LABOUR lost seven seats in yesterday’s local elections - more than a third of the 19 seats they were defending.
The party still holds convincing control of Barnsley Council, with 49 seats of the total 63. But two previously Labour seats were lost to the Liberal Democrats, three to independents and two to the newly created Democrats and Veterans Party.
The Lib Dems made three gains in total, also taking a seat from the Conservatives in Penistone West.
Of the 21 seats up for election, Labour had previously held 19, but yesterday only won 12 of them.
Council leader Sir Steve Houghton called it Labour’s worst night in Barnsley for 15 years blaming, the national ‘Brexit effect’.
The full results are as follows. A * denotes a previously sitting councillor.
Central Ward LABOUR HOLD Connor Audsley, Liberal Democrats - 182 votesMartin Craig Dyson*, Labour Party - 750 votesChris Scarfe, Green Party - 474 votesAdrian Thompson, Conservative Party - 289 votes
Cudworth Ward LABOUR HOLDMark James Brook, Conservative Party - 240 votesJohn Stephen Ellis-Mourant, Liberal Democrats - 340 votesCharlie Wraith*, Labour Party - 933 votes
Darfield Ward DEMOCRATS AND VETERANS PARTY GAIN (from Labour)Kim Boon, Liberal Democrats - 198 votesDorothy Coates*, Labour Party - 666 votesTrevor Smith, Democrats and Veterans Party - 750 votesMaxine Spencer, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 191 votesDelia Mary Weldon, Conservative Party - 165
Darton East Ward LIBERAL DEMOCRATS GAIN (From Labour)Martin Andrew Flack, Labour Party - 570 votesSteve Hunt, Liberal Democrats - 1870 votesDebbie Toon, Conservative Party - 197
Darton West Ward LABOUR HOLDTrevor Cave, Labour Party - 810 votesTom Heyes, Green Party - 499 votesLee Ogden, Conservative Party - 452 votesAndrew Stephen Waters, Liberal Democrats - 277 votes
Dearne North Ward LABOUR HOLDCicely Anne Cowgill, Conservative Party - 134 votesAlan Gardiner*, Labour Party - 799 votesJanus Polenceusz, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 485 votes
Dearne South Ward INDEPENDENT GAIN (from Labour)Sam Danforth, Independent - 1173 votesDavid Peter Hunter, Conservative Party - 119 votesGraham Leslie Jarvis, Labour Party - 801 votesAdrian Morgan, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 175 votes
Dodworth Ward LIBERAL DEMOCRATS GAIN (From Labour)Adam Fletcher Bromfield, Conservative Party - 212 votesChris Burrows, Yorkshire Party - 260 votesPeter James Fielding, Liberal Democrats - 1308 votesJonathan Christopher Liam Hastelow, UK Independence Party (UKIP) - 414 votesRichard Mark Riggs*, Labour Party - 647 votes
Hoyland Milton Ward LABOUR HOLDDonna Marie Cutts, Conservative Party - 240 votesGlenn Charles Lawrence, Liberal Democrats - 173 votesJustin Saxton, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 134 votesTim Shepherd*, Labour Party - 982 votesDaniel Kristoffer Simpson, UK Independence Party (UKIP) - 701
Kingstone Ward LABOUR HOLDPeter Doyle, Democrats and Veterans Party - 490 votesPeter Gordon Giles, Green Party - 252 votesJohn Michael Miller, Conservative Party - 107 votesAngela Waller, Socialist Alternative - 56 votesElizabeth Waters, Liberal Democrats - 125 votesKevin George Williams*, Labour Party - 609 votes
Monk Bretton Ward DEMOCRATS AND VETERANS PARTY GAIN (from Labour)Victoria Felton, Democrats and Veterans Party - 1236 votesGeorge Hill, Conservative Party - 105 votesMargaret Sheard*, Labour Party - 660 votesRyan Thomas Williams, Yorkshire Party - 268 votes
North East Ward LABOUR HOLD Raymond Archer, Independent - 712 votesAnita Cherryholme, Labour Party - 786 votesTony Devoy, Yorkshire Party - 467 votesSam Wilkinson, Conservative Party - 207 votes
Old Town Ward LABOUR HOLDKevin Bennett, Liberal Democrats - 191 votesJo Newing*, Labour Party - 720 votesKate Helen Raynor, Green Party - 259 votesClive Watkinson, Conservative Party - 185 votesDonald Wood, Independent - 698 votes
Penistone East Ward CONSERVATIVE HOLDLee Goulding, Yorkshire Party - 562 votesPaul Francis Hand-Davis*, Conservative Party - 1359 votesSue Waters, Liberal Democrats - 929 votesDave Webster, Labour and Co-operative Party - 602 votes
Penistone West Ward LIBERAL DEMOCRATS GAIN (From Conservatives)Roy Bowser, Labour - 465 votesDavid Sean Greenhough, Liberal Democrats - 1583 votesAndrew Robert Millner*, Conservative Party - 753 votesRichard Thomas James Trotman, Green Party - 255 votesDavid Wood, Independent - 563 votes
Rockingham Ward LABOUR HOLDMichael James Davies, Conservative Party - 244 votesBenjamin Luke Holland, Green Party - 202 votesChris Lamb*, Labour Party - 803 votesPaul Nugent, Liberal Democrats - 88 votesKev Riddiough, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 274 votesSteve Sylvester, Barnsley Independent Group - 588 votes
Royston Ward LABOUR HOLD Kirk Harper, UK Independence Party (UKIP) - 752 votesPauline McCarthy, Labour Party - 953 votesAlex Wilkinson, Conservative Party - 225 votes
St Helen’s ward LABOUR HOLDJacob Graham Griffin, Conservative Party - 169 votesAlan Jones, Green Party - 401 votesJenny Platts*, Labour Party - 901 votes
Stairfoot Ward BARNSLEY INDEPENDENT GROUP GAIN (from Labour)Karen Elizabeth Dyson*, Labour Party - 702 votesAndrew Gillis, Barnsley Independent Group - 1057 votesElizabeth Hill, Conservative Party - 121 votesJames Robert Kitching, Liberal Democrats - 82 votes
Wombwell Ward LABOUR HOLDBrenda Eastwood, Labour Party - 907 votesSharon Gillis, Barnsley Independent Group - 414 votesSusan Mary Rose, Liberal Democrats - 136 votesJon Seymour, English Democrats - “Putting England First!“ - 186 votesGareth Thompson, Conservative Party - 105 votes
Worsbrough Ward INDEPENDENT GAIN (From Labour)Michael Alan Barraclough, Conservative Party - 181 votesSarah Calvert, Liberal Democrats - 137 votesJake Michael Lodge, Independent - 948 votesRoya Pourali*, Labour Party - 625 votes
