High Peak Borough Council elections

High Peak Borough Council elections are held every four years. High Peak Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of High Peak in Derbyshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2015, 43 councillors have been elected from 28 wards.^[1]

Council elections[edit]

1973 High Peak Borough Council election
1976 High Peak Borough Council election
1979 High Peak Borough Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 2)^[2]^[3]
1983 High Peak Borough Council election
1987 High Peak Borough Council election
1991 High Peak Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[4]^[5]
1995 High Peak Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)^[6]^[7]
1999 High Peak Borough Council election
2003 High Peak Borough Council election (New ward boundaries reduced the number of seats by 1)^[8]^[9]
2007 High Peak Borough Council election
2011 High Peak Borough Council election
2015 High Peak Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)^[1]
2019 High Peak Borough Council election
2023 High Peak Borough Council election

Council composition[edit]

Year								Control
Year	Conservative	Labour	Liberal Democrats	Liberal	Glossop Independent	Green	Independent	Control
1973	23	11	-	2	-	-	10	No overall control
1976	27	8	-	2	-	-	9	Conservative
1979	22	12	-	2	-	-	8	No overall control
1983	18	14	-	2	-	-	10	No overall control
1987	17	11	-	7	-	-	9	No overall control
1991	14	16	10	-	-	0	4	No overall control
1995	5	30	5	-	-	0	4	Labour
1999	10	27	5	-	-	0	2	Labour
2003	12	18	7	-	2	0	4	No overall control
2007	24	9	6	-	0	0	4	Conservative
2011	15	21	3	-	0	0	4	No overall control
2015	23	17	2	-	0	0	1	Conservative
2019	16	22	3	-	0	2	0	Labour
2023	10	29	1	-	0	2	1	Labour

Results maps[edit]

2015 results map
2019 results map
2023 results map

By-election results[edit]

1995-1999[edit]

Barmoor By-Election 6 March 1997
Party		Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	220	53.5
	Labour	191	46.5
Majority		29	7.0
Turnout		411	38.8
	Liberal Democrats gain from Independent	Swing

New Mills South By-Election 1 May 1997
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Labour	1,038	44.1	-11.5
	Liberal Democrats	787	33.4	-3.3
	Conservative	528	22.4	+14.7
Majority		251	10.7
Turnout		2,353
	Labour hold	Swing

Blackbrook By-Election 23 April 1998
Party		Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	578	50.8	-1.8
	Conservative	405	35.6	+9.6
	Labour	155	13.6	-7.8
Majority		178	15.2
Turnout		1,138	38.9
	Liberal Democrats hold	Swing

St Johns By-Election 2 July 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Worrall	414	48.7	+9.6
	Liberal Democrats		329	38.7	+11.3
	Labour		107	12.6	-20.6
Majority			85	10.0
Turnout			850	42.4
	Conservative hold		Swing

1999-2003[edit]

St. James By-Election 30 September 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour		414	41.0	-3.7
	Conservative	George Wharmby	383	38.5	+5.7
	Liberal Democrats		197	19.8	-2.0
Majority			31	2.5
Turnout			994	22.7
	Labour hold		Swing

2003-2007[edit]

Sett By-Election 23 October 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anthony Ashton	201	34.8	-20.1
	Liberal Democrats	Trevor Jefcoate	193	33.4	+33.4
	Labour	Alan Barrow	183	31.7	+2.3
Majority			8	1.4
Turnout			577	35.0
	Conservative hold		Swing

Howard Town By-Election 16 September 2004^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Roger Wilkinson	270	36.7	+2.6
	Conservative	George David Wharmby	167	22.7	+0.7
	Respect	Shaw	107	14.6	+14.6
	Glossop Independent Party	Amanda Jane Whitehead	103	14.0	-18.7
	Liberal Democrats	Peter John Michael William Beard	88	12.0	+12.0
Majority			103	14.0
Turnout			735	22.8
	Labour hold		Swing

Simmondley By-Election 16 September 2004^[10]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Goinden (George) Kuppan	382	40.2	-0.6
	Conservative	Andrew Richardson	244	25.7	-1.3
	Labour	Barbara Anne Hastings-Asatourian	196	20.6	-11.6
	Glossop Independent Party	Neil Johnstone	96	10.1	+10.1
	Respect	Aldridge	32	3.4	+3.4
Majority			138	14.5
Turnout			950	26.1
	Liberal Democrats gain from Labour		Swing

New Mills West By-Election 5 May 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Steven Sharpe	925	41.7
	Labour	Lancelot Edgar Dowson	784	35.4
	Conservative	Christopher John Saunders	508	22.9
Majority			141	6.3
Turnout			2,217	68.5
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

Dinting By-Election 15 September 2005^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Jean Wharmby	322	58.5	+3.7
	Labour	Stephen Eichhorn	128	23.3	-4.0
	Liberal Democrats	Marc Godwin	100	18.2	+0.3
Majority			194	35.2
Turnout			550	37.2
	Conservative hold		Swing

Whitfield By-Election 15 September 2005^[11]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Eleanor Wilcox	212	52.7	+12.0
	Liberal Democrats	Linda Walker	135	33.6	+33.6
	Conservative	Matthew James Andrew Crompton	55	13.7	+13.7
Majority			77	19.1
Turnout			402	24.9
	Labour gain from Independent		Swing

2007-2011[edit]

Tintwistle By-Election 22 October 2009^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	William Clarke	339	69.2	+14.3
	Labour	Joyce Brocklehurst	111	22.7	-22.5
	Liberal Democrats	Maureen Hargreaves	40	8.2	+8.2
Majority			228	46.5
Turnout			490	28.8
	Conservative hold		Swing

Blackbrook By-Election 26 November 2009^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Edith Longden	689	56.9	+16.5
	Conservative	Geoffrey Colston	470	38.8	-20.8
	Labour	Fiona Sloman	52	4.3	+4.3
Majority			219	18.1
Turnout			1,211	35.6
	Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative		Swing

New Mills West By-Election 06 May 2010^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Janet Maria Carter	819	33.8
	Conservative	Jacqui Gadd	647	26.7
	Labour	Alan Barrow	504	20.8
	Independent	Lance Dowson	235	9.7
	Green	Hazel May Body	218	9.0
Majority			172	7.1
Turnout			2,423	71.31	+27.87
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing

2011-2015[edit]

Buxton Central By-Election 29 March 2012^[15]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jean Marion Todd	416	44.88	-0.22
	Conservative	Robert George Morris	396	42.71	+6.70
	Liberal Democrats	Derek John Webb	70	7.55	-4.40
	Independent	Louise Maria Glasscoe	42	4.53	+4.53
Majority			20	2.16
Turnout			927	26.74	-9.44
	Labour hold		Swing	-3.46

2015-2019[edit]

Limestone Peak By-Election 09 November 2017^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Peter Nigel Roberts	261	53.59	+3.76
	Labour	Jim Lambert	133	27.31	+0.79
	Liberal Democrats	Alistair MacPhail Forbes	58	11.91	+11.91
	Green	Peter Colin Crook	34	6.98	+6.98
Majority			128	26.28	+4.53
Turnout			487	29.05	-37.89
	Conservative hold		Swing	+1.49

2019-2023[edit]

Cote Heath By-Election 7 April 2022^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Kev Kirkham	585	55.5	+5.4
	Labour	Alan Smith	413	39.2	-10.7
	Green	Peter Crook	56	5.3	+5.3
Majority			172	16.3
Turnout			1,054
	Conservative gain from Labour		Swing

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "The High Peak (Electoral Changes) Order 2015", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2015/78, retrieved 22 August 2022
^ Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003
^ The Borough of High Peak (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977
^ legislation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) Orde. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
^ legislation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1992. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
^ legislation.gov.uk – The Derbyshire and Greater Manchester (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
^ legislation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
^ "Local elections". BBC News. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
^ legislation.gov.uk – The Borough of High Peak (Electoral Changes) Order 1999. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b Tempest, Matthew (17 September 2004). "BNP wins first London seat since 1993". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
^ ^a ^b "By-Election Results 15 September 2005". High Peak Borough Council. 16 September 2005. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2012.
^ "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
^ "Local Elections Archive Project – Cote Heath Ward". andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2022.

By-election results

External links[edit]

High Peak Council

[2015order-1] "The High Peak (Electoral Changes) Order 2015", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2015/78, retrieved 22 August 2022

[2] Source: Rallings and Thrasher, Local Elections in Britain: A Statistical Digest, 2003

[3] The Borough of High Peak (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977

[4] slation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) Orde. Retrieved 5 November 2015.

[5] slation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire, Hereford and Worcester and Staffordshire (County Boundaries) (Variation) Order 1992. Retrieved 5 November 2015.

[6] slation.gov.uk – The Derbyshire and Greater Manchester (County Boundaries) Order 1991. Retrieved 5 November 2015.

[7] slation.gov.uk – The Cheshire, Derbyshire and Greater Manchester (County and District Boundaries) Order 1993. Retrieved 5 November 2015.

[lose-8] "Local elections". BBC News. Retrieved 23 October 2009.

[9] slation.gov.uk – The Borough of High Peak (Electoral Changes) Order 1999. Retrieved 4 October 2015.

[london-10] Tempest, Matthew (17 September 2004). "BNP wins first London seat since 1993". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

[dinting-11] "By-Election Results 15 September 2005". High Peak Borough Council. 16 September 2005. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

[tintwistle-12] "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

[blackbrook-13] "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 27 November 2009.

[New-14] "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010.

[15] "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 May 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2012.

[16] "Declaration of result of poll" (PDF). High Peak Borough Council. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

[17] "Local Elections Archive Project – Cote Heath Ward". andrewteale.me.uk. Retrieved 29 May 2022.

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See also: Wards Boundary changes