2010 Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council election

The 2010 Barking and Dagenham Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council in London, England.

2010 Barking and Dagenham Council election

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All 51 council seats
First party Second party   Lab BNP Party Labour BNP Last election 38 seats, 41.2% 12 seats, 17.2% Seats won 51 0 Seat change 13 12 Popular vote 39,925 15,092 Percentage 47.2% 17.8% Swing 6.0% 0.6%
Map of the results of the 2010 Barking and Dagenham council election. Labour in red.
Leader of Largest Party before election Labour Subsequent Leader of Largest Party Labour

The whole council was up for election, and the Labour Party retained control of the council winning all of the seats.^[1] The British National Party lost all the seats they had gained in 2006. The Conservatives lost their only remaining seat, and the Liberal Democrats failed to regain any seats they had lost four years earlier.

The 2010 general election was held on the same day, which increased turnout. The elections took place on the same day as other local elections in 2010.

At the 2006 election, Labour had won 38 seats, the BNP 12 and the Conservatives 1.

Background

188 candidates were nominated in total. Labour again ran a full slate (51) and was the only party to do so. By contrast, the Conservative Party ran 41 candidates, the Liberal Democrats ran 20, and the BNP ran 34, whilst there were 20 Independent candidates.

Election results

Barking and Dagenham local election results 2010^[2]

Party		Seats	Gains	Losses	Net gain/loss	Seats %	Votes %	Votes	+/−
	Labour	51	13	0	+13	100.0	47.2	39,925	+6.0
	BNP	0	0	12	-12	0.0	17.8	15,092	+0.6
	Conservative	0	0	1	-1	0.0	16.1	13,641	-2.5
	Liberal Democrats	0	0	0	±0.0	0.0	11.1	9,385	+9.5
	Independent	0	0	0	±0.0	0.0	3.4	2,917	-1.3
	UKIP	0	0	0	±0.0	0.0	3.4	2,898	-9.8
	Christian	0	0	0	±0.0	0.0	0.7	571	N/A
	Green	0	0	0	±0.0	0.0	0.3	213	-3.2

Ward results

Abbey

Abbey^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Laila Butt	3,412	72.4	+10.3
	Labour	Manzoor Hussain	3,139	66.6	+8.7
	Labour	Tariq Saeed	3,122	66.3	+10.0
	Conservative	John William Taylor	671	14.2	−20.5
	Conservative	Mohammed Chaudhry Iqbal	650	13.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Anthony Gomes	603	12.8	N/A
	Conservative	Shahidur Rahman	546	11.6	N/A
	BNP	Brian John Tunney	326	6.9	N/A
	Independent	Zakir Parvaj	72	1.5	N/A
Turnout			4,712	58.0	+28.1
Registered electors			8,110
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Alibon

Alibon^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Darren Rodwell	2,245	54.4	+17.5
	Labour	John Davis	2,135	51.7	+12.9
	Labour	Sanchia Alasia	1,995	48.3	+13.6
	BNP	Robert William Bailey	1,209	29.3	−18.9
	BNP	Gavin Cardy	1,111	26.9	−21.1
	BNP	Giuseppe Di Santis	977	23.7	N/A
	Conservative	Vivian Patten	687	16.6	+2.4
	Liberal Democrats	Richard David Ryder	529	12.8	N/A
Turnout			4,127	59.0	+17.9
Registered electors			6,971
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Becontree

Becontree^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Evelyn Carpenter	2,444	53.9	+3.4
	Labour	Rob Douglas	2,387	52.6	+0.9
	Labour	James Ogungbose	2,171	47.8	+4.7
	BNP	Terence Matthews	1,038	22.9	N/A
	Conservative	Patrice King	759	16.7	−9.9
	Conservative	Roshan Arawwawala	614	13.5	−11.2
	Liberal Democrats	Chris Watson	584	12.9	N/A
	Independent	Alok Agrawal	375	8.3	−43.4
	Independent	Corinne Angela Lowe	268	5.9	N/A
	Independent	Rick Lowe	252	5.6	N/A
	Christian	Paula Denise Watson	192	4.2	N/A
	Christian	Robert Ralph	191	4.2	N/A
	Christian	Benjamin David Conway	179	3.9	N/A
Turnout			4,538	60.2	+27.8
Registered electors			7,535
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Chadwell Heath

Chadwell Heath^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Milton McKenzie	1,984	47.1	+3.5
	Labour	Jeff Wade	1,818	43.2	+3.6
	Labour	Sam Tarry	1,785	42.4	+3.3
	Conservative	Terry Justice	1,411	33.5	−1.1
	Conservative	Maire Justice	1,306	31.0	+1.9
	Conservative	Cathal Gough	1,121	26.6	+3.5
	BNP	George Wilfred Woodward	594	14.1	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Gina Tracy Probert	481	11.4	N/A
	UKIP	Kerry James Daryl Luke Smith	369	8.8	−6.5
	Green	Debbie Ann Rosaman	213	5.1	N/A
	Green	Angie Cooke	201	4.8	N/A
	Green	Mike Ridout	159	3.8	N/A
Turnout			4,210	61.4	+29.2
Registered electors			6,859
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Eastbrook

Eastbrook^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Mick McCarthy	2,295	48.8
	Labour	Pam Burgon	2,026	43.1
	Labour	Tony Ramsay	1,854	39.4
	Conservative	Neil Stuart Connelly	1,232	26.2
	Conservative	Sue Connelly	1,201	25.5
	Conservative	Daniel Jonathon Sunley-Smith	1,066	22.7
	BNP	Tony Knight	903	19.2	N/A
	BNP	Christine Anne Knight	900	19.1	N/A
	BNP	John David Lillywhite	794	16.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Oluwole Alabi Taiwo	392	8.3	N/A
	UKIP	Leslie Richard Chapman	378	8.0	N/A
Turnout			4,706	63.0	+8.9
Registered electors			7,466
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from Conservative		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Eastbury

Eastbury^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Jeanne Alexander	2,104	48.0	+16.9
	Labour	Jim McDermott	1,958	44.7	+12.9
	Labour	Hardial Singh Rai	1,824	41.6	+13.5
	BNP	Jeffrey Christopher Marshall	942	21.5	−14.9
	BNP	Trevor Thomas William Wade	742	16.9	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammed Riaz	684	15.6	−1.7
	Liberal Democrats	Terry London	633	14.5	−0.4
	Liberal Democrats	David Lawrence De Cruz	567	12.9	+8.6
	Conservative	Danny Searle	457	10.4	N/A
	Conservative	Hasan Gul	432	9.9	N/A
	UKIP	Ronald Dennis Chapman	430	9.8	−8.2
	Conservative	Richard Semitego	357	8.2	N/A
	Independent	Dianne Challis	134	3.1	−14.2
	Independent	Danny Munroe	70	1.6	N/A
Turnout			4,380	59.4	+20.0
Registered electors			7,374
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Gascoigne

Gascoigne^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Saima Ashraf	2,725	64.6	−2.3
	Labour	Abdul Aziz	2,668	63.3	+6.3
	Labour	Dominic Twomey	2,576	61.1	+7.0
	BNP	John Craig Fergie	536	12.7	N/A
	Conservative	Sherry Baig	499	11.8	−13.0
	Liberal Democrats	Chukwuma Okoruwe	456	10.8	N/A
	Independent	Val Rush	436	10.3	−43.8
	Conservative	Kizito Godfrey Sekisonge	390	9.2	N/A
	Conservative	Slava Ibelgauptas	357	8.5	N/A
	Independent	Maggie Mitchell	311	7.4	N/A
	Independent	Colin Nigel Ward	219	5.2	N/A
	Christian	Frank Ezebuenyi	196	4.6	N/A
	Christian	Patrick Oronsaye	175	4.1	N/A
Turnout			4,217	58.4	+25.4
Registered electors			7,222
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Goresbrook

Goresbrook^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Graham Letchford	2,142	49.5	+9.6
	Labour	Louise Couling	1,963	45.4	+6.9
	Labour	Jim Clee	1,872	43.3	+5.7
	BNP	Richard Barnbrook	1,340	31.0	−16.5
	BNP	Edward Mark Butler	1,146	26.5	−18.4
	BNP	Shell Brunt	1,128	26.1	N/A
	Conservative	George Daniel Naylor	644	14.9	+2.6
	Conservative	Christopher Newton	533	12.3	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Felicia Taiwo	457	10.6	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Nzingha Talibah Shukura	432	10.0	N/A
	Independent	Warren William Northover	335	7.7	−32.2
Turnout			4,323	57.8	+16.4
Registered electors			7,482
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Heath

Heath^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Linda Ann Reason	2,286	54.8	+4.2
	Labour	Dave Miles	2,241	53.7	+2.7
	Labour	Gerry Vincent	1,952	46.8	−1.7
	BNP	Sally Lister	969	23.2	N/A
	BNP	Paul Leslie William Sturdy	844	20.2	N/A
	BNP	Robert Michael Taylor	802	19.2	N/A
	Conservative	Neil Edgar Hallewell	676	16.2	−6.6
	Conservative	Richard James Smith	585	14.0	−7.1
	Conservative	Barbara Ann Towler	522	12.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Angela London	447	10.7	N/A
	UKIP	Yvonne Philippa Litwin	337	8.1	−23.1
Turnout			4,173	58.9	+24.6
Registered electors			7,083
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Longbridge

Longbridge^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Rocky Gill	3,292	59.9	+25.2
	Labour	Nirmal Gill	2,900	52.8	+18.6
	Labour	Lynda Rice	2,559	46.6	+12.9
	Liberal Democrats	Mohammod Jalal Uddin	1,239	22.6	N/A
	Conservative	Paul Ayer	1,221	22.2	−11.3
	Conservative	Foyzur Rahman	1,109	20.2	−10.1
	BNP	Bede Ewing Smith	677	12.3	N/A
	Independent	Edward Leigh Gosling	452	8.2	N/A
	Independent	Eileen Mary Gosling	388	7.1	N/A
	UKIP	John Walter Dias-Broughton	383	7.0	−12.1
	Independent	Tony Richards	369	6.7	−22.6
	Conservative	Komel Bajwe	316	5.8	−19.1
	Independent	Julie Munroe	167	3.0	N/A
Turnout			5,493	69.1	+20.6
Registered electors			7,950
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Mayesbrook

Mayesbrook^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Dee Hunt	1,908	47.8	+17.4
	Labour	Ralph Baldwin	1,777	44.5	+19.5
	Labour	George Barratt	1,705	42.7	+18.3
	BNP	Tracy Anne Lansdown	1,123	28.1	−10.4
	BNP	Robert John Anthony Buckley	1,109	27.8	−13.4
	BNP	Mandy Matthews	1,024	25.7	N/A
	Conservative	Tom O'Brien	778	19.5	+10.5
	Liberal Democrats	Funke Adesanoye	528	13.2	N/A
	UKIP	Bert Bedwell	496	12.4	−14.2
Turnout			3,991	59.5	+19.1
Registered electors			6,713
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Parsloes

Parsloes^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Bert Collins	2,158	56.1	+13.5
	Labour	Elizabeth Kangethe	1,935	50.3	+8.7
	Labour	Chris Ric	1,913	49.7	+11.2
	BNP	Leigh Friend	1,022	26.6	−18.8
	BNP	Christopher Walter Charles Forster	941	24.5	−18.2
	BNP	Anthony Stephen McKay	867	22.5	N/A
	Conservative	Ronald Armstrong	763	19.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Frederick Egbeson	575	14.9	N/A
Turnout			3,848	57.8	+20.7
Registered electors			6,662
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

River

River^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Liam Anthony Smith	2,406	56.4	−1.3
	Labour	Eileen Sandra Keller	2,308	54.1	+1.0
	Labour	Inder Singh Jamu	2,284	53.6	+4.4
	BNP	Scott Jones	933	21.9	N/A
	BNP	Victoria Jane Pengelly	853	20.0	N/A
	Conservative	Jean Margaret Cockling	576	13.5	−9.8
	UKIP	Nobby Manning	505	11.8	−20.6
	Conservative	Ronald Cole Bairstow	493	11.6	N/A
	Conservative	Chris Nwokebuife	404	9.5	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Martha Nosa Ogbonmwan	367	8.6	N/A
	Christian	Arinola Araba	183	4.3	N/A
Turnout			4,265	61.2	+25.5
Registered electors			6,971
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Thames

Thames^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Josephine Channer	2,067	55.2	−1.6
	Labour	Barry Poulton	2,042	54.5	+3.8
	Labour	Cameron Geddes	1,978	52.8	+0.8
	BNP	Roy Evans	716	19.1	N/A
	BNP	Andrew James Todd	661	17.7	N/A
	Independent	Fred Barns	610	16.3	−40.5
	Conservative	Mark Victor Courtier	422	11.3	−9.8
	Liberal Democrats	Saifur Rahman	366	9.8	N/A
	Conservative	Moin Ali Quadri	347	9.3	N/A
	Conservative	Lauretta Ifeanyi Onochie	322	8.6	N/A
	Independent	Pam Dumbleton	307	8.2	N/A
	Independent	Terry Wade	268	7.2	N/A
Turnout			3,745	60.6	+29.8
Registered electors			6,179
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Valence

Valence^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Maureen Worby	1,803	47.4	+7.0
	Labour	Emmanuel Obasohan	1,723	45.3	+7.4
	Labour	Abdus Salam	1,610	42.3	+7.8
	BNP	Christopher Roberts	1,112	29.2	−16.8
	BNP	Lawrence Rustem	995	26.2	−19.2
	BNP	Kara Michelle Walker	963	25.3	N/A
	Conservative	Neil Joseph Robert Butcher	827	21.7	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Alan Albert Blood	672	17.7	N/A
Turnout			3,803	57.4	+17.6
Registered electors			6,622
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

Village

Village^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Lee Waker	2,454	57.9	+15.5
	Labour	Phil Waker	2,303	54.3	+11.6
	Labour	Margaret Mullane	2,259	53.3	+12.9
	BNP	Len Bird	1,049	24.7	−16.3
	Conservative	Malcolm Beatty	906	21.4	+9.0
	Conservative	Roy Alan Zelkin	654	15.4	N/A
	Conservative	Sammy Omosule	587	13.8	N/A
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Graham Hills	555	13.1	+3.5
Turnout			4,239	59.0	+16.8
Registered electors			7,185
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour gain from BNP		Swing

Whalebone

Whalebone^[3][4][5]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Tony Harry Perry	2,200	48.4	−3.1
	Labour	Amardeep Singh Jamu	2,103	46.3	−1.4
	Labour	John Robert White	2,085	45.9	+0.1
	Conservative	Christine Mary Naylor	1,112	24.5	−15.6
	Conservative	Emran Uddin	794	17.4	−23.0
	Conservative	Wale Oguntona	788	17.3	N/A
	BNP	Robin Lee Lillywhite	603	13.3	N/A
	Independent	John Robert Denyer	503	11.1	−40.4
	Liberal Democrats	Maxine Lisa London	450	9.9	N/A
	Independent	Ingrid Robinson	350	7.7	N/A
	Independent	Zac Robinson	276	6.1	N/A
Turnout			4,545	64.2	+38.0
Registered electors			7,076
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing
	Labour hold		Swing

By-elections between 2010 and 2014

Goresbrook

Goresbrook by-election, 8 July 2010^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Louise Couling	881	46.6	+3.0
	BNP	Richard Barnbrook	642	34.0	+6.8
	Liberal Democrats	Felicia Taiwo	136	7.2	−2.1
	Conservative	Paul Ayer	108	5.7	−7.4
	Independent	Warren Northover	63	3.9	−2.9
	UKIP	Nobby Manning	50	2.6	+2.6
	Independent	Faruk Ahmed Choudhury	11	0.1	−2.9
Majority			239	12.6	−3.8
Turnout			1,841	25.3	−32.5
Registered electors			7,482
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the voiding of the election of Cllr. Louise Couling as she was ruled ineligible.^[8]

Goresbrook by-election, 19 April 2012^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Simon Brenner	1,113	57.8	+14.2
	BNP	Bob Taylor	593	30.8	+3.5
	UKIP	John Dias-Broughton	91	4.7	+4.7
	Conservative	Mohammed Riaz	81	4.2	−8.9
	Liberal Democrats	Robert Hills	48	2.5	−6.8
Majority			520	20.0	+10.7
Turnout			1,926	25.6	−32.2
Registered electors
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the resignation of Cllr. Louise Couling for reasons of ill health.^[9]

Longbridge

Longbridge by-election, 9 May 2013^[6][7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	Syed Ahammad	1,555	64.3	+24.1
	UKIP	Albert Bedwell	466	19.3	+14.6
	Conservative	Paul Ayer	284	11.7	−3.2
	Liberal Democrats	David Croft	78	3.2	−11.9
	BNP	Giuseppe De Santis	37	1.5	−6.7
Majority			1,089	45.0
Turnout			2,420	29.8	−39.3
Registered electors
	Labour hold		Swing

The by-election was called following the death of Cllr. Nirmal Gill.^[10]