Church (Sefton ward)

Church is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the localities of Seaforth and Waterloo. The population of the ward as taken at the 2011 census was 12,068.^[1]

Councillors

  indicates seat up for re-election.   indicates by-election.

Election	Councillor		Councillor		Councillor
2004		James Murray (LD)		Cynthia Johnson (LD)		Pauline Kehoe (LD)
2006 by-election		James Murray (LD)		Cynthia Johnson (LD)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2006		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Cynthia Johnson (LD)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2007		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2008		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2010		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2011		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2012		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2014		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2015		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2016		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2018		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2019		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2021		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2022		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2023		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Paul Cummins (Lab)
2024		Daren Veidman (Lab)		Veronica Webster (Lab)		Neil Doolin (Green)

Election results

Elections of the 2020s

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2024: Church [1]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Neil Anthony Doolin	1,412	50	10
	Labour	Paul Cummins	1307	47	7
	Conservative	Dorothy Amanda Brown	91	3	1
Majority			105	4
Registered electors			9,091
Rejected ballots			18
Turnout			2,867
	Green gain from Labour		Swing	10.0

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2023: Church [2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Veronica Webster	1,459	54	10.5
	Green	Neil Anthony Doolin	1,090	40	9.9
	Conservative	John Graham Campbell	115	4	1.4
	Freedom Alliance. Stop the Great Reset	John Bellis	59	2
Majority			369	14	20.7
Registered electors			9,078
Rejected ballots			11
Turnout			2,723
	Labour hold		Swing	10.5

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2022: Church [3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daren Veidman	1,850	64.5	0.8
	Green	Neil Doolin	862	30.1	9.0
	Conservative	John Campbell	155	5.4	5.9
Majority			988	34.7	8.0
Registered electors			9,157
Rejected ballots			21
Turnout			2,867
	Labour hold		Swing	4.1

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2021: Church^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Cummins	1,727	63.7
	Green	Mike Carter	571	21.1
	Conservative	Sean Dorgan	305	11.3
	Liberal Democrats	Zanna Ashton	107	3.9
Majority			1,156
Registered electors			9,423
Rejected ballots			50
Turnout
	Labour hold		Swing

Elections of the 2010s

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2019: Church

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Veronica Webster	1,560	62.4
	Green	Mike Carter	550	22.0
	Liberal Democrats	Les Ashton	195	7.8
	Conservative	Lynne Margaret Bold	194	7.8
Majority			1,010
Registered electors			9,389
Rejected ballots			42
Turnout			2,499	27.1
	Labour hold		Swing

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Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2018: Church

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daren Veidman	2,018	76.9	18.7
	Conservative	Anne Clegg	271	10.3	10.1
	Green	Laurence Rankin	237	9.0	0.5
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Eaton	99	3.8	0.9
Majority			1747	66.6
Turnout			2625	28.3
	Labour hold		Swing	14.5

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2016: Church

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul Cummins	1,868	71.9%
	Green	Mike Carter	447	17.2
	Conservative	Helen Barber	282	10.9
Majority			1,421
Turnout			2,597
	Labour hold		Swing

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2015: Church

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Veronica Webster	3,785	65.0%
	Conservative	Helen Barber	627	10.8
	UKIP	Mike Kelly	574	9.9
	Green	Laurence Rankin	525	9.0
	Liberal Democrats	Nathan Roche	316	5.4
Majority			3,158
Turnout			5,827
	Labour hold		Swing

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2014: Church^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cllr Daren Veidman	1690	58%
	UKIP	Mike Kelly	593	20%
	Green	Laurence Rankin	277	10%
	Conservative	Paula Parry	207	7%
	Liberal Democrats	Hannah Gee	135	5%
Majority
Turnout			2902
	Labour hold		Swing

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2011: Church^[5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Cllr Miss Veronica Webster	2413	73%
	Conservative	Paul Martyn Barber	506	15%
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Gill	259	8%
	BNP	Andrew Dennis Leary	130	4%
Majority
Turnout			3308	37%
	Labour hold		Swing

Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council Municipal Elections 2010: Church^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Daren Veidman	3119	57%
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Tonkiss	1137	21%
	Conservative	Sarah Louise Jackson	642	12%
	UKIP	Joseph Nugent	327	6%
	BNP	Andrew Dennis Leary	222	4%
Majority
Turnout			5447	61%
	Labour hold		Swing

References

1. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 2 June 2015.
2. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Church" (PDF). Sefton.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
3. "Church". Sefton Council. Retrieved 10 May 2019.^{[permanent dead link]}
4. http://modgov.sefton.gov.uk/moderngov/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=33&RPID=2996610
5. http://modgov.sefton.gov.uk/moderngov/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=33&RPID=2996610
6. http://modgov.sefton.gov.uk/moderngov/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=5&RPID=1470958

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