2015 Sunderland City Council election

2015 Sunderland City Council election
One third of 75 seats on Sunderland City Council; 38 seats needed for a majority
	Map of the 2015 Sunderland City Council election results. Labour in red and Conservatives in blue.
Majority party before election; Labour;	Majority party after election ; Labour;

The 2015 Sunderland City Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Sunderland City Council in England.^[1] This was on the same day as other local elections, and the 2015 general election.

Background

There had been one by-election held in the period since the previous local elections in 2014 which saw Labour hold the Washington East ward in November 2014 following the resignation of their incumbent councillor in October.^[2]

Election results

The election saw Labour gain three seats, increasing the party's majority on the Council. Labour gained from the Conservatives in Barnes and Fulwell, and from an Independent, Colin Wakefield, in Houghton.^[3]

Sunderland local election result 2015^[4]
	Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
Labour	24	3	0	3	96	49.6	57,544	3.3
Conservative	1	0	0	2	4	20.8	24,079	1.4
UKIP	0	0	0	0	0	19.5	22,580	4.8
Green	0	0	0	0	0	3.5	4,089	1.7
Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	3,617	0.6
Independent	0	0	1	1	0	3.1	3,582	0.6
TUSC	0	0	0	0	0	0.4	448	0.2
North East	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	101	0.1

After the election, the composition of the council was:

Party		Previous council	New council
	Labour	63	66
	Conservatives	8	6
	Independent	4	3
Total		75	75
Working majority		51	57

Ward by ward results

Asterisk denotes incumbent councillor.

Barnes Ward

Barnes Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Ian Galbraith	2,336	43.7	3.1
	Conservative	Peter O'Connor	1,580	29.6	19.5
	UKIP	J Nast	889	16.6	16.6
	Liberal Democrats	Laura Bruton	302	5.7	1.5
	Green	Lucky Pemu	219	4.1	4.1
Rejected ballots			18	0.3
Majority			756	14.1	11.8
Turnout			5,344	61.2	15.5
Registered electors			8,732
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing

Castle Ward

Castle Ward
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Martin Anderson
	TUSC	Gary Duncan
	Labour	Stephen Foster
	UKIP	Keith Samme
Majority
Turnout

Copt Hill Ward

Copt Hill Ward
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Pat Francis
	Green	Daniel Olaman
	Labour	Mary Turton
	Independent	Colin Wakefield
Majority
Turnout

Doxford Ward

Doxford Ward
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	Alex Douglas
	Labour	Colin English
	Green	Alan Robinson
	UKIP	Kay Rowham
Majority
Turnout

Fulwell Ward

Fulwell Ward
Party		Candidate
	Labour	Margaret Beck
	UKIP	Sheila Samme
	Liberal Democrats	Diana Talbott-Matthew
	Conservative	John Wiper
Majority
Turnout

Hendon Ward

Hendon Ward
Party		Candidate
	UKIP	Pauline Featonby-Warren
	Green	David Lawson
	Conservative	Deborah Lorraine
	Labour Co-op	Victoria O'Neil
	TUSC	Owen Taylor
Majority
Turnout

Hetton Ward

Hetton Ward
Party		Candidate
	UKIP	John Defty
	Liberal Democrats	Philip Dowell
	Conservative	Douglas Middlemiss
	Labour	Doris Turner
Majority
Turnout

Houghton Ward

Houghton Ward
Party		Candidate
	Conservative	George Brown
	Independent	John Ellis
	UKIP	Terrence Henderson
	Labour	Juliana Heron
	Liberal Democrats	David Snowball
Majority
Turnout

Millfield Ward

Millfield Ward
Party		Candidate
	UKIP	David Geddis
	Conservative	Gwennyth Gibson
	Green	Helmut Izaks
	Liberal Democrats	Stephen O'Brien
	Labour Co-op	Lynda Scanlan
	TUSC	Karen Sinclair
Majority
Turnout

Pallion Ward

Pallion Ward
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrats	Sylvia Dorward
	Green	Rachel Featherstone
	UKIP	Ian Pallace
	Labour Co-op	Paul Watson
	Conservative	Philip Young
Majority
Turnout

Redhill Ward

Redhill Ward
Party		Candidate
	Labour Co-op	Richard Bell
	Conservative	Shaun Cudworth
	North East	Heather Fagan
	UKIP	Lynn Kelly
	Liberal Democrats	Steve Thomas
Majority
Turnout

Ryhope Ward

Ryhope Ward
Party		Candidate
	Labour Co-op	Ellen Ball
	Green	Paul Burwood
	UKIP	Bryan Foster
	Conservative	Harry Todd
Majority
Turnout

St Anne's Ward

St Anne's Ward
Party		Candidate
	UKIP	Aileen Casey
	Conservative	Tony Morrissey
	Green	Caroline Robinson
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Usher
	Labour	Karen Waters
Majority
Turnout

St Chad's Ward

St Chad's Ward
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal Democrats	Margaret Crosby	171
	Conservative	Dominic McDonough	1462
	Labour	John Porthouse	2046
	Green	Gavin Taylor	143
	UKIP	Linda Welsh	773
Majority			584
Turnout

St Michael's Ward

St Michael's Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	Tim Brennan
	UKIP	Vince Costello
	Labour	Zaf Iqbal
	Liberal Democrats	Andrew Wood
	Conservative	Peter Wood
Majority
Turnout

St Peter's Ward

St Peter's Ward
Party		Candidate
	TUSC	Douglas Beavers
	Labour	Barry Curran
	Liberal Democrats	John Lennox
	UKIP	Ronald McQuillan
	Green	Saied Satei
	Conservative	Geoffrey Scott
Majority
Turnout

Sandhill Ward

Sandhill Ward
Party		Candidate
	Labour	Jacqui Gallagher
	UKIP	Tony Morrow
	Conservative	Christine Reed
	Liberal Democrats	Susan Wilson
Majority
Turnout

Shiney Row Ward

Shiney Row Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	Rebecca Cowell
	UKIP	Richard Elvin
	Conservative	Sally Oliver
	Liberal Democrats	Jo Thomas
	Labour	Geoffrey Walker
Majority
Turnout

Silksworth Ward

Silksworth Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	Chris Crozier
	UKIP	William Davies
	Labour	Peter Gibson
	Conservative	Bryan Reynolds
Majority
Turnout

Southwick Ward

Southwick Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	Kate Dowell
	Labour	Miles Elliott
	Conservative	Michael Leadbitter
	Liberal Democrats	Callum Littlemore
	UKIP	Alexander Taylor
Majority
Turnout

Washington Central Ward

Washington Central Ward
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrats	Anne Griffin
	Labour	Len Lauchlan
	Green	Paul Leonard
	Conservative	Marjorie Matthews
	UKIP	Erland Polden
Majority
Turnout

Washington East Ward

Washington East Ward
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrats	Malcolm Bannister
	Conservative	Hilary Johnson
	TUSC	Wilf Laws
	Labour Co-op	Fiona Miller
	Green	Anthony Murphy
	UKIP	Lynn O'Neil
Majority
Turnout

Washington North Ward

Washington North Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	June Bradley
	Liberal Democrats	Kevin Morris
	Conservative	Norman Oliver
	UKIP	Tony Ormond
	Labour	Peter Walker
Majority
Turnout

Washington South Ward

Washington South Ward
Party		Candidate
	Green	Dominic Armstrong
	UKIP	Alistair Baxter
	Liberal Democrats	David Griffin
	Labour	Paul Middleton
	Conservative	Martin Talbot
Majority
Turnout

Washington West Ward

Washington West Ward
Party		Candidate
	Liberal Democrats	Irene Bannister
	Conservative	Olwyn Bird
	Green	Ben Rathbone-Wells
	UKIP	Kevin Sheppard
	Labour	Harry Trueman
Majority
Turnout

References

^ "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
^ "Ex-councillor paying back £10,000 of overpaid expenses claims". Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
^ "Sunderland local election results 2015: Who was elected in your area?". Evening Chronicle. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
^ 2015 Results

List of candidates standing - Local Government Election, Sunderland City Council

Preceded by 2014 Sunderland City Council election	Sunderland City Council elections	Succeeded by 2016 Sunderland City Council election

[TEC-1] "Upcoming elections & referendums". The Electoral Commission. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2015.

[2] "Ex-councillor paying back £10,000 of overpaid expenses claims". Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2018.

[3] "Sunderland local election results 2015: Who was elected in your area?". Evening Chronicle. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2018.

[4] 2015 Results

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