2019 Lichfield District Council election

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All 47 seats to Lichfield District Council
24 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Party	Conservative	Labour
Last election	42 seats, 54.6%	4 seats, 26.8%
Seats won	34	10
Seat change	8	6
Popular vote	20,120	11,606
Percentage	49.0%	28.3%
Swing	5.6%	1.5%

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Independent	Liberal Democrats
Last election	0 seats, 3.8%	1 seat, 4.7%
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	2
Popular vote	1,643	5,605
Percentage	4.0%	13.7%
Swing	0.2%	9.0%

Map of the results by ward

Council control before election

Conservative

Council control after election

Conservative

The 2019 Lichfield District Council election took place on 2 May to elect members of Lichfield District Council in Staffordshire, England. The whole council - 47 members - was up for election and the Conservative Party retained overall control of the council.

Campaign

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Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Independent, UKIP and Green Party candidates stood in the election. Between one and three members of the council were elected from each ward, depending on the electorate's size.

Summary

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Election result

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The Conservatives maintained control of the council.

2019 Lichfield District Council election^[1]
Party		Candidates	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Conservative	46	34	0	8	8	72.3	49.0	20,120	–5.6
	Labour	33	10	6	0	6	21.3	28.3	11,606	+1.5
	Independent	4	2	2	0	2	4.3	4.0	1,643	+0.2
	Liberal Democrats	16	1	0	0		2.1	13.7	5,605	+9.0
	UKIP	4	0	0	0		0.0	2.6	1,052	–5.9
	Green	4	0	0	0		0.0	2.5	1,025	+0.8

Results by ward

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Elected candidates in bold.

Alrewas and Fradley (3 seats)^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Derick George Cross	843	63.3
	Conservative	Michael John Wilcox	790	59.3
	Conservative	Sonia Elizabeth Wilcox	748	56.2
	Labour	Alison Claire Wright	442	33.2
	Labour	David Alan Cullen	325	24.4
Majority			306	9.72
Turnout			3,148	28

Armitage with Handsacre (3 seats)^[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Richard Ernest Cox	850	58.0
	Conservative	Tom Marshall	799	54.5
	Conservative	Nicholas David Binney	663	45.3
	Labour	Lindsey Teresa Baker	508	34.7
	Independent	Steve Hyden	457	31.2
Majority			155	4.73
Turnout			3,277	24

Boley Park (2 seats)^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Janet May Eagland	697	54.6
	Conservative	Mark Andrew Warfield	639	50.1
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Dickins	470	36.8
	Liberal Democrats	Christine Ann Rapley	361	28.3
	Labour	Veran-Elise Palmer	271	21.2
Majority			169	6.93
Turnout			2438	38

Boney Hay and Central (3 seats)^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Di Evans	583	49.2
	Labour	Rob Birch	569	48.0
	Labour	Brad Westwood	510	43.0
	Conservative	Keith Andrew Willis-Croft	491	41.4
	Conservative	Robin Place	464	39.2
	Conservative	Thomas Neil Teko Pita Loughbrough Heron	400	33.8
Majority			19	0.63
Turnout			3,017	24

Bourne Vale (1 seat)^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Brian William Yeates	no contest

Chadsmead (2 seats)^[7]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Ray	461	41.6
	Independent	Joanne Kay Grange	350	31.6
	Liberal Democrats	Miles Trent	343	31.0
	Conservative	Muriel Gwyneth Boyle	203	18.3
	Conservative	Sara Pritchard	190	17.2
	Labour	Philip Sutcliffe	182	16.4
	Labour	Mark Neil Taylor	176	15.9
	UKIP	Kevin Casserley	156	14.1
Majority			7	0.34
Turnout			2061	33

Chase Terrace (2 seats)^[8]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Steven Gerald Norman	505	58.4
	Labour	Sharon Wyn Banevicius	492	56.9
	Conservative	Brian Frederick Bacon	322	37.2
	Conservative	Norma Bacon	319	36.9
Majority			170	10.38
Turnout			1638	24

Chasetown (2 seats)^[9]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Darren Michael Oliver Ennis	391	59.2
	Conservative	Samuel John Tapper	282	42.7
	Labour	Carolyn Harriet Gittings	279	42.2
Majority			109	11.45
Turnout			952	21

Colton and the Ridwares (1 seat)^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Shirley Ann Barnett	432	73.6
	Labour	Colin George Noble	155	26.4
Majority			277	47.19
Turnout			587	33

Curborough (2 seats)^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Colin John Ball	339	43.3
	Labour	Dave Robertson	280	35.8
	Conservative	Daniel Floyd	244	31.2
	Conservative	Susan Elizabeth Smith	197	25.2
	Green	Diane Rosemary Harrison	160	20.4
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Margaret Johnson Pitman	133	17.0
	Liberal Democrats	Christopher James Cadwallader-Allan	99	12.6
Majority			36	2.48
Turnout			1452	24

Fazeley (2 seats)^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	James Andrew Parton-Hughes	368	41.5
	Conservative	Barry John Gwilt	306	34.5
	Labour	Kathryn Dawn Dwyer	299	33.7
	UKIP	Janet Maureen Higgins	284	32.1
	Labour	Jenny Sadler	275	31.0
Majority			7	0.46
Turnout			1,532	25

Hammerwich with Wall (2 seats)^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Janice Silvester-Hall	696	67.1
	Conservative	Alastair Matthew Little	529	51.0
	Labour	Andrew James Wilred Bullock	322	31.1
	Labour	Jamie Lee Denton	314	30.3
Majority			207	11.12
Turnout			1,861	31

Highfield (2 seats)^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Douglas Robert Pullen	578	55.7
	Conservative	Wai-Lee Ho	533	51.4
	Labour	Jane Elizabeth Smith	384	37.0
	Labour	Elaine Denise Kirkham	331	31.9
Majority			149	8.16
Turnout			1,826	29

Leomansley (3 seats)^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Jamie Checkland	790	43.9
	Conservative	Iain Morris Eadie	776	43.1
	Conservative	Andy Smith	743	41.3
	Liberal Democrats	Jamie Christie	528	29.3
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Andrew Jackson	518	28.8
	Liberal Democrats	Lee Mark Cadwallader-Allan	429	23.8
	Green	Paul Ecclestone-Brown	360	20.0
	Labour	Rajesh Krishna Kulkarni	307	17.1
	Labour	Kim Sheree Heidi Rochelle	291	16.2
	Labour	Paul Anthony Golder	285	15.8
Majority			215	4.28
Turnout			5,027	35

Little Aston and Stonnall (2 seats)^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Elizabeth Alice Little	no contest
	Conservative	Joseph John Rayner Powell	no contest

Longdon (1 seat)^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Robert William Strachan	no contest

Mease Valley (1 seat)^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ashley Yeates	293	54.2
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Phillip Bennion	248	45.8
Majority			45	8.32
Turnout			541	36

Shenstone (1 seat)^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	David Frank Salter	374	54.0
	Green	Stuart Alan Jones	176	25.4
	Labour	David Stephen Thompson	142	20.5
Majority			198	28.61
Turnout			692	36

St John's (3 seats)^[20]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Deb Baker	629	44.4
	Conservative	Tim Matthews	613	43.3
	Conservative	Chris Spruce	558	39.4
	Labour	Robyn St Clair Fawcett	342	24.2
	Labour	Benjamin Robert Watkins	333	23.5
	Green	Simon Charles Partridge	329	23.2
	Liberal Democrats	Hugh Thomas Ashton	311	22.0
	Liberal Democrats	John Anthony Smith	304	21.5
	Labour	Don Palmer	296	20.9
	Liberal Democrats	Paul Anthony Yeo	290	20.5
Majority			216	5.39
Turnout			4,005	31

Stowe (3 seats)^[21]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Angela Clare Lax	567	35.2
	Conservative	Colin Greatorex	561	34.9
	Independent	Jeyan Anketell	551	34.2
	Conservative	Jon O'Hagan	455	28.3
	Liberal Democrats	Richard John Rathbone	406	25.2
	Liberal Democrats	Paul McDermott	381	23.7
	Labour	Matthew Lee Field	374	23.2
	Liberal Democrats	Alasdair Mark Brooks	323	20.1
	Independent	Christopher James Wilkinson	285	17.7
	UKIP	Alan Schofield	255	15.8
Majority			96	2.31
Turnout			4,158	33

Summerfield and All Saints (3 seats)^[22]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Bernard John Brown	493	41.4
	Labour	Laura Jane Ennis	492	41.4
	Conservative	Ken Humphreys	470	39.5
	Conservative	Heather Tranter	382	32.1
	UKIP	John Stewart Hitchin	357	30.0
	Conservative	Natasha Inez Pullen	326	27.4
	Labour	Roy Frederick Tovey	319	26.8
Majority			88	3.1
Turnout			2,839	25

Whittington and Streethay (3 seats)^[23]
	Candidate	Votes
Conservative	David John Leytham	no contest
Conservative	Harry Albert Warburton	no contest
Conservative	Alan George White	no contest

By-elections

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Summerfield and All Saints by-election, 6 May 2021

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Bernard Brown resigned from the council in July 2020, as council meetings were being held exclusively online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he was unable to attend as he did not have access to the Internet.^[24]

Summerfield and All Saints by-election 6 May 2021^[25]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Heather Tranter	783	57%
	Labour	Michael Galvin	392	29%
	Liberal Democrats	John Taylor	191	14%
Majority			391
Turnout			1366

Armitage & Handsacre

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Armitage & Handsacre: 16 December 2021
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Richard Cross	458	60.3	−2.2
	Labour	Mark Pritchard	301	39.7	+2.2
Majority			157	20.6
Turnout			759	12.5
	Conservative hold		Swing	2.2

References

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^ "Full local elections results for Lichfield District Council". Lichfield Live. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Alrewas and Fradley". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Armitage with Handsacre". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Boley Park". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Boney Hay and Central". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Bourne Vale". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Chadsmead". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Chase Terrace". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Chasetown". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Colton and the Ridwares". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Curborough". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Fazeley". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Hammerwich with Wall". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Highfield". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Leomansley". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Little Aston and Stonnall". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Longdon". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Mease Valley". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Shenstone". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for St John's". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Stowe". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Summerfield and All Saints". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ "Election results for Whittington and Streethay". Lichfield District Council. 2 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
^ Reynolds, Jordan (16 July 2020). "Lichfield District Councillor resigns after negative comments online". Express & Star. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
^ "Election results for Summerfield and All Saints". Lichfield District Council. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

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