2011 Wolverhampton City Council election

English local election

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Elections to Wolverhampton City Council were held on 5 May 2011, the same day as the national referendum on the Alternative Vote, in Wolverhampton, England. One third of the council was up for election.

Composition

Prior to the election, the composition of the council was:

Note: this differs from the total at the previous election, due to a by-election and a Liberal Democrat councillor defecting to Labour.

Following the election, the composition of the council is:

Election result

Wolverhampton Local Election Result 2011
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Seats %
Labour	35	4	0
Conservative	22	0	3
Liberal Democrats	3	0	1
BNP	0	0	0	0
Independent	0	0	0	0
UKIP	0	0	0	0

Ward results

Bilston East
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Valerie Gibson	1,764	66.14
	Conservative	Tom Fellows	903	33.86
Majority			861	32.28
Turnout			2667	29.67

Bilston North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Sue Constable	1,696	59.82
	Conservative	David Hunt	625	22.05
	Liberal Democrats	Frances Heap	97	3.42
	BNP	Stewart Gardner	154	5.43
	UKIP	Remi Hodister	263	9.28
Majority			1071	37.78
Turnout			2,835	32.51

Blakenhall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Robert Jones	3,073
	Conservative	Sid Sidhu	678
Majority			2,395	45.54%
Turnout

Bushbury North
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Leslie Pugh	1,347
	Labour	Ian Angus	1,673
	BNP	Simon Patten	391
Majority			326
Turnout			3425	37.87%

Bushbury South and Low Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Peter O'Neill	1,763
	Conservative	Annette Pugh	625
Majority			1,138
Turnout			2,406	26.74%

East Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Harman Banger	1,763
	Conservative	Darren Friel	1,508
Majority			705
Turnout			2,855	32.82%

Ettingshall
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sandra Samuels	Unopposed		−
Majority			-	-	−
Turnout			-	-	−

Fallings Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Valerie Evans	2,072
	Conservative	Simon Hewitt	1,123
Majority			949
Turnout			3,125	35.82%

Graiseley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Elias Mattu	2,399
	Conservative	Jazz Boparai	614
	Liberal Democrats	Eileen Birch	201
	Independent	John Mellor	505
Majority			1,7585
Turnout			3,746	45.44%

Heath Town
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Milkinderpal Jaspal	1,488
	Conservative	John Lee	708
	Green	Matthew Addison	231
Majority			1,785
Turnout			2,448	31.85%

Merry Hill
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Christopher Haynes
	Labour	Nav Rana
	Liberal Democrats	Lexi Lawrence
	Independent	Timothy Broomer
	UKIP	Phil Templar
Majority
Turnout

Oxley
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Ian Bisbey	1,263
	Labour	Ian Claymore	1,749
	UKIP	Keith Sinclair	276
Majority			513
Turnout			3,285	37.12%

Park
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Mike Hardacre	1,910
	Liberal Democrats	Jonathan Webber	568
	Conservative	Nasim Ullah	968
	Green	David Belcher	262
Majority				942
Turnout			3,730	46.73%

Penn
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Paul Singh
	Labour	Martin Waite
	Liberal Democrats	Bryan Lewis
	Green	Daniel Batchelor
	UKIP	Barry Hodgson
Majority
Turnout

Spring Vale
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrats	Michael Heap
	Labour	Gurcharan Bedi
	Conservative	Trevor White
	BNP	David Bradnock
Majority
Turnout

St Peter's
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Labour	Zahid Shah	1,867
	Liberal Democrats	Mary Garside	236
	Conservative	Shailesh Parekh	270
Majority			1,597
Turnout			2,391	35.07%

Tettenhall Regis
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Jonathan Yardley
	Labour	Muhammad Khan
	Liberal Democrats	Roger Gray
	UKIP	Donald Morris
Majority
Turnout

Tettenhall Wightwick
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Wendy Thompson
	Labour	Stu Goldcrusher
	Liberal Democrats	Peter Hollis
Majority
Turnout

Wednesfield North
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Tania Davis
	Labour	Rita Potter
Majority
Turnout

Wednesfield South
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Peter Dobb	1,074
	Labour	Bhupinder Gakhal	1,481
	Liberal Democrats	Oliver Williams	572
Majority			407
Turnout			3,1743	37.41%

References

Wainwright, Daniel (2 April 2011). "Councillor's defection is unfair on the local voters" (PDF). Express & Star. Retrieved 19 September 2011.

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