2023 Bolsover District Council election

2023 Bolsover District Council election
May 4, 2023 (2023-05-04)
All 37 seats to Bolsover District Council
19 seats needed for a majority
Registered61,655
  First party Second party
 
LAB
CON
Leader Steve Fritchley David Dixon
Party Labour Conservative
Leader's seat Langwith Barlborough (lost seat)
Last election 18 seats, 46.1% 2 seats, 11.1%
Seats before 20 3
Seats won 31 3
Seat change Increase13 Increase1
Popular vote 16,720 9,343
Percentage 48.8% 27.2%
Swing Increase2.7% Increase16.1%
  Third party Fourth party
 
IND
LDM
Party Independent Liberal Democrats
Last election 16 seats, 35.0% 1 seat, 5.4%
Seats before 14[a] 0
Seats won 3 0
Seat change Decrease13 Decrease1
Popular vote 7,307 250
Percentage 21.3% 0.7%
Swing Decrease13.7% Decrease4.7%
Winner of each seat at the 2023 Bolsover District Council election
Leader before election

Steve Fritchley
Labour

 Leader after election

Steve Fritchley
Labour

The 2023 Bolsover District Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 37 members of Bolsover District Council in Derbyshire, England.[3] This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

Summary

Overview

Following the results, the council remained under Labour control.[4]

Election result

2023 Bolsover District Council election[5]
Party Candidates Seats Gains Losses Net gain/loss Seats % Votes % Votes +/−
  Labour 37 31 13 0 Increase13 83.8 48.8 16,720 +2.7
  Conservative 37 3 3 2 Increase1 8.1 27.2 9,343 +16.1
  Independent 29 3 0 13 Decrease13 8.1 21.3 7,307 –13.7
  TUSC 7 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 1.1 380 New
  Liberal Democrats 4 0 0 0 Decrease1 0.0 0.7 250 –4.7
  Green 2 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 0.5 175 New
  Reform 1 0 0 0 Steady 0.0 0.3 117 New

Ward results

The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating a sitting councillor standing for re-election.[6]

Ault Hucknall

Ault Hucknall
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Thomas Kirkham* 689 50.1 +8.6
Labour Malcolm Ritchie 658 47.9 +3.1
Labour Catherine Tite 592 43.1 +7.7
Conservative Andrew Hunt 449 32.7 +4.0
Conservative Karen Whitaker 442 32.2 N/A
Conservative Iain Grainger-Grimes 439 32.0 N/A
Independent Sarah Bister 361 26.3 N/A
Majority 143 2.7
Rejected ballots 5 0.36
Turnout 1,379 28.32 +3.00
Registered electors 4,869
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

One seat shown as a gain from independent to allow for comparison with 2019 results, although the independent elected in 2019, Liz Smyth, had subsequently joined Labour during 2021. She did not stand for re-election.

Barlborough

Barlborough
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour James Haywood 510 45.2 +8.4
Labour Vicki Wapplington 471 41.7 +7.6
Conservative Maxine Dixon* 458 40.6 −1.4
Conservative David Dixon* 436 38.6 −1.0
Independent John Shaw 185 16.4 −5.8
Liberal Democrats Alan Stanley 80 7.1 −3.7
Majority 13 1.1
Rejected ballots 10 0.88
Turnout 1,139 33.68 +1.06
Registered electors 3,384
Labour gain from Conservative Swing
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Blackwell

Blackwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Clive Moesby* 495 50.5 +11.7
Labour Sally Renshaw 402 41.0 +9.8
Independent Debbie Marshall-Curtis 306 31.2 −6.3
Independent Dexter Bullock* 296 30.2 −18.0
Conservative Jane Halford 148 15.1 N/A
Conservative Darren Keyworth 140 14.3 N/A
Majority 96 9.8
Rejected ballots 4 0.41
Turnout 984 28.82 −5.56
Registered electors 3,410
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour hold Swing

Bolsover East

Bolsover East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Anne Clarke* 507 53.0 −13.0
Labour Rowan Clarke* 436 45.6 −13.9
Conservative Joel Fletcher-Swindlehurst 303 31.7 −3.1
Independent Paul Goodwin 246 25.7 N/A
Conservative Richard Pinder 226 23.6 N/A
TUSC Daniel Jackson 62 6.5 N/A
Majority 133 13.9
Rejected ballots 10 1.04
Turnout 966 26.88 +1.38
Registered electors 3,576
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Bolsover North and Shuttlewood

Bolsover North and Shuttlewood
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Donna Hales* 492 72.7 +17.9
Labour Ashley Taylor 429 63.4 +9.6
Conservative Nick Gray-Cowley 150 22.2 N/A
Conservative Alex Webster 136 20.1 N/A
TUSC Elaine Evans 49 7.2 −37.6
Majority 279 41.2
Rejected ballots 8 1.17
Turnout 685 22.99 +2.10
Registered electors 2,976
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Bolsover South

Bolsover South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Cathy Jeffery 386 37.8 −1.1
Conservative Carol Wood 317 31.0 +15.8
Independent Derek Adams* 314 30.7 −25.3
Labour Paul Harford 301 29.5 −1.8
Conservative Chris Wood 271 26.5 N/A
Independent Nick Clarke 245 24.0 N/A
TUSC Jon Dale 88 8.6 −2.7
Majority 3 0.3
Rejected ballots 7 0.68
Turnout 1,029 31.07 −1.90
Registered electors 3,311
Labour hold Swing
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Clowne East

Clowne East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour David Bennett 547 40.4 +16.7
Labour Robert Hiney-Saunders 517 38.2 +15.6
Independent Ross Walker* 504 37.2 −24.1
Independent Allan Bailey* 469 34.6 −21.5
Labour Dawn Walton 401 29.6 +7.6
Independent Glyn Hughes 357 26.3 N/A
Conservative Natalie Hoy* 343 25.3 −16.9
Conservative Matt Hoy 320 23.6 +5.6
Conservative Angela Pogmore 230 17.0 N/A
TUSC David Watson 47 3.5 N/A
Majority 35 2.6
Rejected ballots 17 1.24
Turnout 1,372 29.79
Registered electors 4,599
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour gain from Liberal Democrats Swing
Independent hold Swing

Natalie Hoy had been elected as a Liberal Democrat in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in 2020. Seat shown as a gain from Liberal Democrats to allow comparison with 2019 results.[7]

Clowne West

Clowne West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Will Fletcher 239 54.8 +30.5
Labour Karl Reid 197 45.2 +12.6
Majority 42 9.6
Rejected ballots 14 3.11
Turnout 450 26.88 +0.15
Registered electors 1,675
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Elmton-with-Creswell

Elmton-with-Creswell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rita Turner* 728 54.6 +11.8
Labour Duncan McGregor* 705 52.8 +6.5
Labour Amanda Davis 674 50.5 +21.0
Independent Steve Smith 366 27.4 −2.1
Independent Martin Saunders 268 20.1 N/A
Conservative Derek Steff 257 19.3 N/A
Conservative Terence Edgar 207 15.5 N/A
Conservative Sarah Smith 195 14.6 N/A
Majority 308 23.1
Rejected ballots 7 0.52
Turnout 1,341 26.01 −1.11
Registered electors 5,137
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Langwith

Langwith
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Sandra Peake* 500 67.8 +67.8
Labour Stephen Fritchley* 457 61.9 +61.9
Conservative James Kershaw-Dickson 138 18.7 N/A
Conservative Carol Patterson 127 17.2 N/A
Liberal Democrats Gillian Breffit 64 8.7 N/A
Liberal Democrats Steven Raison 52 7.0 N/A
Majority 319 43.2
Rejected ballots 3 0.4
Turnout 741 21.60 N/A
Registered electors 3,427
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Pinxton

Pinxton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mary Dooley* 430 56.4 +17.0
Labour Mark Hinman* 422 55.3 +18.7
Conservative Julian Siddle 312 40.9 N/A
Conservative Kat Moss 254 33.3 N/A
Majority 110 14.4
Rejected ballots 3 0.39
Turnout 766 23.58 +0.46
Registered electors 3,250
Labour hold Swing
Labour gain from Independent Swing

Mark Hinman won his seat in a by-election in November 2022, but seat shown as gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 result.

Shirebrook North

Shirebrook North
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jen Wilson* 411 49.6 −26.4
Labour Chris Kane* 330 39.9 −24.9
Conservative Keeley Howson 210 25.4 +4.0
Independent David Downes 202 24.4 N/A
Conservative David Taylor 187 22.6 N/A
Green Martin Gibbons 62 7.5 N/A
TUSC Ronnie Rogers 62 7.5 N/A
Majority 120 14.5
Rejected ballots 3 0.36
Turnout 831 23.72 +3.80
Registered electors 3,497
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

Shirebrook South

Shirebrook South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Jane Yates 422 55.7 +1.2
Labour Janet Tait* 412 54.4 +3.1
Conservative Adam Hind 185 24.4 −7.8
Independent Sylwester Zwierzynski 159 21.0 −11.2
Conservative Dave Manton 111 14.6 N/A
Liberal Democrats Helen Oakton 54 7.1 −12.3
TUSC Dean Eggleston 39 5.1 N/A
Majority 227 30.0
Rejected ballots 5 0.66
Turnout 763 22.08 +1.55
Registered electors 3,447
Labour hold Swing
Labour hold Swing

South Normanton East

South Normanton East
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Emma Stevenson 371 41.1 −4.0
Labour Lucy King 294 32.6 −11.0
Conservative Andrew Brogdale 242 26.8 N/A
Conservative Sharon Coleman 197 21.8 N/A
Independent Tracey Cannon* 184 20.4 −30.2
Independent Andrew Joesbury* 141 15.6 −33.0
Independent John Cox 132 14.6 N/A
Independent Aileen Coleman 126 14.0 N/A
Majority 52 5.8
Rejected ballots 22 2.38
Turnout 924 25.82 +0.25
Registered electors 3,576
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour gain from Independent Swing

South Normanton West

South Normanton West
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Lisa Powell 438 35.3 −1.2
Labour Phil Smith 422 34.0 −0.3
Conservative Louise Fox 410 33.1 +12.2
Labour Adam Summers 405 32.7 −2.4
Conservative Christopher Key 381 30.7 +10.5
Conservative Alfie Mountford 377 30.4 +15.2
Independent Olivia Ball 238 19.2 N/A
Independent Susan Burnham 213 17.2 N/A
Independent David Coleman 143 11.5 N/A
Green Ian Mason 113 9.1 N/A
Independent Christine Papworth 106 8.5 N/A
Independent Graham Parkin* 82 6.6 −33.3
Independent Evonne Parkin* 79 6.4 −32.0
TUSC Brian Loader 33 2.7 N/A
Majority 5 0.4
Rejected ballots 17 1.35
Turnout 1,257 23.78 −1.95
Registered electors 5,275
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Conservative gain from Independent Swing

Tibshelf

Tibshelf
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Justin Gilbody 420 42.1 N/A
Independent Deborah Watson* 341 34.2 −7.1
Independent Allison Beckett 326 32.7 N/A
Labour Kathryn Salt 270 27.1 −5.8
Labour Jane Molsher-Berry 188 18.9 −7.8
Independent Raymond Heffer* 178 17.9 −15.6
Conservative Josh Flint 85 8.5 N/A
Conservative Shawn Sunderland 56 5.6 N/A
Majority 15 1.5
Rejected ballots 13 1.29
Turnout 1,010 30.69 −5.61
Registered electors 3,284
Independent gain from Independent Swing
Independent hold Swing

Whitwell

Whitwell
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Munro* 434 49.7 +8.1
Labour Jeanne Raspin 377 43.1 +9.8
Independent Peter Roberts* 320 36.6 −26.4
Conservative Peter Jackson 215 24.6 +3.3
Conservative Paul Bettison 150 17.2 N/A
Reform Linda Roberts 117 13.4 N/A
Majority 57 6.5
Rejected ballots 1 0.11
Turnout 875 29.53 −1.58
Registered electors 2,962
Labour gain from Independent Swing
Labour hold Swing

Changes 2023–2027

  • Carol Wood, elected for Bolsover South as a Conservative and a former leader of the Conservative group, left the party to join Reform UK in September 2024.[8]
  • Stephen Fritchley, elected for Langwith as Labour, stepped down as Leader of the Council in January 2025 after a code of conduct investigation found that language he had used, in a dispute with the former Conservative MP for Bolsover, could have been perceived as homophobic, and subsequently left the party to sit as an independent.[9][10]
  • Between the 2023 election and mid-2025, seven further Labour councillors left the party to sit as independents: Chris Kane and Jen Wilson (Shirebrook North), Janet Tait (Shirebrook South), Emma Stevenson (South Normanton East), Rita Turner (Elmton-with-Creswell), Anne Clarke (Bolsover East) and Sandra Peake (Langwith), reducing Labour's representation on the council from 31 to 23 seats.[11]
  • Rowan Clarke, elected for Bolsover East as Labour, also subsequently left the party to sit as an independent.[12]
  • Louise Fox, elected for South Normanton West as a Conservative, subsequently left the party to join Reform UK.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Including one vacant seat in Clowne West ward previously held by independent councillor Dan Salt until his removal from the council in December 2022 for non-attendance.[1] Of the independent councillors, nine sat together as the "Independent Group" led by Deborah Watson, three formed the "Community Independents" led by Ross Walker (which group had also included Dan Salt prior to his removal) and one councillor was not aligned to any group.[2]
  1. ↑ "Council minutes, 7 December 2022". Bolsover District Council. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Your councillors by political grouping". Bolsover District Council. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Bolsover | England Councils 2023 - Election Results | Sky News". Sky News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Labour reinforces its hold at Bolsover Council securing 31 seats after election". Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  5. ↑ "Bolsover result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  6. ↑ "District Election 2023". Bolsover District Council. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Boothroyd, David (5 June 2020). "Trouble for Aberdeenshire Tories". Local Councils. Thorncliffe. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Bolsover councillor leaves Conservative Party to join Reform UK Party and says 'the majority of her ward members share her views'". Mansfield and Ashfield Chad. 4 September 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Bolsover District Council leaders announce their retirement". BBC News. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Council leader cleared of homophobia allegations". BBC News. 5 December 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  11. ↑ Cooper, Jon (29 May 2025). "Eight former Labour Bolsover District Councillors join Independents during two-year exodus". Derbyshire Times. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Your Councillors". Bolsover District Council. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
  13. ↑ "Your Councillors". Bolsover District Council. Retrieved 15 August 2026.
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