Calderdale Council election, 2006
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Elections to Calderdale
Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control
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The table below summarises the results of the 2006 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election. Although these are the results after the election, the number of seats per party changed later that year. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. Also this year, Councillor Nicholas Yates, who had been returned by the Brighouse ward in the 2004 election
for four years and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below, left the party to continue his tenure as an Independent. This left the Conservatives with 18 seats, 1 held by the English Democrats and 4 held by Independents. In December 2006, Illingworth and Mixenden ward Councillor Tom McElroy (Labour) died suddenly, leaving Labour with nine seats. The by-election to succeed him took place on 22 February 2007, with Labour holding the ward.
Summary of the May 2006 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election results
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!colspan=2|Parties
!Seats
!Gains
!Losses
!Net
Gain/Loss
!Seats %
!Votes %
!Votes
!+/-
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|20||1||2||-1||39.2||28.8||15,657||
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|16||1||0||+1||31.4||25.1||13,661||
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|10||1||0||+1||19.6||23.5||12,779||
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|2||0||1||-1||3.9||10.9||5,937||
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|3||1||1||0||5.9||9.1||4,946||
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|0||0||0||0||0||2.5||1,351||
|-
|0||0||0||0||0||0.2||103||
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!colspan=2|Total!!51!! !! !! !! !! !!54,434!!
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Calderdale
The Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, through which the upper part of the River Calder flows, and from which it takes its name...
Council were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control
No overall control
Within the context of local councils of the United Kingdom, the term No Overall Control refers to a situation in which no single party achieves a majority of seats and is analogous to a hung parliament...
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The table below summarises the results of the 2006 local government election. Each party is ordered by number of votes registered. 17 of the 51 seats were up for re-election. Although these are the results after the election, the number of seats per party changed later that year. Councillor Paul Rogan was returned by the Rastrick ward in this election for four years as a Conservative councillor and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below. However, after the 2006 election, he left the party and joined the English Democrats Party. Also this year, Councillor Nicholas Yates, who had been returned by the Brighouse ward in the 2004 election
Calderdale Council election, 2004
Elections to Calderdale Council were held on 10 June 2004. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes since the last election in 2003...
for four years and is included in the twenty Conservative seats shown below, left the party to continue his tenure as an Independent. This left the Conservatives with 18 seats, 1 held by the English Democrats and 4 held by Independents. In December 2006, Illingworth and Mixenden ward Councillor Tom McElroy (Labour) died suddenly, leaving Labour with nine seats. The by-election to succeed him took place on 22 February 2007, with Labour holding the ward.
Summary of the May 2006 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election results
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!colspan=2|Parties
!Seats
!Gains
!Losses
!Net
Gain/Loss
!Seats %
!Votes %
!Votes
!+/-
|-
|20||1||2||-1||39.2||28.8||15,657||
|-
|16||1||0||+1||31.4||25.1||13,661||
|-
|10||1||0||+1||19.6||23.5||12,779||
|-
|2||0||1||-1||3.9||10.9||5,937||
|-
|3||1||1||0||5.9||9.1||4,946||
|-
|0||0||0||0||0||2.5||1,351||
|-
|0||0||0||0||0||0.2||103||
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!colspan=2|Total!!51!! !! !! !! !! !!54,434!!
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