2012_Walsall_Metropolitan_Borough_Council_election

2012 Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council election

2012 UK local government election

Elections for Walsall Council were held on Thursday, 3 May 2012. This was the same day as other 2012 United Kingdom local elections. As the council is elected by thirds, one seat in each of the wards was up for election.

Map of the results of the 2012 Walsall council election. Labour in red, Conservatives in blue, Liberal Democrats in yellow and independents in grey.

Ward Results

According to Walsall Council's website^[2]

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	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %
Labour	9	3	2	+1
Conservative	7	0	3	-3
Liberal Democrats	2	0	0	0
Independent	2	2	0	+2
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0
BNP	0	0	0	0	-
English Democrat	0	0	0	0	-
Green	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	20	5	5	0	100%	100%

Party		Previous council	Staying councillors	Seats up for election	Election result	New council
	Labour	27	19	8	9	28
	Conservatives	27	15	12	7	24
	Liberal Democrats	5	3	2	2	5
	Independents	1	1	0	2	3
Total		60	40	20	20	60

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Thomas Gordon Ansell	1,602	49.88
	Labour	Michael Johnson	735	22.88
	UKIP	Russell Owen Armitage	517	16.10
	Liberal Democrats	Joanna Bridget Sheward	358	11.15
Majority			867	26.99
Turnout			3,212	26.51
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Peter Edward Smith	1,025
	Labour Co-op	Ian Charles Robertson	1,012
	Conservative	Hilda Derry	201
Majority			13
Turnout				26.19%
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Steve Wade	1,233
	Conservative	Alan John Paul	1,087
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Martin Ryan	173
Majority			146
Turnout				26.19%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	Chris Bott	1,353
	Labour	Graham Edward Wilkes	1,003
	Conservative	Michelle Louise Martin	139
Majority			350
Turnout				25.85%
	Independent gain from Labour		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Victoria Whyte	1,880
	Conservative	Matloob Hussain	1,570
	Liberal Democrats	Saddat Hussain	302
Majority			310
Turnout				35.36%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Garry Perry	1,886
	Labour	Hugh Alpheus Stewart	658
	Liberal Democrats	Shirley Gwendoline Balgobin	122
Majority			1,228
Turnout				29.59%
	Conservative hold		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Richard Vernon Worrall	1,233
	Conservative	Ronald Ernest George Carpenter	954
	UKIP	Timothy Neil Melville	284
	Liberal Democrats	Royston Mark Sheward	71
Majority			279
Turnout				27.59%
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal Democrats	Ian Shires	1,046
	Labour	Rosemary Cleaver	753
	UKIP	Elizabeth Anne Hazell	327
	Conservative	Clive Michael Ault	260
	English Democrat	Christopher Charles Edwin Haywood	94
Majority			293
Turnout				25.84%
	Liberal Democrats hold		Swing