2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election

Main article: Merseyside local elections, 2018

The 2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections. It saw the Green Party get the biggest vote growth, However the only seat change was in Rainhill where an Independent beat Labour. Elsewhere UKIP's Vote share collapsed.

2018 St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council election

← 2016 3 May 2018 (2018-05-03) 2019 →
16 of 48 seats (One Third) to St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council 25 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Derek Long Allan Jones Party Labour Conservative Leader's seat West Park Rainford Last election 15 seats, 57.9% 1 seats, 14.9% Seats before 42 3 Seats won 13 1 Seats after 41 3 Seat change 1 Popular vote 19,035 31,122 Percentage 49.7% 19.9% Swing 8.2% 5.0%   Third party Fourth party   Leader Teresa Sims Party Liberal Democrats Independent Leader's seat Eccleston Last election 1 seat, 7.7% 0 seats, 3.3% Seats before 3 0 Seats won 1 1 Seats after 3 1 Seat change 1 Popular vote 4,128 2,164 Percentage 10.8% 5.7% Swing 3.1% 2.4%
Map of results of 2018 election
Leader of the Council before election Derek Long Labour Leader of the Council after election Derek Long Labour

Election Results

Overall election result

Overall result compared with 2016.

St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council Election Results, 2018
Party		Candidates						Votes
		Stood	Elected	Gained	Unseated	Net	% of total	%	No.	Net %
	Labour	16	13	0	1	1	81.3	49.7	19,035	8.2
	Conservative	16	1	0	0		6.3	19.9	7,603	5.0
	Liberal Democrats	5	1	0	0		6.3	10.8	4,128	3.1
	Green	11	0	0	0		0	10.3	3,946	7.6
	Independent	1	1	1	0	1	6.3	5.7	2,164	2.4
	UKIP	9	0	0	0		0	3.3	1,281	10.3
	Democrats and Veterans	1	0	0	0		0	0.3	110	New

^[2]

Ward Results

Billinge and Seneley Green

Billinge and Seneley Green

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Sue Murphy	1,326	49.8
	Conservative	Nancy Ashcroft	741	27.8
	Green	Sue Rahman	400	15.0
	UKIP	Peter Peers	198	7.4

Blackbrook

Blackbrook

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Paul McQuade	1,293	61.4
	Conservative	Melanie Lee	333	15.8
	Green	Ellen Finney	323	15.3
	UKIP	Susan Levy	157	7.5

Bold

Bold

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lisa Preston	1,114	60.0
	Conservative	Barbara Woodcock	353	19.0
	Green	David O'Keefe	207	11.1
	Liberal Democrats	Marise Roberts	184	9.9

Earlestown

Earlestown

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dave Banks	1,261	64.6
	Conservative	Wally Ashcroft	357	18.3
	Green	Alan Smith	333	17.1

Eccleston

Eccleston

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal Democrats	Geoff Pearl	2,325	68.6
	Labour	Glyn Jones	710	20.9
	Conservative	Lisa Mackarell	355	10.5

Haydock

Haydock

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Martin Bond	1,147	46.4	24.2
	Green	Amy Deluce	952	38.5	New
	Conservative	Judith Collins	374	15.1	4.3
Majority			195	7.9	44.0
Registered electors			9,054
Turnout			2,478	27.4
Rejected ballots			5	0.2	0.4
	Labour hold		Swing	22.0

Moss Bank

Moss Bank

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Trisha Long	1,398	57.6
	Conservative	Margaret Harvey	608	25.1
	Green	Deb Connor	419	17.3

Newton

Newton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeanie Bell	1,098	43.1
	Liberal Democrats	David Smith	771	30.2
	Conservative	David Skeech	417	16.4
	Green	David Van Der Burg	264	10.4

Parr

Parr

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Kate Groucutt	1,309	76.1
	Conservative	Madeleine Wilcock	165	9.6
	UKIP	Martin Ellison	135	7.9
	Democrats and Veterans	Gerry McNeilly	110	6.4

Rainford

Rainford

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Anne Mussell	1,533	60.6
	Labour	Keith Laird	653	25.8
	Green	Jo Travis	305	12.1
	UKIP	Tony Parr	38	1.5

Rainhill

Rainhill

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	James Tasker	2,164	58.0
	Labour	Stephen Glover	1229	33.0
	Conservative	Henry Spriggs	336	9.0

Sutton

Sutton

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Pat Jackson	1,235	55.6
	Liberal Democrats	Brian Spencer	482	21.7
	Conservative	Allan Dockerty	351	15.8
	UKIP	John Fairhurst	154	6.9

Thatto Heath

Thatto Heath

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Richard McCauley	1,491	68.6
	Conservative	Anthony Rigby	487	22.4
	UKIP	Mark Richardson	194	8.9

Town Centre

Town Centre

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Michelle Sweeney	1,233	68.5
	Conservative	Francis Wilcock	212	11.8
	Green	William Fitzpatrick	204	11.3
	UKIP	Mark Hitchen	150	8.3

West Park

West Park

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Derek Long	1,412	61.8
	Conservative	Iris Brown	409	17.9
	Green	Ian Fraser	313	13.7
	UKIP	Ian Pennington	149	6.5

Windle

Windle

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mancyia Uddin	1,126	46.6
	Conservative	John Cunliffe	592	24.5
	Liberal Democrats	Carol Pearl	366	15.1
	Green	Francis Williams	226	9.4
	UKIP	Maria Parr	106	4.4

References

1. "Elections: Current notices". sthelens.gov.uk. St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
2. "Local Election - Thursday, 5th May, 2016". St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council.