2023 South Holland District Council election
4 May 2023 (2023-05-04)
All 37 seats on South Holland District Council
19 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
  Blank Blank Blank
Leader Gary Porter (defeated) Rob Gibson
Party Conservative SH Independents Independent
Seats before 23 7 7
Seats after 19 15 3
Leader before election

Gary Porter
Conservative

 Leader after election

Nick Worth
Conservative

The 2023 South Holland District Council election took place on 4 May 2023, to elect all 37 members of South Holland District Council in Lincolnshire, England. This was on the same day as other local elections across England.

Overview

Prior to the election the council was under Conservative majority control. At the previous election in 2019 every elected candidate had been either a Conservative or an independent councillor. In 2021 a group of the independent councillors formed a registered political party, the "South Holland Independents".[1] By the time of the 2023 election seven of the independent councillors had joined the South Holland Independents. They sat on the council as a group with four of the other seven independent councillors as the "South Holland Independents and Independents" group. The other three independent councillors (all of whom had been elected as Conservatives) did not belong to any group.[2][3]

Following the results, the Conservatives retained overall control, but with a reduced majority. Their leader, Gary Porter, who had been leader of the council since 2003, lost his seat.[4] Nick Worth was appointed the new leader of the council at the subsequent annual council meeting on 17 May 2023.[5] The South Holland Independents won 15 seats and the other three seats were won by other independent councillors. The South Holland Independents and independents formed a single group of 18 councillors after the election called the "Independent Group".[6]

Overall results

Results[7]
Party Seats Change
Conservative Party 19 Decrease 5
Independents and Others 18 Increase 5

Ward results

The results for each ward were as follows, with an asterisk (*) indicating sitting councillors standing for re-election.[2]

Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas

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Crowland and Deeping St Nicholas
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative James Robert Astill*
(Jim Astill) 		770
Independent Bryan Alcock* 757
Conservative Angela Harrison
(Angie Harrison) 		577
Green Amy Rebecca Cook-Nykyforczuk 489
Turnout 1,326 24.55
Registered electors 5,402
Conservative hold
Independent hold
Conservative hold

Donington, Quadring and Gosberton

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Donington, Quadring and Gosberton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Jane Lesley King* 856
Conservative Henry John William Bingham* 737
Conservative Margaret Ann Geaney 631
SH Independents Simon Charles Walsh* 597
Conservative Colin Neville Johnson 542
Reform UK Matthew James Swainson 212
Turnout 1,550 26.48
Registered electors 5,854
SH Independents gain from Independent
Conservative gain from Independent
Conservative gain from Independent

Jane King had been elected as an independent in 2019; seat shown here as South Holland Independents gain from independent to allow comparison with 2019 results. Henry Bingham had been elected as an independent in 2019 but joined the Conservatives in 2021; seat shown here as Conservative gain from independent.[8]

Fleet

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Fleet
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Paul Stephen Barnes 373
Conservative Edward George McNally 196
Turnout 573 29.75
Registered electors 1,926
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Gedney

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Gedney
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Joanne Louise Reynolds*
(Jo Reynolds) 		289
SH Independents Matthew James Stancer 187
Turnout 479 26.35
Registered electors 1,818
Conservative hold

Holbeach Hurn

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Holbeach Hurn
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Charles Nicholas Worth*
(Nick Worth) 		331
Green Wendy Jane Blackman 118
Turnout 453 25.18
Registered electors 1,799
Conservative hold

Holbeach Town

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Holbeach Town
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Tracey Ann Carter* 959
SH Independents Sophie Elizabeth Hutchinson 734
Conservative Nanette Jacqueline Chapman 557
SH Independents Paul Cayton Foyster 523
Independent Graham Thomas Desmond Rudkin* 496
Conservative Malcolm Godfrey Chandler 484
Independent Francis Biggadike* 332
Turnout 1,597 25.21
Registered electors 6,336
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Independent
Conservative hold

Francis Biggadike had been elected in 2019 as a Conservative but left the party early in 2023 after not being selected as the party's candidate for this election.[9]

Long Sutton

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Long Sutton
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Independent Andrew Charles Tennant* 982
Conservative Jack Tyrrell* 967
Independent David John Wilkinson* 782
Conservative David Ivan Thompson 624
Turnout 1,691 27.88
Registered electors 6,066
Independent hold
Conservative hold
Independent hold

Moulton, Weston and Cowbit

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Moulton, Weston and Cowbit
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Anthony Casson* 1,006
SH Independents Thomas Edmund Sneath 976
Conservative Andrew Robert Woolf* 958
Conservative Rodney Grocock* 659
Turnout 1,759 29.95
Registered electors 5,874
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Conservative
Conservative hold

Pinchbeck and Surfleet

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Pinchbeck and Surfleet
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Elizabeth Jane Sneath* 904
Conservative James Edward Avery* 886
Conservative Sally Ann Slade* 780
Independent Terence Moore
(Terry Moore)		 699
Green Simon Richard Jenkins 431
Turnout 1,599 27.13
Registered electors 5,894
Conservative hold
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Spalding Castle

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Spalding Castle
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Gary John Taylor* 335
Green Martin Christopher Blake 183
Turnout 521 28.47
Registered electors 1,830
Conservative hold

Spalding Monks House

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Spalding Monks House
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Suresh Chauhan
(Sam Chauhan) 		604
SH Independents Ingrid Helen Sheard 524
Conservative Stephen Peter Timewell* 468
Conservative Valerie Gemmell
(Val Gemmell)		 275
Turnout 1,022 24.32
Registered electors 4,203
SH Independents gain from Conservative
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Shown as two gains for South Holland Independents from independents to allow comparison with 2019 results. Stephen Timewell had won his seat for the Conservatives in a by-election in 2022. The other seat was held by Anthony Cronin, who was elected as an independent in 2019 but who subsequently joined the South Holland Independents. He did not stand for re-election.[2]

Spalding St John's

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Spalding St John's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Manzur Hasan* 732
SH Independents James Anthony Le Sage 611
Conservative Edward Oliver Sneath 242
Conservative Ann Elizabeth Savage 224
Turnout 1,024 23.75
Registered electors 4,312
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Manzur Hasan had been elected in 2019 as an independent councillor but had subsequently joined the South Holland Independents. The other seat had been held by Jack McLean prior to the election, who had been elected in 2019 as a Conservative but left the party in October 2020 and sat as a non-aligned independent for the remainder of his term. He did not stand for re-election.

Spalding St Mary's

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Spalding St Mary's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Mark Edward Le Sage 559
SH Independents David Roy Ashby
(Dave Ashby) 		472
Conservative William Luke John Hayes 432
Conservative Gary Andrew Porter* 368
Turnout 978 26.82
Registered electors 3,647
SH Independents gain from Conservative
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Spalding St Paul's

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Spalding St Paul's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Robert Antony Gibson*
(Rob Gibson) 		458
SH Independents Bailey Paul John Boulding 385
Conservative Glynis Pearl Scalese* 269
Conservative Christopher James Sutton 197
Turnout 707 19.42
Registered electors 3,641
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Rob Gibson had been elected in 2019 as an independent but had subsequently been one of the founder members of the South Holland Independents, of which he was the leader.

Spalding Wygate

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Spalding Wygate
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Janet Brenda Whitbourn
(Jan Whitbourn) 		473
SH Independents Aaron Jacob Spencer 423
Conservative Roger Gambba-Jones* 411
Labour Aidan James Forman 401
Turnout 1,040 21.83
Registered electors 4,763
Conservative hold
SH Independents gain from Conservative

Sutton Bridge

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Sutton Bridge
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
SH Independents Michael David Booth* 540
SH Independents Christopher James Thomas Harrison Brewis* 493
Conservative Peter Ephraim Coupland** 381
Conservative Laurence Philip Marchant 348
Turnout 948 27.7
Registered electors 3,423
SH Independents gain from Independent
SH Independents gain from Independent

Peter Coupland had been the councillor for Fleet ward immediately before the election. Michael Booth and Christopher Brewis had both been elected in 2019 as independents but subsequently joined the South Holland Independents.

The Saints

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The Saints
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Laura Jean Eldridge 524
Independent Michael David Seymour* 158
Turnout 686 32.36
Registered electors 2,120
Conservative hold

Michael Seymour had been elected as a Conservative in 2019 but left the party early in 2023 after not being selected as the party's candidate for this election.

Whaplode and Holbeach St John's

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Whaplode and Holbeach St John's
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Allan Charles Beal* 615
Conservative Paul Alexander Redgate* 555
SH Independents Harry Joshua Griffen 423
Turnout 1,024 28.58
Registered electors 3,583
Conservative hold
Conservative hold

Changes 2023–2027

Spalding St Paul's

Spalding St Paul's by election, 9 November 2023
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Glynis Pearl Scalese 155
SH Independents Vanessa Browning 155
Independent Stephen Peter Timewell 132
Labour Aidan James Forman 108
Independent Julian Ashley Wheeler 73
Turnout 17.53
Registered electors 3,582
Conservative gain from SH Independents

This by-election was triggered by the resignation of South Holland Independents councillor Bailey Boulding.[10] The result of the by-election was a tie which was resolved by drawing lots.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ "South Holland Independents". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Mann, Sebastian; Turner, James; Jaines, Daniel (9 April 2023). "Local elections: Who's standing in Lincolnshire in May 2023?". Lincolnshire Live. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Your councillors by party". South Holland District Council. Archived from the original on 5 April 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  4. ↑ "South Holland District Council local election results". Spalding Today. 2023-05-04. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  5. ↑ Browne, Duncan (23 May 2023). "New South Holland District Council leader Coun Nick Worth lays out his plans for the future and calls on teamwork from both sides of the chamber". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  6. ↑ "Your councillors by political grouping". South Holland District Council. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "South Holland result - Local Elections 2023". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  8. ↑ Brookes, Andrew (24 October 2021). "Donington, Quadring and Gosberton councillor joins Conservative group". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  9. ↑ Brookes, Andrew (7 April 2023). "Francis Biggadike, 90, set to stand as non-aligned independent for Holbeach Town ward". Spalding Today. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
  10. ↑ Fear, Victoria (26 September 2023). "Spalding councillor has resigned". Spalding Today. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  11. ↑ Fear, Victoria (28 November 2023). "Conservative Party re-takes Spalding St Paul's ward seat with Glynis Scalese winning the seat after the drawing of lots to decide tied race". Spalding Today. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  12. ↑ "Declaration of results - Spalding St Paul's Ward". South Holland District Council. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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