2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election

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The 2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election is due to take place on 2 May 2024 alongside the West Yorkshire mayoral election and other local elections across the United Kingdom.[1]

Prior to the local elections, four Labour councillors resigned from the party in protest of the party's direction and policy regarding the war in Gaza.[2] The four members subsequently formed the Kirklees Community Independents Group,[3] which still sits on the council and has no seats up for election this year. With this exception, the council makeup is unchanged following the previous year's elections.

2024 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council election
← 2023 2 May 2024 2026 →
24 of 69 seats on Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council
35 seats needed for a majority
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Leader Cathy Scott David Hall John Lawson
Party Labour Conservative Liberal Democrats
Leader's seat Dewsbury East Liversedge and Gomersal Cleckheaton
Last election 39 18 8
Current seats 35 18 8
 
Leader Andrew Cooper
Party Green Independent
Leader's seat Newsome
Last election 3 1
Current seats 3 5
Incumbent Leader

Cathy Scott
Labour



Councillors standing down[edit]

Councillor Ward First elected Party Date announced
Naheed Mather Dalton 2012 Labour 5 February 2024[4]
Donald Firth Holme Valley South Conservative 6 March 2024[5]
Bernard McGuin Almondbury Conservative 6 March 2024[5]
Elizabeth Reynolds Golcar Labour 6 March 2024[5]
Adam Gregg Lindley Conservative 6 March 2024[5]
Melanie Stephen Liversedge and Gomersal 2021 Conservative 6 March 2024[5]


Election Results[edit]

Election results[edit]

2024 Kirlees Metropolitan Borough Council election
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour
  Conservative
  Liberal Democrats
  Green
  Independent
  Heritage
  Reform UK
  TUSC
  Yorkshire


Candidates nominated by ward:[6]

Almondbury[edit]

Almondbury[7]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats David Longstaff
Conservative Collins Ibor
Labour Patricia Colling
Green Peter Taylor
Majority
Turnout

Batley East[edit]

Batley East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Jon Bloom
Independent Aziz Daji
Green Simon Duffy
Labour Phillip Lucitt
Conservative Neil Mayman
Majority
Turnout

Ashbrow[edit]

Ashbrow
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
TUSC Daniel Green
Labour James Homewood
Liberal Democrats David Ridgway
Conservative Ian Roberts
Green Brenda Smithson
Majority
Turnout

Batley West[edit]

Batley West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Stephan Bird
Independent Zahid Kahut
Labour Shabir Pandor
Green John Phillips
Conservative Fatima Riaz
Majority
Turnout

Birstall & Birkenshaw[edit]

Birstall and Birkenshaw
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Tahir Akram 411
Labour Julie Smith 1515
Conservative Mark Thompson 1854
Liberal Democrats Louise Walsh 176
Majority
Turnout

Cleckheaton[edit]

Cleckheaton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Piers Briggs
Labour Jessica White
Green Martin Price
Liberal Democrats Kathryn Pinnock
Majority
Turnout


Colne Valley[edit]

Colne Valley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Julia Norman
Labour Matthew Mcloughlin
Conservative Isaac Barnett
Liberal Democrats Harry Marchington
Yorkshire Tim Millea
Majority
Turnout

Crosland Moor & Netherton[edit]

Crosland Moor and Netherton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Manisha Roma
Green Alex Vickers
Conservative Trevor Bellamy
Liberal Democrats Suzanne Barraclough
Independent Mark Finch
Majority
Turnout

Dalton[edit]

Dalton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Munir Ahmed
Green Clare Walters
Liberal Democrats Dominic Black
Conservative Glenn Hirst
Independent Clare Holden
Majority
Turnout

Denby Dale[edit]

Denby Dale
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Michelle Banks
Green Michael Shaw
Conservative Timothy Bamford
Liberal Democrats James Wilkinson
Independent Lynne Carroll
Majority
Turnout

Dewsbury East[edit]

Dewsbury East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Eric Firth 1534
Green Gideon Richards 622
Conservative John Cowan 758
Liberal Democrats Dennis Hullock 859
Independent Michael Wharton
Independent Shaun Maddox
Majority
Turnout

Dewsbury South[edit]

Dewsbury South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jackie Ramsay
Green Nicholas Whittingham
Conservative Sean Guy
Liberal Democrats Bernard Disken
Independent Richard Beck
Independent Hanifa Darwan
Majority
Turnout

Dewsbury West[edit]

Dewsbury West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mussarat Pervaiz
Green Simon Cope
Conservative Sajid Hussain
Liberal Democrats John Rossington
Independent Tanisha Bramwell
Majority
Turnout

Golcar[edit]

Golcar
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Angela Sewell
Conservative Matthew Crompton
Green Heather Peacock
Liberal Democrats Nicola Turner
Majority
Turnout

Greenhead[edit]

Greenhead
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sheikh Ullah
Green Maryam Jawaid
Conservative Rob Speed
Liberal Democrats Manjit Singh
Independent Waseem Naeem
Majority
Turnout

Heckmondwike[edit]

Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Steve Hall
Independent Ali Arshad
Conservative Amin Hussain
Liberal Democrats Josie Pugsley
Green Graham Simpson
Majority
Turnout

Holme Valley North[edit]

Holme Valley North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Samuel Midgley
Labour Jayne Fisher
Conservative David Heathcote
Liberal Democrats Howard Cohen
Independent Charles Greaves
Majority
Turnout

Holme Valley South[edit]

Holme Valley South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Damian Brook
Green Darryl Gould
Liberal Democrats Elen Griffiths
Labour Jane Rylah
Majority
Turnout

Kirkburton[edit]

Kirkburton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Edward Bowen
Independent Miri Finch
Green Andy Scott
Conservative James Smith
Liberal Democrats Craig Wiles
Majority
Turnout

Lindley[edit]

Lindley
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Richard Burton
Labour Tom Durrans-Cross
Conservative Robert Mcguin
Heritage Helen Parry
Liberal Democrats Ashleigh Robinson
Majority
Turnout

Liversedge & Gomersal[edit]

Liversedge and Gomersal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Erica Amende
Conservative Caroline Holt
Green Linda Simmons
Liberal Democrats David Snee
Majority
Turnout

Mirfield[edit]

Mirfield
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Martyn Bolt
Reform UK Sam Griffith-Jones
Labour Geoff Kernan
Liberal Democrats Stephen Long
Green Catherine Whittingham
Majority
Turnout

Newsome[edit]

Newsome
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Waheed Anwar
Conservative Kath Bellamy
Green Andrew Cooper
Labour Mark Morris
Majority
Turnout

References[edit]

  1. ^ "District Council and West Yorkshire Combined Authority Mayoral Elections 2024". Kirklees Council.
  2. ^ Shaw, Martin (2024-02-13). "Kirklees Council Labour group hit by resignation of four councillors in protest over Gaza and local leadership". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  3. ^ Marlow, Abigail (2024-02-20). "Ex-Labour members form new group on Kirklees Council after 'toxic swamp' resignations". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  4. ^ Shaw, Martin (2024-02-05). "Naheed Mather to step down as a councillor at the May local elections". Huddersfield Hub. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
  5. ^ a b c d e Marlow, Abigail (2024-03-07). "Six Kirklees councillors to stand down at next local elections". Yorkshire Live. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  6. ^ "Candidates confirmed for Kirklees Council elections May 2024". Kirklees Together. 2024-04-05. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  7. ^ "Statement of Persons Nominated - Almondbury" (PDF). 4 April 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
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