Woolton (ward)

Woolton is a Liverpool City Council Ward within the Garston and Halewood Parliamentary constituency. In 2004 the boundary changed to incorporate a small part of Allerton ward and lost a small area to the new Allerton and Hunts Cross ward.

Councillors

The ward has returned five Councillors since the 2004 boundary changes.^[1]

Term		Councillor	Party
	2004 - 2012	Barbara Collinge	Liberal Democrats
	2004–2014	Malcolm Kelly	Liberal Democrats
	2004 – present	Barbara Mace	Liberal Democrats
	2012 – present	Mark Norris	Labour
	2014 – present	Colin McAlley	Labour

Election results

Elections of the 2010s

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2014: 22nd May 2014 [2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Colin McAlley	1576	38.51%	+1.49%
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Kelly	1375	33.60%	-0.77%
	Conservative	Adam Marsden	772	18.87%	+1.29%
	Green	Ben Owen	272	6.65%	+3.12%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	97	2.37%	-0.20%
Majority			201	4.91%	+2.26%
Turnout			4092	39.16%	-0.88%
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing	+1.13%

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2012: 3rd May 2012 [3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mark Steven Norris	1541	37.02%	+4.66%
	Liberal Democrat	Kathryn Dadswell	1431	34.37%	-3.01%
	Conservative	Adam Ernest Marsden	732	17.58%	-6.95%
	UKIP	Joseph Stanley Chiffers	205	4.92%	n/a
	Green	Fiona Margaret McGill Coyne	147	3.53%	+0.21%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	107	2.57%	+0.34%
Majority			110	2.65%
Turnout			4163	40.04%	-5.23%
	Labour gain from Liberal Democrat		Swing

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2011: 5th May 2011 [4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Mace	1763	37.48%	-13.37%
	Labour	Mary Aspinall	1522	32.36%	+7.56%
	Conservative	Adam Ernest Marsden	1154	24.53%	+3.00%
	Green	Alexander Rudkin	156	3.32%	+0.49%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	109	2.32%	n/a
Majority			241	5.12%	-20.93%
Turnout			4704	45.27%	-21.30%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	-20.93%

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2010: Woolton
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Kelly	3543	50.85%	+4.74%
	Labour	John Owen Fulham	1728	24.80%	+9.81%
	Conservative	Richard Michael Downey	1500	21.53%	-11.33%
	Green	Alexander Rudkin	197	2.83%	-1.39%
Majority			1815	26.05%
Turnout			6968	66.57%	+30.12%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	-7.28%

Elections of the 2000s

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2008: Woolton [5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Collinge	1771	46.11%
	Conservative	Richard Michael Downey	1254	32.86%
	Labour	Laurence Richard Freeman	572	14.99%
	Green	Alexander Rudkin	161	4.22%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	58	1.52%
Majority
Turnout			3816	36.45%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2007: Woolton [6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Mace	2019	57.33%
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	742	21.07%
	Labour	Laurence Richard Freeman	491	13.94%
	Green	Alexander Rudkin	149	4.23%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	121	3.44%
Majority
Turnout			3522	33.65%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2006: Woolton [7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Kelly	1959	56.26%
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	752	21.60%
	Labour	Laurence Richard Freeman	459	12.18%
	Green	Alexander Rudkin	188	5.40%
	Liberal	Maria Langley	124	3.56%
Majority
Turnout			3482	33.01%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing

After the boundary change of 2004 the whole of Liverpool City Council faced election. Three Councillors were returned.

Liverpool City Council Municipal Elections 2004: Woolton [8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Collinge	3440
	Liberal Democrat	Barbara Mace	3440
	Liberal Democrat	Malcolm Kelly	3134
	Conservative	Emlyn Williams	656
	Conservative	Stephen Fitzsimmons	599
	Labour	Maureen Freeman	594
	Conservative	Nanik Vaswani	589
	Labour	Laurence Freeman	571
Majority
Turnout			4823	45.62%
	Liberal Democrat hold		Swing	n/a

• italics - Denotes the sitting Councillor.
•bold - Denotes the winning candidate.

External links

• Ward Profile - Woolton

References

1. "Liverpool City Council elections 1998-2006". 15 May 2010.
2. "Municipal Election results 2014, Woolton". Liverpool City Council.
3. "Municipal Election results 2012, Woolton". Liverpool City Council.
4. "Notice of Poll". Liverpool City Council.
5. "Municipal Election results 2008, Woolton". Liverpool City Council.
6. "Municipal Election results 2007, Woolton". Liverpool City Council.
7. "Municipal Election results 2006, Woolton". Liverpool City Council.
8. "Municipal Election results 2004" (PDF). Liverpool City Council.

Coordinates: 53°22′26″N 2°51′53″W / 53.3739°N 2.8646°W