Elections to the Charnwood Borough Council took place on 5 May 2011,Charnwood Borough Council election, 2011 results, Charnwood Borough Council website in line with other local elections in the United Kingdom. A total of 52 councillors were elected from 28 wards as the whole council was up for election.
The Conservatives held control of the council after winning it at the previous election with a sizeable, albeit reduced, majority of 14 seats. The Labour Party regained some of their 2007 losses in Loughborough and Shepshed whilst the Liberal Democrats lost four seats, leaving them with a sole councillor in Anstey. The British National Party only fielded three candidates and therefore lost a substantial share of their previous vote; they did, however, hold on to their one seat in East Goscote by just five votes, meaning Councillor Cathy Duffy became one of the few BNP councillors in the whole country to be re-elected.
Results summary
Ward results In wards that are represented by more than one councillor, electors were given more than one vote each, hence the voter turnout may not match the number of votes cast.
Anstey
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,620 42.9 −3.3 1 1,087 28.8 −13.4 1 853 22.6 N/A 0 216 5.7 −6.0 0 Total Votes Cast 3,775
Barrow and Sileby West
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,618 62.8 +5.6 2 1,551 37.2 +0.9 0 Total Votes Cast 4,169
Birstall Wanlip
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,932 53.7 +8.0 2 +1 1,103 30.6 N/A 0 564 15.7 −31.4 0 −1Total Votes Cast 3,599
Birstall Watermead
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,036 53.6 +7.0 2 +1 1,326 34.9 N/A 0 433 11.4 −42.0 0 −1Total Votes Cast 3,795
East Goscote
Forest Bradgate
Loughborough Ashby
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,651 64.5 +8.1 2 +1 910 35.5 +4.4 0 −1Total Votes Cast 2,561
Loughborough Dishley and Hathern
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,401 57.8 +9.2 2 +1 1,756 42.2 +0.3 0 −1Total Votes Cast 4,157
Loughborough Garendon
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,860 52.9 +9.9 1 879 25.0 −14.5 1 778 22.1 +4.7 0 Total Votes Cast 3,517
Loughborough Hastings
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,267 67.3 +7.1 2 1,104 32.7 −7.1 0 Total Votes Cast 3,371
Loughborough Lemyngton
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,306 70.0 +19.1 2 795 24.1 +5.7 0 192 5.9 −16.1 0 Total Votes Cast 3,294
Loughborough Nanpantan
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,716 49.8 −7.1 2 1,323 38.4 +18.7 0 407 11.8 −11.7 0 Total Votes Cast 3,446
Loughborough Outwoods
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,679 54.1 +3.9 2 +1 1,464 29.6 N/A 0 810 16.4 −33.4 0 −1Total Votes Cast 4,125
Loughborough Shelthorpe
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,076 55.0 +10.7 2 1,702 45.0 +15.2 0 Total Votes Cast 3,879
Loughborough Southfields
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,828 50.0 +7.4 2 1,362 37.2 +3.7 0 468 12.8 −11.0 0 Total Votes Cast 3,658
Loughborough Storer
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,530 63.7 −8.2 2 871 36.3 +8.2 0 Total Votes Cast 2,401
Mountsorrel
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,264 61.5 ±0.0 2 1,157 31.4 +5.8 0 263 7.1 N/A 0 Total Votes Cast 3,684
Queniborough
Quorn and Mountsorrel Castle
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 3,186 69.2 −6.7 2 1,421 30.8 +6.7 0 Total Votes Cast 4,607
Rothley and Thurcaston
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 3,546 76.8 +9.8 2 811 17.6 +4.0 0 259 5.6 −4.4 0 Total Votes Cast 4,616
Shepshed East
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,607 38.9 +7.9 1 +1 1,565 37.8 +16.4 1 963 23.3 −10.9 0 −1Total Votes Cast 4,135
Shepshed West
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,960 42.9 +8.4 2 1,735 37.9 +8.7 0 877 19.2 −3.8 0 Total Votes Cast 4,572
Sileby
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,322 64.1 −11.1 2 1,299 35.9 +11.1 0 Total Votes Cast 3,621
Syston East
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 1,819 55.5 −3.2 2 1,114 34.0 +10.6 0 343 10.5 −7.4 0 Total Votes Cast 3,276
Syston West
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 2,026 61.4 +8.8 2 1,275 38.6 +3.5 0 Total Votes Cast 3,301
The Wolds
Thurmaston
Ward SummaryPartyVotes% Votes±%SeatsChange 4,181 54.3 −2.0 3 3,517 45.7 +12.2 0 Total Votes Cast 7,698
Wreake Villages
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