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The 2023 Melton Borough Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 28 members of Melton Borough CouncilinLeicestershire, England.
Following the results, the Conservatives lost the council to no overall control.[2] A Labour and independent coalition took control of the council, with Labour councillor Pip Allnatt being appointed leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 24 May 2023.[3]
The overall results were:[4]
Results[5] | ||
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Party | Seats | Change |
Conservative Party | 11 | ![]() |
Independents and Others | 10 | ![]() |
Labour Party | 5 | ![]() |
Green Party | 1 | ![]() |
Liberal Democrats | 1 | ![]() |
The results for each ward were as follows. Sitting councillors standing for re-election are indicated with an asterisk (*).[6]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Steven John Carter* | 454 | 63.2 | ||
Green | Charlotte Mary Pitt Miller | 299 | 41.6 | ||
Conservative | Ronald Anthony de Burle* | 239 | 33.3 | ||
Conservative | Nicholas Arthur Putname | 218 | 30.4 | ||
Turnout | 718 | 24.89 | |||
Registered electors | 2,885 | ||||
Independent hold | |||||
Green gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Donald James Pritchett* | 602 | 57.5 | +57.5 | |
Labour | James Miles Mason | 506 | 48.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Morgan Lawrence Platts Kilburn | 447 | 42.7 | N/A | |
Turnout | 1,047 | 32.29 | |||
Registered electors | 3,255 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Donald Pritchett had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in September 2021. Seat recorded here as a Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 result.[7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Alan Henry Hewson* | 289 | 55.6 | -6.6 | |
Conservative | Jack William Smith | 231 | 44.4 | +6.6 | |
Turnout | 520 | 33.85 | |||
Registered electors | 1,551 | ||||
Independent hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Ronan William Joseph Browne* | 465 | 65.8 | +65.8 | |
Labour | Gwyneth Margaret Clay | 139 | 19.7 | N/A | |
Independent | Eric Gordon John Brown | 103 | 14.6 | N/A | |
Turnout | 707 | 44.53 | |||
Registered electors | 1,599 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Robert Howard Child* | 431 | 74.7 | +74.7 | |
Labour | Adrienne Myfanwy Holland | 146 | 25.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 577 | 39.20 | |||
Registered electors | 1,477 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Christopher John Evans* | 565 | 42.7 | ||
Conservative | Simon Gordon Theobald Orson | 512 | 38.7 | ||
Labour | Michael McQuillan | 492 | 37.2 | ||
Independent | Nicholas James Hall | 469 | 35.4 | ||
Independent | Dawn Michelle Thompson-Birch | 116 | 8.8 | ||
Independent | Leigh Tracy Birch | 73 | 5.5 | ||
Turnout | 1,323 | 38.19 | |||
Registered electors | 3,490 | ||||
Conservative gain from Independent | |||||
Conservative hold |
Christopher Evans had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in November 2022. Seat recorded here as a Conservative gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 result.[8] The other seat in Long Clawson is shown as a Conservative hold, although it had been vacant since August 2022 following the death of the previous holder, Mel Steadman.[1]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Sharon Elizabeth Butcher | 277 | 39.7 | ||
Conservative | Ian Atherton | 250 | 35.8 | ||
Independent | Lee Thomas Freer | 239 | 34.2 | ||
Conservative | Jeanne-Marie Douglas* | 237 | 34.0 | ||
Labour | Timothy John Litt | 229 | 32.8 | ||
Turnout | 698 | 24.43 | |||
Registered electors | 2,869 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | Sarah Anne Cox | 402 | 40.1 | ||
Independent | Marilyn Mary Gordon | 305 | 30.4 | ||
Independent | Patricia Cumbers* | 300 | 29.9 | ||
Conservative | Christopher Paul Gray | 283 | 28.2 | ||
Independent | Tracy Lorraine Beaken | 277 | 27.6 | ||
Green | Alastair James McQuillan | 255 | 25.4 | ||
Conservative | Julian Tarquin Lockwood | 239 | 23.8 | ||
Conservative | Simon James Thompson | 234 | 23.3 | ||
Green | Isabelle Jane Taylor | 180 | 17.9 | ||
Turnout | 1,003 | 22.84 | |||
Registered electors | 4,418 | ||||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent gain from Green | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Pat Cumbers had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party in November 2021 and became an independent. Seat recorded here as independent gain from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Philip George Allnatt | 278 | 43.2 | ||
Labour | Michael Dennis Brown | 260 | 40.4 | ||
Conservative | Jason Lewis Sharman | 179 | 27.8 | ||
Independent | Peter Faulkner* | 176 | 27.3 | ||
Independent | Elaine Ann Faulkner | 175 | 27.2 | ||
Conservative | Jonathan Winters | 172 | 26.7 | ||
Turnout | 644 | 21.27 | |||
Registered electors | 3,060 | ||||
Labour gain from Independent | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Margaret Glancy* | 629 | 47.1 | ||
Independent | Simon Roy Lumley* | 609 | 45.6 | ||
Conservative | Timothy Webster* | 459 | 34.4 | ||
Conservative | Robert Austen Bindloss* | 425 | 31.8 | ||
Labour | Vanessa Jackson | 413 | 30.9 | ||
Conservative | Rebecca Smith* | 404 | 30.2 | ||
Independent | Bruce Christopher Midgley | 336 | 25.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,336 | 30.22 | |||
Registered electors | 4,448 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative | |||||
Independent hold |
Simon Lumley and Margaret Glancy had both been elected as Conservatives in 2019 but left the party in June 2020 and March 2023 respectively to become independents. Seats recorded here as independent gains from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[10][11]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | James Brooker Adcock | 461 | 39.4 | ||
Labour | Helen Louise Cliff | 457 | 39.1 | ||
Conservative | Sigrid Atherton* | 438 | 37.4 | ||
Conservative | John Illingworth* | 423 | 36.2 | ||
Conservative | Jacob Nathaniel Wilkinson* | 370 | 31.6 | ||
Independent | Rachel Godber | 261 | 22.3 | ||
Independent | Craig William Digby | 240 | 20.5 | ||
Independent | Kenneth John Panter | 177 | 15.1 | ||
Turnout | 1,170 | 26.89 | |||
Registered electors | 4,362 | ||||
Liberal Democrats gain from Conservative | |||||
Labour gain from Conservative | |||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Alison Jacqueline Freer* | 360 | 42.1 | ||
Independent | Allen Thwaites | 345 | 40.4 | ||
Conservative | Stephen Ellis | 337 | 39.4 | ||
Labour | Susan Caroline Hammond | 327 | 38.2 | ||
Turnout | 855 | 30.73 | |||
Registered electors | 2,792 | ||||
Conservative hold | |||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Joseph Theobold Orson* | 349 | 56.7 | +0.5 | |
Independent | Elaine Holmes* | 179 | 29.1 | N/A | |
Independent | Steven James Cliff | 88 | 14.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 616 | 36.81 | |||
Registered electors | 1,676 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Independent | Leigh Higgins* | 398 | 56.0 | -9.8 | |
Conservative | Vimbisayi Taruvinga | 200 | 28.1 | -27.7 | |
Liberal Democrats | Hamish Joseph Cameron McAuley | 113 | 15.9 | -18.3 | |
Turnout | 711 | 46.79 | |||
Registered electors | 1,528 | ||||
Independent gain from Conservative |
Leigh Higgins was elected as a Conservative in 2019, was expelled from the party in September 2021, appealed and was readmitted early in 2023, but resigned from the party in April 2023 to become an independent. Seat recorded here as independent gain from Conservative to allow comparison with 2019 result.[12]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Richard Stuart Sharp | 323 | 62.2 | N/A | |
Conservative | Benjamin P. A. Townley | 196 | 37.8 | +7.4 | |
Turnout | 519 | 34.40 | |||
Registered electors | 1,526 | ||||
Independent hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | Malise Charles Richard Graham* | 302 | 71.7 | +71.7 | |
Labour | Graham Bett | 119 | 28.3 | N/A | |
Turnout | 421 | 31.84 | |||
Registered electors | 1,341 | ||||
Conservative hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Margaret Clay | 163 | 34.1 | N/A | |
Conservative | Chris Gray | 123 | 25.7 | -7.6 | |
Independent | Peter Faulkner | 100 | 20.9 | N/A | |
Green | Issy Taylor | 92 | 19.2 | –22.4 | |
Turnout | 478 | 16.8 | |||
Registered electors | 2,845 | ||||
Labour gain from Green |
The Asfordby by-election was triggered by the resignation of Green councillor Charlie Pitt Miller.[13][4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | David Joseph Chubb | 233 | 65.6 | -6.1 | |
Independent | Samantha Seaward | 122 | 34.4 | N/A | |
Turnout | |||||
Registered electors | |||||
Conservative hold |
The Wymondham by-election was triggered by the resignation of Conservative councillor Malise Graham.