		Swing

Stone Bench

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Kerr	438	53.5
	Labour	Fiona Sloman	408	49.9
	Conservative	Elizabeth Hill	210	25.7
	Conservative	David McDowell	187	22.9
	Green	Guy Rees	153	18.7
	Liberal Democrats	Lynton Bennett	111	13.6
Turnout			818	25.58
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Temple

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Emily Lilian Thrane	364	44.0
	Labour	Tony Riddington	261	31.6
	Green	Ben Evens	202	24.4
Majority
Turnout			827	46.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Tintwistle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rob Baker	336	50.7
	Conservative	Jill Crossland	223	33.6
	Green	Luke Robinson	104	15.7
Majority
Turnout			663	41.7
	Labour hold		Swing

Whaley Bridge

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	David William Lomax	901	40.4
	Labour	Kath Thomson	790	35.4
	Labour	Shannon-Kate Thomson	744	33.3
	Green	Lucas Jones	726	32.5
	Conservative	Alison Fox	686	30.7
	Conservative	Andrew Fox	613	27.5
	Liberal Democrats	Andy Thomson	613	27.5
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Weaver	570	25.5
	Conservative	Lesley Morgan	448	20.1
Turnout			2231	43.12
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Whitfield

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Nigel Oakley	365	60.8
	Conservative	Anne Ross Worrall	92	15.3
	Green	Patricia Thompson	81	13.5
	Liberal Democrats	Keith Braithwaite	62	10.3
Majority
Turnout			600	35.47
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections

Cote Heath

Cote Heath: 7 April 2022

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Frank Kirkham	585	55.5	+5.4
	Labour	Alan Smith	413	39.2	−10.7
	Green	Peter Crook	56	5.3	N/A
Majority			172	16.3
Turnout			1,056	32.6
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing	8.1

References

1. "High Peak Borough Council". BBC News. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
2. "High Peak Local Election - Results". High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2019.