The 2023 Leicester City Council election took place on 4 May 2023 to elect all 54 members of Leicester City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections, and the election for the directly elected Mayor of Leicester.
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Labour's Peter Soulsby was re-elected as mayor and the party retained its majority on the council, but with a significant loss of 22 seats compared to its position at the previous election in 2019. The Conservatives gained 17 extra seats against the national trend.[1] The Green Party and Liberal Democrats also made gains, with each being represented by three seats.[2]
Background
edit2019 elections
editLabour retained control of Leicester City Council in the 2019 local elections, winning fifty-three councillors on an increased share of the vote.[3] The Liberal Democrats were runners-up, becoming the only opposition party on the council after the wipe-out of the Conservatives. A month later, Labour came top of the polls in the European Parliament election in the city – Leicester having the second-highest Labour vote share in the country, behind only the London Borough of Newham. The Brexit Party narrowly pipped the Liberal Democrats into second place.
In the 2019 general election, Labour consolidated its support in the city by winning all three constituencies with healthy majorities,[4] despite a disappointing general election campaign elsewhere. However, the candidate selection of Claudia Webbe in Leicester East, from a shortlist of one, caused controversy amongst local Labour Party members who were angry at being denied an option of a candidate from the South Asian community, at Webbe's views on the Kashmir conflict, and at the fact that she was a serving councillor in the London Borough of Islington.[5] Long-serving councillor John Thomas resigned from the party, citing the selection of Webbe and the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn,[6] and the Conservatives achieved a swing of 15% in the constituency.
Controversies and by-elections
editCity Mayor Peter Soulsby faced calls to resign by Liberal Democrat leader Nigel Porter during the COVID-19 pandemic after it emerged Soulsby had been breaking lockdown rules to visit his lover.[7] This was in the background of Leicester's COVID cases being amongst the highest in the United Kingdom, with the city being kept in stricter restrictions than the rest of the country for much of the pandemic.
Soulsby was further criticised after Assistant Mayor Mustafa Malik was suspended by the Labour Party after sharing anti-semitic posts on social media but was allowed to retain the Labour whip in the City Council.[8] Councillor Jacky Nangreave was also suspended, after claiming that Keir Starmer was an "agent of Israel", though was later reinstated.[9][10] Additionally, Labour Councillor for Western Ward, Lindsay Broadwell, resigned the Labour whip and sat as an independent citing the toxic atmosphere of the Labour group and dissatisfaction with the party nationally.[11]
Amidst the controversies, the Labour grip on the city began to wane. In the 2021 North Evington By-election, they narrowly held onto a previously safe ward after a 26.5% swing to the Conservatives.[12] A few months later, the Conservatives gained their first representative on the council since the 2019 elections after winning the Humberstone and Hamilton by-election.[13] Winning Conservative candidate Daniel Crewe was soon, in September 2022, joined by Labour defector Deepak Bajaj.[14] However, Crewe later resigned his membership of the Conservative Party following the 2022 mini-budget.[15]
Despite this, Labour continued to do poorly in local by-elections. Labour narrowly held on in a three-way fight at the Evington by-election, clinging on with a twenty-one per cent reduction in the vote share after both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats gained heavily.[16] Another three-way election, the 2022 North Evington by-election, followed, with Labour being relegated to third in a ward that in 2019 it had won with 66.8% of the vote.[17] Sanjay Modhwadia won for the Conservatives, with the Greens some distance behind in second place. There was a further setback when former Council Leader Ross Willmott was suspended by the national Labour Party for membership of an organisation that the party had proscribed.[18]
Deselections and defections
editIn spite of these difficulties, Sir Peter Soulsby was re-confirmed as the Labour candidate for the 2023 elections – though the Leicester Mercury noted mixed feelings amongst its readers at this announcement.[19]
However, following the electoral defeats, the Labour Party at national level set up a 'Campaigns Improvement Board' to oversee the local party.[20] The Labour Party National Executive Committee's (NEC) claims that the local Labour Party was beset with "in-fighting, division and no clear vision" was quickly seized upon by political opponents.[21] As a result of the NEC supervision, nineteen local Labour councillors were deselected.[22] The Labour Party was criticised for a disproportionate number of Asian councillors being deselected, with 58% of BAME councillors not re-selected versus just 18% of white councillors[23] while Councillor Stephen Gee quit the party following the process, stating that "Labour no longer supports people with disabilities".[24] After being deselected, many Labour councillors vowed to fight as independents. Additionally, three councillors – Rashmikant Joshi,[25] Paul Westley and Hemant Rae Bhatia –[26] defected to the Conservatives, bringing the total number of Conservative members of the council to five.
To compound Labour's problems, a vote on whether to retain the Mayoral system saw open warfare breakout within the Labour group. The vote, in which City councillors voted to retain the Mayoral system, saw fourteen Labour councillors rebel against the whip amid accusations of bullying and intimidation to force them to vote to retain the mayor.[27] Ultimately, four Labour councillors had the whip suspended[28][29][30] while Councillor Patrick Kitterick defected to the Green Party, claiming that "the Labour Party has changed for the worse" and that "“It seems the party is going down a route where you either unquestioningly agree with the city mayor or you leave. So I'm leaving."[31] His defection gave the Green Party its first seat on the City Council since losing all its seats in the 2015 elections.
Council composition
edit| Party | 2019 Election | Before 2023 Election | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 53 | 36 | |
| Conservative | 0 | 5 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 1 | 1 | |
| Green | 0 | 1 | |
| Independent | 0 | 11 | |
Campaign
editLabour launched its campaign, aiming to make Leicester a 'fairer, happier and safer city' by providing extra support for families struggling with the cost-of-living crisis and to invest in more CCTV and street lights. The party also says it seeks to do more to tackle climate change.[32] Labour Mayor Peter Soulsby claimed after the campaign that religion had been 'weaponised' during the election.[33]
The Conservative campaign was focussed on preventing new housing developments, pledging a nature reserve to prevent housing on the city's fringes. The party also pledges to provide free bus travel for schoolchildren and to not raise council tax above inflation.[34]
The Liberal Democrats are campaigning on building 3,000 new affordable homes and offering a referendum on the mayoral system – a position they also put forward at the 2019 elections.[35]
The Green Party announced it was _targeting three wards in the election: Castle, where it held seats between 2011 and 2015; Saffron; and North Evington.[36] The party is campaigning to scrap the Mayoral system, pledging a referendum within a year of taking office.[37][38]
Candidates
editCouncillors not standing for re-election
edit| Councillor | Ward | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Sangster | Castle | Labour | Deselected | |
| Shahid Khan | Evington | Labour | Deselected | |
| Daniel Crewe | Humberstone and Hamilton | Independent | Elected as a Conservative councillor | |
| Luis Fonseca | North Evington | Labour | Deselected | |
| Bill Shelton | Saffron | Labour | ||
| Stephan Gee | Thurncourt | Independent | Elected as a Labour councillor | |
| Lindsay Broadwell | Western | Independent | Elected as a Labour councillor | |
Councillors standing under a different political affiliation
edit| Councillor | 2019 party | 2019 ward | 2023 party | 2023 ward | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Westley | Labour | Beaumont Leys | Conservative | Beaumont Leys | ||
| Hemant Rae Bhatia | Labour | Beaumont Leys | Conservative | Beaumont Leys | ||
| Deepak Bajaj | Labour | Evington | Conservative | Evington | ||
| Ruma Ali | Labour | Humberstone and Hamilton | TUSC | Evington | ||
| Rashmikant Joshi | Labour | North Evington | Conservative | Evington | ||
| Rita Patel | Labour | Rushey Mead | Independent | Rushey Mead | ||
| Ross Willmott | Labour | Rushey Mead | Independent | Rushey Mead | ||
| Kirk Masters | Labour | Stoneygate | Independent | Stoneygate | ||
| Sharmen Rahman | Labour | Stoneygate | Independent | Stoneygate | ||
| Aminur Thalukdar | Labour | Stoneygate | Independent | Stoneygate | ||
| Jacky Nangreave | Labour | Westcotes | Independent | Westcotes | ||
| Gary O’Donnell | Labour | Western | Independent | Western | ||
| Padmini Chamund | Labour | Belgrave | Independent | Belgrave | ||
| Nita Solanki | Labour | Belgrave | Independent | Belgrave | ||
| Mahendra Valand | Labour | Belgrave | Independent | Belgrave | ||
| Patrick Kitterick | Labour | Castle | Green | Castle | ||
Councillors standing in a different ward
edit| Councillor | 2019 party | 2019 ward | 2023 party | 2023 ward | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manjit Kaur Saini | Labour | Abbey | Labour | Humberstone and Hamilton | ||
| Adam Clarke | Labour | Aylestone | Labour | Westcotes | ||
| Vi Dempster | Labour | Beaumont Leys | Labour | Western | ||
| Ted Cassidy | Labour | Fosse | Labour | Saffron | ||
| Ashiedu Joel | Labour | Troon | Labour | Humberstone and Hamilton | ||
| Ruma Ali | Labour | Humberstone and Hamilton | TUSC | Evington | ||
| Rashmikant Joshi | Labour | North Evington | Conservative | Evington | ||
Summary
editElection result
edit| 2023 Leicester City Council election | ||||||||||
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| Party | Candidates | Seats | Gains | Losses | Net gain/loss | Seats % | Votes % | Votes | +/− | |
| Labour | 54 | 31 | 0 | 22 |  22
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57.4 | 40.4 | 89,425 | –24.3 | |
| Conservative | 52 | 17 | 17 | 0 |  17
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31.5 | 34.8 | 76,867 | +15.6 | |
| Liberal Democrats | 42 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2
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5.6 | 9.7 | 21,399 | +4.2 | |
| Green | 26 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3
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5.6 | 6.3 | 13,830 | +0.1 | |
| Independent | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 8.0 | 17,757 | +7.5 | |
| TUSC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 0.7 | 1,540 | N/A | |
| ADF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 0.1 | 138 | N/A | |
| Reform UK | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80 | New | |
| Communist | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 0.0 | 42 | N/A | |
| British Democrats | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0.0 | 0.0 | 34 | N/A | |
Ward results
editAbbey
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Charleigh Barnes | 1,829 | 39.8 | ||
| Conservative | Nagarjun Agath | 1,793 | 39.0 | ||
| Labour | Annette Byrne | 1,776 | 38.7 | ||
| Conservative | Kuljit Singh | 1,748 | 38.1 | ||
| Labour | Vijay Singh Riyait | 1,652 | 36.0 | ||
| Labour | Emma Elaine Saunders-Sinclair | 1,536 | 33.4 | ||
| Green | Jim McCallum | 583 | 12.7 | ||
| Independent | Hannel Chohan | 482 | 10.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Yevgeny Richard Salisbury | 391 | 8.5 | ||
| Turnout | 4,592 | 29.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 15,473 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Aylestone
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Nigel Porter | 1,096 | 42.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Scott Kennedy-Lount | 927 | 35.7 | ||
| Labour | Rose Norah Ann Griffiths | 839 | 32.3 | ||
| Labour | Rebecca Louise Pawley | 605 | 23.3 | ||
| Conservative | Deloris Esther Philip | 360 | 13.9 | ||
| Conservative | Inder Pal Singh | 301 | 11.6 | ||
| Green | Bob Ball | 300 | 11.5 | ||
| TUSC | Steve Score | 157 | 6.0 | ||
| Independent | George Scott Brown | 68 | 2.6 | ||
| Turnout | 2,599 | 29.8 | |||
| Registered electors | 8,722 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats hold | |||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | |||||
Belgrave
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Yogesh Chauhan | 4,424 | 54.6 | ||
| Conservative | Shital Adatia | 4,409 | 54.4 | ||
| Conservative | Jaiantilal Gopal | 4,335 | 53.5 | ||
| Labour | Gurinder Kaur Athwal | 1,818 | 22.4 | ||
| Labour | Kirit Mistry | 1,759 | 21.7 | ||
| Labour | Hersh Thaker | 1,636 | 20.2 | ||
| Independent | Nita Solanki | 1,356 | 16.7 | ||
| Independent | Padmini Chamund | 1,296 | 16.0 | ||
| Independent | Mahendra Valand | 1,103 | 13.6 | ||
| Green | Darren Howes | 341 | 4.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Pravin Raja | 239 | 3.0 | ||
| TUSC | David Howard Rollins | 183 | 2.3 | ||
| Turnout | 8,098 | 56.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 14,360 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Evington
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrats | Zuffar Haq | 1,841 | 33.6 | ||
| Conservative | Deepak Bajaj | 1,794 | 32.7 | ||
| Conservative | Jenny Joannou | 1,657 | 30.2 | ||
| Labour | Naj Hassan | 1,603 | 29.2 | ||
| Conservative | Rashmikant Joshi | 1,590 | 29.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Farida Patel | 1,490 | 27.2 | ||
| Labour | Sue Hunter | 1,367 | 24.9 | ||
| Labour | Jatinder Singh Matharu | 1,292 | 23.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nitesh Dave | 1,200 | 21.9 | ||
| Independent | Baljit Singh | 377 | 6.9 | ||
| Green | Jill Fisher | 349 | 6.4 | ||
| TUSC | Ruma Ali | 234 | 4.3 | ||
| Turnout | 5,483 | 42.5 | |||
| Registered electors | 12,905 | ||||
| Liberal Democrats gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Humberstone & Hamilton
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Stephen Robert Bonham | 1,673 | 38.9 | ||
| Labour | Manjit Kaur Saini | 1,642 | 38.2 | ||
| Labour | Joel Ashiedu | 1,531 | 35.6 | ||
| Conservative | Ranjit Sonigra | 1,342 | 31.2 | ||
| Conservative | Sameer Thanki | 1,286 | 29.9 | ||
| Conservative | Romail Gulzar | 1,275 | 29.6 | ||
| Green | Pam Bellinger | 492 | 11.4 | ||
| Independent | Solly Lunat | 478 | 11.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Bicram Athwal | 416 | 9.7 | ||
| Independent | Vinodrai Ghadiali | 345 | 8.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Neville Hunnings | 337 | 7.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Karan Vyas | 299 | 6.9 | ||
| TUSC | Barbara Potter | 196 | 4.6 | ||
| Independent | Ravi Kanta Powar | 196 | 4.6 | ||
| Turnout | 4,304 | 29.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 14,471 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
North Evington
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Dilip Joshi | 3,943 | 45.9 | ||
| Conservative | Sanjay Modhwadia | 3,910 | 45.5 | ||
| Conservative | Ravi Mahesh | 3,863 | 45.0 | ||
| Labour | Mohammed Abu Taher | 3,154 | 36.7 | ||
| Labour | Zoya Shaikh | 3,136 | 36.5 | ||
| Labour | Ajay Kumar Aggarwal | 2,776 | 32.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nilesh Bica | 732 | 8.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hitesh Bhutiya | 728 | 8.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hakan Akgoz | 636 | 7.4 | ||
| Green | Hannah Rose Wakley | 385 | 4.5 | ||
| Green | Martin Charles Gage | 302 | 3.5 | ||
| Green | Brendan Robert Keegan | 296 | 3.4 | ||
| Reform UK | Raj Solanki | 80 | 0.9 | ||
| Turnout | 8,592 | 54.6 | |||
| Registered electors | 15,740 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Rushey Mead
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Bhupen Dave | 3,036 | 45.4 | ||
| Conservative | Geeta Karavadra | 2,990 | 44.7 | ||
| Conservative | Devi Singh Patel | 2,844 | 42.6 | ||
| Labour | Piara Singh Clair | 2,008 | 30.1 | ||
| Labour | Gurinder Singh Sandhu | 1,761 | 26.4 | ||
| Labour | Priya Evarista Lavina Mendes | 1,751 | 26.2 | ||
| Independent | Rita Patel | 1,328 | 19.9 | ||
| Independent | Dharmesh Bhagwanji Lakhani | 941 | 14.1 | ||
| Independent | Rajul Tejura | 761 | 11.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hash Chandarana | 475 | 7.1 | ||
| Independent | Ross Willmott | 384 | 5.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Pradeep Gocal | 301 | 4.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Asit Sodha | 213 | 3.2 | ||
| Turnout | 6,682 | 50.6 | |||
| Registered electors | 13,209 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Thurncourt
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Teresa Aldred | 1,202 | 42.4 | ||
| Conservative | Abdul Razak Osman | 1,122 | 39.6 | ||
| Conservative | Mike Joannou | 1,024 | 36.2 | ||
| Labour | Brahmpreet Kaur Gulati | 998 | 35.2 | ||
| Green | Karen Wildin | 293 | 10.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kate Sullivan | 257 | 9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 2,832 | 34.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 8,238 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Troon
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Di Cank | 1,489 | 38.2 | ||
| Labour | Mohinder Singh Sangha | 1,432 | 36.8 | ||
| Conservative | Ashton Fernandes | 1,329 | 34.1 | ||
| Conservative | Heten Tejura | 1,244 | 31.9 | ||
| Independent | Sital Singh Gill | 567 | 14.6 | ||
| Independent | Kamlesh Kumari | 439 | 11.3 | ||
| Independent | Karan Modha | 307 | 7.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Paul Smith | 281 | 7.2 | ||
| Turnout | 3,895 | 37.3 | |||
| Registered electors | 10,433 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Beaumont Leys
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Hazel Orton | 1,470 | 37.7 | ||
| Conservative | Hemant Rae Bhatia | 1,456 | 37.4 | ||
| Conservative | Paul Westley | 1,420 | 36.5 | ||
| Labour | Denis Yomi Tanfa | 1,278 | 32.8 | ||
| Labour | Mo Peberdy | 1,235 | 31.7 | ||
| Labour | David Stephen Towers | 1,234 | 31.7 | ||
| Green | Andrew James Reeves | 370 | 9.5 | ||
| Independent | Adrian Charles Barnes | 321 | 8.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Daniel Irungu | 299 | 7.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alieu Ceesay | 233 | 6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 3,578 | 28.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 12,791 | ||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
| Conservative gain from Labour | |||||
Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Su Barton | 1,489 | 46.4 | ||
| Labour | Elaine Halford | 1,419 | 44.2 | ||
| Labour | Kalwinder Singh Johal | 1,395 | 43.4 | ||
| Conservative | Jay Barnet Popat | 805 | 25.1 | ||
| Conservative | Alexandros Ali | 760 | 23.7 | ||
| Conservative | Ian Alix Daliston Stanton-Wright | 705 | 22.0 | ||
| Green | Neil James McDermott | 489 | 15.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Ian Bradwell | 370 | 11.5 | ||
| Independent | Jaspreet Kaur Gill | 369 | 11.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Kamal Panchmatia | 259 | 8.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Arshdeep Singh | 245 | 7.6 | ||
| TUSC | Wayne Jan Naylor | 237 | 7.4 | ||
| Turnout | 3,211 | 23.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 13,974 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Fosse
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sue Waddington | 999 | 41.1 | ||
| Labour | Syed Monsur Zaman | 792 | 32.6 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Benjamin Feist | 580 | 23.9 | ||
| Conservative | Foligar Kum Lang | 535 | 22.0 | ||
| Conservative | Pamsi Rally | 531 | 21.9 | ||
| Green | Geoff Forse | 377 | 15.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Martin Pold | 355 | 14.6 | ||
| TUSC | Brian Rodney Scott | 129 | 5.3 | ||
| Independent | Chikaire Wilfred Williams Ezeru | 90 | 3.7 | ||
| Turnout | 2,428 | 26.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 9,356 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Westcotes
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Sarah Russell | 986 | 45.2 | ||
| Labour | Adam Clarke | 818 | 37.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Parmjit Singh Gill | 483 | 22.1 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Juliet Kechouane Gill | 357 | 16.4 | ||
| Green | Jessica Southworth | 353 | 16.2 | ||
| Conservative | Dhirubhai Dholakia | 283 | 13.0 | ||
| Conservative | Sofia Ali | 243 | 11.0 | ||
| Independent | Jacky Nangreave | 231 | 10.6 | ||
| Independent | Michael Shenton | 137 | 6.3 | ||
| Turnout | 2,182 | 25.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 8,578 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Western
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Vi Dempster | 1,536 | 42.1 | ||
| Labour | Molly Ann O'Neill | 1,465 | 40.1 | ||
| Labour | George Cole | 1,441 | 39.5 | ||
| Conservative | Richard Philip Tutt | 998 | 27.3 | ||
| Conservative | Kanchan Choudhary | 993 | 27.2 | ||
| Conservative | Jay Thobhani | 967 | 26.5 | ||
| Independent | Gary O'Donnell | 840 | 23.0 | ||
| Green | Tine Juhlert | 707 | 19.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Sidwell-Smith | 548 | 15.0 | ||
| Turnout | 3,651 | 25.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 14,187 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Castle
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | Patrick Kitterick | 1,564 | 48.0 | ||
| Green | Mick Gregg | 1,453 | 44.6 | ||
| Green | Liz Sahu | 1,419 | 43.5 | ||
| Labour | Danny Myers | 1,219 | 37.4 | ||
| Labour | Lee David Holmes | 1,128 | 34.6 | ||
| Labour | Chizor Anthonia Onwuegbute | 1,101 | 33.8 | ||
| Conservative | Jayaram Shastri | 309 | 9.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Nathan Gubbins | 288 | 8.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Philip Smith | 209 | 6.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hania Orszulik | 196 | 6.0 | ||
| Turnout | 3,261 | 30.4 | |||
| Registered electors | 10,718 | ||||
| Green gain from Labour | |||||
| Green gain from Labour | |||||
| Green gain from Labour | |||||
Eyres Monsell
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Elaine Pantling | 791 | 50.9 | ||
| Labour | Karen Pickering | 644 | 41.4 | ||
| Conservative | Mohammad Ahsan Ahmadi | 389 | 25.0 | ||
| Conservative | Vineed Vijayan | 373 | 24.0 | ||
| Green | Anna Broszkiewicz | 174 | 11.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jo Webb | 147 | 9.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Zelda Rubinstein | 141 | 9.1 | ||
| Turnout | 1,554 | 19.3 | |||
| Registered electors | 8,052 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Knighton
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Melissa March | 2,203 | 43.9 | ||
| Labour | Lynn Moore | 2,071 | 41.3 | ||
| Labour | Geoff Whittle | 2,067 | 41.2 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Chris Willmott | 1,198 | 23.9 | ||
| Green | Sue King | 1,053 | 21.0 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Jorawar Singh Bhoot | 1,000 | 19.9 | ||
| Conservative | Ravinder Kaur Lall | 981 | 19.6 | ||
| Conservative | Lu Mistry | 886 | 17.7 | ||
| Conservative | Amar Tanna | 866 | 17.3 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Roopal Jaimini Shah | 843 | 16.8 | ||
| Green | Bill Walker | 692 | 13.8 | ||
| TUSC | Alex Gillham | 208 | 4.1 | ||
| Turnout | 5,015 | 40.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 12,538 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Saffron
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Ted Cassidy | 783 | 43.6 | ||
| Labour | Elly Cutkelvin | 774 | 43.1 | ||
| Green | Ursula Bilson | 438 | 24.4 | ||
| Green | Mags Lewis | 428 | 23.8 | ||
| Conservative | Gillian Jillett | 286 | 15.9 | ||
| Conservative | Julie Simons | 284 | 15.8 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Denise Buchan | 95 | 5.3 | ||
| TUSC | Peter Anthony Bisson | 80 | 4.5 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Michael Smith | 78 | 4.3 | ||
| Communist | Ann Green | 42 | 2.3 | ||
| British Democrats | David John Haslett | 34 | 1.9 | ||
| Turnout | 1,797 | 23.0 | |||
| Registered electors | 7,798 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Spinney Hills
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Misbah Batool | 2,513 | 52.8 | ||
| Labour | Mustafa Malik | 2,455 | 51.6 | ||
| Conservative | Mohammed Fozdar | 1,121 | 23.6 | ||
| Conservative | Sheraz Ali Durrani | 713 | 15.0 | ||
| Independent | Shahid Ullah Khan | 671 | 14.1 | ||
| Independent | Iqbal Alibhai Desai | 510 | 10.7 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Christopher Everitt Garner | 277 | 5.8 | ||
| Green | Jan Grothusen | 219 | 4.6 | ||
| ADF | Abdul Vali | 138 | 2.9 | ||
| Turnout | 4,757 | 51.7 | |||
| Registered electors | 9,198 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Stoneygate
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Raffiq Mohammed | 2,898 | 45.3 | ||
| Labour | Yasmin Ahmed Surti | 2,777 | 43.5 | ||
| Labour | Manjula Sood | 2,107 | 33.0 | ||
| Conservative | Abdul Giash | 1,688 | 26.4 | ||
| Independent | Aminur Thalukdar | 1,504 | 23.5 | ||
| Independent | Kirk Master | 1,503 | 23.5 | ||
| Independent | Sharmen Rahman | 1,153 | 18.0 | ||
| Conservative | Saeed Khilji | 1,017 | 15.9 | ||
| Conservative | Shirin Shafia Shahid | 954 | 14.9 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Aqdus Ghafar | 535 | 8.4 | ||
| Green | Chris Hughes | 534 | 8.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Alan Fox | 529 | 8.3 | ||
| Turnout | 6,391 | 46.5 | |||
| Registered electors | 13,738 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Wycliffe
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Hanif Aqbany | 3,690 | 67.6 | ||
| Labour | Mohammed Dawood | 3,681 | 67.4 | ||
| Conservative | Zakaria Ahmed | 1,218 | 22.3 | ||
| Conservative | Subane Mohamed Abdi | 1,168 | 21.4 | ||
| Liberal Democrats | Hoque Akramul | 275 | 5.0 | ||
| Green | Sarah Joanne Read | 219 | 4.0 | ||
| TUSC | Tessa Warrington | 116 | 2.1 | ||
| Turnout | 5,458 | 56.2 | |||
| Registered electors | 9,717 | ||||
| Labour hold | |||||
| Labour hold | |||||
Changes 2023–2027
edit- Diane Cank, elected for Labour, left the party in August 2023 to sit as an independent.[60]
- Sanjay Modhwadia was suspended from the Conservative Party in March 2024 following an argument in a public car park.[61] The police investigated the allegations and decided there was no evidence that a criminal offence had been committed; by July 2024 he had been readmitted to the Conservatives.[62][63]
- Deepak Bajaj, elected as a Conservative in 2023 (but previously elected for Labour in 2019, having defected to the Conservatives in 2022) re-joined Labour in April 2024.[64][65][66]
- Nagarjun "Nags" Agath, elected as a Conservative, left the party to sit as an independent in June 2024, in order to allow him to stand as an independent candidate in Leicester East in the 2024 United Kingdom general election.[67]
See also
editReferences
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