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The 2024 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 2 May 2024. The election took place alongside other local elections across the United Kingdom. The council remained under no overall control and continued to be run by a Labour minority administration.
In December 2022, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England made The Bolton (Electoral Changes) Order 2022, which officially abolished all 20 existing wards and established 20 new wards with new boundaries. All 60 wards were contested at the 2023 elections. The elected councillor who received the least number of votes in each ward at the previous election will have their seat up in this election.[1]
The council elects its councillors in thirds, with a third being up for election every year for three years, with no election in the fourth year.[2][3] The election will take place by first-past-the-post voting, with wards being represented by three councillors, with one elected in each election year to serve a four-year term.
All registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) living in Bolton aged 18 or over will be entitled to vote in the election. People who live at two addresses in different councils, such as university students with different term-time and holiday addresses, are entitled to be registered for and vote in elections in both local authorities. Voting in-person at polling stations will take place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters will be able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.
After 2023 election | Before 2024 election | After 2024 election | ||||||
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Party | Seats | Party | Seats | Party | Seats | |||
Labour | 26 | Labour | 27 | Labour | 26 | |||
Conservative | 17 | Conservative | 15 | Conservative | 15 | |||
Liberal Democrats | 6 | Liberal Democrats | 7 | Liberal Democrats | 6 | |||
Horwich and Blackrod First | 6 | Horwich and Blackrod First | 6[a] | Horwich and Blackrod First | 6 | |||
Farnworth and Kearsley First | 2 | Farnworth and Kearsley First | 3 | Farnworth and Kearsley First | 5 | |||
Green | 0 | Green | 0 | Green | 1 | |||
Independent | 0 | Independent | 2 | Independent | 1 | |||
One Kearsley | 3 | One Kearsley | 0 | One Kearsley | 0 |
Changes 2023–2024:
Following the election the council remained under no overall control.[12] Labour made a net loss of one seat from their pre-election position, but remained the largest party and continued to form a minority administration after the election.[13]
2024 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election | ||||||||||
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Party | This election | Full council | This election | |||||||
Seats | Net | Seats % | Other | Total | Total % | Votes | Votes % | +/− | ||
Labour | 9 | ![]() |
42.9 | 17 | 26 | 44.1 | 24,475 | 33.7 | –6.7 | |
Conservative | 3 | ![]() |
14.3 | 12 | 15 | 25.4 | 14,124 | 19.5 | –13.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | 2 | ![]() |
9.5 | 4 | 6 | 10.2 | 5,388 | 7.4 | –2.4 | |
Horwich and Blackrod First | 3 | ![]() |
14.3 | 3 | 6 | 10.2 | 5,370 | 7.4 | +2.6 | |
Farnworth and Kearsley First | 2 | ![]() |
9.5 | 2 | 4 | 6.8 | 2,900 | 4.0 | +2.4 | |
Green | 1 | ![]() |
4.8 | 0 | 1 | 1.7 | 6,493 | 8.9 | +7.1 | |
Independent | 1 | ![]() |
4.8 | 0 | 1 | 1.7 | 3,964 | 5.5 | +4.6 | |
Reform UK & BFC | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 8,020 | 11.0 | +6.1 | |
Workers Party | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1,388 | 1.9 | N/A | |
Westhoughton First | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 385 | 0.5 | +0.1 | |
UKIP | 0 | ![]() |
0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 98 | 0.1 | N/A |
The results for each ward were as follows, with sitting councillors standing for re-election marked with an asterisk.[14]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Toby Hewitt | 1,560 | 38.0 | –6.5 | |
Labour Co-op | Kate Taylor* | 1,559 | 38.0 | +2.7 | |
Green | Mark Devereux | 555 | 13.5 | +4.4 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Mike Armstrong | 433 | 10.5 | +5.0 | |
Majority | 1 | 0.0 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,107 | ||||
Conservative gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Jackie Schofield | 1,436 | 40.3 | +5.4 | |
Conservative | Ciaran Tully | 1,388 | 39.0 | –8.2 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Sandra Harris | 433 | 12.2 | +4.1 | |
Green | Matthew Miller | 177 | 5.0 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Becky Forrest | 125 | 3.5 | –6.4 | |
Majority | 48 | 1.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,559 | ||||
Labour Co-op gain from Conservative | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Robert Morrisey* | 1,293 | 42.4 | +1.1 | |
Conservative | Becky Campbell | 1,130 | 37.1 | –5.3 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Georgia Lloyd | 425 | 13.9 | +2.1 | |
Green | Wendy Shepherd | 139 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Derek Gradwell | 60 | 2.0 | –2.6 | |
Majority | 163 | 5.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,047 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Nadim Muslim* | 1,763 | 46.3 | –1.6 | |
Labour | Ian Brown | 1,359 | 35.7 | +5.5 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Amy Hare | 368 | 9.7 | +1.2 | |
Green | Lee Harrison | 204 | 5.4 | –3.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Peter Priest | 113 | 3.0 | –1.8 | |
Majority | 404 | 10.6 | |||
Turnout | 3,807 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Susan Haworth* | 908 | 32.8 | –19.4 | |
Farnworth and Kearsley First | Mark Bailey | 700 | 25.3 | N/A | |
Conservative | Mazhar Iqbal | 520 | 18.8 | +0.3 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Dylan Evans | 298 | 10.8 | –6.2 | |
Green | Philip Kochitty | 273 | 9.9 | +2.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Jennifer Tonge | 71 | 2.6 | –1.7 | |
Majority | 208 | 7.5 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,770 | ||||
Labour hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Farnworth and Kearsley First | Paula Connor-Bennett | 975 | 43.1 | +0.4 | |
Labour | Champak Mistry* | 752 | 33.2 | +0.7 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Julie Pattison | 292 | 12.9 | –0.8 | |
Conservative | Carol Forshaw | 105 | 4.6 | –1.6 | |
Green | Jordan Greenhalgh | 105 | 4.6 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Andrew Tonge | 35 | 1.5 | –3.4 | |
Majority | 223 | 9.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,264 | ||||
Farnworth and Kearsley First gain from Labour | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Karen Hon* | 1,521 | 48.4 | –4.5 | |
Green | Mahboob Alom | 1,009 | 32.1 | +26.0 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Tracey Earp | 355 | 11.3 | +7.6 | |
Conservative | Kalim Muslim | 259 | 8.2 | –26.5 | |
Majority | 512 | 16.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,144 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Green | Hanif Alli | 1,523 | 45.1 | +41.3 | |
Labour Co-op | Kevin Morris* | 1,273 | 37.7 | –9.0 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Norman Cryer | 268 | 7.9 | +3.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Caroline Turner-Preece | 178 | 5.3 | +1.9 | |
Conservative | Kubbar Alom | 132 | 3.9 | –37.3 | |
Majority | 250 | 7.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,374 | ||||
Green gain from Labour Co-op | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Conservative | Andy Morgan* | 1,975 | 44.2 | –2.1 | |
Labour Co-op | Bill Lovat | 1,130 | 25.3 | –0.7 | |
Independent | Gordon Campbell | 497 | 11.1 | –3.9 | |
Green | Jennifer Entwistle | 358 | 8.0 | N/A | |
Reform UK & BFC | Graham McGreavy | 319 | 7.1 | +1.0 | |
Liberal Democrats | Paul Martin | 192 | 4.3 | –2.3 | |
Majority | 845 | 18.9 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,471 | ||||
Conservative hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Horwich and Blackrod First | Victoria Rigby* | 2,028 | 52.8 | +11.4 | |
Horwich and Blackrod First | Charlotte Sears | 1,835 | 47.8 | +6.4 | |
Labour | Kevin McKeon | 1,401 | 36.5 | +4.7 | |
Labour | George Butler | 1,117 | 29.1 | –2.7 | |
Conservative | Michael Baines | 385 | 10.0 | –3.6 | |
Conservative | Hannah Wright | 319 | 8.3 | –5.3 | |
Green | Glenys Johnson | 150 | 3.9 | –1.3 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Taylor Jones | 140 | 3.6 | +0.2 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Stephen Tonge | 128 | 3.3 | –0.1 | |
Liberal Democrats | Matt Turner-Allen | 126 | 3.3 | –1.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Scott Turner-Preece | 48 | 1.3 | –3.3 | |
Turnout | |||||
Horwich and Blackrod First hold | |||||
Horwich and Blackrod First hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Horwich and Blackrod First | Samantha Williamson* | 1,507 | 48.4 | +5.0 | |
Labour | Michael Jarvis | 878 | 28.2 | +5.7 | |
Conservative | Paul Norris | 404 | 13.0 | –9.0 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Eddie Carr | 138 | 4.4 | +1.1 | |
Green | Helen Alker | 109 | 3.5 | –2.5 | |
Liberal Democrats | Liz Turner-Allen | 77 | 2.5 | –0.2 | |
Majority | 629 | 20.2 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,113 | ||||
Horwich and Blackrod First hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Fazeelah Khan | 1,213 | 29.9 | –9.1 | |
Conservative | Shafi Patel | 824 | 20.3 | –17.8 | |
Independent | Derek Bullock* | 786 | 19.4 | N/A | |
Workers Party | Sajid Pathan | 546 | 13.4 | N/A | |
Reform UK & BFC | Rob Lowe | 354 | 8.7 | +0.6 | |
Green | Pete Hopkinson | 231 | 5.7 | –4.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Linda Maher | 108 | 2.7 | –2.3 | |
Majority | 389 | 9.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,062 | ||||
Labour gain from Independent | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Farnworth and Kearsley First | Sylvia Crossley | 1,225 | 49.9 | +6.3 | |
Labour | Melanie Livesey* | 853 | 34.8 | +8.7 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Dale Gregory | 149 | 6.1 | –5.3 | |
Conservative | Glenys Ratcliffe | 142 | 5.8 | –11.3 | |
Green | Nadeem Jojo | 52 | 2.1 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Charles Cooper | 32 | 1.3 | –0.5 | |
Majority | 372 | 15.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,453 | ||||
Farnworth and Kearsley First gain from Labour | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | Liam Barnard* | 1,201 | 37.7 | +9.6 | |
Conservative | Fred Khan | 861 | 27.1 | –8.3 | |
Independent | Sean Hornby | 615 | 19.3 | –0.1 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Brett Varnam | 393 | 12.4 | –1.4 | |
Liberal Democrats | Susan Martin | 112 | 3.5 | +0.2 | |
Majority | 340 | 10.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,182 | ||||
Labour hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Linda Thomas* | 1,256 | 43.7 | –23.0 | |
Workers Party | Omar Shafiq | 842 | 29.3 | N/A | |
Reform UK & BFC | Sandra Harvey | 221 | 7.7 | –1.0 | |
Green | Martin McLoughlin | 220 | 7.6 | N/A | |
Conservative | Shahjahan Shah | 168 | 5.8 | –8.3 | |
Liberal Democrats | Rebekah Fairhurst | 94 | 3.3 | –3.2 | |
Independent | Don Abraham Halliwell | 76 | 2.6 | N/A | |
Majority | 414 | 14.4 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,877 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Ayyub Patel | 1,990 | 48.3 | N/A | |
Labour | Hanif Adia | 1,244 | 30.2 | –18.2 | |
Green | Alan Johnson | 550 | 13.3 | +6.0 | |
Conservative | Marcellus Mbah | 153 | 3.7 | –35.5 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Colin Speakman | 139 | 3.4 | +0.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Gillian Wroe | 48 | 1.2 | –0.7 | |
Majority | 746 | 18.1 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 4,124 | ||||
Independent hold |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Garry Veevers* | 1,690 | 45.9 | –4.9 | |
Labour | Sorie Sesay | 859 | 23.3 | –0.8 | |
Green | Vicki Attenborough | 448 | 12.2 | +4.7 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Helen Shaw | 365 | 9.9 | +4.6 | |
Conservative | Raymond Ndokwo | 319 | 8.7 | –3.7 | |
Majority | 831 | 22.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,681 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour Co-op | Emily Mort* | 1,300 | 44.8 | –3.7 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Trevor Jones | 827 | 28.5 | +11.7 | |
Conservative | Emma Meen | 465 | 16.0 | –8.7 | |
Green | Alexander McAllister | 200 | 6.9 | N/A | |
Liberal Democrats | Frank Harasiwka | 113 | 3.9 | –2.3 | |
Majority | 473 | 16.3 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 2,905 | ||||
Labour Co-op hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal Democrats | Deirdre McGeown* | 1,137 | 33.8 | +3.6 | |
Conservative | Colin Higson | 842 | 25.1 | –4.4 | |
Labour | Karen Millington | 776 | 23.1 | +2.9 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Jennifer Armstrong | 314 | 9.3 | +4.2 | |
Westhoughton First | Jill Reynolds | 189 | 5.6 | –4.8 | |
Green | Charlie Barrett | 102 | 3.0 | –1.6 | |
Majority | 295 | 8.7 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,360 | ||||
Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | ![]() |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labour | John McHugh | 1,146 | 35.2 | +2.2 | |
Liberal Democrats | Neil Maher* | 1,029 | 31.6 | –0.8 | |
Conservative | Cathryn Norris | 410 | 12.6 | –5.5 | |
Reform UK & BFC | Dave Price | 292 | 9.0 | +2.4 | |
Westhoughton First | Jack Speight | 196 | 6.0 | –3.9 | |
UKIP | Richard Bates | 98 | 3.0 | N/A | |
Green | Heather Rylance | 88 | 2.7 | N/A | |
Majority | 117 | 3.6 | N/A | ||
Turnout | 3,259 | ||||
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats | Swing | ![]() |
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