2013 Lancashire County Council election

An election to Lancashire County Council took place on 2 May 2013 as part of the United Kingdom local elections, 2013. 84 councillors were elected from single-member electoral divisions by first-past-the-post for a four-year term of office. Electoral divisions were the same as those at the previous election in 2009. Elections were held in all electoral divisions across the present ceremonial county, excepting Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen which are unitary authorities in a similar way to Greater Manchester and most of Merseyside. The election saw the Conservative Party lose overall control of the council, instead overtaken in number of seats by the Labour Party, without any absolute majority.

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 2 May 2013 were entitled to vote in the local elections. Those who were temporarily away from their ordinary address (for example, away working, on holiday, in student accommodation or in hospital) were also entitled to vote in the local elections, although those who had moved abroad and registered as overseas electors cannot vote in the local elections. It is possible to register to vote at more than one address (such as a university student who had a term-time address and lives at home during holidays) at the discretion of the local Electoral Register Office, but it remains an offence to vote more than once in the same local government election.

Summary Summary of resultsBurnley Chorley Fylde Hyndburn Lancaster Pendle Preston Ribble Valley Rossendale South Ribble West Lancashire Wyre Total 4 4 0 5 5 2 6 0 3 3 5 2 39 0 3 4 1 4 2 3 4 2 4 3 5 35 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3

Results Burnley Seat Result Majority Burnley Central East Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat 1,347 Burnley Central West Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat 7 Burnley North East Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat 1,029 Burnley Rural Liberal Democrat hold 206 Burnley South West Liberal Democrat hold 136 Padiham and Burnley West Labour GAIN from British National Party 954

Chorley Seat Result Majority Chorley East Labour hold 1,127 Chorley North Conservative hold 184 Chorley Rural East Labour GAIN from Conservative 556 Chorley Rural North Conservative hold 123 Chorley Rural West Conservative hold 438 Chorley South Labour GAIN from Conservative 947 Chorley West Labour GAIN from Conservative 609

Fylde Seat Result Majority Fylde East Independent hold 1,353 Fylde South Conservative hold 522 Fylde West Independent hold 415 Lytham Conservative hold 873 St Annes North Conservative GAIN from Liberal Democrat 207 St Annes South Conservative hold 541

Hyndburn Seat Result Majority Accrington North Labour GAIN from Independent 243 Accrington South Labour hold 158 Accrington West Labour GAIN from Conservative 919 Great Harwood Labour hold 390 Oswaldtwistle Conservative hold 441 Rishton and Clayton-le-Moors Labour hold 1,108

Lancaster Seat Result Majority Heysham Conservative hold 52 Lancaster Central Green hold 340 Lancaster East Labour GAIN from Green 115 Lancaster Rural East Conservative hold 995 Lancaster Rural North Conservative hold 527 Lancaster South East Labour GAIN from Conservative 247 Morecambe North Conservative hold 561 Morecambe South Labour GAIN from Conservative 84 Morecambe West Labour hold 65 Skerton Labour hold 678

Pendle Seat Result Majority Brierfield and Nelson North Labour hold 1,560 Nelson South Labour hold 1,113 Pendle Central Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative 191 Pendle East Conservative hold 944 Pendle West Conservative hold 619 West Craven Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative 179

Preston Seat Result Majority Preston Central North Labour hold 1,795 Preston Central South Labour hold 1,187 Preston City Labour hold 1,265 Preston East Labour hold 947 Preston North Conservative hold 957 Preston North East Conservative hold 161 Preston North West Labour GAIN from Liberal Democrat 449 Preston Rural Conservative hold 1,295 Preston South East Labour hold 1,346 Preston West Liberal Democrat hold 184

Ribble Valley Seat Result Majority Clitheroe Conservative GAIN from Liberal Democrat 45 Longridge with Bowland Conservative hold 1,306 Ribble Valley North East Conservative hold 1,125 Ribble Valley South West Conservative hold 1,564

Rossendale Seat Result Majority Rossendale East Labour GAIN from Conservative 133 Rossendale North Labour GAIN from Conservative 254 Rossendale South Conservative hold 162 Rossendale West Conservative hold 32 Whitworth Labour GAIN from Conservative 407

South Ribble Seat Result Majority Bamber Bridge and Walton-le-Dale Labour GAIN from Conservative 31 Farington Conservative hold 22 Leyland Central Labour GAIN from Conservative 341 Leyland South West Conservative hold 212 Penwortham North Liberal Democrat hold 459 Penwortham South Labour GAIN from Conservative 187 South Ribble Rural East Conservative GAIN from Idle Toad 672 South Ribble Rural West Conservative hold 957

West Lancashire Seat Result Majority Ormskirk West Labour GAIN from Conservative 318 Skelmersdale Central Labour hold 1,553 Skelmersdale East Labour GAIN from Conservative 648 Skelmersdale West Labour hold 1,809 West Lancashire East Conservative hold 630 West Lancashire North Conservative hold 1,019 West Lancashire South Conservative hold 594 West Lancashire West Labour GAIN from Conservative 292

Wyre Seat Result Majority Amounderness Conservative hold 664 Fleetwood East Labour hold 760 Fleetwood West Labour GAIN from Conservative 459 Garstang Independent GAIN from Conservative 61 Poulton-le-Fylde Conservative hold 1,091 Thornton-Cleveleys Central Conservative hold 312 Thornton-Cleveleys North Conservative hold 310 Wyreside Conservative hold 1,869

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