2014 North East Lincolnshire Council election

The 2014 North East Lincolnshire Council election took place on 22 May 2014 to elect members of North East Lincolnshire Council in England.[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. These elections saw UKIP making significant gains largely at the expense of Labour, and stripping them of their majority on the council.

Results by ward.

Council make up

After the 2014 local elections, the political make up of the council was as follows:[2]

Party	Number of councillors
Labour	21
Conservative	10
Liberal Democrats	3
UKIP	8
Green	0
Independent	0

These elections saw UKIP make significant gains on the council, ultimately stripping the Labour administration of a majority. The results led to UKIP heavily targeting the area at the general election the following year, but this came with little success and they would only gain one council seat in 2015, whilst coming third in both the Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes constituencies.

The Liberal Democrats were seen to have had some comfort in holding two of their defensive seats (East Marsh and Park), considering they lost all their defensive seats at the last elections in 2012 and only won one in 2011, but with their failure to regain Yarborough after their remaining councillor defected to Labour, they had their lowest number of councillors on the authority since its creation.

Ward results

Croft Baker

Croft Baker 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Matthew Jason Brown	1031
	UKIP	Christopher James Osborne	885
	Independent	Leanor Mary Pidgen	424
	Conservative	Debbie Landymore	352
	TUSC	Roy Thomas Crampton	104
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Elaine Hughes	61
Majority			146
	Labour hold		Swing

Note: Pidgen was a former Liberal Democrat councillor that represented this ward from 2003 to 2012.

East Marsh

East Marsh 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen Beasant	907
	UKIP	Phillip John Dumbrell	422
	Labour	Annie Darby	369
	Green	Andrew Dickson	46
	TUSC	Philip Martin Tuplin	22
Majority			485
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Notes: Beasant was the only winning candidate to have achieved an outright majority of votes (ie: over 50% of the vote share). Darby was elected as a Lib Dem councillor for Yarborough in 2010 and defected to Labour (like many Lib Dem councillors on this authority) mid-term. Dumbrell contested this seat as an Independent in 2008; and then as a Conservative in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Freshney

Freshney 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Nicholas Robert Pettigrew	763
	Labour	Kathryn Helen Wheatley	631
	Conservative	Graham Reynolds	394
	Liberal Democrats	Douglas Victor Pickett	85
	Green	Andrew Lingwood	73
	TUSC	Ian Michael Radford	32
Majority			132
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Notes: Wheatley previously represented East Marsh from 1999 to 2003. Pickett previously represented the ward of Great Coates (a village which this ward contains) from 1984 to 1988 on the since-abolished Great Grimsby Borough Council which preceded this authority. He is also a former councillor for the South Ward from 2003 to 2010 on this authority.

Haverstoe

Haverstoe 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Margaret Cracknell	1403
	UKIP	Paul Wood	939
	Labour	Jack Robert Connor	547
	Liberal Democrats	Roy Horobin	133
	Green	Victoria Anne Dunn	86
Majority			464
	Conservative hold		Swing

Heneage

Heneage 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	John Matthew Stockton	918
	Labour	Karl Wilson	779
	Conservative	David Rimmer Walker	408
	Liberal Democrats	Abby McKenna	108
	Green	Andy Fox	97
	TUSC	Val O’Flynn	43
Majority			139
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Humberston & New Waltham

Humberston & New Waltham 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Stephen William Harness	1521
	Conservative	Stan Shreeve	1062
	Labour	Gareth Luke Carter	533
Majority			459
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Note: Harness gained his seat at a by-election the previous year, so is theoretically a hold.[3]

Immingham

Immingham 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	David Bolton	960
	UKIP	Andy Warwick	952
	Conservative	Stewart Swinburn	787
	Green	Martin Reed	112
	TUSC	Andrew Jonathan Simon Smith	49
Majority			8
	Labour hold		Swing

Notes: This result was announced after a series of recounts, due to how marginal the result was between the top two candidates. Swinburn previously represented the ward between 2003 and 2011.

Park

Park 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Democrats	Christina McGilligan-Fell	867
	UKIP	Stephen Whittingham	796
	Conservative	Tom Furneaux	614
	Labour	Liz Haddock	577
	Green	Jacqueline Vessey	165
	TUSC	Joseph George Coombs	42
Majority			71
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Note: Whittingham contested Waltham as a Lib Dem in 2003.

Scartho

Scartho 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Henry Richard Hudson	1233
	Conservative	Sally Michelle Dixon	960
	Labour	Catherine Harper	549
	Liberal Democrats	Graham Frederick Hicks	179
Majority			273
	UKIP gain from Conservative		Swing

Notes: Hudson previously contested Freshney in 2008 as a Conservative, before standing in Great Grimsby in the 2010 general election for UKIP. He also contested Wolds in 2011 and East Marsh in 2012 for UKIP. Dixon previously contested this seat as a Liberal Democrat in 2010 and 2011, and as a Conservative in 2012.

South

South 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Jane Elizabeth Bramley	690
	Labour	Callum David Stanland	660
	Independent	Debbie Hill	238
	Conservative	Hayden Dawkins	200
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Lindsay Pickett	97
	Green	Luke Hardy	52
Majority			30
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Note: Bramley was elected as a Labour councillor in 2010, but defected to UKIP in 2013, so theoretically holds her seat. A recount was called, due to the closeness between her and the runner-up. Pickett is a former councillor for this ward from 2004 to 2012. Hill previously contested this ward as an Independent in 2006, later contesting Sidney Sussex in 2008 and Immingham in 2010 as a Liberal Democrat.

Sidney Sussex

Sidney Sussex 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	Matthew George Stinson	891
	Labour	Alexander Wallace	584
	Conservative	Richard Hardy	369
	TUSC	Malcolm Morland	126
	Independent	George Kampanella Georgiou	89
	Liberal Democrats	Nicola Dawn Hocknell	79
Majority			307
	UKIP gain from Labour		Swing

Note: Morland was a former Labour councillor for this ward from 1995 until 1999, when he changed seats to Croft Baker until standing down in 2003. He later became a councillor for this ward again bu as a Liberal Democrat from 2006 to 2010. He also stood in the Cleethorpes constituency in the 2010 general election.

Waltham

Waltham 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	Iain Black Colquhoun	889
	UKIP	Guy Thomas Twisleton Haxby	664
	Labour	Ashley David Smith	389
	Liberal Democrats	Eleanor Fell	76
Majority			225
	Conservative hold		Swing

West Marsh

West Marsh 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	Tim Mickleburgh	434
	UKIP	Paul David Batson	325
	Independent	Peter Michael Barker	247
	Independent	Keith Watkin	135
	TUSC	David William Mitchell	32
Majority			109
	Labour hold		Swing

Note: This was the only ward in the Great Grimsby constituency which Labour held on to at these elections. Watkin and Barker are former councillors for this ward who were elected in 1999 as Independents, until losing their seats to Labour in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

Wolds

Wolds 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Conservative	David Anthony Hasthorpe	911
	UKIP	John William Chapman	676
	Labour	Christopher Francis Swale	408
Majority			235
	Conservative hold		Swing

Yarborough

Yarborough 2014

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	UKIP	James David Cairns	957
	Labour	May Dodds	717
	Conservative	Rhys Dane Cook	387
	Liberal Democrats	Sarah Leak	175
	TUSC	Ben Leech	42
Majority			240
	UKIP gain from Liberal Democrats		Swing

Note: The incumbent Liberal Democrat councillor, Annie Darby, defected to Labour during her previous term and was selected to contest East Marsh (see above).

1. "England council results". BBC News. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
2. https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/councillors-and-democracy/elections-and-electoral-registration/election-results/local-elections-22-may-2014/
3. https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/councillors-and-democracy/elections-and-electoral-registration/election-results/local-election-4th-april-2013/