Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, 1995

Map of the results of the 1995 Wigan council election.

Elections were held on Thursday, 4 May 1995, with one third of the seats set for re-election, with an extra vacancy in Leigh East. Ahead of this election Labour had gained the seat being fought in Beech Hill from the Liberal Democrats, and defended a seat in Worsley Mesnes in by-elections. The major parties marginally increased their number of candidates upon last year's totals, whereas the number of Independent Labour candidates fighting returned to just the incumbent in Hindley. Having been the only party opposing Labour in Atherton, the Independent Labour absence there meant that went uncontested this time round, alongside two of last year's unopposed wards, Ince and Leigh Central. In total unopposed wards were reduced from the previous year's four to three. Turnout fell to 26.4%, the second lowest in the council's history, only surpassing the 1992 nadir.

The election seen mixed fortunes for the main parties. For the Conservatives, this was undoubtedly their worst performance, with the lowest vote share (and at 10.2%, very close to dropping into single-digits) and vote figure obtained in their 22-year history of contesting for this council. Despite receiving near-two thousand fewer votes from the election the year before, Labour, however, beat the record share they'd recorded then, capturing 72.8% of votes cast. The Lib Dem vote fell further into the four-digit territory seen recently in their tumultuous merger period, but unlike then managed to stay within mid-teens in vote share.

With such an overwhelming vote, Labour captured every seat except the Independent Labour-held Hindley, making a total of four gains, and securing the largest majority since 1973. All but one were at the Lib Dem's expense, with their incumbent in Aspull-Standish standing for his third term ousted, their seat in Bedford-Astley fought and won by their previous incumbent for Labour and being reduced to one in the increasingly marginal, but one-time stronghold, ward of Langtree. The Conservatives suffered a loss to Labour in their only remaining favourable territory of Swinley, reducing their representation to an all-time low of one in both ward and council. The sole non-Labour victor in Hindley, standing under the title as Real Labour, seen her majority reduced. ^[1]

Election result

Wigan Local Election Result 1995
Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	24	4	0	+4	96.0	72.8	39,936	+2.5%
	Independent Labour	1	0	0	0	4.0	2.2	1,207	-0.1%
	Liberal Democrat	0	0	3	-3	0.0	14.7	8,075	-1.3%
	Conservative	0	0	1	-1	0.0	10.2	5,610	-1.1%

This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:

Party		Previous council	New council
	Labour	62	66
	Liberal Democrats	7	4
	Conservatives	2	1
	Independent Labour	1	1
Total		72	72
Working majority		52	60

Ward results

Abram^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	B. Hampson	1,746	90.7	+0.9
	Conservative	A. Eccles	178	9.2	-0.9
Majority			1,568	81.5	+1.8
Turnout			1,924	20.4	-3.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+0.9

Ashton-Golborne^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Hilton	1,965	76.8	-0.5
	Conservative	M. Winstanley	376	14.7	+3.7
	Liberal Democrat	S. Cooper	216	8.4	-3.2
Majority			1589	62.1	-3.5
Turnout			2,557	26.1	-3.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.1

Aspull-Standish^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D. Standring	1,726	48.9	+0.4
	Liberal Democrat	G. Davies	1,494	42.4	+1.7
	Conservative	J. Davies	306	8.7	-2.1
Majority			232	6.5	-1.3
Turnout			3,526	32.1	-5.2
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	-0.6

Atherton^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Sumner	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Bedford-Astley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Lea	1,602	68.3	-0.4
	Liberal Democrat	R. Bleakley	543	23.1	-8.1
	Conservative	J. Mosley	200	8.5	+8.5
Majority			1,059	45.1	+7.6
Turnout			2,345	27.0	-1.7
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+3.8

Beech Hill^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	C. Roscoe	1,744	61.9	+14.0
	Liberal Democrat	J. Beswick	965	34.2	-13.8
	Conservative	J. Cartwright	109	3.9	-0.2
Majority			779	27.6	+27.5
Turnout			2,818	31.6	-5.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+13.9

Bryn^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Foster	2,385	87.5	+1.0
	Conservative	W. Holmes	340	12.5	-1.0
Majority			2,045	75.0	+2.1
Turnout			2,725	27.7	-1.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+1.0

Hindley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Labour	E. Edwardson	1,207	50.3	+50.3
	Labour	P. Kelly	984	41.0	-40.7
	Liberal Democrat	F. Graham	206	8.6	-9.6
Majority			223	9.3	-54.2
Turnout			2,397	24.8	-0.0
	Independent Labour hold		Swing	+45.5

Hindley Green^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. McAllister	1,893	81.0	-5.1
	Liberal Democrat	J. Hough	228	9.7	+9.7
	Conservative	C. Butterworth	217	9.3	-4.7
Majority			1,665	71.2	-0.9
Turnout			2,338	20.7	-3.9
	Labour hold		Swing	-7.4

Hindsford^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Little	1,898	74.2	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	D. Soye	406	15.9	N/A
	Conservative	R. Oxley	253	9.9	N/A
Majority			1,492	58.3	N/A
Turnout			2,557	23.7	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Hope Carr^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	G. Brooks	1,859	57.1	+6.6
	Liberal Democrat	P. Hough	1,090	33.5	-1.4
	Conservative	D. Morris	307	9.4	-5.2
Majority			769	23.6	+8.1
Turnout			3,256	32.5	-3.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+4.0

Ince^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	D. Molyneux	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Langtree^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	M. Greenwood	2,067	63.0	+5.8
	Liberal Democrat	T, Beswick	911	27.8	+0.2
	Conservative	F. Parkinson	301	9.2	-0.5
Majority			1,156	35.2	+5.6
Turnout			3,279	28.6	-6.1
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+2.8

Leigh Central^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	B. Thomas	Unopposed	N/A	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Leigh East^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	K. Cunliffe	1,849	71.0	+2.4
	Labour	S. Kennedy	1,657
	Liberal Democrat	S. Hide	505	19.4	-12.0
	Liberal Democrat	G. Waddup	465
	Conservative	A. Oxley	249	9.6	+9.6
Majority			1,344	51.6	+14.4
Turnout			2,603	25.8	-1.3
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.2

Lightshaw^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	B. Strett	2,923	83.3	+2.6
	Conservative	C. Duffy	584	16.6	-2.6
Majority			2,339	66.7	+5.3
Turnout			3,507	31.8	-4.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.6

Newtown^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Birch	1,827	90.8	+5.7
	Liberal Democrat	M. Wiswall	184	9.1	+1.2
Majority			1,643	81.7	+4.5
Turnout			2,011	22.8	-3.0
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.2

Norley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Parker	1,819	92.4	+7.2
	Liberal Democrat	A. Sudworth	150	7.6	-7.2
Majority			1,669	84.7	+14.4
Turnout			1,969	26.1	-4.3
	Labour hold		Swing	+7.2

Orrell^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	R. Capstick	1,839	73.8	+3.1
	Conservative	M. Green	654	26.2	-3.1
Majority			1,185	47.5	+6.1
Turnout			2,493	26.7	-5.2
	Labour hold		Swing	+3.1

Swinley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Ball	1,606	59.7	-3.2
	Conservative	K. Swift	781	29.0	-8.0
	Liberal Democrat	A. Robinson	301	11.2	+11.2
Majority			825	30.7	+4.9
Turnout			2,688	30.3	-6.5
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing	+2.4

Tyldesley East^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	S. Hellier	2,109	70.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrat	A. Pennington	876	29.3	N/A
Majority			1,233	41.3	N/A
Turnout			2,985	26.5	N/A
	Labour hold		Swing	N/A

Whelley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	M. Pendleton	1,859	90.9	+2.5
	Conservative	T. Sharpe	185	9.0	-2.5
Majority			1,674	81.9	+5.1
Turnout			2,044	25.2	-3.7
	Labour hold		Swing	+2.5

Winstanley^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	G. Roberts	2,324	86.4	+22.1
	Conservative	G. Whiston	365	13.6	-0.7
Majority			1,959	72.8	+29.9
Turnout			2,689	22.7	-5.9
	Labour hold		Swing	+11.4

Worsley Mesnes^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	J. Baldwin	1,912	90.3	+30.5
	Conservative	T. Sutton	205	9.7	+4.2
Majority			1,707	80.6	+46.2
Turnout			2,117	21.2	-8.5
	Labour hold		Swing	+13.1

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 "Wigan Council results from 1973 to 2008" (PDF). wigan.gov.uk. Retrieved 2012-01-30.

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