2024 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election

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2024 City of Bradford District Borough Council election
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30 out of 90 seats to City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
46 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Party Labour Independent Green
Last election 56 seats, 40.9% 5 seats, 7.3% 8 seats, 11.8%
Seats before 53 7 6
Seats won 10 9 4
Seats after 48 13 8
Seat change Decrease 5 Increase 6 Increase 2
Popular vote 41,657 26,771 19,519
Percentage 32.8% 21.1% 15.4%
Swing Decrease 8.1% Increase 13.8% Increase 3.6%
  Fourth party Fifth party
  Blank Blank
Party Conservative Liberal Democrats
Last election 16 seats, 30.3% 5 seats, 8.1%
Seats before 12 5
Seats won 4 3
Seats after 9 5
Seat change Decrease 3 Steady
Popular vote 25,244 9,344
Percentage 19.9% 7.4
Swing Decrease 10.4% Decrease 0.7%
Winner of each seat at the 2024 City of Bradford Metropolitan Borough Council election
Council control before election


Labour

Council control after election


Labour

The 2024 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election took place on 2 May 2024. One third of councillors (30 out of 90) were elected. The election took place alongside other local elections across England and Wales.[1]

Background[edit]

Result of the council election when these seats were last contested in 2021
Result of the most recent council election in 2023

The Local Government Act 1972 created a two-tier system of metropolitan counties and districts covering Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, the West Midlands, and West Yorkshire starting in 1974. Bradford was a district of the West Yorkshire metropolitan county.[2] The Local Government Act 1985 abolished the metropolitan counties, with metropolitan districts taking on most of their powers as metropolitan boroughs. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority was established in 2014 and began electing the mayor of West Yorkshire in 2021.[3]

Since its formation, Bradford has been variously under Labour control, Conservative control and no overall control. Councillors have predominantly been elected from the Labour Party, Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats. The Green Party gained their first councillors on Bradford Council in 2002 and following these elections became the joint third largest group on the council.

Labour had regained control of the council from no overall control in the 2014 council election, gaining one seat to hold 46 out of 90 seats on the council. The Labour Party maintained its majority on the council in subsequent elections. Of the 30 seats contested in the previous election in 2023, Labour won 22 on 47.0% of the vote, the Conservatives won four seats on 24.0% of the vote, the Green Party won three seats on 14.5% of the vote, and the Liberal Democrats won one seat each on 8.5% of the vote.[4]

Positions up for election in 2024 were last elected in 2021. In that election, fifteen Labour councillors, eleven Conservative councillors, three Liberal Democrat councillors, two Green councillors, and two independent councillors were elected.[5]

Electoral process[edit]

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.[6][7] The election used first-past-the-post voting, with wards generally 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 Bradford aged 18 or over were 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 took place from 07:00 to 22:00 on election day, and voters were able to apply for postal votes or proxy votes in advance of the election.

Council composition[edit]

After 2023 election Before 2024 election After 2024 election
Party Seats Party Seats Party Seats
Labour 56 Labour 53 Labour 48
Conservative 16 Conservative 15 Conservative 9
Independent 5 Independent 9 Independent 13
Green 8 Green 8 Green 10
Liberal Democrats 5 Liberal Democrats 5 Liberal Democrats 5

Changes:

  • June 2023: Mohammed Nazam is suspended from the Conservative Party after apologising for attending a Pride event and calling it a "lapse in judgement" that "contradicts [his] personal religious beliefs."[8]
  • October 2023: Sarfraz Nazir and Taj Salam resign from the Labour Party over Keir Starmer's comments on the Israel–Hamas war and join the Bradford Independent Group.[9]
  • March 13, 2024: Julie Lintern is suspended from the Labour Party after voting against the administration's budget.[10]

Results[edit]

2024 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election
Party This election Full council This election
Seats Net Seats % Other Total Total % Votes Votes % +/−
  Labour 10 Decrease 5 33.3 38 48 42.2 41,657 32.8 -8.1
  Independent 9 Increase 4 13.3 4 13 14.4 26,771 21.1 +13.8
  Green 4 Increase 2 13.3 6 10 11.1 19,519 15.4 +3.6
  Conservative 4 Decrease 6 13.3 5 9 10.0 25,244 19.9 -10.4
  Liberal Democrats 3 Steady 10.0 2 5 5.6 9,344 7.4 -0.7
  Yorkshire 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 2,509 2.0 +0.9
  Reform UK 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 1,306 1.0 +0.9
  British Democratic 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 190 0.1 Steady
  UKIP 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 110 0.1 Steady
  TUSC 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 103 0.1 Steady
  SDP 0 Steady 0.0 0 0 0.0 58 <0.1 Steady

Ward results[edit]

Incumbent councillors are marked with an asterisk.

Baildon[edit]

Baildon[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Debbie Davies* 2,275 45.2 -16.4
Labour Gill Dixon 1,922 38.2 +10.4
Independent Joe Ashton 490 9.7 New
Green Carl Dunk 229 4.5 -3.4
Liberal Democrats David Wilkinson 117 2.3 -0.4
Majority 353 7.0 -26.8
Rejected ballots 21 0.4
Turnout 5,033
Conservative hold Swing

Bingley[edit]

Bingley[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Marcus Dearden* 3,705 61.7 +13.8
Conservative Paul Golding 1,690 28.1 -15.8
Green Rachael Drucquer 398 6.6 +0.1
Liberal Democrats Peter Russell 212 3.5 +1.8
Majority 2,015 33.6 +29.6
Rejected ballots 70 1.2
Turnout 6,005
Labour hold Swing

Bingley Rural[edit]

Bingley Rural[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Geoff Winnard 2,528 50.2 -5.5
Labour Jenny Kimber 1,723 34.2 +13.6
Green Brian Newham 548 10.9 +1.7
Liberal Democrats Helen Baranowski 239 4.7 -2.1
Majority 805 16.0 -2.6
Rejected ballots 45 0.9
Turnout 5,038
Conservative hold Swing

Bolton and Undercliffe[edit]

Bolton and Undercliffe[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent David Ward 1,432 43.0 +8.7
Labour Simon Cunningham* 1,169 35.1 -9.6
Conservative Wendy Harrison 284 8.5 -7.3
Green Bruce Gulland 227 6.8 +2.4
Yorkshire Wendy Barras 182 5.5 New
TUSC Tom Gibson 37 1.1 +0.3
Majority 263 7.9 -2.5
Rejected ballots 48 1.4
Turnout 3,331
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Bowling and Barkerend[edit]

Bowling and Barkerend[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ismail Uddin 1,551 46.6 New
Labour Hassan Khan* 1,332 40.0 -4.2
Green Andy Rickford 282 8.5 +4.0
Conservative Ali Jamal 259 7.8 -35.0
Liberal Democrats Howard Middleton 228 6.8 -1.7
Yorkshire Kyle Wood 219 6.6 New
Majority 219 6.6
Rejected ballots 34 1.0
Turnout 3,871
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Bradford Moor[edit]

Bradford Moor[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Riaz Ahmed* 2,052 52.6 +9.0
Labour Margaret Alipoor 1,179 30.2 -9.6
Green Andrew Wood 494 12.7 +10.5
Yorkshire Darren Longhorn 110 2.8 New
Conservative Tkay Shana 68 1.7 -12.7
Majority 873 22.4 18.6
Rejected ballots 46 1.2
Turnout 3,903
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

City[edit]

City[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Rizwan Saleem 2,224 52.5 New
Labour Co-op Aneela Ahmed* 1,448 34.2 -29.6
Green Mateusz Tadych 300 7.1 -0.2
Conservative Peter Kirk 267 6.3 -1.5
Majority 776 18.3 -24.4
Rejected ballots 30 0.7
Turnout 4,239
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Clayton and Fairweather Green[edit]

Clayton and Fairweather Green[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mozalfa Ilyas 1,369 40.9 -15.1
Conservative Kate Lawton 720 21.5 -10.9
Independent Sharat Hussain 661 19.8 New
Green Susan Hassell 369 11.0 +2.8
Liberal Democrats Steven Cotterill 225 6.7 +3.3
Majority 649 19.4 -4.2
Rejected ballots 39 1.2
Turnout 3,344
Labour hold Swing

Craven[edit]

Craven[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Neil Whitaker 2,455 41.3 +14.4
Conservative George Buckley 2,288 38.5 +6.5
Labour Andrew Knight 736 12.4 -5.2
Yorkshire Peter Kaye 299 5.0 -1.8
UKIP Leo Robinson 110 1.8 New
Liberal Democrats Paul Mann 59 1.0 -0.4
Majority 167 2.8 -2.3
Rejected ballots 16 0.3
Turnout 5,947
Green gain from Conservative Swing

Eccleshill[edit]

Eccleshill[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Brendan Stubbs* 1,211 35.3 -0.6
Labour Vera Martin 1,163 33.9 -0.4
Conservative Ur Rasool 414 12.1 -2.2
Green Sophie Vanicat 293 8.5 +3.3
Yorkshire Jonathan Barras 288 8.4 -1.8
TUSC Laura Fretwell 66 1.9 New
Majority 48 1.4 -0.2
Rejected ballots 24 0.7
Turnout 3,435
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Great Horton[edit]

Great Horton[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Sirferaz Saddiq 1,692 41.8 New
Labour Co-op Abdul Jabar* 1,453 35.9 -33.5
Conservative Sangeeta Khan 269 6.7 -10.1
Yorkshire William Grant 248 6.1 New
Green Steven Prosser 231 5.7 -2.2
Liberal Democrats Sarah Moses 151 3.7 -2.2
Majority 239 5.9 -46.7
Rejected ballots 29 0.7
Turnout 4,044
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Heaton[edit]

Heaton[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Ishtiaq Ahmed 2,183 51.1 New
Green Khalid Mahmood 1,544 36.2 +24.4
Labour Ibrar Hussain* 1,245 29.2 -43.6
Conservative Stephen Butler 296 6.9 -5.7
Majority 639 15.0 -45.2
Rejected ballots 26 0.6
Turnout 5,268
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Idle and Thackley[edit]

Idle and Thackley[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrats Alun Owen Griffiths* 2,499 60.3 +10.6
Labour Gareth Logan 881 21.3 +0.8
Yorkshire Lara Barras 309 7.5 New
Conservative Shihab-ud-deen Basit 243 5.9 -16.8
Green Tess Lawrence 210 5.1 -2.0
Majority 1,618 39.1 +12.1
Rejected ballots 20 0.5
Turnout 4,142
Liberal Democrats hold Swing

Ilkley[edit]

Ilkley[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Ros Brown 2,414 37.7 +11.8
Conservative Joanne Sugden 2,247 35.1 +7.7
Independent Anne Hawkesworth* 988 15.4 -14.1
Labour Michael Baldwin 694 10.8 -4.1
Liberal Democrats John Briggs 58 0.9 -1.5
Majority 167 2.6 +0.5
Rejected ballots 41 0.6
Turnout 6,401
Green gain from Independent Swing

Keighley Central[edit]

Keighley Central[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Mohsin Hussain* 2,902 51.5 +1.4
Independent Vaz Shabir 1,889 33.5 New
Conservative Clare Abberton 498 8.8 -6.8
Green Peter Ferguson 234 4.2 +0.4
Liberal Democrats Nick Allon 115 2.0 +0.4
Majority 1,013 18.0 +14.2
Rejected ballots 43 0.8
Turnout 5,638
Labour hold Swing

Keighley East[edit]

Keighley East[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Fulzar Ahmed 1,561 27.7 -20.4
Conservative Jenna Ambler 1,383 24.5 -15.6
Independent Nasser Razak 491 8.7 New
Green Duncan Hunnisett 362 6.4 +1.7
Liberal Democrats Pauline Allon 296 5.3 +3.6
SDP Alexander Richard Vann 58 1.0 +0.8
Majority 178 3.6 -4.4
Rejected ballots 35 0.6
Turnout 4,151
Labour hold Swing

Keighley West[edit]

Keighley West[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Joe O'Keeffe 1,238 39.7 -0.6
Conservative Julie Glentworth* 968 31.0 -9.5
Green Adrian Farley 448 14.4 +11.3
Reform UK Andrew Judson 297 9.5 New
Yorkshire Dominic Atlas 113 3.6 -1.2
Liberal Democrats David Hewitt 57 1.8 +0.1
Majority 270 8.7 +8.5
Rejected ballots 26 0.8
Turnout 3,121
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Little Horton[edit]

Little Horton[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Talat Sajawal* 2,755 68.5 +13.2
Labour Andrew Mawson 769 19.1 -18.6
Green Nurjahan Ali Arobi 220 5.5 +3.8
Conservative Elizabeth Bell 150 3.7 -0.4
Yorkshire Bob Buxton 129 3.2 New
Majority 1,986 49.4 +31.8
Rejected ballots 35 0.9
Turnout 4,023
Independent hold Swing

Manningham[edit]

Manningham[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Muhammed Ali Islam 4,100 76.8 New
Labour Adil Hussain 899 16.8 -60.7
Green Anne Betts Fetherston 193 3.6 -2.2
Conservative Harry Burns 144 2.7 -1.8
Majority 3,201 60.0 -6.0
Rejected ballots 29 0.5
Turnout 5,336
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Queensbury[edit]

Queensbury[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Luke Majkowski* 2,130 53.6 New
Labour Mobeen Hussain 919 23.1 -6.9
Conservative Adam Paterson 574 14.4 -40.6
Green Eithne Dodwell 279 7.0 -3.7
Liberal Democrats Mary Whitrick 71 1.8 -8.9
Majority 1,211 30.5 +5.5
Rejected ballots 13 0.3
Turnout 3,973
Independent hold Swing

Royds[edit]

Royds[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Andrew Thornton* 1,417 50.6 +1.2
Reform UK Richard Hainsworth 478 17.1 New
Conservative Ekoumba Bayap Emmanuel 391 14.0 -21.4
Green Michael Daw 374 13.4 +7.6
Liberal Democrats Ines Riach 140 5.0 +0.8
Majority 939 33.5 +19.5
Rejected ballots 30 1.1
Turnout 2,800
Labour hold Swing

Shipley[edit]

Shipley[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Martin Love* 3,251 63.6 +3.5
Labour Jane Elgar 1,064 20.8 -1.4
Conservative Qais Hussain 361 7.1 -5.3
Independent Nagbea 206 4.0 New
Reform UK Phill Moncaster 166 3.2 New
Liberal Democrats Nicholas Errington 66 1.3 -0.6
Majority 2,187 42.8 +4.9
Rejected ballots 36 0.7
Turnout 5,114
Green hold Swing

Thornton and Allerton[edit]

Thornton and Allerton[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Beverley Mullaney* 1,721 45.4 -10.1
Conservative Robert George Goulding 761 20.1 -11.0
Independent Qamar Ahmed 665 17.5 New
Liberal Democrats Anthea Griffiths 342 9.0 +2.0
Green Ismena Sorrell 304 8.0 +1.6
Majority 960 25.3 +0.9
Rejected ballots 47 1.2
Turnout 3,793
Labour hold Swing

Toller[edit]

Toller[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Atira Malik 2,548 52.6 New
Labour Arshad Hussain* 1,665 34.4 -53.0
Green Brian Ford 453 9.4 -3.3
Conservative Jonty Sharp 175 3.6 New
Majority 883 18.2 -56.5
Rejected ballots 38 0.8
Turnout 4,841
Independent gain from Labour Swing

Tong[edit]

Tong[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Green Matt Edwards* 1,620 60.6 +13.9
Labour Sharon Ratcliffe 707 26.4 -8.8
Conservative Gladys Akenji Lum 183 6.8 -9.2
Yorkshire David Herdson 97 3.6 New
Liberal Democrats Susan Elliott 68 2.5 New
Majority 913 34.1 +22.6
Rejected ballots 30 1.1
Turnout 2,675
Green hold Swing

Wharfedale[edit]

Wharfedale[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bob Felstead* 1,913 41.1 -6.9
Labour Bernard O'Connor 1,846 39.7 +18.0
Green Chris Turner 418 9.0 -10.4
Liberal Democrats Jamie Needle 328 7.0 -14.3
Yorkshire Rachel Martins 148 3.2 New
Majority 67 1.4
Rejected ballots 32 0.7
Turnout 4,653
Conservative hold Swing

Wibsey[edit]

Wibsey[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Faiz Ilyas 913 31.6 -21.8
Independent Nick Peterken 766 26.6 New
Green Alexander Radice 435 15.1 +9.0
Yorkshire Stacey Head 367 12.7 New
Conservative Owais Rajput 296 10.3 -22.2
Liberal Democrats Suzanne Lubenko 105 3.6 -4.4
Majority 147 5.1 -14.8
Rejected ballots 32 1.1
Turnout 2,882
Labour hold Swing

Windhill and Wrose[edit]

Windhill and Wrose[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Alex Ross-Shaw* 1,551 51.6 +4.5
Conservative James Gill 728 24.2 -14.5
Green John Wood 388 12.9 +4.6
Liberal Democrats Gillian Thorne 340 11.3 +5.5
Majority 823 27.4 +19.0
Rejected ballots 44 1.5
Turnout 3,007
Labour hold Swing

Worth Valley[edit]

Worth Valley[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Russell Brown* 2,327 56.4 -3.3
Labour Ashwaan Joomun-Whitehead 1,309 31.7 +13.6
Green Alyson Telfer 328 7.9 -2.8
Liberal Democrats Kay Kirkham 165 4.0 +2.8
Majority 1,018 24.7 -16.9
Rejected ballots 48 12
Turnout 4,129
Conservative hold Swing

Wyke[edit]

Wyke[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Tom Hughes 1,157 43.3 +4.2
Conservative Malcolm McLean 544 20.3 -24.0
Reform UK Ian Walker 365 13.6 +12.0
Green Darren Parkinson 218 8.2 +2.9
Liberal Democrats Kevin Anthony Hall 200 7.5 +4.0
British Democratic James Graham Lewthwaite 190 7.1 +0.9
Majority 613 22.9 +17.7
Rejected ballots 25 0.9
Turnout 2,674
Labour gain from Conservative Swing

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

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