2023 South Holland District Council election

2023 South Holland District Council election
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All 37 seats on South Holland District Council
19 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
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Leader Gary Porter (defeated) Rob Gibson
Party Conservative SH Independents Independent
Seats before 23 7 7
Seats after 19 15 3
Results by ward
Leader before election

Gary Porter
Conservative

Leader after election

Nick Worth
Conservative

The 2023 South Holland District Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 37 members of South Holland District Council in Lincolnshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

Overview

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Prior to the election the council was under Conservative majority control. At the previous election in 2019 every elected candidate had been either a Conservative or an independent councillor. In 2021 a group of the independent councillors formed a registered political party, the "South Holland Independents".[1] By the time of the 2023 election seven of the independent councillors had joined the South Holland Independents. They sat on the council as a group with four of the other seven independent councillors as the "South Holland Independents and Independents" group. The other three independent councillors (all of whom had been elected as Conservatives) did not belong to any group.[2][3]

Following the results, the Conservatives retained overall control, but with a reduced majority. Their leader, Gary Porter, who had been leader of the council since 2003, lost his seat.[4] Nick Worth was appointed the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 17 May 2023.[5] The South Holland Independents won 15 seats and the other three seats were won by other independent councillors. The South Holland Independents and independents formed a single group of 18 councillors after the election called the "Independent Group".[6]

Results

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2023 South Holland District Council election[7]
Party Candidates Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Conservative 35 19 2 9 Decrease 5 51.4
  SH Independents 19 15 15 0 Increase 15 40.5
  Independent 7 3 0 8 Decrease 10 8.1
  Green 4 0 0 0 Steady 0 1,221
  Labour 1 0 0 0 Steady 0 401
  Reform UK 1 0 0 0 Steady 0 212

Ward results

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The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating sitting councillors standing for re-election.[2]

Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas

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Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Robert Astill*
(Jim Astill) 		770 58.2 +17.5
Independent Bryan Alcock* 757 57.2 +7.2
Conservative Angela Harrison
(Angie Harrison) 		577 43.6 +4.1
Green Amy Rebecca Cook-Nykyforczuk 489 37.0 N/A
Turnout 1,326 24.55
Registered electors 5,402
Conservative hold
Independent hold
Conservative hold

Donington, Quadring and Gosberton

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Donington, Quadring and Gosberton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Jane Lesley King* 856 55.7 −4.2
Conservative Henry John William Bingham* 737 48.0 −2.3
Conservative Margaret Ann Geaney 631 41.1 +9.6
SH Independents Simon Charles Walsh* 597 38.9 −6.8
Conservative Colin Neville Johnson 542 35.3 +5.1
Reform UK Matthew James Swainson 212 13.8 N/A
Turnout 1,550 26.48
Registered electors 5,854
SH Independents gain from Independent
Conservative gain from Independent
Conservative gain from Independent

Jane King had been elected as an independent in 2019; seat shown here as South Holland Independents gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 results. Henry Bingham had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in 2021; seat shown here as Conservative gain from independent.[8] Margaret Geaney has previously been a councillor for the Bletchley West Ward (Milton Keynes) Between 2015 and 2019 [9]

Fleet

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Fleet
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Paul Stephen Barnes 373 65.6 N/A
Conservative Edward George McNally 196 34.4 −1.8
Turnout 573 29.75
Registered electors 1,926
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Gedney

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Gedney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joanne Louise Reynolds*
(Jo Reynolds) 		289 60.7 +60.7
SH Independents Matthew James Stancer 187 39.3 N/A
Turnout 479 26.35
Registered electors 1,818
Conservative hold

Holbeach Hurn

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Holbeach Hurn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles Nicholas Worth*
(Nick Worth) 		331 73.7 +73.7
Green Wendy Jane Blackman 118 26.3 N/A
Turnout 453 25.18
Registered electors 1,799
Conservative hold

Holbeach Town

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Holbeach Town
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tracey Ann Carter* 959 60.3 +1.9
SH Independents Sophie Elizabeth Hutchinson 734 46.1 N/A
Conservative Nanette Jacqueline Chapman 557 35.0 −23.4
SH Independents Paul Cayton Foyster 523 32.9 −6.0
Independent Graham Thomas Desmond Rudkin* 496 31.2 −13.8
Conservative Malcolm Godfrey Chandler 484 30.4 −1.8
Independent Francis Biggadike* 332 20.9 −37.5
Turnout 1,597 25.21
Registered electors 6,336
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Independent
Conservative hold

Francis Biggadike had been elected in 2019 as a Conservative but left the party early in 2023 after not being selected as the party's candidate for this election.[10]

Long Sutton

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Long Sutton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Andrew Charles Tennant* 982 58.2 +5.9
Conservative Jack Tyrrell* 967 57.3 +9.7
Independent David John Wilkinson* 782 46.4 +1.1
Conservative David Ivan Thompson 624 37.0 −7.6
Turnout 1,691 27.88
Registered electors 6,066
Independent hold
Conservative hold
Independent hold

Moulton, Weston and Cowbit

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Moulton, Weston and Cowbit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Casson* 1,006 57.7 −7.5
SH Independents Thomas Edmund Sneath 976 56.0 N/A
Conservative Andrew Robert Woolf* 958 54.9 −3.3
Conservative Rodney Grocock* 659 37.8 −6.6
Turnout 1,759 29.95
Registered electors 5,874
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Conservative
Conservative hold

Pinchbeck and Surfleet

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Pinchbeck and Surfleet
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Elizabeth Jane Sneath* 904 56.7 −1.0
Conservative James Edward Avery* 886 55.6 +1.6
Conservative Sally Ann Slade* 780 49.0 −3.4
Independent Terence Moore
(Terry Moore) 		699 43.9 −7.8
Green Simon Richard Jenkins 431 27.1 N/A
Turnout 1,599 27.13
Registered electors 5,894
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Spalding Castle

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Spalding Castle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gary John Taylor* 335 64.7 +18.0
Green Martin Christopher Blake 183 35.3 −2.3
Turnout 521 28.47
Registered electors 1,830
Conservative hold

Spalding Monks House

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Spalding Monks House
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Suresh Chauhan
(Sam Chauhan) 		604 59.4 N/A
SH Independents Ingrid Helen Sheard 524 51.5 N/A
Conservative Stephen Peter Timewell* 468 46.0 +17.0
Conservative Valerie Gemmell
(Val Gemmell) 		275 27.0 N/A
Turnout 1,022 24.32
Registered electors 4,203
SH Independents gain from Conservative
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Shown as two gains for South Holland Independents from independents to allow comparison with 2019 results. Stephen Timewell had won his seat for the Conservatives in a by-election in 2022. The other seat was held by Anthony Cronin, who was elected as an independent in 2019 but who subsequently joined the South Holland Independents. He did not stand for re-election.[2]

Spalding St John's

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Spalding St John's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Manzur Hasan* 732 71.6 +26.0
SH Independents James Anthony Le Sage 611 59.7 N/A
Conservative Edward Oliver Sneath 242 23.7 −16.4
Conservative Ann Elizabeth Savage 224 21.9 −11.2
Turnout 1,024 23.75
Registered electors 4,312
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Manzur Hasan had been elected in 2019 as an independent councillor but had subsequently joined the South Holland Independents. The other seat had been held by Jack McLean prior to the election, who had been elected in 2019 as a Conservative but left the party in October 2020 and sat as a non-aligned independent for the remainder of his term. He did not stand for re-election.

Spalding St Mary's

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Spalding St Mary's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Mark Edward Le Sage 559 57.4 N/A
SH Independents David Roy Ashby
(Dave Ashby) 		472 48.5 N/A
Conservative William Luke John Hayes 432 44.4 −4.8
Conservative Gary Andrew Porter* 368 37.8 −12.8
Turnout 978 26.82
Registered electors 3,647
SH Independents gain from Conservative
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Spalding St Paul's

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Spalding St Paul's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Robert Antony Gibson*
(Rob Gibson) 		458 65.4 +10.3
SH Independents Bailey Paul John Boulding 385 55.0 N/A
Conservative Glynis Pearl Scalese* 269 38.4 −10.8
Conservative Christopher James Sutton 197 28.1 −15.1
Turnout 707 19.42
Registered electors 3,641
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Rob Gibson had been elected in 2019 as an independent but had subsequently been one of the founder members of the South Holland Independents, of which he was the leader.

Spalding Wygate

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Spalding Wygate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Janet Brenda Whitbourn
(Jan Whitbourn) 		473 45.5 +1.8
SH Independents Aaron Jacob Spencer 423 40.7 N/A
Conservative Roger Gambba-Jones* 411 39.6 −2.8
Labour Aidan James Forman 401 38.6 N/A
Turnout 1,040 21.83
Registered electors 4,763
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Sutton Bridge

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Sutton Bridge
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Michael David Booth* 540 58.7 −9.2
SH Independents Christopher James Thomas Harrison Brewis* 493 53.6 −14.3
Conservative Peter Ephraim Coupland** 381 41.4 +13.7
Conservative Laurence Philip Marchant 348 37.8 +20.4
Turnout 948 27.7
Registered electors 3,423
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Independent

Peter Coupland had been the councillor for Fleet ward immediately before the election. Michael Booth and Christopher Brewis had both been elected in 2019 as independents but subsequently joined the South Holland Independents.

The Saints

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The Saints
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laura Jean Eldridge 524 76.8 +76.8
Independent Michael David Seymour* 158 23.2 +23.2
Turnout 686 32.36
Registered electors 2,120
Conservative hold

Michael Seymour had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party early in 2023 after not being selected as the party's candidate for this election.

Whaplode and Holbeach St John's

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Whaplode and Holbeach St John's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Allan Charles Beal* 615 60.5 +60.5
Conservative Paul Alexander Redgate* 555 54.6 +54.6
SH Independents Harry Joshua Griffen 423 41.6 N/A
Turnout 1,024 28.58
Registered electors 3,583
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Changes 2023–2027

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Spalding St Paul's

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Spalding St Paul's by election, 9 November 2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Glynis Pearl Scalese 155 24.9 −13.5
SH Independents Vanessa Browning 155 24.9 −30.1
Independent Stephen Peter Timewell 132 21.2 N/A
Labour Aidan James Forman 108 17.3 N/A
Independent Julian Ashley Wheeler 73 11.7 N/A
Turnout 623 17.53
Registered electors 3,582
Conservative gain from SH Independents

This by-election was triggered by the resignation of South Holland Independents councillor Bailey Boulding.[11] The result of the by-election was a tie which was resolved by drawing lots.[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ "South Holland Independents". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Mann, Sebastian; Turner, James; Jaines, Daniel (9 April 2023). "Local elections: Who's standing in Lincolnshire in May 2023?". Lincolnshire Live. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  3. ^ "Your councillors by party". South Holland District Council. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  4. ^ "South Holland District Council local election results". Spalding Today. 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  5. ^ Browne, Duncan (23 May 2023). "New South Holland District Council leader Coun Nick Worth lays out his plans for the future and calls on teamwork from both sides of the chamber". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Your councillors by political grouping". South Holland District Council. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  7. ^ "South Holland result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  8. ^ Brookes, Andrew (24 October 2021). "Donington, Quadring and Gosberton councillor joins Conservative group". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  9. ^ Wikipedia. "Milton Keynes, 2015 Milton Keynes Council Election".
  10. ^ Brookes, Andrew (7 April 2023). "Francis Biggadike, 90, set to stand as non-aligned independent for Holbeach Town ward". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  11. ^ Fear, Victoria (26 September 2023). "Spalding councillor has resigned". Spalding Today. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  12. ^ Fear, Victoria (28 November 2023). "Conservative Party re-takes Spalding St Paul's ward seat with Glynis Scalese winning the seat after the drawing of lots to decide tied race". Spalding Today. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Declaration of results - Spalding St Paul's Ward". South Holland District Council. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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