Farnley_and_Wortley_(ward)
Farnley and Wortley (ward)
Electoral ward in Leeds, England
Farnley and Wortley is an electoral ward of Leeds City Council in west Leeds, West Yorkshire, covering the urban areas of Farnley and Wortley.
Quick Facts Population, Metropolitan borough ...
Farnley and Wortley | |
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Farnley and Wortley highlighted within Leeds | |
Population | 18,214 (2023 electorate) |
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Metropolitan county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
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More information Election, Councillor ...
Election | Councillor | Councillor | Councillor | |||
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Wortley (until 2004) | ||||||
1980 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Pat Fathers (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1982 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Pat Fathers (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1983 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Pat Fathers (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1984 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Pat Fathers (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1986 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Pat Fathers (Lab)[lower-alpha 1] | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1987 | Walter Thurlow (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1988 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1990 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1991 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1992 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1994 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1995 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1996 | Philip Towler (Lab) | Fabian Hamilton (Lab)[lower-alpha 2] | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1998 | Philip Towler (Lab) | David Blackburn (Green) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
1999 | Philip Towler (Lab) | David Blackburn (Green) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
2000 | Claire Nash (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Malcolm Bedford (Lab) | |||
2002 | Claire Nash (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green)[3] | |||
2003 | Claire Nash (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
Farnley and Wortley (2004 to present) | ||||||
2004 | Claire Nash (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2006 | Luke Russell (Green)[4] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2007 | Luke Russell (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2008 | Luke Russell (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2008 by-election | Andy Parnham (Green)[lower-alpha 3][5] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2010 | John Hardy (Lab)[6] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2011 | John Hardy (Lab) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2012 | John Hardy (Lab) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2014 | Terry Wilford (Green)[7] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2015 | Terry Wilford (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2016 | Terry Wilford (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2018 | Matt Gibson (Lab)[8] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2019 | Ann Forsaith (Green)[9] | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2021 | Ann Forsaith (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Ann Blackburn (Green) | |||
2022 | Ann Forsaith (Green) | David Blackburn (Green) | Mark Sewards (Lab) | |||
2023 | Adrian McCluskey* (Lab) | David Blackburn* (Green) | Mark Sewards* (Lab) |
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indicates seat up for re-election. indicates seat up for election following resignation or death of sitting councillor. * indicates incumbent councillor.
May 2023
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Adrian McCluskey | 2,438 | 48.9 | +1.1 | |
Green | Mark Rollinson | 1,648 | 33.1 | -0.8 | |
Conservative | Natalia Armitage | 538 | 10.8 | -7.1 | |
Reform UK | Andrea Whitehead | 201 | 4.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Christine Golton | 65 | 1.3 | N/A | |
Independent | Bev Lockwood | 61 | 1.2 | N/A | |
SDP | Jack Bellfield | 17 | 0.3 | N/A | |
Majority | 790 | 15.8 | +1.9 | ||
Turnout | 4,985 | 27.3 | -2.2 | ||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | ||||
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May 2022
May 2021
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | David Blackburn* | 2,293 | 39.0 | -2.1 | |
Labour | Matt Gibson | 2,155 | 36.6 | -0.1 | |
Conservative | Cormac Trigg | 1,004 | 17.1 | +10.3 | |
Yorkshire | Ian Cowling | 315 | 5.4 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Maria Frank | 77 | 1.3 | -0.7 | |
Majority | 138 | 2.3 | -2.1 | ||
Turnout | 5,884 | 32.3 | +4.9 | ||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
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May 2019
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Ann Forsaith | 2,010 | 41.1 | -2.7 | |
Labour | Matt Gibson* | 1,798 | 36.7 | -0.6 | |
UKIP | Patrick Woods | 659 | 13.5 | +13.5 | |
Conservative | Hayley Nancolas | 332 | 6.8 | -5.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Maria Frank | 96 | 2.0 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 212 | 4.4 | -1.1 | ||
Turnout | 4,917 | 27.4 | -2.8 | ||
Green gain from Labour | Swing | -1.1 | |||
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May 2018
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Ann Blackburn* | 2,461 | 43.8 | -3.8 | |
Green | David Blackburn* | 2,424 | |||
Labour | Matt Gibson | 2,151 | 38.3 | +8.5 | |
Labour | Andrea McKenna | 1,991 | |||
Labour | Andy Parnham | 1,989 | |||
Green | Stuart Haley | 1,984 | |||
Conservative | Hayley Nancolas | 685 | 12.2 | -2.0 | |
Conservative | Dorothy Flynn | 643 | |||
Conservative | John Hardcastle | 615 | |||
For Britain | Sam Melia | 162 | 2.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Rosemary Spencer | 160 | 2.8 | +1.6 | |
Majority | 310 | 5.5 | -12.3 | ||
Turnout | 17,956 | 30.2 | -0.2 | ||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | ||||
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May 2016
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | David Blackburn* | 2,517 | 47.6 | +10.8 | |
Labour | John Hardy | 1,576 | 29.8 | -0.8 | |
UKIP | Tony Roberts | 751 | 14.2 | -4.8 | |
Conservative | Hayley Laura Nancolas | 380 | 7.2 | -3.8 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rob Jacques | 60 | 1.2 | -0.8 | |
Majority | 941 | 17.8 | +11.7 | ||
Turnout | 5,284 | 30.4 | |||
Green hold | Swing | ||||
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May 2015
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Ann Blackburn* | 3,851 | 36.8 | -10.6 | |
Labour | John Hardy | 3,208 | 30.6 | -6.7 | |
UKIP | Gregory McDougall | 1,991 | 19.0 | +19.0 | |
Conservative | Mohammed Rahman | 1,156 | 11.0 | -1.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Robert Jacques | 212 | 2.0 | -1.2 | |
TUSC | Maddy Steeds | 58 | 0.6 | +0.6 | |
Majority | 643 | 6.1 | -4.1 | ||
Turnout | 10,476 | 58.7 | |||
Green hold | Swing | -2.0 | |||
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May 2014
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Terry Wilford | 1,900 | 34.3 | ||
UKIP | Alan Felber | 1,606 | 29.0 | ||
Labour | John Hardy* | 1,506 | 27.2 | ||
Conservative | Samuel Fisher | 416 | 7.5 | ||
Liberal Democrats | Robert Jacques | 76 | 1.4 | ||
TUSC | Michael Johnson | 30 | 0.5 | ||
Majority | 294 | ||||
Turnout | 5534 | 31.52 | |||
Green gain from Labour | Swing | ||||
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May 2012
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | David Blackburn* | 2,516 | 48.9 | +1.5 | |
Labour | David Dresser | 1,608 | 31.2 | -6.0 | |
UKIP | Mark Thackray | 541 | 10.5 | +10.5 | |
Conservative | Ryan Stephenson | 295 | 5.7 | -6.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Elizabeth Bee | 118 | 2.3 | -0.9 | |
Independent | William Croke | 69 | 1.3 | +1.3 | |
Majority | 908 | 17.6 | +7.4 | ||
Turnout | 5,147 | ||||
Green hold | Swing | +3.7 | |||
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May 2011
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Ann Blackburn* | 2,995 | 47.4 | +23.1 | |
Labour | Stuart McKenna | 2,353 | 37.3 | +4.2 | |
Conservative | Caroline Oldfield | 769 | 12.2 | -5.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Moore | 199 | 3.2 | -11.9 | |
Majority | 642 | 10.2 | +1.4 | ||
Turnout | 6,316 | 35 | |||
Green hold | Swing | +9.4 | |||
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May 2010
More information Party, Candidate ...
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John Hardy | 3,488 | 33.1 | +11.0 | |
Green | Andy Parnham | 2,563 | 24.3 | -20.3 | |
Conservative | Michael Best | 1,817 | 17.2 | +2.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Philip Moore | 1,590 | 15.1 | +11.0 | |
BNP | Helen Foster | 1,084 | 10.3 | -3.5 | |
Majority | 925 | 8.8 | -13.7 | ||
Turnout | 10,542 | 58.7 | +26.2 | ||
Labour gain from Green | Swing | +15.6 | |||
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- Prior to the 1986, Fathers was sacked from all of his council committee appointments and de-selected as the Labour candidate for the 1987 election after he was found to be leaking information in December 1985.
- Hamilton resigned his council seat ahead of the 1998 council election following his election as Member of Parliament for Leeds North East in 1997.
- "Councillor David Blackburn". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- "Councillor Mark Sewards". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- "Councillor Ann Blackburn". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 May 2022.
- "Councillor Luke Russell". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- "Councillor Andy Parnham". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
- "Councillor John Hardy". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- "Councillor Terry Wilford". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- "Councillor Matt Gibson". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
- "Councillor Ann Forsaith". democracy.leeds.gov.uk. Leeds City Council. Retrieved 13 June 2019.