Forthcoming byelections

Here are the vacancies and forthcoming byelections:

12 March

• Dundee city council: Maryfield ward, after the resignation of Labour councillor Joe Morrow. Term ends 2012.
• Norwich city council: Bowthorpe ward, after the death of veteran Conservative councillor John Wyatt. Term ends 2011.
• St Helens borough council: Parr ward, after the death of Labour councillor Ken Pinder. Term ends 2012.
• St Helens borough council: Rainhill ward, after the death of Mike Doyle, a former Labour group and council leader. Term ends 2012.
• Torridge district council: Hartland and Bradworthy ward, after the death of Bill Pillman who was an Independent councillor. Term ends 2011.

19 March

• Salford city council: Pendlebury ward, after the death of veteran Labour councillor Maureen Lea. Term ends 2011.
• South Oxfordshire district council: Chiltern Woods ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Maurice Newland. Term ends 2011.
• Staffordshire Moorlands district council: Leek East ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Paul Chaveau. Term ends 2011.
• Waltham Forest borough council: Larkswood ward, after the death of Conservative councillor John Walter. Term ends 2010.

26 March

• North East Lincolnshire council: Yarborough ward, after the death of Kathleen Little of the Liberal Democrat. Term ends 2012.
• Newham borough council: Royal Docks ward, after the death of Labour councillor Simon Tucker. Term ends 2010.
• Oxford city council: Headington Hill and Northway ward, after the death of former Lord Mayor Maureen Christian. Term ends 2012.
• Redditch borough council: Central ward, after the disqualification of Conservative councillor RJ Farooqui who has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Term ends 2012.
• Redditch borough council: Headless Cross and Oakenshaw ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Keith Boyd-Carpenter. Term ends 2010.
• Wolverhampton city council: Ettingshall ward, after the death of Labour councillor Alan Smith. Term ends 2011.

2 April

• Calderdale borough council: Skircoat ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Geoffrey Wainwright. Term ends 2012.
• Camden borough council: Belsize ward, after the resignation of Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Basson who has explained his medical problems to the press; the Ham & High has decided not to print a story about his private life which it insists was unrelated. Term ends 2010.
• Huntingdonshire district council: Ramsey ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Ross Muir. Term ends 2011.
• Leeds city council: Temple Newsam ward, after the resignation of Labour councillor Jackie Langdale. Term ends 2011.
• Redcar and Cleveland council: Dormanstown ward, after the resignation (due to ill health) of Labour councillor and former Mayor Vilma Collins. Term ends 2011.

9 April

• Manchester city council: Moston ward, after the death of veteran Labour councillor and former Lord Mayor Bill Risby. Term ends 2010.

23 April

• Aberdeenshire council: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Bruce Luffman who has taken a post with the Cairngorms National Park Authority. Term ends 2012.
• Highland council: Inverness West ward, after the death of Independent councillor Jimmy Macdonald. Term ends 2012.
• Waverley borough council: Alfold, Cranleigh Rural and Ellens Green ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Cyril Baily. Term ends 2011.

Undated

• Gateshead borough council: Chopwell and Rowlands Gill ward, after the death of the Mayor of Gateshead Maureen Chaplin who was a Labour councillor. Term ends 2010.
• Hambleton district council: Swainby ward, after the death of Conservative councillor John Morley. Term ends 2011.
• Hartlepool borough council: Rossmere ward, after the death of Labour councillor Michael Johnson. Term ends 2012.
• Middlesbrough borough council: North Ormesby and Bramble Farm ward, after the resignation of Labour councillor Oscar Jones after a conviction for drink driving. Term ends 2011.
• Redbridge borough council: Wanstead ward, after the death of Conservative councillor and former council leader Allan Burgess. Term ends 2010.
• Reigate and Banstead borough council: Tadworth and Walton ward, after the death of Conservative former Mayor and Deputy Leader Michael Buttery. Term ends 2011.
• Rutland county council: Cottesmore ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Wing-Commander Rob Toy. Term ends 2011.
• Salford city council: Irwell Riverside ward, after the death of Labour councillor Jimmy Hulmes. Term ends 2010.
• South Ribble borough council: Walton-le-Dale ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Jim Bristow. Term ends 2011.
• Stockton-on-Tees borough council: Ingleby Barwick West ward, after the disqualification of Lee Narroway (then of the Ingleby Barwick Independent Society) who has been sentenced to a term of 26 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for two years. Term ends 2011.
• Wycombe district council: Totteridge ward, after the death of Labour councillor and Labour group leader Glyn Galbraith. Term ends 2011.

Vacancies which will not be filled

The Local Elections (Ordinary Day of Elections in 2009) Order 2008 (SI 2008 No. 2857) provides that any vacancy notified after 7 November 2008 in a council due to have elections in 2009, or to be abolished will not be filled. These council vacancies will therefore not see a byelection.

• Bedford borough council: Queen’s Park ward, after the death of Labour councillor Muhammad Khan.
• Bedfordshire county council: Harrold division, after the death of Conservative councillor Phyllis Gershon.
• Crewe and Nantwich borough council: Wellington ward, after the death of Conservative councillor Keith Healey. This vacancy means that the Conservatives lose their overall majority on the council in its last few months.
• Derbyshire county council: Alfreton division, after the death of Labour councillor Paul Buckley.
• Isle of Wight council: Bembridge South ward, after the disqualification of Win McRobert. Elected as a Conservative, she had left the group and was sitting as a ‘Democratic Conservative’; her disqualification is controversial because her absence was due to caring for her seriously ill husband.
• Kent county council: Maidstone Rural East division, after the death of former council and Local Government Association leader Sandy Bruce-Lockhart (Conservative).
• North Cornwall district council: Bodmin St Petroc’s ward, after the resignation of Arwen Folkes of the Liberal Democrats.
• North Yorkshire county council: Bilton and Nidd Gorge division, after the disqualification of Independent (elected as Liberal Democrat) councillor Morris Lightfoot who was given an eight month jail sentence.
• Northamptonshire county council: New Duston division, after the death of Conservative councillor Liz Tavener.
• Restormel borough council: Bethel ward, after the death of Roy Gill of the Liberal Democrats.
• Salisbury district council: St Martin and Milford ward, after the death of Labour councillor Simon Howarth.
• Sedgefield district council: Sedgefield ward, after the death of Independent councillor Jim Wayman.
• Shewsbury and Atcham borough council: Condover ward, after the resignation of Conservative councillor Tom Hendry.
• Staffordshire county council: Wombourne division, after the death of Peter Timms who was a Conservative councillor.
• Suffolk county council: Felixstowe Coastal division, after the death of the Council Chairman, Ann Rodwell; she was serving as a Conservative councillor.
• Suffolk county council: Upper Gipping division, after the death of Conservative councillor Jeremy Clover, a former council chairman.
• Surrey county council: Camberley East division, after the death of Maurice Neighbour (Conservative).

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