The 2022 Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022 to elect members of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. One-third of the seats were up for election.
Results summary
Ward results
Audley & Queen's Park
Bastwell & Daisyfield
Billinge & Beardwood
Blackburn Central
Blackburn South & Lower Darwen
Blackburn South East
Darwen East
Darwen South
Darwen West
Ewood
Little Harwood & Whitebirk
Livesey with Pleasington
Mill Hill & Moorgate
Roe Lee
Roe Lee elected two councillors at this election: the ward's ordinary seat, and a second seat filled at a poll held on the same day to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the sitting Labour councillor, Ron Whittle. Saj Ali was elected to the ordinary seat, succeeding fellow Labour councillor Phil Riley, who was in turn elected to the seat vacated by Whittle's resignation.
Shear Brow & Corporation Park
Wensley Fold
West Pennine
Aftermath
Council leader Mohammed Khan CBE, a councillor since 1992 and Leader since 2015, did not seek re-election and retired from the council at this election. Phil Riley, the outgoing deputy leader, was confirmed as the new Leader of the Council at the annual council meeting on 19 May 2022.
Changes 2022–2023
By-elections
Darwen South
Andrew Walker, who by the time of his disqualification was sitting as an independent councillor having left the Conservative Party, was automatically disqualified in October 2022 under section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972 for failing to attend a council meeting for six consecutive months.
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